Merchant Archive
Thread: IS MASTER MERCHANT REALLY WORTH IT
1) Paragraphs are your friend.
2) It depends on your playstyle. Is the item limit granted at novice merchant enough for you?How many vendors do you need?
3) Global search is overrated. Don't underestimate the power of the planetary map listing.
4) Barker droids are nice, but personally I feel they have too many restrictions to be useful.
5) No skill is useless if you benefit from it. To me, combat skills are useless.It's all about your own personal playstyle.
I love having master merchant! I can't live without it. The perks are just too good. In no particular order...
1. Maintenance reduction on all structures. Including ones I am only admin on. If I pay the maint, it gets the discount rate. Houses, tents, harvestors, factories.
2. Vendors on the map. Nothing beats that perk. Not your ad barking droid, your afk ad barking self, hired barkers, gobal vendor search, posting on the forums... nothing.
3. Merchant tents. For your own and other's vendors with less lots and maint. 1 lot. 100 item storage. (My main actually lives in a tent as her declared residence. Like a gypsy.)
4. 12 vendors! Boy howdy ya can't beat that! As a tailor, I use them to separate fashions per customer preferences and they double as fashion mannequins. (Love Hiring 4 for Uniforms!) But you can also use them set to bark as door greeters, to guide customers where else in the shop to look, as part of a display in a museum, etc. You can swap out vendors or reorganize without having to empty and store items from your old ones first. You can host vendors for other crafters to sell from. (You maintain and stock the vendor, they give you the stuff,you pay up front or after sales) Plenty of vendors to play with and 101 uses.
5. Ad barking droids. Ad barking in high traffic zones, of course. (Not in or near a cantina though. That's rude and makes the entertainers insane.) Or as we do in our player city, set one up by the shuttleport as a greeter. "Welcome to Serenity Valley! Please enjoy your visit and please be careful of the Krayts just south of town." Or often I set mine to say "Welcome! Please follow me." And he's on patrol from the shuttleport to the mall and back. Or to the cantina. Or if we are having a special event, to whatever location that is. He's a guide!
6. 4000 items. 'nuff said.
And that's only a few. I can't imagine not having master merchant.
I have to admit that as a DE I couldn't make it without also being Master Merchant.
I have 7 vendors on 3 planets for DE, and also provide my wife with 2 vendors for her BE habit! Restocking can be a (daily) nightmare, but it's where the money comes from!
Make the game your own. Start with 1 vendor, and either grow if you find it fun, or stay small if that's your style. Something in the game for everyone!
Dheak wrote:
thx for the imput, I jsut have one question. Can you have your Bark droid running while u are logged off. I wouldn't think that u could, but i just thought i would ask.
I think it logs when you do. Actually, i think if you leave the planet, it will go back into your datapad, but that could be wrong.
If you leave a planet by shuttle the droid will stay put, but if you travel using your own ship (JTL style) your droid will auto-store.