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Thread: Devs are not looking at the side effects of vendor limits

Grudsy
Tue Aug 10, 2004 4:56 am
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They didn't look at the side effects of the holocrons, and the entire entertainer profession was damaged for many months, if not permanently. They community is still recovering also.


I see a couple obvious side effects of this limit. First is urban sprawl caused by people planting houses and factories for storage. That's happening already. I'm an architect and sold out of factories and most houses almost overnight. The customers themselves said they were buying them for storage because of this limit.


Secondly, the increase in spam. Crafters of all sorts will be resorting to spam to try and sell items that they no longer have room for on their vendors.


The worst damage I see is what will happen to the economy when the successful crafters can't function and give up. I am one who will have no choice but cancel my crafting account. Players will spend untold amounts of time chasing all over the galaxy trying to find a small timer who takes his work seriously enough to have a few products stocked. This is the end of the crafter who takes pride in his work and keeps a good inventory. Didn't we all hate empty vendors? Not much different in an empty vendor and one with 110 items on it, in a profession requiring more just to stock adequately. I'm not talking about the "Stock it once a month" type crafter, but those such as tailors, who have huge variety of items and colors to stock, or architects who have over 80 items just in the furniture catagory. Do you really want to go to an architect shop to buy furniture, only to see 1 chair of the type you need?



Grud/Wyldspin
*The Shooting Star*
A small shop with big selection. /waypoint 272 -5812 right outside Coronet.
Featuring a fully stocked architect vendor. All deeds, furniture, lights and paintings stocked daily.
Rarities and Collectibles vendor with a wide selection of exciting decor and loot items.
Tools & crates vendor with high quality crafting and repair tools, crated furniture, and other finds.
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