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Thread: Hey I have a suggestion for a Merchant perk !! :D
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Nahualli
Tue Feb 17, 2004 8:42 am
#1
I hope this hasn't been posted before, I do apologize in advance if it has.
The Merchant perk I would implement is "Try Before You Buy". This would work REALLY well for armor, weapons, clothes, and other wearables.. maybe even for houses. Selecting the "Try First" option on a vendor instead of "Buy" would spawn a ghost of that item into your inventory for 20 minutes. In that 20 minutes you can try the item on, play with it, whatever. The idea is that when you are done with it you delete the item. If at the end of the 20 minutes (scalable depending on the size of the item) if the system checks your inventory and sees your stuff in it, it will warn you that you still have a trial item and that you must delete it , or you have the option to pay for it at that time.
Whatcha think? 
I was just thinking last night how cool it would be to try on clothes before buying it.. would lead to several things. 1) demand on crafters to make higher quality goods 2) tell crafters what items are actually *wanted* not only what items are selling (subtle difference you must see) 3) reduce hate mail from irate customers because "it's not what I had in mind" 4) saves you the embarassing situation of having to tell a customer "No sorry I won't be buying that back, caveat emptor"
I was just thinking last night how cool it would be to try on clothes before buying it.. would lead to several things. 1) demand on crafters to make higher quality goods 2) tell crafters what items are actually *wanted* not only what items are selling (subtle difference you must see) 3) reduce hate mail from irate customers because "it's not what I had in mind" 4) saves you the embarassing situation of having to tell a customer "No sorry I won't be buying that back, caveat emptor"I am only a low level Merchant but I would have loved something like this to be in place
-Nah-
Puck_Starfire
Tue Feb 17, 2004 9:01 am
#2
It sounds great and would be more Real Life, but I know what the devs response would be:
"It's a good idea, but there would be too much coding involved to implement this idea."
I kinda agree. I think they should focus on the current bugs. Once those are fixed, get the expansion out. All this stuff about enhancing professions and Droid Handlers and Combat Droids and Chef foods, that all could have/can wait until the expansion IMO. They need to get the game working before adding more.
BeIdost
Tue Feb 17, 2004 11:12 am
#3
It is already there! Just be creative. Put up a sign that states you will buy anything back from the person if it does not fit or look good on them. Have them put it back in the vendor as an offer to you. That way you can allow them to try them on and see.... and they are back on your vendor (rack) if they don't like it. The fact that they have to buy it first makes them not buy your whole inventory out. Getting it into their hands is a good old fashoined way of selling! Letting them put stuff back will keep them coming back! It is easy to accept the offer and put it backin place, just like stores do with clothes in their departments.
Astronaut_jones
Tue Feb 17, 2004 11:24 am
#4
Can I get a buff, come try out your armor for 3 hours, offer it back to you, then try it out again the next day as well?
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