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How much does Efficiency II actually reduce the vendor fees. Right now I have a basic jukebox vendor and it is sucking me dry. Once I have the XP I am going the merchant route, but I want to know if I need to get to Efficiency II first thing.

Thanks,
QJ

I recently got Efficiency 2. I didn't notice a change when I got efficiency 2. I'm having trouble figuring out how my vendor maintenance is determined. Seems that it might be based on the number of items in the vendor. I only keep 20-30, so my rates ae anywhere from 8-11. It seems almost random, but at least they are not too bad.

I have gone up to efficiency and it is a waste of time to do it first. I would first go up management 1 get additional vendors (the more vendors the better) Then you should go up Hiring 1 at this level you gain the ability to place newer types of vendors such as NPC which cost 500 credits for 20days, but where efficiency 2 becomes useful is after you have an NPC vendor they are free, and machine type vendors are still way costly almost 20k per week. Hope this helps.

Have they fixed the problem with NPC vendors getting killed by other player?

QJ

It is important to note that the NPC vendors are bugged with regards to their maintenance, so the information given regarding them maychange at anytime in a future patch. I suspect the fix will be really painful to those who are currently "exploiting" this bugand gettingaccustomed to free vendors.

Note: that because this is a bug, it is technically an exploit but I am not trying tothrow mud. Maintenenace fees on vendors are out of whack too, so until the devs figure out how they are going to handle this, it only makes sense to get the best deal you can as a merchant. And that best deal right nowis NPC vendors.

But other players can just come in and slaughter the poor NPC vendors. From what I have heard it seems to happen quite often. Do you get an email when there is a problem with the vendor (widhful thinking probably)?

QJ