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Thread: Idea or Petition: Private Vendors

MasterNerfSlayer
Sun May 16, 2004 5:36 am
#1

Don't know if this has been metioned before, hence the title, but I'd say it's that glaringly obvious that I wouldn't be the first to suggest it.


It's hit a boiling point in our guild. We have vendors set up with guild discounts, but always, the general public finds the vendors and spreads the word.


We need private vendors, or the ability to offer people and/or guilds discount rates.




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DrkSyde
Sun May 16, 2004 6:07 am
#2

Only way I have seen this done effectively is set up a small house or use the GH if you do not want anyone but guild members granted access, and basically put all guild members on entry list and then make the structure private, This way only those on entry list ( guild members) can enter the small building with the discounted guild only products on the vendor inside... hope this helps



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MasterNerfSlayer
Sun May 16, 2004 6:53 am
#3






DrkSyde wrote:
Only way I have seen this done effectively is set up a small house or use the GH if you do not want anyone but guild members granted access, and basically put all guild members on entry list and then make the structure private, This way only those on entry list ( guild members) can enter the small building with the discounted guild only products on the vendor inside... hope this helps






But any structure has to be public to be able to place a vendor. Currently our guild hall has the vendors, but we had to make it public in order to allow placement of the vendors. Attemping to to make the structure private with a vendor in it fails.




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DrkSyde
Sun May 16, 2004 7:52 am
#4

ahhh yes my mistake forgot about that, ok other option make access fee someinsanely huge amount and again add all those in the guild to the entry list so they do not have to pay the access fee



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DocSavag
Sun May 16, 2004 8:43 pm
#5

Directed sales is one of the items we have requested.



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SachielDVangel
Tue May 18, 2004 7:05 pm
#6

on the entry list just type guild:nameofguild (eg: HoS, BROOD ect...) then charge a 10000000 entry fee at the door, dunno how high the entrance fee's can be so give it a shot.



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Tarnak_Archvold
Tue May 18, 2004 7:11 pm
#7

I believe the max entry fee is 50000 cr.




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DocSavag
Wed May 19, 2004 4:43 am
#8

Yea they changed it several months ago to fix an exploit with the entry time and 50k was what we were left with. I have asked them to raise it and got an answer that was open to changing it but no timeline.


Directed sales is a very important feature to have I think and part of the reason is the GCW. Being able to direct sales only to Rebels or Imperials would allow us to refuse service to one faction or the other. It would give us a little input into the war. Maybe we can get this feature added to the GCW revamp.






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MasterNerfSlayer
Wed May 19, 2004 4:56 am
#9






DocSavag wrote:

Yea they changed it several months ago to fix an exploit with the entry time and 50k was what we were left with. I have asked them to raise it and got an answer that was open to changing it but no timeline.


Directed sales is a very important feature to have I think and part of the reason is the GCW. Being able to direct sales only to Rebels or Imperials would allow us to refuse service to one faction or the other. It would give us a little input into the war. Maybe we can get this feature added to the GCW revamp.









Glad to hear it's on the list Doc. I've since found out the damage on the lastest buying spree... we lost about 24 completes suits of 80% kinetic / 67% base composite priced at about 2 cpu for resources. Yeh, cheap I know. Someone cleaned us out.


We've since implemented the 50k access fee, our guild was already on the entry list, but that is annoying because we often have visiting imperials that we like to entertain in the guild hall.


Speaking of GCW... /cityban DocSavag; mwahahahahah




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Privateer21
Wed May 19, 2004 8:58 am
#10

the guild:name on the entry list only works on a private structure. It does not let you slipthrough an entry fee. Only specific names on the entry list works for door fee exemptions. In a large guild you can see how this wouldn't be feasible, especially with the horrible structure interface.



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MasterNerfSlayer
Wed May 19, 2004 10:07 am
#11






Privateer21 wrote:

the guild:name on the entry list only works on a private structure. It does not let you slipthrough an entry fee. Only specific names on the entry list works for door fee exemptions. In a large guild you can see how this wouldn't be feasible, especially with the horrible structure interface.






My PA hall is public, and guild:name works fine on the entry list. None of the guild members are having a problem, not to my knowledge anyway. I will investigate it further.





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rexan
Wed May 19, 2004 1:24 pm
#12






MasterNerfSlayer wrote:



We've since implemented the 50k access fee, our guild was already on the entry list, but that is annoying because we often have visiting imperials that we like to entertain in the guild hall.


Speaking of GCW... /cityban DocSavag; mwahahahahah




You might want to move your vendors to a different structure. If these "thieves" already know you have guild vendors in the PA. Then they are very likely to eat the 50k entry fee and clean you out again. However, a 50k fee will definitly help keep people from probing around.




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MasterNerfSlayer
Wed May 19, 2004 8:06 pm
#13






rexan wrote:





MasterNerfSlayer wrote:



We've since implemented the 50k access fee, our guild was already on the entry list, but that is annoying because we often have visiting imperials that we like to entertain in the guild hall.


Speaking of GCW... /cityban DocSavag; mwahahahahah




You might want to move your vendors to a different structure. If these "thieves" already know you have guild vendors in the PA. Then they are very likely to eat the 50k entry fee and clean you out again. However, a 50k fee will definitly help keep people from probing around.







Yeh it's definitely not over yet. Our guild vendors haven't been restocked while we try to work out a compromise system, hence the reason for this post. I was afraid of this kind of thing happening too. It will probably boil down to catching the relevant crafter online at the time and requesting an item, or doing it by email and giving them access to our houses (we're all friends in the guild).




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