Merchant Archive

Market/Merchant Kiosks:

• Allow a Merchant to craft Merchant kiosks that can be manned by the merchant while he/she is online. The kiosk should come in several varieties based on the type of goods the merchant wants to sell (weapons, ship components, med supplies, food, armor, etc.)
  
• Treat this merchant as a droid deed with a storage compartment treated as that of a vendor (linked to the merchant's level). If the merchant goes off-line the kiosks is automatically stored.
  
• Kiosks can be called by any novice merchant by calling the deed like a vehicle or droid. Once called it is immobile.
  
• Kiosks can only be called/created in pre-designated market sectors of NPC cities and take up one square. Each city has a limited number of market squares. There should be a 10% (20% for spaceport cities)convenience fee surcharge on all purchases from a kiosk. (a choice spot like this can't be free!)
  
• Kiosks could also replace the junk dealers in NPC cities. Kiosk merchants should be able to hand out loot kits, but the owning merchant shouls not get the revenue from this static game element.
  
• Kiosks can buy junk components like the current junk dealers. This does not create revenue for the merchant, but the item is removed from the game (like the current junk dealer) instead of going into the vendor's storage.
  
• Items purchased from a kiosk must be placed in the purchaser's inventory. If the inventory is full, the purchaser cannot purchase that item. (What if the merchant goes offline before the item is picked up?)
  
• Allow an architect to craft a 10x10 Market deed for Player cities that act like the NPC market described above, but without the 10% surcharge. (player cities already have sales tax)
  
• Each kiosk has a vendor manning it that gives a junk dealer discussion thread with the additional option "Let me see what you have for sale" that brings up the vendor interface.