Merchant Archive
Thread: Another merchant ability idea
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BoberFett
Thu Feb 05, 2004 1:35 pm
#3
This one is even something that doesn't involve vendors, so would be a reason to keep merchant skills.
One of the biggest problems with being a merchant right now (IMHO, of course) is the lack of advertising ability. Why not give merchants the ability to place ads in a newspaper or ad circular?
At any bazaar terminal, give Merchants the ability to place an ad. The ad can run for varying amounts of time based on Ad skill level. The cost could be based on number of characters and length of time to run. Perhaps at Novice you could only place planet wide ads, but at master you could place galaxy wide ads. Then put a second item on the bazaar terminal that anyone could use: Request Newspaper. All current ads are then put into an in game email and sent to the player. The length of time an ad can run should be limited in order to keep the size of the email down, a novice would have the shortest time and most limited scope, a master merchant might be able tobuy a week long galaxy wide ad. Also, one ad per merchant would probably be a reasonable limit.
Right now I'm having a clearance on one of my vendors. Unfortunately there's no way to tell people about it unless I want to stand in town shouting about it. That's what got me thinking about this idea. I've considered trying to run something similar myself. Find customers who'd be interested in receivingperiodic emails, and then sellad space to other merchants. But the thought of trying to build up a readership and find advertisers doesn't sound like fun given the current tools.
Just a thought.
Tushai
Thu Feb 05, 2004 2:32 pm
#4
BoberFett wrote:
Anybody else? Am I alone in thinking this is a good idea?
No, you're not alone. Good ideas both, this and the global map ad. Gonna tell 'em about your custom order work-around too?
Puck_Starfire
Fri Feb 06, 2004 6:36 pm
#5
Sounds good, maybe have a bulletin board in the town square that players can post on, have it run for a day or two. Might get rid of some of the lag from everyone /shouting all the time at the starports.
BoberFett
Sat Feb 07, 2004 8:23 pm
#6
I think they need to institute a server side spam filter. If the same thing is shouted more than once every few minutes, then filter it out. I hate AFK ad spammers in town. It's hard to carry on a conversation when my chat window is flying by due to shouting advertisers.
Barbarosa_Cymek
Sun Feb 08, 2004 10:41 am
#7
good idea about advertising, and i agree with the afk spammers that ruin chats in crowded cities.
NomOrion
Sun Feb 08, 2004 12:20 pm
#8
Any idea that gives the compulsive macro spammer an altenative to advertizing their wares is a good idea. This is a VERY good idea.
ArusSaab
Mon Feb 09, 2004 1:45 pm
#9
Good idea.
Beats the "send an email to everyone in my Customer group in my friends list" because if nothing else it hits new potential customers 
Add a new terminal type similar to the bizzare ...er bazaar... ones and let potential customers read the funny papers.. I mean advertisements
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