Merchant Archive
Thread: Still got no exp
I babysit my vendor to get my 150 exp per hours and it works quite fine.... Until I lose connection for updates or maintenance ... 50% of the time when I log back and wait 1, 2, 3 hours no exp?
Anyone experience this? To patch this problem I create new vendors but is there anything else I can do?
Oh and yes I pay my maintenance fee hehe
Dezilos wrote:
I babysit my vendor to get my 150 exp per hours and it works quite fine.... Until I lose connection for updates or maintenance ... 50% of the time when I log back and wait 1, 2, 3 hours no exp?
Anyone experience this? To patch this problem I create new vendors but is there anything else I can do?
Oh and yes I pay my maintenance fee hehe
You are the second person to tell us this but I haven't been able to duplicate it. Can you think of anything at all that you might be doing that is different than anyone else. (I know difficult to know what everyeone else is doing)
Humm I log in... put a macro to stay not AFK and wait...works fines for a while until...nada...
Ive try to put a lot of items on vendors, none... both bugs someday...
Maybe its because I dont actually really sales anything in these 2 days? Or something like that....Because it happens every 2 updates (2 days)....
I have been running a stand/sit advertise macro next to my 4 vendors to get the xp, the past few days have been fine, today, (Dec12) after I logged in after theserver reset, I noticed I didnt have 1 xp more than I did when I started the macro 8 hours earlier, when my vendors finaly spawned after the reset, I got my xp for that hour only...so even though I was logged in next to my vendors for 8 hours I received zero xp for it
I really hate this proffesions numerous bugs that hit HARD not just a minor nuisance!
I had been doing fine with exp but last couple of days my vendor exp has been almost non-existent. I have 3 reasonably active vendors and last 2-3days have only gotten about 2k total. I'll log back in to verify maintenance, but i believe it's paid up. Previously was getting over 3k per day. I don't baby sit them, i do stay logged in in the same city for the most part but am about 400m away in a cantina. Now i have been in a different city the last 1-2 days but I think the sluggish exp began before this. What factors affect merchant exp? Is it a constant as long as you have active maintained vendors? Does amount of vendors, vendor sales, you being logged in, or your proximity to vendors affect your exp?
I don't know what's changed but i do know i was moving along at a steady pace and now i'm nearly at a stand still. I went 6 hours yest and recieved 0xp! Any help would be...well...helpful.
Yes, this happens to me a lot. The way I fix it, is to run out of the house, logout(wait long enough for it to unload the vendors and the house internals, which can take a few minutes depending on server lag), then log back in (while outside the house), then run back in.
The problem seems to be caused by logging into the house with the vendors. Sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't load the vendors properly or something, no idea. Basically I've found that if you run into the house it causes the vendors to load properly.
(I'm not really sure if the logging out helps, maybe it just causes more time delay and that helps clear the vendors).
If someone stands in your house with the vendors, it keeps the vendors loaded and it won't reset them...the house needs to be cleared.
I know this is a stupid question...but
They are stocked vendors yeah? You're only supposed to get the XP from vendors with items up for sale. Heh I stuck a few items on a vendor once and someone bought the lot...got very few XP that night 
I've gone through the Management tree to get all 6 vendors, I have them all in the one house, and my XP is ticking over nicely (although it really sucks when your client freezes for no apparent reason halfway through the night).
Bah it seems u dont really need stocked vendors to get the "exp per hours"...
Ive tested that the 3rd time I reset my vendor just in case... And it works
Stile2112 wrote:
Wow!! I just found outhow the merchant XP expolit works. People are making master merchant in 2 hours. Hope the devs are fixing this one.
FIxed on TC from what I hear. Should be fixed on live this week.
For those of you having XP problems there are changes to the way vendors grant XP on TC (no the rate and everythign is the same but they made a change that allows the vendor to "catch up" with the amount of xp that needs to be granted when it is loaded. Hopefully this wll resolve the various XP issues but if it doesn't we need to get on that as quickly as we can after the next patch to make sure we get it addressed. From my testing on TC the past week or so the xp seems pretty steady.
Ok, how's this for sucking. After my last post here i started getting experience again. Then Saturday night when i logged off at midnight i had over 17k in merchant exp. 8 hours later i logged on and had 13k exp sunday morning. Logged back on this morning still only had 13k exp. This is with three very active vendors running the entire time and a fourth one place sunday morning. I've tried having someone watch them, watching them myselves, logging off and back on, nothing helps.
As of right now, i have a whopping 15k experience...2k less than i had 43hours ago! This is with 4 fairly active vendors running, in good condition, and fully maintained the entire time. Of course, the devs were able to program well enough that the vendors continued to eat maintenance over that same time period...go figure.
Im unfortunately not aware of the above mentioned experience exploit. Don't know if it really exists, but if it does I'd gladly use it if someone wanted to give me an anonymous in game tell on Radiant. As far as i'm concerned, thunderheart, Q, and every other dev can kiss my ass if they're hippocrytical enough to consider this a"violation of the rules". They've not bothered to reimburse me any of the missed experience i've had (I was 2-2-1-1four wks ago-that's right, an entire month-and had2 vendors for 2wks, 3 for 12 days, and now 4 vendors for last 2 days and have progressed to 3-3-1-2), or even respond to any of the many service tickets or /bug reports i've submitted. I'm more than willing to use an "exploit" to try to make up a portion of the exp i've lost out on, and i'm too mad about this right now to be anything but vocal about it.
Ahhhhhh...I feel MUCH better now! For those of you who think my mindless yammering serves no purpose, you've obviously never experienced the unadulterated joy of a good rant. It's like a weight has been lifted off my chest! However, i would point out that I stand behind everything i said above. Especially the request for a little heads up on the xp exploit if it's still in game. I should've made master merchant by now anyway. Thanks for listening! 
On a lighter not, check out my post about an idea for a 'contracts' skill added to the merchant skill tree. Contrary to how i may have portrayed myself above, i truly do like this profession, or at least the concept of what it's supposed to be. I just am crabby because i've been expecting to have ability to place merchants tents and move into the rivendell mall for a weeknow and am fairly frustrated by my constant disappointment. Of course, you have to question the wisdom of making a suggestion for something new in a profession that seems to have little of it's existing content working properly. Oh well, I never claimed to be wise.