Merchant Archive

People on a house/structure admin list should be have control of vendors placed within the structure. Our guild runs a "Super Store" with maybe 30 vendors in it. We'd like to set some ground rules for our members as far as vendor stocking (minimum # of items for sale, minimum # of resources), etc, goes, but unfortunatelly under the current system there is no way for the adminsto enforce a rule. What we end up with is several empty vendors and our customers complain. This is also a problem when someone sets up a vendor and then leaves the game; there's no way to remove their vendor (vendors do not poof when maint. gets to $0) short of re-deeding the structure, and that's not an easy solution with all of the vendors that would have to be unstocked, moved, restocked, etc. Comments?

I've suggested a while that merchants should become masters of the multicrafter mall. UO has some great functionality here with "vendor contracts" that specify terms for putting a vendor in a mall, including payment and whether or not it's renewable and even a way to mutually agree upon a payoff to terminate the agreement earlier.

I'd go a step further and allow merchants to create a limited number of vendors in their own mall usable by other people in order to serve crafters who want to manage their own vendors, but don't want to spend the points.

While I agree that it is annoying that people can just leave their vendor there indefinitely and you can't get rid of it. The problem is having a system that doesn't allow you to grief my be destroying my vendor on a whim and costing me item loss in the process. Its a tricky subject. Item loss happens anytime something like a vendor or a house goes away..if it goes away accidentally then people get upset that their things are missing. The devs then make it so it doesn't go away.. and we have this situation.