Merchant Archive
Thread: Vendors SHOULD unregister themselves if they are empty!!!
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VooDooK
Sat Jul 03, 2004 9:35 am
#1
I was always wondering why sales were not as good as they used to be just by Registering your Vendor on the Planetary Map! NO ONE LOOKS AT THEM! Why? Because 90% of all Registered Vendors on the Planetary Map are always empty!
Oh just so you all know, I play on Kauri, I was doing a small decent quality Steel hunt around all the Registered vendors on Corellia. Look for yourself, but in all registered Resources Vendors (About 30 of them were registered) ... I'd say I found 2 vendors that were well stocked (But no Steel) 3-4 of them had about 1 to 3 different resource varieties (But no steel again) and the other 90% of the Registered vendors were EMPTY!!! Yes you read well.. empty!
It's obvious that too many merchants don't care about this game. Or they are Merchant grinders that register empty vendors for XP. Or they are exploiters who surrendered Merchant but left their vendors registered and empty for god knows what reason.
How does this affect us real and dedicated Merchants? Well... it gives potential customers the idea that Planetary Map registered vendors aren't worth their time. I mean you could waste hours going from one registered vendor to another and find nothing.
TO SONY ONLINE ENTERTAINMENT:
Like always this will never be read. But to fix such a problem is very simple... impose an automatic Unregistration process to Vendors that are empty for more than... hmm... how does a couple days sound? Ya! Why be so generous to giving 1 week or a month? If a player can't be dedicated to his profession, then he doesn't deserve the benefits it has to offer!
If a vendor remains empty or stocks items that are not related to the designated registered item type it's supose to sell for more than 2, 3 or maximum 4 days... that vendor's Planetary Map registration is terminated!
If you want to re-register the Vendor, you have to walk up to your vendor and re-register him again! It's that simple and it will force merchants to re-register their vendors!
And if you were dumb enough to surrender your merchant skills as the exploiter you truly are, then though luck! Cheaters like you don't deserve vendors in the first place.
This has to be done! There's no other solution. Keeping the merchant vendor the way it is right now only promotes one thing... AFK-AD SPAMMERS!!! Why? Because no one will look at the Planetary Map for vendors, they will always be discouraged that the vendors are empty. Thus increasing spammers, everyone ends up on everyone's Ignore list... and well the game will just get worst as time goes by for merchants.
Songe
Sat Jul 03, 2004 9:37 am
#2
It's scheduled. Well obviously it's already late, but it's scheduled...
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