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Thread: Idea for Merchant Revamp
I remember when I first started this game I wanted to become a merchant. I did this because I wanted to run a business and everything. Little did I know... That my dream was infact impossible in my newb form. I was very saddened that all the Merchant profession was is a grind to be able to place a vendor, and thats pretty much it. So... In an effort to actually get this to become a reality I decided to post my view on how I would i liked it to be.
The Junk dealers will now have an option to get a mission from him. He will give you a list of different things he needs done: One involving Entertaining and getting a certain item from a NPC that you perform for as payment for the show, another involving gathering resources (surveying) and then crafting an item with a schematic the Junk dealer gives you, and another will involve combat where the Junk dealer gives you a waypoint where you must kill whatever/whoever is there and loot the bodies for your reward. Once you get the item and bring it to the Junk Dealer he will reward you with a certain amount of Merchant Experience depending on your skills in the Merchant Tree. (see chart at bottom to see merchant reward depending on current merchant skill) Now you are given an option to sell the Item to the Junk dealer, or you may keep it and sell it on your own accord, either way as long as he sees the item, you are granted the XP for the mission.
The answers may seem repetive but each level has some important differences.
PLEASE NOTE: ALL REWARDS ARE LEVEL BASED MEANING A LEVEL TWO MISSION FOR EXAMPLE YIELDS A LEVEL TWO ITEM REWARD.
Now let me get into good detail about the missions/quests. I will start will the Entertainment portion.
Level One Entertainment Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Novice Entertainer and Novice Merchant
The junk dealer gives you a waypoint to a nearby theater where you will find some NPCs. They will tell you to perform a certain song or dance or if you have image designing skills, they may ask you to perform a number of image designs. You will perform a song or dance and they will yell out flourishes and you must follow them.
Florishes at this level are called out at a rate of 1 per 7.5 Seconds and you must respond to them in 5 seconds or you fail the mission. For the image design portion you must perform a number of image designs (these will have no time limit to commit them) that they tell you to do (depending on ID level) These are to be assigned at Three times the rate of flourishes performed by the entertainers. 22.5 Seconds per Assignement and you have 15 seconds to finish it.
For Music and Dancing you must perform ONE song or Dance for this level quest to complete it. If you fail a flourish you must redo all the songs or dances for the Judges... You have three chances to completely fail the mission.
Level Two Entertainment Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
A novice elite Profession in any Entertainment Profession and ONE Merchant Skill.
The junk dealer gives you a waypoint to a nearby theater where you will find some NPCs. They will tell you to perform a certain song or dance or if you have image designing skills, they may ask you to perform a number of image designs. You will perform a song or dance and they will yell out flourishes and you must follow them.
Florishes at this level are called out at a rate of 1 per 5 Seconds and you must respond to them in 4 seconds or you fail the mission. For the image design portion you must perform a number of image designs (these will have no time limit to commit them) that they tell you to do (depending on ID level) These are to be assigned at Three times the rate of flourishes performed by the entertainers. 15 Seconds per Assignement and you have 12 seconds to finish it.
For Music and Dancing you must perform TWO songs or Dances for this level quest to complete it. If you fail a flourish you must redo all the songs or dances for the Judges... You have three chances to completely fail the mission.
Level Three Entertainment Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Must have at least 1 Tree completed (4 skills in a tree) in One Entertainment Elite profession and ONE Merchant Tree Completed.
The junk dealer gives you a waypoint to a nearby theater where you will find some NPCs. They will tell you to perform a certain song or dance or if you have image designing skills, they may ask you to perform a number of image designs. You will perform a song or dance and they will yell out flourishes and you must follow them.
Florishes at this level are called out at a rate of 1 per 4 Seconds and you must respond to them in 3.5 seconds or you fail the mission. For the image design portion you must perform a number of image designs (these will have no time limit to commit them) that they tell you to do (depending on ID level) These are to be assigned at Three times the rate of flourishes performed by the entertainers. 12 Seconds per Assignement and you have 10.5 seconds to finish it.
For Music and Dancing you must perform TWO songs or Dances for this level quest to complete it. If you fail a flourish you must redo all the songs or dances for the Judges... You have two chances to completely fail the mission.
Level Four Entertainment Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Must have at least 2 Trees completed (4 skills in a tree) in One Entertainment Elite profession. Two Merchant Trees completed.
The junk dealer gives you a waypoint to a nearby theater where you will find some NPCs. They will tell you to perform a certain song or dance or if you have image designing skills, they may ask you to perform a number of image designs. You will perform a song or dance and they will yell out flourishes and you must follow them.
Florishes at this level are called out at a rate of 1 per 4 Seconds and you must respond to them in 3.5 seconds or you fail the mission. For the image design portion you must perform a number of image designs (these will have no time limit to commit them) that they tell you to do (depending on ID level) These are to be assigned at Three times the rate of flourishes performed by the entertainers. 12 Seconds per Assignement and you have 10.5 seconds to finish it.
For Music and Dancing you must perform Three songs or Dances for this level quest to complete it. If you fail a flourish you must redo all the songs or dances for the Judges... You have two chances to completely fail the mission.
Level Five Entertainment Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Master of ONE Entertainment Elite profession. 4444 Merchant.
The junk dealer gives you a waypoint to a nearby theater where you will find some NPCs. They will tell you to perform a certain song or dance or if you have image designing skills, they may ask you to perform a number of image designs. You will perform a song or dance and they will yell out flourishes and you must follow them.
Florishes at this level are called out at a rate of 1 per 2 Seconds and you must respond to them in 1.5 seconds or you fail the mission. For the image design portion you must perform a number of image designs (these will have no time limit to commit them) that they tell you to do (depending on ID level) These are to be assigned at Three times the rate of flourishes performed by the entertainers. 5 Seconds per Assignement and you have 5 seconds to finish it.
For Music and Dancing you must perform Five songs or Dances for this level quest to complete it. If you fail a flourish you must redo all the songs or dances for the Judges... You have one chance to completely fail the mission.
Level One Crafting Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Novice Merchant
The junk dealer gives you a schematic for an item. It needs 1 resource which you must survey for. The survey should be available within 100m of your current position.
Bring the item back to the Junk dealer for a monetary reward and merchant experience, he will grant you a level One item reward.
Level Two Crafting Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
A novice elite artisan skill and 1 Merchant skill.
The junk dealer gives you a schematic for an item. It needs 2 resources which you must survey for. The survey should be available within 500m of your current position.
Bring the item back to the Junk dealer for a monetary reward and merchant experience, he will grant you a level two item reward.
Level Three Crafting Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
A completed tree in an elite artisan skill and 1 Merchant skill trees completed.
The junk dealer gives you a schematic for an item. It needs 2 resources which you must survey for. The survey should be available within 500m of your current position.
However when you get to the closest survey spot for your second resource and start surveying you ***MAY*** be encountered by a NPC thief, and he will demand you give him the resource you just surveyed or he will kill you. Either deny him that and kill him (he shouldn't be too hard) or .. run away before you die or tell him that you are going to craft the item for him. Craft it right there since you have all the materials and Drag and drop the item onto him. He will then disapear. ***NOTE*** You Will only be encountered by a thief on a random time meaning 1/10 of the missions you do for the crafting portion ***** Bring the item back to the Junk dealer for a monetary reward and merchant experience, he will grant you a level two item reward. If the theif got your item you will be rewarded the normal merchant experience but with no monetary or item level reward.
Level Four Crafting Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Two completed trees in an elite artisan skill and 2 Merchant skill trees completed.
The junk dealer gives you a schematic for an item. It needs 4 resources which you must survey for. The survey should be available within 700m of your current position.
However when you get to the closest survey spot for your last resource and start surveying you ***MAY*** be encountered by a NPC thief, and he will demand you give him the resource you just surveyed or he will kill you. Either deny him that and kill him (he shouldn't be too hard) or .. run away before you die or tell him that you are going to craft the item for him. Craft it right there since you have all the materials and Drag and drop the item onto him. He will then disapear. ***NOTE*** You Will only be encountered by a thief on a random time meaning 1/10 of the missions you do for the crafting portion ***** Bring the item back to the Junk dealer for a monetary reward and merchant experience, he will grant you a level two item reward. If the theif got your item you will be rewarded normal merchant experience but with no monetary or level item reward.
Level Five Crafting Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Master in an elite artisan skill and 4444 Merchant.
The junk dealer gives you a schematic for an item. It needs 1 resource which you must survey for. The survey should be available within ANYWHERE (it may be off planet!! you will be given name of planet and waypoint for the exact location) of your current position.
However when you get to the closest survey spot for your resource and start surveying you ***MAY*** be encountered by a NPC thief, and he will demand you give him the resource you just surveyed or he will kill you. Either deny him that and kill him (he shouldn't be too hard) or .. run away before you die or tell him that you are going to craft the item for him. Craft it right there since you have all the materials and Drag and drop the item onto him. He will then disapear. ***NOTE*** You Will only be encountered by a thief on a random time meaning 1/10 of the missions you do for the crafting portion ***** Bring the item back to the Junk dealer for a monetary reward and merchant experience, he will grant you a level two item reward. If the theif got your item you will be rewarded normal merchant experience but with no monetary or level item reward.
Level One Combat Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Novice Merchant and Novice Marksman.
The junk dealer gives you a random item and a waypoint. He tells you to keep the item safe before you get to the target location to deliver the item to the buyer. However on your way there is a 10% chance you will be ambushed by a NPC thief will auto attack you. Kill the thief and move on if you encounter him. When you get the target ***IF*** you were encountered by the thief on your way, you will not be ambushed by a thief here. If you do not encounter him, you will be ambushed by 4 Thiefs and they will kill your target. Now you must kill them and loot them for a "theifs amulet" and bring it back to the junk dealer. Once you converse with him he will take all loot you got off the bodies on your mission and he will grant you a monetary reward and a level item reward.
STAY TUNED FOR THE NEXT POST TO FINISH THIS ONE!
I am not going to waste your time just pretty much copy pasting each other quest for the combat merchant ones. Pretty much with every level mission up it gets increasingly harder to balance the reward.
Now that the quests have finished being explained let me go on to the monetary rewards per level.
Level One:250 Credits and Level One Reward item
Level Three: 750 Credits and Level three Reward item
Level Four: 1250 Credits and Levelfour Reward item
Level Five:5000 Credits and Level five Reward item
Now let me get saying on how much XP each mission will yeild (merchant XP) it depends on your current Merchant skills. PER MISSION
At Zero Merchant/novice merchantskills each will grant250 Merchant Experience.
At one merchant skill each will grant400 Merchant Experience.
At two merchant skills it will grant550 Merchant Experience.
At 4 Merchant skills it will grant650 Merchant Experience.
At 6 Merchant skills it will grant750 Merchant Experience.
At 8 Merchant Skills it will grant900 Merchant Experience.
At 12 merchant skills it will grant 1000 Merchant Experience.
Now to explain Item rewards per Level
all quest item rewards are marked with a special quality if you examine them "Merchant Quest Item Level X" (X replaced with level awarded)
Level One:1000 Credits.
Clothing, Locked Containers, Jewelry. No special properties.
level two: 2500 Credits.
Clothing, Jewelry and +1 Armor Attachments. Clothing and Jewelry may have small special skill mods on them.
level three: 5000 credits
Clothing with Good/decent/wearable skill mods on them. Weapons (not crappy ones, i mean ones that can be compared to Master Weaponsmiths (you know like the ones on test center 2 , should be about 10%-25% less powerful then those.)
level four: 15000 credits
Clothing attachments, armor attachments, weapons as above, armor as above,
level five:35000 credits
10% Legendary. 20% Exception Loot 80% chance clothing attachment or armor attachment (random stats should not be crappy)
Thats it for today I think... Tommorow I am going to follow up with even more content. Bye!
Grafixz wrote:
anyone have any critisicm? thanks i really want to know if my ideas are good or not.. thank you.
. So may revisit it later.Otherwise, nice thoughts.
I remember when I first started this game I wanted to become a merchant. I did this because I wanted to run a business and everything. Little did I know... That my dream was infact impossible in my newb form. I was very saddened that all the Merchant profession was is a grind to be able to place a vendor, and thats pretty much it. So... In an effort to actually get this to become a reality I decided to post my view on how I would i liked it to be.
The Junk dealers will now have an option to get a mission from him. He will give you a list of different things he needs done: One involving Entertaining and getting a certain item from a NPC that you perform for as payment for the show, another involving gathering resources (surveying) and then crafting an item with a schematic the Junk dealer gives you, and another will involve combat where the Junk dealer gives you a waypoint where you must kill whatever/whoever is there and loot the bodies for your reward. Once you get the item and bring it to the Junk Dealer he will reward you with a certain amount of Merchant Experience depending on your skills in the Merchant Tree. (see chart at bottom to see merchant reward depending on current merchant skill) Now you are given an option to sell the Item to the Junk dealer, or you may keep it and sell it on your own accord, either way as long as he sees the item, you are granted the XP for the mission.
The answers may seem repetive but each level has some important differences.
PLEASE NOTE: ALL REWARDS ARE LEVEL BASED MEANING A LEVEL TWO MISSION FOR EXAMPLE YIELDS A LEVEL TWO ITEM REWARD.
Now let me get into good detail about the missions/quests. I will start will the Entertainment portion.
Level One Entertainment Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Novice Entertainer and Novice Merchant
The junk dealer gives you a waypoint to a nearby theater where you will find some NPCs. They will tell you to perform a certain song or dance or if you have image designing skills, they may ask you to perform a number of image designs. You will perform a song or dance and they will yell out flourishes and you must follow them.
Florishes at this level are called out at a rate of 1 per 7.5 Seconds and you must respond to them in 5 seconds or you fail the mission. For the image design portion you must perform a number of image designs (these will have no time limit to commit them) that they tell you to do (depending on ID level) These are to be assigned at Three times the rate of flourishes performed by the entertainers. 22.5 Seconds per Assignement and you have 15 seconds to finish it.
For Music and Dancing you must perform ONE song or Dance for this level quest to complete it. If you fail a flourish you must redo all the songs or dances for the Judges... You have three chances to completely fail the mission.
Level Two Entertainment Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
A novice elite Profession in any Entertainment Profession and ONE Merchant Skill.
The junk dealer gives you a waypoint to a nearby theater where you will find some NPCs. They will tell you to perform a certain song or dance or if you have image designing skills, they may ask you to perform a number of image designs. You will perform a song or dance and they will yell out flourishes and you must follow them.
Florishes at this level are called out at a rate of 1 per 5 Seconds and you must respond to them in 4 seconds or you fail the mission. For the image design portion you must perform a number of image designs (these will have no time limit to commit them) that they tell you to do (depending on ID level) These are to be assigned at Three times the rate of flourishes performed by the entertainers. 15 Seconds per Assignement and you have 12 seconds to finish it.
For Music and Dancing you must perform TWO songs or Dances for this level quest to complete it. If you fail a flourish you must redo all the songs or dances for the Judges... You have three chances to completely fail the mission.
Level Three Entertainment Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Must have at least 1 Tree completed (4 skills in a tree) in One Entertainment Elite profession and ONE Merchant Tree Completed.
The junk dealer gives you a waypoint to a nearby theater where you will find some NPCs. They will tell you to perform a certain song or dance or if you have image designing skills, they may ask you to perform a number of image designs. You will perform a song or dance and they will yell out flourishes and you must follow them.
Florishes at this level are called out at a rate of 1 per 4 Seconds and you must respond to them in 3.5 seconds or you fail the mission. For the image design portion you must perform a number of image designs (these will have no time limit to commit them) that they tell you to do (depending on ID level) These are to be assigned at Three times the rate of flourishes performed by the entertainers. 12 Seconds per Assignement and you have 10.5 seconds to finish it.
For Music and Dancing you must perform TWO songs or Dances for this level quest to complete it. If you fail a flourish you must redo all the songs or dances for the Judges... You have two chances to completely fail the mission.
Level Four Entertainment Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Must have at least 2 Trees completed (4 skills in a tree) in One Entertainment Elite profession. Two Merchant Trees completed.
The junk dealer gives you a waypoint to a nearby theater where you will find some NPCs. They will tell you to perform a certain song or dance or if you have image designing skills, they may ask you to perform a number of image designs. You will perform a song or dance and they will yell out flourishes and you must follow them.
Florishes at this level are called out at a rate of 1 per 4 Seconds and you must respond to them in 3.5 seconds or you fail the mission. For the image design portion you must perform a number of image designs (these will have no time limit to commit them) that they tell you to do (depending on ID level) These are to be assigned at Three times the rate of flourishes performed by the entertainers. 12 Seconds per Assignement and you have 10.5 seconds to finish it.
For Music and Dancing you must perform Three songs or Dances for this level quest to complete it. If you fail a flourish you must redo all the songs or dances for the Judges... You have two chances to completely fail the mission.
Level Five Entertainment Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Master of ONE Entertainment Elite profession. 4444 Merchant.
The junk dealer gives you a waypoint to a nearby theater where you will find some NPCs. They will tell you to perform a certain song or dance or if you have image designing skills, they may ask you to perform a number of image designs. You will perform a song or dance and they will yell out flourishes and you must follow them.
Florishes at this level are called out at a rate of 1 per 2 Seconds and you must respond to them in 1.5 seconds or you fail the mission. For the image design portion you must perform a number of image designs (these will have no time limit to commit them) that they tell you to do (depending on ID level) These are to be assigned at Three times the rate of flourishes performed by the entertainers. 5 Seconds per Assignement and you have 5 seconds to finish it.
For Music and Dancing you must perform Five songs or Dances for this level quest to complete it. If you fail a flourish you must redo all the songs or dances for the Judges... You have one chance to completely fail the mission.
Level One Crafting Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Novice Merchant
The junk dealer gives you a schematic for an item. It needs 1 resource which you must survey for. The survey should be available within 100m of your current position.
Bring the item back to the Junk dealer for a monetary reward and merchant experience, he will grant you a level One item reward.
Level Two Crafting Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
A novice elite artisan skill and 1 Merchant skill.
The junk dealer gives you a schematic for an item. It needs 2 resources which you must survey for. The survey should be available within 500m of your current position.
Bring the item back to the Junk dealer for a monetary reward and merchant experience, he will grant you a level two item reward.
Level Three Crafting Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
A completed tree in an elite artisan skill and 1 Merchant skill trees completed.
The junk dealer gives you a schematic for an item. It needs 2 resources which you must survey for. The survey should be available within 500m of your current position.
However when you get to the closest survey spot for your second resource and start surveying you ***MAY*** be encountered by a NPC thief, and he will demand you give him the resource you just surveyed or he will kill you. Either deny him that and kill him (he shouldn't be too hard) or .. run away before you die or tell him that you are going to craft the item for him. Craft it right there since you have all the materials and Drag and drop the item onto him. He will then disapear. ***NOTE*** You Will only be encountered by a thief on a random time meaning 1/10 of the missions you do for the crafting portion ***** Bring the item back to the Junk dealer for a monetary reward and merchant experience, he will grant you a level two item reward. If the theif got your item you will be rewarded the normal merchant experience but with no monetary or item level reward.
Level Four Crafting Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Two completed trees in an elite artisan skill and 2 Merchant skill trees completed.
The junk dealer gives you a schematic for an item. It needs 4 resources which you must survey for. The survey should be available within 700m of your current position.
However when you get to the closest survey spot for your last resource and start surveying you ***MAY*** be encountered by a NPC thief, and he will demand you give him the resource you just surveyed or he will kill you. Either deny him that and kill him (he shouldn't be too hard) or .. run away before you die or tell him that you are going to craft the item for him. Craft it right there since you have all the materials and Drag and drop the item onto him. He will then disapear. ***NOTE*** You Will only be encountered by a thief on a random time meaning 1/10 of the missions you do for the crafting portion ***** Bring the item back to the Junk dealer for a monetary reward and merchant experience, he will grant you a level two item reward. If the theif got your item you will be rewarded normal merchant experience but with no monetary or level item reward.
Level Five Crafting Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Master in an elite artisan skill and 4444 Merchant.
The junk dealer gives you a schematic for an item. It needs 1 resource which you must survey for. The survey should be available within ANYWHERE (it may be off planet!! you will be given name of planet and waypoint for the exact location) of your current position.
However when you get to the closest survey spot for your resource and start surveying you ***MAY*** be encountered by a NPC thief, and he will demand you give him the resource you just surveyed or he will kill you. Either deny him that and kill him (he shouldn't be too hard) or .. run away before you die or tell him that you are going to craft the item for him. Craft it right there since you have all the materials and Drag and drop the item onto him. He will then disapear. ***NOTE*** You Will only be encountered by a thief on a random time meaning 1/10 of the missions you do for the crafting portion ***** Bring the item back to the Junk dealer for a monetary reward and merchant experience, he will grant you a level two item reward. If the theif got your item you will be rewarded normal merchant experience but with no monetary or level item reward.
Level One Combat Merchant Quest-Needed Skills
Novice Merchant and Novice Marksman.
The junk dealer gives you a random item and a waypoint. He tells you to keep the item safe before you get to the target location to deliver the item to the buyer. However on your way there is a 10% chance you will be ambushed by a NPC thief will auto attack you. Kill the thief and move on if you encounter him. When you get the target ***IF*** you were encountered by the thief on your way, you will not be ambushed by a thief here. If you do not encounter him, you will be ambushed by 4 Thiefs and they will kill your target. Now you must kill them and loot them for a "theifs amulet" and bring it back to the junk dealer. Once you converse with him he will take all loot you got off the bodies on your mission and he will grant you a monetary reward and a level item reward.
I am not going to waste your time just pretty much copy pasting each other quest for the combat merchant ones. Pretty much with every level mission up it gets increasingly harder to balance the reward.
Now that the quests have finished being explained let me go on to the monetary rewards per level.
Level One:250 Credits and Level One Reward item
Level Three: 750 Credits and Level three Reward item
Level Four: 1250 Credits and Levelfour Reward item
Level Five:5000 Credits and Level five Reward item
Now let me get saying on how much XP each mission will yeild (merchant XP) it depends on your current Merchant skills. PER MISSION
At Zero Merchant/novice merchantskills each will grant250 Merchant Experience.
At one merchant skill each will grant400 Merchant Experience.
At two merchant skills it will grant550 Merchant Experience.
At 4 Merchant skills it will grant650 Merchant Experience.
At 6 Merchant skills it will grant750 Merchant Experience.
At 8 Merchant Skills it will grant900 Merchant Experience.
At 12 merchant skills it will grant 1000 Merchant Experience.
Now to explain Item rewards per Level
all quest item rewards are marked with a special quality if you examine them "Merchant Quest Item Level X" (X replaced with level awarded)
Level One:1000 Credits.
Clothing, Locked Containers, Jewelry. No special properties.
level two: 2500 Credits.
Clothing, Jewelry and +1 Armor Attachments. Clothing and Jewelry may have small special skill mods on them.
level three: 5000 credits
Clothing with Good/decent/wearable skill mods on them. Weapons (not crappy ones, i mean ones that can be compared to Master Weaponsmiths (you know like the ones on test center 2 , should be about 10%-25% less powerful then those.)
level four: 15000 credits
Clothing attachments, armor attachments, weapons as above, armor as above,
level five:35000 credits
10% Legendary. 20% Exception Loot 80% chance clothing attachment or armor attachment (random stats should not be crappy)
Thats it for today I think... Tommorow I am going to follow up with even more content. Bye!