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Thread: People seem to be forgeting we already have a form of vendor limit... we dont need another one!

VarnaxDespin
Mon Aug 09, 2004 5:11 pm
#1




What type and how many items we place on vendors is already limited...not by a arbitray # thrown up into the air by us and/or the dev's, rather by the 30 day limit placed on all vendor items.


Let me explain.... currently I and everyone else can put as many items onto a vendor as we like... what stops many of us from going over a certain number is the 30 day limit. For instance I have aprox 700 100k unit stacks up on my resoruce vendor... using my backstock I could double or maybe even triple that number. Yet I dont.. why? because some items sell slower then others and I dont need to have 5mil units of X resource up at any one time, especially if I know that by doubling my items.. I am going t ohave to spend an extra 2 hours re-stocking those items in 30 days... the amount I put on my vendor is proportional to the amount I think I will sell and how much time I am willing to spend re-stocking ever month it those items dont sell.


Why else do we not see vendors with 20k items... or 50k items.. or even a 100k items? because no merchant in their right mind canwants to spend20+ hours adding and then re-stocking all those items.


I am going to keep posting this becasue there is no reasonable item limit....100 items per vendor...200 items... 500 items the number is irrelevent.... You cannot go from an infinite number to a finite one and maintain any rational perspective.





Heres a real life example from another post of mine to point out how absurd a vendor limit is:


2 assumtions:

Humans need to breath air inorder to survive

Merchants need vendors is SWG to survive as a proffesion


Lets say you live in a large industrial city (SWG) and the goverment (Sony) comes to the citizens and says, "Hey guys, we have a carbon dioxide problem (database) and inorder to to solve it we are going to have to limit the amount of times each person breaths per day. Now in order to make this fair, we cant base the number of breaths on the size of the person (the amount a crafter produces/sells) because larger people and athletesbreath more then small people and that isnt fair. So next month (publish) each family is going to be alloted a number of breaths per day....If you a single Adult you'll get 50 breaths, a couple each get 70 breaths, couple w/ 1 kid each get 80 breaths, couple w/ 2 kids each get 90, couple w/ 3 kidseach get100 and a couple w/ 4 kids each get 110 breaths per day, Have a nice day."


Well of course the community (forum) gets all up in an uproar and yells, screams and kicks thier feet because they cannot survive only breathing so few times a day. People start throwing out ideas on how many breaths "they" could actually live with, how they could get around the breathing limit and how they could change the way they breath. The problem with this is they have by doing this already accepted the insane idea that they should have to limit thier breathing to solve the cities air problem rather then the city working on solving the amount of carbon dioxide being emited by the city's Industries.


So after a week the city government comes back and says, "We hear your plee's/concerns, and thanks for the feed back and ideas, we understand your points of view and feel your pain, so we have decided to double the amount of breaths we previously proposed. We have given, now you must."


Well I am sorry I cannot live on 50 breaths (items), 100 breaths, or 1000 breaths a day....This leaves me very few options, try to live with the absurd demand to limit my breaths and die, or leave the city (swg)I have loved up until now, for another town (MOG) that will allow me to breath.



Vendors are a merchants main tool, much like a rilfe is a riflemans main tool,Limiting items per vendoris akin to telling a rifleman they can only shoot a rilfe so many time per day....It is absurd.


Yours,

Message Edited by VarnaxDespin on 08-09-2004 05:34 PM



Varnax Despin
mattpost
Mon Aug 09, 2004 6:45 pm
#2
I agree completely




I have5 vendors total


One - has over 250 items with all my resources in it totaling 45 MILLION, that is only at 3 cpu max most is 2 cpu.


Two - has about 165 items with all droid items, batteries, heal packs, droids, paint kits so on.


Three - has about300 items with droid and weapons on it on a different planet.


Four - has over1200 items ALL LOOT ITEMS that sells at least 100 items per day. All for cheap prices.


Five - only 40 back packs, all packs have 50 items in it, this is my storage vendor WITH EVERYTHING I OWN WORTH EASY- 20 MILLION - in armor weapons crystals furniture harvesters loot kits ( ie rugs gongs ya know) Loot galore that is 2000 ITEMS


There is no way i have any room any where for all this stuff. ALMOST 4000 ITEMS


SOE what am I suppose to do? You told us this was an ok policy to use these vendors like this. Now some of us stand to lose Millions of credits worth of items. At the risk of sounding cliche - I have no idea what im going to do and there is a strong possibility of leaving this game do to the nerfing and our personal loss of items.


Here is the ironic part. Where is all this stuff going to go. I'm not talking about the loss now. Who is suppose to take it. Think about it if i sell it someone else has it. That means the totla number of items is still the same just not with me. when you lower the total number of items you bring the product to a lower level..


Supply and demand if supply is up cost is down. OMG simple economics. If supply is low price goes way up.


Please dear God tell me you DEVS covered stuff like this in college.


This is nothing more than an attempt at a COMMUNIST SOCEITY. A small group of rulers do what is best for the people.


WE live in democracy. WE THE PEOPLE pay your salary. DO NOT DO THIS NERF



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