Merchant Archive
Thread: TH supports removing empty vendors from map!
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DeQuosaek wrote:
2.) Could we please make empty vendors not show up on the planetary map? I think if a vendor does not have 5 or more items (or even just 1) in it, it should not show up on the planetary map. There are few things more frustrating than travelling all over the planet only to find at least 50% of the vendors completely devoid of any items for sale. Removing empty vendors from the planetary map would a.) compel merchants to stock more often b.) relieve the stress on consumers looking for stocked vendors.
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Yes, I had some discussions with Runsabre about that last week.
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Hooray! Perhaps something will be done at last about this vexing problem!
AveryFarman wrote:
It does, however, illustrate that this is an on-going concern among the devs.
Squad leader is an on-going concern and they still haven't done anything about that.
I"m not sure TH has an opinoin about this subject personally but I know that he and I have talked about it and the damaging effect it has on the benefit of advertising III. If a change was implemented it would proabably be a simple 0 item fix and wouldn't solve all the issues but it would remove 99% of all the useless vendors I've ever visited.
Tira-Misu wrote:
That quote from TH does not state either way that he supports removing empty vendors from the map.
I consider it active support that he is discussing the issue with key dev's.
Really, his personal opinion does not matter as much, since his job is community relations and he is not in a position to actually change anything himself. I am sure that he has moved on issues that he cared nothing about, or was even negative about, in the course of doing his job. At the same time, some of his known personal opinions (unless he has changed his mind) are getting no attention.
He looks to me like an honest employee.His opinions carry farmore weight than yours or mine since he can lobby in person for them, buta whole lotless than Runesaber's who can do what he wants to the extent he is willing to stake his job on the outcome. TH is just an angel, Rune is a god.
JustG's state of the game letter has the removal of empty vendors from the map on the schedule for publish 9.2 or something like that.
/cheer
Yes there will still be people putting one item for sale... But most of the time I believe people are just too lazy to restock it or have quit etc so they won't bother putting just one item for sale.
Besides... by then people who have dropped merchant won't be able to use their vendors anymore, so all this sounds really exciting.
Removing empty vendors from the map is an awesome idea. I hope it happens really soon. Anytime my vendors run out of supply I just remove it from the map myself until I have a chance to restock it.
Just yesterday I went to 10 different vendors that advertised HIDES to find that not one vendor had them. That was very frustrating...
It's scheduled
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