Merchant Archive
Thread: *Ding Dong*
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ItemCreator
Sun Aug 08, 2004 2:37 am
#1
I think that summed it up quite nicely but you missed the /slap before slaming the door! 
I'm not a violent person but the first thing I said to my boyfriend after reading the patch notes was along the lines of 'show me who came up with this idea so I can beat some sense into them!' I'm really hoping they reconsider because the 'nerf' will affect everyone's gameplayto some extent and, for SOE, no players = no money. *sigh*
Kel
Aori
Sun Aug 08, 2004 2:54 am
#2
Awesome post!
I'd say you summed it up perfectly.
I can completely relate to all of your frustration about this too. 
MouseBot
Sun Aug 08, 2004 3:21 am
#3
Very good, and it pretty much sums uphow I feel.
It's noon here and I thought I'd log on and restockthe vendor before the server goes down, but then I realized that there's no point in doing that anymore. Since they announced the vendor nerf it's just not fun to play.
Mystyrys
Sun Aug 08, 2004 4:45 am
#4
Bravo Arthur! You nailed it!
Too bad it is the truth and not just a comedy skit on the holonet.
Tirgwystraff
Sun Aug 08, 2004 5:13 am
#5
You forgot a tiny bit about the recursive macros Other than that, I'd say you about covered it 5 stars for joo.......
Other than that, I'd say you about covered it 5 stars for joo.......
ArthurDentOnBria
Sun Aug 08, 2004 6:49 am
#6
*answers door*
guy in suit: ArthurDent? Hi, we're fromthe game companyand we'd like to sell you another month of gamingservice.
AD: cool, well I really like your product, and I enjoy playing it.
guy in suit: Great, well our devs have been working very hard and we think you'll really like some new changes we have for the coming month.
AD: *picks up checkbook, starts looking for a pen*
AD: excellent, I play as a tailor, what kinda stuff have you got for me in the next month?
guy in suit: well, nothing for tailors, that's not something we like to focus on
AD: Ok, that's ok, I also like to play as a bio engineer, what new cool stuff have you got there?
guy in suit: well, nothing there either, sorry about that
AD: That's ok, I just started playing combat medic how about that, I'm really excited about that class.
guy in suit: Great! Lots of changes for combat medic.
AD: Awesome, lots of neat new stuff? new schematics? new abilities? new quests?
guy in suit: Well no, not exactly
AD: Ok, well what'cha got for me? What are the changes?
guy in suit: Well, we nerfed them.
AD: Hmm, that doesn't sound too fun. Oh well, I have a smuggler also and am really looking forward to the revamp. At least that's coming up right?
guy in suit: Uh, no, we decided not to do that, at least not in the forseeable future.
AD: How about Jump to Lightspeed? Really looking forward to the Beta. I went to fanfest, I'm in the beta right? Wasn't that supposed to be a fanfest perk?
guy in suit: *silence* well, we'll see *neverously shuffles feet*
AD: *pauses*...*puts checkbook back down delicately on the table*
AD: Darn, well this really doesn't sound too good guys, I'm dissappointed in the amount of new content. But there's always next month right? And at least I have a lot of clothing, pets, and tissues to make. With that necklace fix I have a lot of new things that I can offer at my store, and I'm really happy about that.
guy in suit: Well, there might be a slight problem with that. See, we've been working on the merchant class a lot.
AD: Awesome, there are SO many great things that have been proposed that would make merchant so much better. Did you implement the one-button relist?
guy in suit: well, no
AD: That's ok, you guys were probably busy working on the email spam problem right? Like you said at fanfest?
guy in suit: no, we didn't get around to that quite yet, but we've got that on our "to-do" list somewhere
AD: Hmm, how about sales reporting? All the neat sales summaries, and graphs, and charts, and all that stuff right?
guy in suit: nope
AD: vendor admins?
guy in suit: nope
AD: Well, cool, brand new content then, a breath of fresh air right? What have you got for me?
guy in suit: well, it's not exactly new content.
AD: Well what then?
guy in suit: Well, we nerfed vendors.
AD: Hmm, that doesn't sound much fun. Thats ok though, I've got too much stuff in my vendors anyway. I can probably prune them down a bit. I've got 2 vendors now and about 1,200 items in them. What do I need to do? Maybe shave a couple hundred off the top? Get em down to a lean, mean 400 items each? Just tell me and I'll do it.
guy in suit: no, the item limit for your level of merchant will be 120 items.
AD: *deep breath* I dunno how I could possibly reduce my stock down to 120 items on each vendor guys. Help me out here. Throw me a frigging bone here.
guy in suit: No, actually Mr. Dent, it's 60 items per vendor, 120 total.
AD: WHAT? ARE YOU FRIGGIN KIDDING ME? 120 ITEMS? THAT'S ONE-TENTH OF WHAT I HAVE RIGHT NOW.
guy in suit: calm down Mr. Dent. It'll be alright, we've thought this through very carefully and we wouldn't leave you out in the cold.
AD: SO WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH THE EXTRA 1100 ITEMS ON MY VENDOR NOW?
guy in suit: well, whatever you want I suppose. We hadn't really gotten that far in our thinking.
AD: OH GREAT. I'M A CRAFTER, WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO CRAFT THIS MONTH SEEING AS I WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT ANYTHING NEW ON MY VENDOR?
guy in suit: you can craft anything you like... *pause*... but you might have just a teensy weensy problem selling it is all. Maybe you can try other things and take a break from crafting for a while?
AD: Ok, so let's summarize.
guy in suit: ok
AD: Nothing new for tailors.
guy in suit: correct
AD: Nothing new for bio engineers.
guy in suit: correct
AD: Nothing new for smugglers
guy in suit: correct
AD: combat medics are nerfed
guy in suit: correct
AD: I am going to lose 1100 of my items that I've worked really hard to make over the last year
guy in suit: that's right, assuming you can't sell them all
AD: which I can't possibly
guy in suit: true
AD: And for this month I can't craft anything because I'll have no place to put it
guy in suit: that's essentially correct
AD: And at the end of that, after taking a (forced) month off from the game, and paying you for that month, and after losing all those items, I can then only offer one-tenth as many goods, and thus do one-tenth as much crafting as I did previously
guy in suit: right.
/slap
*SLAMS DOOR*
Message Edited by ArthurDentOnBria on 08-09-2004 09:59 AM
IKIDRO
Sun Aug 08, 2004 7:06 am
#7
Hi, we're fromthe game companyand we'd like to sell you another month of gamingservice.
Sure as long as can sell you all the extra stuff that I will not be able to stock 
or in that monthI will help to wreck the economy by pricing everyone else out.
or in that monthI will help to wreck the economy by pricing everyone else out./target salesman
/flamesingle2
/slap
/slam door.
Ikidro An angry little Rodian Master Tailor
IKIDRO
Sun Aug 08, 2004 7:24 am
#8
Opens door
Hi could I interest youin........
No sorry I dont buy from door to door salesmen... wait dont I recognise you?
Guy (looking shifty) ...yeah I came here to sell you more account time for SWG a while back, but I got laid off after the Merchant Nerf.
Well we did tell you
/slap
/slam door
Ikidro
Ozu
Sun Aug 08, 2004 8:30 am
#9
Problem is recursive macros will also be removed so that will not work so good.
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