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If this is a silly question forgive me please. I am not a merchant I am a rifleman/CM.

I am setting up a GCW HQ/Museum in a PA hall. Someone told me that you can drop non initialized vendors that cant hold items but will say messages. They will be like NPCs that say something to visitors. Is this true, and if it is what are the parameters. ie. how many per merchant, do they give up other vendors?

Sorry if this is in your FAQ but I dont have the time to read through it.

All help is well appreciated.

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Warryyr wrote:

As far as I know, you can't do anything with a vendor unless it's been initialized.

You'll have to initialize it in order to get to the Set Message option in Vendor Controls. Unless I'm mistaken, of course.

If you don't initialize it, it'll just sit there and eventually poof, I think.

As for not having time to read the FAQ, well, you took the time to make this post, didn't you? Would it have been so much longer to actually click on the FAQ and read through it a bit?

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I did go back and read it, (the guide) and couldn't find my answer. But thanks for your response 5 star for you!

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Ani_cul wrote:

If you do not initialize a vendor you cannot create any further vendors.

You may dress the vendor if you have the skill, but you may not set it to bark unless it is 'turned on'

A non initialized vendor will accru debt to maint on itself.

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Heh I found out this is true even if you don't drop it. I had a vendor in my inventory on test and I dropped it finally after probably weeks and it had the maximum maint debt on it

So if I have a vendor friend, they cant really drop a few of these for me, cause they would be taking away from the total vendors they personally can have?

And can these vendors be dressed like GCW uniforms?

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Odinwaa wrote:
So if I have a vendor friend, they cant really drop a few of these for me, cause they would be taking away from the total vendors they personally can have?

And can these vendors be dressed like GCW uniforms?

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They will take away from the vendors your friend can have yes. And yes they can wear GCW uniforms and such. Assuming the NPC type matches the clothing you are trying to put on it. (Wookiees have some issues right now)

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Odinwaa wrote:
So if I have a vendor friend, they cant really drop a few of these for me, cause they would be taking away from the total vendors they personally can have?

And can these vendors be dressed like GCW uniforms?

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not just go angainst total theyare allowed tohave, but they could only drop 1,
if you have a unitialized vendor you will receive the 'currently creating a vendor' message when you try to make another one.

in essence we can only create 1 vendor at a time, so this would have to be that merchant's last vendor they plan on making

or you can make a vendor have it dropped initialized and let the maint break it til it poofs starting the whole process all over....
though personally folks hate finding an empty vendor, and worse is one holding the magic 999999999 item...