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What's ironic is that one of the big excuses for the nerf is 'to give new crafters a chance against the monopolistic crafters', yet this nerf will make it much harder and expensive for new crafters to obtain what they need to even get anywhere near the level of the other crafters.

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Otio Eta - Elder Jedi
Otio-Eta - Munitions Master, RIS

Well one thing I do know is that players will adjust. Used to be a good buff was 6k and anyone rude enough to charge 10k was an **edit**. Now 10k is the going rate. The same will happen with all the other things you can buy in-game.

Problem really isn't that, as much as it going to limit what is out there to offer. Unless you've mastered the profession, like tailoring, you have no idea what is really out there unless you see it.

You also won't know you want or need something half the time, until you see it.

But, I can't stock my vendors with stuff I think you might want on impulse. I have to stock it only with the stuff I know will sell. You will see less and less of the unique stuff out there. But, since it seems many many many people are out here playing the game to be jedi and uber first person shooters, maybe the little things that make characters unique will slowly die out... and we'll be KOTOR with 4 outfit choices and a light saber. Fun FUN FUn!

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Forgot one small point into this brave new world being forged.

As crafters diminish, the remaining 'serious ones' will become victims of /tell hell as everyone & their long forgotten bothan cousins pesters them to 'make me the BEST!' Was a reality that drove a friend of mine from the WS trade because at the time, he was one of the top WS on our server.

Just my 2 credits

Hehe I remember being a tailor and waiting for the screen to load so I could type /afk back in the day hahaha

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The logic behind your post is good, and it makes perfect sense. But, this will not work for the Master Tailors out there. The only thing we'll be able to do is raise our prices to prevent runs. A master tailor shop will only be successful after this launches if they camp their vendors. Even then, they won't be able to stock many clothing items, due to limited space.

And I don't think I've touched upon the fact that custom orders are a pain in the ass.I won't do them now, except for friends, and I won't do them after launch, except for friends. These changes will not make me love custom orders more. If someone really presses me for a custom order, they can send me $20.00 through Paypal, that is the only way in hell I'll do it. I know that sounds terrible, but there are so many master tailors who hate custom orders.

Why, you ask? heh...because customers never know what they want. They want tailors to make them one piece of clothing after another, so they can turn it down one piece at a time, until we make the one they want. They don't want to peruse the online catalogue of clothing that has names, and color charts, either. Custom order customers are difficult, at best. They are the reason why my vendors carry a huge selection of clothing, so I don't have to do that. I don't know of any other profession that has to deal with customers who are completely clueless about what they want, they just want something that looks "cool" and "unique", and have no problems with us using our resources and time to make one piece of clothing they don't like, after another.

Ok, enough ranting. These issues will hurt tailors most of all, in my opinion. There are too many clothing schematics to choose from and no way can we stock our vendors adequately, especially if we carry bio clothing, as well. And by the way, you men can forget about alot of tailors stocking masculine clothing. There isn't enough money in it to make up for the lack of space on our vendors. We'll stock clothing we know will sell, bio clothing and womens clothing. Sorry.

And if I were all of you, I'd start buying up furniture, fast. Your going to see a big scarcity of it except in factory crates in the near future. That goes for paintings as well. I'm also a master architect, and I'm not going to waste space on my limited vendors (and I"m almost master merchant), with furniture and paintings unless they're crated. And even then the selection will be limited. I'll concentrate on housing, city structures and harvesters. Good sellers and money makers. This game, in all of it's diversity, is going bye-bye, and it kind of makes me sad. It's going to be stale and boring after this change.

I understand there should be a cap on vendors, but 110, come on...most vendors are run by Master Crafters, how many items can Masters craft ? MWS can craft over 65 final Weapons, not to mention the special schematic dropped weapons. So they can't even have 2 of each item on the vendor anymore ? Whats the deal...

This patch will make alot of crafters leave the crafting profession. Also it will push the gap between new player and more elite player apart. WS's will no longer stock new player weapons, so it will be alot harder for them to get better weapons. If they do they will be over priced and the new player will not be able to purchase them.

This will also make Merchants run all their 6 vendors, damn, what a pain in the azz, seriously...whats worse than walking into a Mall and seeing 60 vendors all stacking on top of each other? As some have suggested, Master Merchants can have a total of 660 items on all 6 of their vendors, what if they only had 1 vendor, allow them to have the 660 on that one vendor...such a neater and cleaner alternative...below is my suggestion...

Novice Merchant - 100 Items total over their 2 vendors (not allow Artisan to have a vendor ?)

Management 1 - 200 Items over the 3 vendors

Management 2 - 400 Items over the 4 vendors

Management 3 - 800 Items over the 5 vendors

Management 4 - 1600 Items over the 6 vendors

Master Merchant - 3500 Items over the 6...or allow for a 7th ?

Doing it this way will cut down alot of items being stored on vendors by Novice Merchants (people getting Novice just as storage)...

PS. Devs...you should of planned your DB storage a little better, didnt you see this coming ?? should've hired a DBA to plan your DB's out...

Because of the generous vendor limits it is possible for new crafters to enter the market. That is becuase there are lots of resource dealers that have stock-piled good resources. But if you try to limit storage in all ways (both in actual storage and vendor limis; not necessary using vendors for storage but having a lto of stuff on vendors for sale) it is possible for new players to buy high quality resources.

If this get limited it will be even harder for new crafters since the old ws would still be able to have enough of the best resources (aymbe dropping some resources for stuff that don't sell very well).A stack of 100k last a long time (well except for handler resources).

Let say it was impossible to have lot trades etc and you have very limited storage. This would make it a lot harder for the new crafters since the guild crafters would rule. In a guild there are always a lot of people which have extra lots that they can share.

I am 100% sure that those changes will hurt the new crafter more than they will hurt the large scale crafters.

Besides that why should the large scale crafters be hurt really for be good in their profession. it is always possible to break into the market. When I mastered ws in january there were lot of long-time crafters that ruled the market. But I am now (together with my partner which is one reason we are that succesful) considered being one of the top-5 ws on my server and most certainly we are the largest seller of all. We made it to the top by working hard and findign ways to compete with the existing smiths.

Still a lot of room for competion. I see new ws going from unknown to a top name (hi Enigma) in a short period.

What is as important as resources is your reputation. You don't get that, you earn it.

Problem is that many new crafters think that ws (or AS) is an instant money machine and that you get rich just by mastering. You don't, it is a lof of hard work involved before you get there.

What is next? Maybe we should nerf those who are good in pvp. Lower their damage by 50% so the new pvp guy get a chance and don't get killed. It is not fair that they should be able to killme just because they are better.

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Bermag [SiyBer Arms]

ex-NGE 12 pt Master Weaponsmith/FS Crafting Mastery- Wanderhome
Corellia: (Coronet -200, -5500) Dantooine Imp op -4422 -2383
High quality and low price
Now playing Eve

If this does go through, I think it will mean a much smaller variety ofthingsavailable. I play on Bria which I believe is the biggest server, if not its one of the biggest. Even on Bria right now you have a very hard time finding any armor that isn't Comp, some people sell Ubese and Wookie, but padded .. no way. Now if this Nerf goes through, you will never find anything but the main sellers. I presume this will be the way all proffesions will be handled. Weaponsmiths will only stock the most popular weapons, for example for Swordsman there will only be Powerhammers and Scythes. All of the other weapons will fall by the wayside. I myself am a Chef, and I know if the patch goes through the way it is now, my vendors will change a lot. I will ONLY be stocking Brandy, Bivoli, Ahrisa, Canape and Synthsteak cuz these are what sell the most. For people that want other foods, sorry don't have the room to stock it.

lol actually all this means is......people will get fed up looking for things.......trade forums will become flooded........overload on forums they will crash........BLACK TUESDAY

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