Merchant Archive

I'm looking at the merchant class for my doctor to set up a stim store and I have a couple questions about the merchant class.

First, Efficiency IV skill, how much does it lower the cost of maintanence fees on structures? Does it work for all your structures (harvesters and houses, or just houses) ?

The advertiseing IV skill says that you can set up a NPC in towns to advertise your wares. I dont think I have ever seen one of these NPC's. Are they even in the game yet? Do they work? Where exactly can you place them, anywhere in a city such as near a starport? What can you have these NPC's say to people and do they just stand there and spam or does someone have to actually go and talk to them to have them interact?

Thanks,

Xarin Allfaith

Dunno about your first question, but Advertising IV is broken and to my knowledge isn't even being commented on by the devs. I do know that NPC merchants seem broken and only charge 1cr/day maint cost instead of a percentage of the selling cost of the products stored on them.

Note though, if you are going to have a stim vendor there is no planetary map listing for Medical Resources. I see most advertised under "Food Vendor". That's where I leave mine.

Also, currently you have to reset your planetary listing evey time the server goes down (reset, crash). That means every morning at the moment.

Yeah sorry i guess i got some bad info there when I before I asked those questions. I was useing a character builder site that said we could set up npc's in town with advertiseing IV, however when I got in game it just gives reduced cost for haveing a vendor on the plantery map.

Thanks for the reply though. Good info about there not being a listing for medical supplies.

I know I have read on the boards about them looking into maitenence fees for venders. Cant remember where though. Think it was a topic I read under the dev tracker one day. So they are looking into it at least. Though 1 credit a day is better then paying more i think heh, probably just what they have it set at till they decide on how they will do the maintenence fees.

Thanks again.