Merchant Archive
Thread: How do you like this for a merchant overhaul?
Well, considering droping merchant all together soon.
Advertising doesnt work well enuff, and let's face it, planetary map didn't get more people in my store. I get people in with message boards and mouth-to-ears, my % profit didn't move with the add line.
Business line was creates by a fearie in a fantasy world. Bazaar fees reduces your fees from 20 to 16. 4 credits. When you can run 2 survey missions in 3 minutes and score 3600 credits, how is a 4 credit reduction good????
Hiring is fluff. Should be an image designer and droid engeneer ability.
Managment... well, i don't need over 2 merchant with the curent state of the profession.
Problem is:
marksman skilling up = better marksman
Healer skilling up = better healer
Merchant skilling up = more fees? Anyone actualy did better business with these skills?
Question is: what is a merchant, what does he do?
A merchant should be specialised in gathering ressources, either brute or end product, and sell them. A good merchant travels around in business class, deals with people, and MAKES LIFE EASIER FOR CRAFTERS. A crafter should find it worth it to deal with a vendor. For that, the merchant should make profits, and have better advertising.
So, THIS is how i'd make merchant (total overhaul of the 4 lines, introducing 4 new lines):
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Novice Merchant:
- ReducesMaintenance Fees
- Vendors +1
- Lots +1
- Increased Bazaar cap to 3300
- Business card +1 (a business cards is a message you design in your datapad. It can be sent, or attached to any sale in the desciption area. Makes is easier to describe your wares).
Skill line 1: Structure Management
Box 1:
- increases building item capacity
Box 2:
- Lot +1
- House banner/flag
Box 3:
- Increased house capacity
- Area of safety (creates an area of safety around the shop where mobs can't spawn. No more Tusken Raider parties on you door steps)
Box 4:
- Lot +1
- Certificat for Harvester Remote Control Device (crafted by DE, allows status report, maintenance fees payment and ressources changes from a distance. You still have to restock power and empty hoppers in person).
Skill line 2: Business Privileges
Box 1:
- Reduced maintenance fees
Box 2:
- Reduced maintenance fees
- Reduced Travel fees
- Vendor management list activated (finally, you can give management privilege to associate)
Box 3:
- Reduced maintenance fees
- Increased Bazaar cap to 3600
- Merchant Shuttle Access (special shuttles that reach towns like Mos Taike....)
Box 4:
- Reduced maintenance fees
- Reduced Travel Fees
Skill line 3: Vendor Managment
(like currently, each box gives more vendor choices)
Box 1:
- vendor +1
- Certificat for Droid Vendor Remote Control (allows to change prices, or withdraw sale, or pay maintenance)
Box 2:
- vendor +1
- Slider bar: Ressources can be sold by unit, the buyer uses a slider bar to choose how much he wants, and he gets that.
Box 3:
- vendor +1
- Certificat for a Vendor Comm device: Allows communictaion with NPC vendor (see droid remote)
Box 4:
-vendor +1
- Certificat for a stock machine (one per building, will hold stock without taking space in house, for a maintenance fee, of course, but cheaper then vendors)
Skill line 4: Advertising
(first, a section on the Bazaar called advertising is created, where you can subscribe shops and place business cards)
Box 1:
- Bazaar ADV local (one town)
Box 2:
- Business card +1
Box 3:
- Bazaar ADV Planetary
Box 4:
- Business card +1
- Porch access (you can place a vendor on the outside porch)
MASTER MERCHANT
- Lot +1 (total +4)
- Reduced maintenance fees
- Increased Bazaar cap to 4000
- vendor +1 (total 7)
- NPC vendor can recharge themselves from stock machine using the remote comm unit
- business card +1 (total 4)
- Bazaar ADV Galaxy
So a master can have many stores, advertised across galaxies on every bazaar, with 4 displayed business cards, moves arounds easily for cheap, can control most vendors at a distance, even restock NPCs from stock room, , and can let a business partner restock themselves.
What do you think? That, in my eye, is a merchant.
Venar