Merchant Archive

in the last 2 weeks, i have honestly only gotten 9k exp from 4 vendors.

Please god tell me this isnt how its suposed to be.

prior to this, i was getting 20k every 4 days.

My merchant skills are....

Eff 1-3
Adv Voc 1
Man 1-2

I have npc vendors down and due to vendor efficiency, i dont have any vendor costs. its been 0 ever since i got eff 2.

I get about 10k a day but I don't get any of it from hourly... it's all access fees and first vendor access....

Though I do get stretches where I won't get xp at all for a long stretch (this hasn't happened in over a week as my shop has gotten pretty popular), my longest stretch of bad xp was 15 hour period where I got 350 TOTAL xp, and it came in 50 xp spurts not all at once like the old spurts we used to get in early days of the game. That is about7 xp every hour if we still are getting xp per hour and that isn't even including vendor accesses LOL God help us if that is actually the xp we are getting on an hourly basis cause that is just silly.

I had a thought this morning that perhaps we are given a minimum of 50 xp per hour now. Meaning if no one accesses the vendor or pays the fee we get 50 xp regardless, but if we get xp from the other methods we don't get the hourly xp. I came up with this thought because people are reporting that they are getting hourly xp when they have the vendor in a private house so no one can get in to access it. However you have pretty much disporved this theory. Perhaps there is another bug out there that gives us the xp if we make our house private around the vendor, or maybe just the people have it private but give access to friends and guildies and they are giving them the xp. I don't know I can't figure out why some get it and some don't.

I have management 1-4, eff 1-2, and hiring/adv. 1 and I'm getting pretty slow xp lately.

I average between 12k-15k a day total. That's with 6 vendors rolling and no access fees. Just doing pure volume sales to multiple customers. I don't notice any hourly trickly anymore either.