Merchant Archive

Returning to the game after a long hiatus (since just before player cities went in). I'm a Master Merchant, working on Master Weaponsmith, with some Pistoleer skills. What's new in the game for merchants? Looks like vendors actually *work* now. It also looks like they're just as difficult to use as ever, and they still have the usually annoyance with the expiration (it's 30 days instead of 7 now, right?). There's a huge number of vendors out there now, most of them empty--I assume that's not all real merchants. Are people getting merchant skills, getting a vendor, and then dropping the merchant skills?My Master Merchant final skill box looks as empty and useless as ever. What's changed, in your opinion, in the last 6-9 months, for merchants? Anything good? Anything not so good? Mostly just the same-old, same-old?

Atino Xepteed
Maker of Mediocre Weapons
Chilastra

Items stay listed for 30 days but only sit in the stockroom for 7 days before disappearing.

Vendors are more responsive now so you don't have time to go grab a drink between each item you list.

Since you're a master this doesn't really matter to you but it's much harder to get merchant xp now.

Other than that, it's pretty much the status quo.

Oh, almost forgot...

We've apparently decided that the Protocol Droid is "salmon" and not "pink" and there's a grass-roots movement afoot for a "comma revamp"

http://forums.station.sony.com/swg/board/message?board.id=merchant&message.id=32567

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Elyssa Alexander (Elder Merchant Correspondent)
12pt. Master Structures Trader / Elder Jedi / Mayor, City of Metropolis
Shop Crazy Durni, Inc., now open in Metropolis, Corellia (885 -6605 Gorath)

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