Merchant Archive

Thread: Stealth Love Coming in Publish 8?

DocSavag
Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:40 pm
#1
Check out this thread aimed at the Droid Engineer Community: http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Developers&message.id=24997


In the second or 3rd post by TH you will see mention of an upcoming module that will allow droids to adbark and contain information like prices etc...




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JTGAlpha
Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:44 pm
#2
Yeah, I saw that! That's pretty cool! I'd buy one.



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DocSavag
Wed Feb 18, 2004 2:47 pm
#3
Yea I'll probably buy one too just to play with it.



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saintchuck
Wed Feb 18, 2004 3:00 pm
#4
Does that mean they are endorsing the constant Spam outside the Coronet Starport?



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JTGAlpha
Wed Feb 18, 2004 4:06 pm
#5
saintchuck, what they can't stop, they make easier so that actual players don't waste their time on it. It's really not a bad philosophy. Pretty much it's like grinding. Players will take the path they percieve to be the most direct at the expense of everything including fun and immersion (two of the purposes for even PLAYING an MMO). There's NO way to prevent starport spam, so rather than trying to fight it, they've given us a tool to do it for us, so instead of spamming, we're playing, and not bitching about how unfun it is.


And truth be told...


Better 20 droids /shouting then 20 players. The droids aren't near as "heavy" on the servers, when all gathered in one place.



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bennybanglong
Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:14 pm
#6

I wish they would let Master Merchant setup shops in the Cantina, Hotel, or place a vendor on the street in cities like Bestine,Theed,etc.


But the Droid sounds cool. Not that AFK spammers can't do it already, but some of us don't want to leave the computer on 24 hours day.


Radiant-Sharpie
Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:14 pm
#7

JTGAlpha wrote:
saintchuck, what they can't stop, they make easier so that actual players don't waste their time on it. It's really not a bad philosophy. Pretty much it's like grinding. Players will take the path they percieve to be the most direct at the expense of everything including fun and immersion (two of the purposes for even PLAYING an MMO). There's NO way to prevent starport spam, so rather than trying to fight it, they've given us a tool to do it for us, so instead of spamming, we're playing, and not bitching about how unfun it is.
And truth be told...

Better 20 droids /shouting then 20 players. The droids aren't near as "heavy" on the servers, when all gathered in one place.




Well,

I /ignore every coronet spammer I see.. I hope I'll be able to ignore these stupid droids too.. That being said, I'm definietly getting one to advertise for me
GoCanes
Wed Feb 18, 2004 10:31 pm
#8




DocSavag wrote:

Check out this thread aimed at the Droid Engineer Community: http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=Developers&message.id=24997


In the second or 3rd post by TH you will see mention of an upcoming module that will allow droids to adbark and contain information like prices etc...






I posted in that thread and would like you to see if you can push for us, Doc... See if we can get the Merchant droids useable only by Merchants - maybe at Ad 4 or Master... Similar to what they are doing for the Entertainer droids module... Thanks... ^_^



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BoberFett
Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:31 am
#9
Doc


Perhaps the devs will let you have some input on this one, since it directly affects us.


First, this could be the master merchant perk we've been waiting for.


Then, I agree that having shouting droids at the starport would get annoying quickly. It would far preferable if rather than shouting and filling everyones chat windows, a merchant droid would have a static text bubble over it's head. The text would be customizable, but would never show up in a chat window, only above the droid. This gets us the billboards that have been brought up. Choose your type of droid, your color, your text, it's all customizable. Then let him go in town.


Finally , he mentioned a radial menu for the droid. It might be possible to have a small inventory on the droid itself. It could be filled with either things that are for sale, or it could simply be used to display prices and availbility. Fill a droids 10 item spaceswith vehicle deeds and let it sell them. Or it could be set to read only mode, in which case you put samples of all your wares in it with prices, and if people want to buy it directs them to your shop.


I'm loving this ad droid idea, and can't wait to have my very own prissy protocoldroid selling my fusion generators.
Buubahfatt
Thu Feb 19, 2004 4:14 am
#10

I don't mind spamming at starports, nor do I think it goes against the atmosphere of MMO.


I must be mad, yes?


Well no, not really. Everytime I go to the market in my home town (in real life) there are people shouting their wares. "Get your apples, 8 for a pound!" and such like.


However, I think spam-bots will be dangerous as that leaves people open to write petty little messages and leave the droid spamming ad-nausium.


Just a thought or two.
Neroir
Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:06 am
#11

First, I think that if those modules actually allow the droid to spam, Devs should take care how often it barks... maybe once every 5 minutes? I think its a pretty nice frequency

Second, I love the idea of the bubble over the droid

And third, if the message is customizable, it should use some profanity filter IMHO


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Message Edited by Neroir on 02-19-2004 08:07 AM

satanis
Thu Feb 19, 2004 9:09 am
#12
Advert droids? Sounds cool.

I can see them being used for "Anotherbiteofbacca is a flea infested walking carpet" outside a players home.



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Puck_Starfire
Thu Feb 19, 2004 10:31 am
#13

This is the only thing about the publish I'm not keen on cuz of the spamming problem, but if it means increased sales, then why not?


But, TH never said WHERE you could place the droid I believe. It could just be in yur shop, but then he brought up the waypoint comment. But you'll still have the wanna-be Bounty Hunters spamming their famous "TEACHING MARKSMAN 4/4/4/4 AND SCOUT 4/4/4/4, NEED AP BAD" saying. And those are the ones that get to me. If I needed training I know how to do a search. 20 wanna-be BH's outside the starport are what cause the lag IMO.


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