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Hi All,

I a m a new vendor halfway to master and have read everything I can find on the net regarding this wonderful profession. What I can't find is a way to stop me from getting NPC vendors that I dont like the look of. I am not over fussy but have a picture of the type I want in my mind.

Can they be customised in the same way as a normal character and if so what skill allows this ?? Master ??

I would appreciate any help after sitting here just 5 minutes ago and creating over 100 vendors to not once get a vendor that does not wear yellow/green/blue lipstick or have a mohican or green/blue/red hair. I am looking to create 3 similar looking Female Human Vendors and have them wear a uniform using Hiring IV.

PLEASE HELP

Did I mention PLEASE HELP ??

Thanks in advance...

You just have to keep creating them. I finally gave up and took what I got, i.e, a refugee from a freak show. You can change their clothes at Hiring 4, I think, but that's about it for now.....

Something I noticed when I was first getting the ability to place extra vendors was that by placing gender-specific "random" vendors that it seems to cycle through the available races. It started at human, gave me a few then moved on and now when I do it I get Zabraks. I'm not sure what'll happen as I climb the Hiring tree. The interesting thing about this is that it keeps giving me what i consider to be 'reasonably attractive' vendors rather than those horrible ones that scare the customers you seem to get when you attempt to specify your vendor. Also, relogging did NOT reset the race cycle. It would be interesting to know if it's really generating a random vendor or if it's just stepping through a predetermined cycle.

At one point the Devs said that being able to customize your vendor when you create it would be too difficult because I think they were assuming every available race. Personally I'd be happy just to be able to customize the player race based ones. It seems to me that the mechanics to do this are already part of the game.

I'd also like to be able to take off a piece of clothing or equipment i've given them. There's nothing worse than giving them a weapon or a belt and decide you don't like it. All you can do now is try to give them something to replace it with since you can't make them drop it.

Welcome to the wonderful world of randomness

It can take 1 try where it can take 100 tries just to get a nice looking vendor.

The trick is to create a hotkey for in-game Copy & Paste. I set mine to CTRL+SHIFT+C for Copy and CTRL+SHIFT+V for Paste. Keep your inventory open so you have quick access to your newly generated vendor.

Now, just go to a Building Terminal, create a vendor, click click click, when it comes the time to name your Vendor, write a name, highlight the name, COPY then click Okay.

Examine your new vendor in your already open Inventory... is he/she old fat and ugly? Delete and start again! But since you already have your vendor name in the Clipboard, you can just Paste it everytime! No need to retype the name over and over again.

(o.O) --- Huh!? What happened?
(x.X) --- I'm dead
(^_^) --- LOL !!!

Thanks for that. I was doing tat and it does help a huge amount. Just a shame there is not even a macro for creating the vendors even so that the annoting repetative part was taken away.

We can only hope.......

Yeah, that's what I do.

My /createvendormacro on the toolbar speeds up the process a little bit, too.

Who ever said we were equal opportunity employers? If you don't like the looks justdelete it and try again.

I typically create and destroy about 30 vendors before I get one that looks good to me.

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I thought when I read the merchant box for 0040 merchant that is says that you will be able to create venders just like you create a charater from the charatercreation screen , if any of that makes sense .

But I think I just read it wrong. Its something that they should do.

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