Merchant Archive

My new guild, recently taking me in as the Product Distributer, is interested in me setting up a mall for our Architect, Smuggler, and Bio-Engineer (along with the Doctor [undecided]). So I say okay, and for the past week or two I've had /tell conversations and guild chats with people for hours on end, trying to figure out a good way to do this, and even more time testing out different methods. So I think, okay, let's just cool down and see if the patch finally adds vendor admins.

*Looks at the notes*

Ability to change player signs? REALLY!? WOW! As if that wasn't easy enough aready! Vendor admins would not be that hard to add, and it would save me, and many other merchants, a lot of grief.

Can anyone give me a quote of ANY GIVEN TIME that a dev has commented on such an ability? It would be greatly appreciated.

-Ehecu

i have yet to see anything on this topic from the devs and it sadens me.

personally i see room for exploitation and room for an added perk to our profession.

if we could add unlimited admins to our vendor there wouldn't be a strong need for our profession, as most could simply find themselves a merchant to let them use their vendors. i would consider this exploitation, one merchant per PA is not reasonable. coupled with the possibility of admin 4 removing the sale of admin 7's merchandise and pocketing it. i would not suggest allowing admin rights to vendors.

however, if we could add a limited amount of admins (IMO just one) then we could effectively rent out vendor space to non-merchant classes,enabling many of the crafters out there to give up merchant as a profession. This helping to define us as an independant profession and not the helper (as in helping the skills of crafters) profession we seem to be.

just my 2 cr worth of an opinion. and no i havent seen anything about a dev even considering this idea in any form. sorry.