Merchant Archive

It would be nice to be able to put n special orders for people. That way the person doesn't have to run to your shop right away. Or you don't have to wait around for them. Delivery to another vendor would be nice too, but lets not get ahead of ourselves.

Not only would it be nice, but it would be a nice way to fill out the empty lines of merchants.

I think this is a great idea. I think a lot of it hinges, however, on vendor maintenance fees.

With NPC vendor maintenance being ... nonexistant you could conceivably load them up with several of the person's order to account for other people snatching up the items. The only problem is items from NPC vendors are sometimes unretrievable.

If you go the non NPC vendor route (termincal vendors for example), retrieving items is reliable (customers are happy), but maintenance is insane preventing you from loading it up with too many items.

I guess the downside of a "will call" kind of area on the vendor is it could/would be used as additional storage space for friends. Put up items for 1 credit that noone could touch but that player. I don't think the Devs would like that.

What I've been doing is creating backpacks and renaming them with the players name. So far I have yet to have anyone buy anything that didn't belong to them. Also I have a couple of empty ones just in case someone does try it. You could ban players from your house if they buy something and refuse to give it back.

I do like the idea however. Maybe they could add a special ordertab but limit the number of special orders.

Good thought, Tag for later