Merchant Archive
Thread: Merchants and devs please read, Maybe this will help.
I have recently been bidding on some items in my server forum. 3 out of 3 auctions went sour. I am sure that this is happening to alot of people in SWG. I posted a thread about this in the ECLIPSE forum about sometimes being a waste of time.
But some ideas have been flying around for a solution, and would possibly be a great feature to add in the game. Here it goes....
First only a Master Merchant will aquire this. Possibly have an auction vendor that can be placed in an auction house. The Master Merchant could get a cut off the final bids as his/her fee. For the vendor to work, allow the seller to place his her item up for sale and put the min. bid, auction time etc. , just like on the bazaar. However, allow players that start a bid at the vendor to make bids anywhere else, kinda like calling in a bid over the phone. Only this would be through in-game mail. Similar to how we get confirmation emails about items put as offers or sales on our vendors. When we would open the email, have a bid button on it,kinda like a reply button, and it automatically rebids on the auction vendor, no matter where in the galaxy we are.
Not sure if something like this is going around, and basically is like the bazaar. But the point is that bazaars only allow an auction of 3000 credits. Maybe this is so merchants are necessary in the game. But at least allow the Master Merchants to have something to look forward too, and the sellers/bidders will have a proper auction system. All parties win either way you look at it.
Anyways, just a bunch of brainstorming my Eclipse thread.
Be safe and good luck all 