Merchant Archive

Thread: cool idea for merchant profession.

Terikan
Wed Feb 04, 2004 2:51 am
#1

I was wanting this feature in for everyone, but now I think just merchants would be the best. Make it so as they go up one of the lines (not sure which one) they get the ability to search all vendors for a specific type of item, much like when you use the filtering option at the bazaar for a certain type of item. First this could just be in the region, then planet, then galaxy wide at master.


Why? This way merchants could find the best deals on items, and could use this twofold. To save themselves money on purchases, and to act as a kind of broker to other players who were not merchants. They could do a buying and selling game that would be very interesting and involved all by itself.


What do you think?



------------------------------------------------
jedi is just another 4 letter word...
ToranTT
Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:05 am
#2

I think its a cool idea, but I think it could also work in reverse.


If you split it up by skill level it would work like this:



  • Level 2: Link vendors together (so that customers can search all your vendors at once).

  • Level 3: Link vendors together with other people's vendors (guildwide network of vendors).

  • Level 4: Link vendors into the bazaar search so that as a player searches the bazaar they also see things on vendors.

I level out any level 1 because its a bit of a powerful tool for level 1 skill boxes. If you made it a part of the advertising tree, the planet map registration could go to 2, then the merchant vendor network could go in at Advertising III, the guild network at Advertising IV and the bazaar network at Master Merchant.


Yeah yeah I know, not going to happen...





Aeroun Sunflier
Master Musician
Master Teräs Käsi
Imperial TIE Pilot
ToranTT
Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:06 am
#3






ToranTT wrote:

I level out any level 1 because its a bit of a powerful tool for level 1 skill boxes.






Err, that should read "I left out any level 1"





Aeroun Sunflier
Master Musician
Master Teräs Käsi
Imperial TIE Pilot
Terikan
Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:18 am
#4

I think you misunderstood. I like your idea too, but let me restate mine.


Make it so merchants themselves can run a search on OTHER people's vendors in the area for a certain type of item. Let them run that search from any vendor they want, doesn't matter. This will allow the merchant to do price comparisons between all the vendors in that area/planet/galaxy.


See? This isn't for regular players, but for merchants, so they can get the best prices on items and act as brokers for clients.





------------------------------------------------
jedi is just another 4 letter word...
ToranTT
Wed Feb 04, 2004 5:40 am
#5

Oh no, I understood your idea and it does have merit, I just think that there should be wider networks of vendors. Vendors in general are less effective than the bazaar due to the bazaar's powerful searching capability.


At the moment we have to register vendors on the map in specific subcategories that people search. This is how they find resource vendors, etc. The bazaar is far more effective because it spans the entire galaxy and allows for easy comparrison for everyone across the board, it is a far more powerful selling tool than the vendor system.


I have no idea how the developers envision this system, whether they want it to be difficult to find items or what. I don't know, but for a group of people that work together, play together and build lots of items together, I would like to promote my friend's vendors through mine. If a player comes and looks at my vendor I want him to see possible other goods he could have as well...


Advertising...





Aeroun Sunflier
Master Musician
Master Teräs Käsi
Imperial TIE Pilot
Page 1 of 1
Previous Next