Merchant Archive

Just posted this on the politician forum, then it occurred to me that really, it's merchants who might make the most of the facilities, so you might be interested too.

Obviously not something that can be done instantly, but a thought for the future development of playe cites (and for that matter, non-player ones.)

Every town needs a post office. Even in the high-tech future-past. these Mayor placed buildings would have 2 (2!) amazing powers.

Amazing power the first: City Mails.

Through this, folks could send a gmail to every citizen within that city. The mayor would get to do this for free. Citizens, and non-citizens would be two other categories of user. Each category would either have mailing enabled or disabled, and have a fee setable (per citizen in the city) for the service. There would also be a ban list, for pests.

This facility would obviously be of most use to the Mayor (who have been asking for this ability for a while, of course.) But it could be handy for any number of other uses. Merchants sending adverts out springs to mind. Spam in SWG, oh my, but the pain would be reduced by the knowledge that the cost of mailing was going into the city treasury.

Amazing power the second: Item Delivery.

The Post Office woud be able to send items to any other Post Office in the galaxy, for collection by the designated recipient. This service woud come in two classes.

2nd class, 24 hour delivery. Low cost, but it'll take 24 hours (or some other long enough to be inconvenient amount of time. An in-game day might be enough).

1st Class. Instant, or at least jolly quick. Andvery expensive. Needs to be pricey so as to not ruin folks who make a living doing deliveries. (Apparently there are such folks.). As usual, some of the cost goes to the city hall (and maybe the city hall of the receiving post office too?)

Anyways, thats my thoughts on the miraculous post-office. Possibly folks here can think of other useful things one might do.

Alrevolis Vosteo

I actually REALLY like this idea. But, being a smuggler I'd want it held until after we get some smuggler changes and see what we smugglers will get to smuggle. I'd hate to have this building destroy my trade of weapon and spice moving. Of course if they make these things ILLEGAL (which currently nothing is, making smugglers smuggless) and your Post Office won't ship them, then I'm all for it. But that all equals a one big fat "Wait and See."

I love this idea as my PAhas set a post office up in our city... and we are working on getting one set up in another city.

What we use it for is dropping off/picking up items or resources. Say I need a crate of camps. I send and email to a city member, even though they are not on. As soon as they get the mail and make the crate they drop it in the pack with my name on it in the post office, then they send an email saying my order is ready.

If we get this set up in another city... we can get a pony express sort of system set up. Trading our resources and items for resources and items they have.

A self contained system would make this much more simple. I am all for this idea.

A Post Office... excellent idea. I'm all for being able to send gMail intracity, and legal parcels intra- and inter-city. Sounds great.

I like it! Didn't read all the details from what I did the second feature is really nice. I would love to be able to send items to people...

What I love the most about this idea, other then something else for player citys to have, is that it reminds me of Animal Crossing!

Mayors can already send emails out to all citizens of a city. I'll have to ask our mayor how to do it, but I suspect it's an option somewhere on the City Terminal in City Hall.

The mayor just addresses his email to "citizens" (without the quotes) and it goes to every resident.

I'm 'One of those people" and it pays fairly well when your picking up for millionares. Still this would be easier than dashing to tat whenever someone wants a new gun...

Well I was thinking that you could have "Post Office Boxes" which were one time use boxes. I pay a fee. Put in my item. And receive a code to open the box. I can then give that code to somone one else via tell or email and they can go and retrieve their item.

I was also thinking that it would be great to be able to have "Delivery Missions" from this building that would allow a player to make credits delivering items. I select from a list of post offices, tell him the name of the person I want it delievered to. When you do the delivery mission you simply go from one post office to another and get paid for (delivering) the post office sends an email to the recepient with a code and a box number to come and geit their item.