Merchant Archive

so you can no longer pick up an as-yet-uninitialized vendor??

Ok, I am not usually one of those people that totally ride on devs, I do realize what a massive job they have. But COME ON! The Merchant profession by itself is so totally full of bugs and annoyances and instead of focusing on fixing the existing problems, now we are about to have a whole new world of problems with jtl. Then comes the combat rebalance.

I'm sorry I know this is basically just a rant post with very little usefulness, but I just had to get it out there. I have been a merchant (again) for only a couple of weeks or so and I have never been more frustrated with this game as I have been in that time (and I am an Image Designer).

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gesikah wrote:

I'm sorry I know this is basically just a rant post with very little usefulness, but I just had to get it out there. I have been a merchant (again) for only a couple of weeks or so and I have never been more frustrated with this game as I have been in that time (and I am an Image Designer).

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An Image Designer AND a Merchant? Would you like us to just kill you now, and ease your suffering?

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LadyGrey wrote:

When you drop the vendor, doesn't it say something about not being able to move it once it is initialized? That message has always been there since I've been playing, but we've never been able to move the vendor once it is dropped, whether initialized or not.

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As far as I remember (back to beta 3 at least) you could never move them (regarldess of that message) For a while you could pick them up again. That caused some problem and they removed that feature from the game months ago. (like August/September of last year or something) As far as I know that isn't a bug its just a design fact. Vendors are very tricky from a technical aspect apparently and moving them around causes issues...so you can't move them around.

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gesikah wrote:
LadyGrey - That might be best for all of us. :-)

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Well, OK. Just give me a minute.

**starts sharpening sword**

I have never been able to move then either (only rotate), but a couple-few months back when I first picked up tailor (and a little merchant) I remember being able to pick them up before initializing and redrop them. Really not that big a deal usually, except like today. After going through the obligatory 8000 vendors before finding one that wasn't hideous, I accidently dropped her instead of examined her. POOF! Just like that, she had to be destroyed and I had to start all over again.

LadyGrey - That might be best for all of us. :-)

SeaRaptor - Doc already stated the fact that for a short time the ability was there.

Oh well, I guess what doesn't kill us or make us quit....doesn't kill us or make us quit.

And yet again I somehow managed to turn off convert line breaks. Sorry guys. I'm a goon.

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gesikah wrote:
SeaRaptor - Doc already stated the fact that for a short time the ability was there.

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My bad then. I didn't drop a single vendor from December to July, so I figured that they hadn't changed this. If you could do it for a while, then sorry.

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SeaRaptor wrote:

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gesikah wrote:
SeaRaptor - Doc already stated the fact that for a short time the ability was there.

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My bad then. I didn't drop a single vendor from December to July, so I figured that they hadn't changed this. If you could do it for a while, then sorry.

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It is always possible I an making that up but I distinctly remember being to "Pick up" vendors if you misplaced them as long as they hadn't been initialized. I remember doing it. It isn't possible any more and my memory is that it changed a couple of months after launch when they were trying to solve some serious vendor lag issues.