Merchant Archive

There are several threads of the problems associated with the merchant profession.

I am going to list them all below (in no particular Order!), can everyone vote for their TOP 3 that need fixing ASAP - Hopefully this will make it easier for the devs to pick it up and fix it!. - If iv'e missed any important (or newer) ones, please throw them into the pot.

1. Inability to retrieve items. (bothby Merchant and buy customers)(Bug)

2. Loss of items through vendor deletion. (Bug?)

3. Lack of depth (or percieved usefullness) of Merchant Skills (Wishlist)

4. Broken Advertising. (Bug)

5. Listing of items on the general Bazaar. (Wishlist)

6. Placement of vendors in non owned buildings you have admin rights to. (Bug?)

7. Remote access of vendors. (Wishlist)

8. Provision for identifying buildings with vendors easier - dedicated shop building model ? (Wishlist)

9. Automatic re-stocking of vendors from Stockroom (Wishlist)

10. Better reward for reaching Master Merchant Status (Wishlist)

Hopefully we can obtain some sort of concensus of the most burning issues, and use this to add weight to our please for them to be fixed / implemented !

I would go with 1, 5, and 6

Especially since you start with the big bulky vendor, then the lame looking robo bartender....I put all my stuff in the bulky one, then erased the vendor. Now all the stuff still lists on the regional list, but there is no vendor to get it from.

5 is KEY. In beta I brosed the bazaar for some Ore...the only place I could find it was on Tatooine. I purchased it and made a trip out there....turned out to be a vendor in someone's house (of course, I couldnt retrieve it but that's not the point )! This made me very excited about the profession. It is unclear to me if this still happens or not....I know the stuff I list currently on the vendor does not show up at the bazaar.

Without 6 the whole profession is essentially useless (except to get a better looking vendor)...If all 7 of my vendors have to be in my house for them to work that is a little crowded and a lot pointless. Also if I have to buy and maintain 7 houses that is a little hard I would like to put vendors in my fellow PA members houses that they can use to sell stuff...that way they get the benifit of being "advertised" at all my other vendors. Until this bug is worked out I can't do that.

Custom Ad Barking Broken. Can't retrieve items from stockroom (buggy.. i can get some, but not all). Ad barking will work for a while but then stop and need restarting.

I'd say 1 and 4 for sure, after that it's a toss up between 8 and 10, probably lean more towards 8 because it'd be more useful to more people I think if Merchants had a way to distinguish their stores...

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6. Placement of vendors in non owned buildings you have admin rights to. (Bug?)[/quote]

i sincerely hope that is NOT a bug! I, as a businessman, like the ability that i offer my services. People of any resources or craftsmanship shouldnt have to go to the trouble of learning business if they dont want to. If you happen to be an engineer, who wants to do nothing but sells wares, then why cant he make me an admin, and create the vendors and other amenities enabling him to sell his stuff.

We're merchants, businessmen some of us solely. That is our right and living. I'd be really displeased if it was taken away and i was only allowed to place vendors in my own store alone.

Number 5 worked in beta and don't see why it can't work in the live game. Kind of makes being a merchant a complete waste of time.

1,2,4. I wish this stuff would get fixed.

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6. Placement of vendors in non owned buildings you have admin rights to. (Bug?) "

this has to be the number one pain in the butt, not only does it affect merchants it affects tons of peope trying to get normal housing to all various placements.

After making it 1/2 way thru Merchant I see no real use for my good listed on the bazaar. I remember when people could buy your goods in your vendor off the bazaar. It was a HUGE pain. Most ppl delete the email they get soon as it arrives. Then they go to retrieve the item and no item! Guess who gets a tell and who has to email them a new waypoint? YOU DO! Times that by 50-100 items. Can you afford the time to account for this? I can't. Just my thoughts since I've seen this feature in beta already. I've been on both ends of this. I accidently deleted an email and had 12 items I couldn't get for days till that person logged on to give my cords/WP. If they put it back in I will not use it and if I'm forced to use it like in beta I'll quit merchant.

JiWanRivers.

What I meant is that currently there is a bug where the merchant cannot drop his vendors in a building he has admin rights to but does not own.