Merchant Archive

I just got novice armoursmith and was planing on starting my own shop but I have a few questions I'd like to have answered first. I am sorry if this has beem asked before but the business skill tree in artiasn is a little vague

Firstly if I get bus 3 in the artisan skilltree how I can place vendors or hire a NPC. Question is am I limited to how many shops I can have at once?

2nd Climbing the merchnat tree gives me access to more vendors and NPCs are these better or just look different?

Last how many items can be placed for sale one one vendor of does this depend on the size of house I have?

Thanks for your time
PinZip
Armoursmith Tattoine Eclipse

Pinzip,

1. You are not limited to the number of shops you may have. Remember though that each vendor you have has a maintenance fee you must pay, same as harvesters (there is no 'power' requirement though). Also, the houses you place the vendors in do not need to be yours, but you must have Admin status to create one, and the owner must place the vendor where he/she wishes (it cannot be moved like other furniture, only picked up and placed again, therefore it must be placed exactly where the owner wants it during the initial placement). Note: you may only place one vendor per house.

2. Climbing the merchant tree gives you access to different vendor types, as you said. It also allows you access to various other options such as vendor 'barking' and ads on the planetary map so players know where your shop is. However, at the moment, the Merchant tree is extremely bugged and most (if not all) of the features do not work.

3. As far as I know any items on the vendor also count towards the item count for the house (someone can correct me on this if i'm wrong). Also, the more items you have on the vendor the more you will have to pay in maintenance.

Hope this helps.

well that covers just about all my questions thanks Blackmugen

Jayfoot has informed me that you can place more than one vendor per house, so I was wrong about that limitation. Sorry 'bout that.

also for the moment at least having been given Admin to a house doesn't mean anything you can't do anything to the house and from what others are saying giving your vendor to someone else doesn't help either because then it is stuck in their inventory

That only happens sometimes. I have not run into that bug yet, but yes, some merchants are definitely having problems with it.