Merchant Archive
Thread: Ways to fix the Bazaar
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BRAYNEDRAYNE
Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:23 am
#1
All this has already been mentioned in the post "Ideas for a much better merchant revamp" (On the Merchant Profession Forum), but i was asked to place this seperately and i will do.
Now with the new Merchant revamp the bazaar is the only way for non-merchant players to sell their wares. The problem with this is that the Bazaar is one of the most terrible, badly implemented systems in the game. Who can be bothered to search through 5k+ results and travel halfway accross the galaxy to get the item they want? Not many. This leads to a supply and demand problem as the more items there are sold on the Bazaar, the less people who can be bothered to sift through ther items. To this end i believe that the following two things be implemented to make the Bazaar actually a useable tool for non-merchants;
1: Have a proper search engine instead of the terrible filter, allowing you to look for lances instead of every single type of weapon from aknife toa flamethrower.
2: Be able to pay a small shipping charge instead of travelling across the galaxy for your items. This shipping charge could be higher or lower depending on where you are. (being on Lok and wanted an item from Dathomir would cost a small fortune but Being in Kor Vella and wanting an item from Coronet would cost
very little).
Would everyoone PLEASE post their comments on this. If we get enough then the dev's might listen 
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.N.B. this post is also on the CORE SYSTEMS forum.
MaDuece
Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:10 am
#2
BRAYNEDRAYNE wrote:
1: Have a proper search engine instead of the terrible filter, allowing you to look for lances instead of every single type of weapon from aknife toa flamethrower.
To find the lances, use the filter to look only at polearms. To finda flamethrower, use the filter to look only at heavy weapons. I think the filter system needs to be expanded to filter out used items according to condition rating.If the item's condition is less than full, it should go to another section of the bazaar. There are way too many items offered on the bazaar that are worn down tonothing and someone is hoping to unload it on some poor careless individual that clicks "purchase" without looking closely.
2: Be able to pay a small shipping charge instead of travelling across the galaxy for your items. This shipping charge could be higher or lower depending on where you are. (being on Lok and wanted an item from Dathomir would cost a small fortune but Being in Kor Vella and wanting an item from Coronet would cost
very little).
I've always thought that you should be able to pay a little extra to have items delivered to your location.
BRAYNEDRAYNE
Sat Sep 04, 2004 10:18 am
#3
Hmmm... bad example i realise for the filter. I menat be able to search up specific things, like a Vibro Lance instead of just all Lances.
PaladinX333
Sun Sep 05, 2004 10:01 am
#4
Try to do a whole galaxy search for iron. You have to wadedozens of pages ofsteel, copper, aluminun, etc., just to find the iron that is randomly sprinkled on each page. The filter needs one more level of granularity. I want to be able to look for iron across the whole galaxy, not just "inorganic minerals".
I also think that a merchant should be able to list more items in the bazaar. You should get +5 itemsfor novice merchant, +5 for each level of efficientcy and +5 for master.
Elyssa
Sun Sep 05, 2004 10:10 am
#5
Don't even get me started on furniture.
It's like just clicking on the resources filter and looking through every kind of resource to find your iron.
Also, "factory crates" should sort as the item they contain.
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