Merchant Archive

Vendor maintenance was very simple. You'd check the status and pay a certain amount and it would show you how many days you paid for. For a while (I'm not sure how long) I've noticed when I check my vendor, it just showed my vendor was 100% and that the Maintenance Rate was 0 and the Maintenance Pool was 50 or whatever it was. I checked it today and it shows...

97% 29 credits to repair

Maintenance Rate :0

Maintenance Pool: 0

I put in 500cr on maintenance but it didn't raise the 97% to 100%. What gives? Am I doing it wrong? How do I pay maintenance?

Maintainence, like all other merchant skills, is completely and totally broken. But no issues with mercahtns were addressed in the big patch today.

Kana

I've had that happen as well. I put in a few hundred credits and nothing seemed to happen until the next day when he was feeling all better.

Eshren Jandl

ok here's an explination:

NPC Vendors: 23 credits a day no matter what

All Other Vendors: Nothing if they are empty. The maintnence is supposed to be based upon the average of the number of items sold and the average of their prices.

All maintnence fee's on vendors are also supposed to be modified by your effeciency & advertising skills.

However, vendor maintnence is broken. Right now I recommend using an Npc vendor. Don't use the others and support SOE giving merchants all of the money sinkholes.