Merchant Archive
Thread: Let the Master Merchant craft a vending machine
The PURPOSE of the MERCHANT, is to SELL AND BUYING STUFF. The TOOL they are given accomplish this are VENDORS.
The PURPOSE of the COMMANDO, is to KILL STUFF. The TOOL they are given accomplish this are (among others)A FLAMETHROWER.
The PURPOSE of the CH, is to KILL STUFF USING PETS. The TOOL they are given accomplish this are HIGH CREATURE LEVEL PETS.
A NON-CH are still given a LESS EFFICIENT TOOL of KILL STUFF USING A CL 10 PET.
A NON-MERCHANT are still given a LESS EFFICIENT TOOL of SELL AND BUYING ON THE BAZAAR.
Does ANYONE have a problem with understanding what I am saying?
This is a Bad Idea with two capitals. Requests like this are why keeping the bizbox vendor in the artisan line is so important. You can say, as someone has, that's the deal, spend the points. If you push it further into the merchant tree, you'll get far more people arguing for universal vendor rights. (And certainly the ability to surrender skills and retain their benefits needs to be patched asap as well.)
I do however think that mall management and perhaps the creation of vendors within your own building rentable for a fee or percentage perhaps to people who cannot create their ownwould be an interesting area to explore. It's always been my assumption that vendor malls will eventually come to dominate commerce in SWG, just as they have in UO. Merchants should get a piece of that action. It's the one way I see commerce in online games breaking out of the crafter who owns their own shop paradigm. UO has just revamped their entire vendor system and it's something people should take a look at.
/agree Tarnak 100%
I can't understand how people compare a non CH using a level 10 pet with someone who would be able to use a vendor with the same functionnalities as a master merchant without any merchant skill.
I'm sorry, but for people wanting to sell their stuff without being merchant, that's what bazaar is for.
Here is an idea for all us Merchants, how about a lease program. If someone needs a vendor, they place a request for type of vendor and u go to there location and place one. You giving them admin. rights to restock and pay maintenance. The cost of this function would be a % placed on the items sold through the vendor, which reverts back to you. This of course would only be open to the Master Merchant and all vendors would revert to the admin. holder if the skill was dropped.