Merchant Archive

Will Merchants get special abilities for use w/ Player Cities? (e.g. running cantinas, etc)

How will the Merchant class work with player cities? Some of its functionality would be obsolete or at least less useful in a player city. Or perhaps not.....

Either way, shouldn't Merchant gain new abilities for uses in player cities? Like maybe bonuses to running municipal buildings......

Honestly I think merchants should be a requirement for running in-city shops and cantinas. Right now no one is dependent on us and if we do manage to set up a mall or something its a TON of work. I feel we should be indespensible to crafters and others who want to sell things, maybe just me though . I'm also a big fan of the idea of giving crafters access to our vendors and charging them a percentage of the sale price.

There was mention by a dev that merchants would be able to place their vendors on the streets -- probably placed by the Urban Planner, but having a vendor next to the shuttle port would be nice.

• If special "Cantina" buildings can be placed by player, they should require Merchant skill to run, or impose a high maintenance fee.


• Increase the maintenance costs for players who place Vendors but do not have Merchant skills. Deacrease the costs for Merchants who place Vendors in buildings.


• Define a region, external to the building, in which an owner/admincan "drop" and "place" items. This would extend to balconies for buildings that have them.


• Allow only Master Merchants to place Bazaar Terminals in player cities.


• Add Vendor admin as per my proposal.

Vendor Admin proposal:

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=merchant&message.id=8203

Some of those suggestions may be a bit too much, but we need to preserve the usefullness of the Merchant profession. Merchants should be the ones making money. They should me making money on behalf of business partnerships. My Vendor Admin proposal makesit possible for this to be managed fairly. Otherwise, people have to manually arrange transactions and in many cases "trust" each other a little too much (for a computer game).