Merchant Archive

Ok.....I'm not a Merchant or Manufacture in the game but I buy a lot of stuff from them and despite the fact that some of them charge prices that have me looking around for the Black Market most are very reasonable. I am afraid that may be about to change and not necessarily for the better. Now I don't know exactly how much these new "Vendor Fees" are but implementing them quietly, behind the scenes reaks of a Top 5% Tax Cut out ofWashington DC.There arePlayers losing several 100K in goods because their Vendors aren't paid up to the new levels and they are walking away with the goods. Whats up with that?!? Where is the "Grace Period"? How can aPlayer Based Economy start when these folks who have worked long hours to make all of this lose it all like that? What do they have to do to Recoup? Raise pricesand deal their wares on the street. The whole purpose behind an employee (Vendor) is to free up your valuable time to produce more goods.

Merchants....I think you need to for a Guild on each Server to protect yourselves both from internal issues that can ruin the Economy and from external problems like this latest 'Labor Relations' issue. Seriously, get together and set it all up. Elect a CEO / President and build the economy. SOE isn't going to do it for us / you and in fact may continue to stealth bleed you. If you guys do this right everyone wins and you help take away a thorn in all of the Player's sides. Some of the latest 'fixes' are ripe with potential to really hurt the pockets of every Class. Medical Professionals get zip for healing animals now where before they got XP and many were happy for that. Granted, smart CHs tipped Medics and Doctors but there are always a few who run out on the tab. You know that crafting isn't cheap. Commando weapons when they come off of TC will undoubtable break a lot of Commando piggy banks. Re-deed cost, housing changes....the list goes on. Come on guys.......put you SWG Millionaire heads together and build this Guild....make it a real Player Based Economy. You can do it. And the game will be better for it.

"Making the Galaxy a safer place, one corpse at a time"

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