Merchant Archive

There are a million things that could make the game and the merchant profession better. The 80k xp cap is low, yes. Elyssa has asked them several times to change it. But posting about it here is about as useful as shouting at the TV. The devs just don't care.

And what part about having to consistanly drive out to the village to cash in is fun? Entertainers get tons of xp the exact same way by afk grinding and their cap is 900k. Why argue in favor of the devs? We pay for this game and this particular feature is silly and not very fun. All I am asking is to be brought inline with everyone else. Weapons XP won't cash in anymore because they changed it to melee and ranged weapons xp. Then they forgot to make it avaliable to cash in at the village. So merchant is pretty much the only game in town for me. Its time they gave us a little love.

Message Edited by Aetius73 on 07-02-2005 12:55 PM

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Jailbird11275 wrote:

Thing is, you don;t actually have to do anything to gain merchant xp. Stick 1 item for 99999999 credits on a vendor called "Jibby's super duper stuff for 1 credit" and put this in a half busy place and you'll get xp for doing what exactly? Repeat it in 3 or 4 different locations and your a merchant machine. Perhaps you'd care to explainhow you earn't those 80k merchant xp points? Don't forget to factor in the fact you could well be off earning all sorts of other xp while your vendors are sat there chugging up free xp for nothing.

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I get mine by running 10 active, usefulvendors, three businesses, and at any time having over 2000 items.

You?

Message Edited by Leafgreen on 07-03-2005 05:13 AM

Message Edited by Aetius73 on 07-03-2005 07:01 AM

So would you rather they took care of this than giving us a relist button? Allowing faction armor on vendors? Allowing us a more detailed vendor creation?

In SWG, there's only so much oil.

From a programming persepective this is very easy to solve unlike the relist button. BTW didn't they fix the faction armor with publish 19? They changed several of the caps on other professions with the CU why not ours?

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Aetius73 wrote:

Suppose you actually want to play the character you are paying $15 a month for? And not be burdened with a daily drive that is increadibly boring and fraught with danger for a fraction of what a combatant gets in the same trip?

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then FS is probably not for you?

now don't get me wrong, I do FS myself as a master tailor/merchant... however, I don't complain about spending 15 bucks on it. if you don't like what you're paying for, do something else (like combat?)

now don't get me wrong, I do FS myself as a master tailor/merchant... however, I don't complain about spending 15 bucks on it. if you don't like what you're paying for, do something else (like combat?)

I was responding to the person that suggested that I simply sit at the village if I don't like the drive. That would be a waste of my $15 a month. I have already ground Jedi via combat with my other account and also grinded him through jedi he is now fully templated. What I merly want here is to be on the same footing with the combat guys as far as the cap goes. What is so bad about that? A relist button would be nice however getting a cap change is more likely to happen as all they have to do is go into the code and change =80k to =900k not sure what language they use but it should be that simple on all of the caps. In addition my wife started grinding her combat character so she could pick up the 2nd player slot. It took her rougly 2 weeks to catch up to what it had taken me 5 month of crafting to do. Now granted I have done no crafting with the intention of "grinding FS" I have merely maintainted my business. However the speed that she caught up to me in and has now left me in the dust shows the imbalance.

The imbalance should be delt with one of the first steps would be to raise the merchant xp cap to 800k or 900k. Our corespondent has listed this as merchant issue #17! Perhaps we can get it moved up on the list if enough people show concern about it?

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Aetius73 wrote:
Our corespondent has listed this as merchant issue #17! Perhaps we can get it moved up on the list if enough people show concern about it?

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From the top issues list:

The top 5 issues are the most important and are presented first. Below that are other items in no particular order that represent the major issues based on community feedback.

There is no "order" here. It's just a list. I could have just as easily used - or * to designate the start of a new issue but I wanted to know how many there were.

The top 5 are the ones that are deemed most in need of dev attention. Everything else is meant to be a "whenever you can spare the dev time" sort of thing.

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Elyssa wrote:

From the top issues list:

The top 5 issues are the most important and are presented first. Below that are other items in no particular order that represent the major issues based on community feedback.

There is no "order" here. It's just a list. I could have just as easily used - or * to designate the start of a new issue but I wanted to know how many there were.

The top 5 are the ones that are deemed most in need of dev attention. Everything else is meant to be a "whenever you can spare the dev time" sort of thing.

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