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If I remember correctly when I originally did merchant, xp came at 150xp per vendor per hour.

I have been 3,0,4,4 for awhile and recently decided I wanted a merchant tent so I dropped hiring, used my stored 80k and got to efficiency 3. That was 7hrs ago. I have gained 2000 xp. In that time. I have all 9 vendors up and they have all been loaded as I am in in the house they are in.

At this rate I am gettin 31xp per vendor per hour. Did something change?

Message Edited by Chavabegga on 12-03-2004 12:06 PM

It has been another 3hrs and I have only accumulated another 300xp.
This is most uncool.

It has now been almost 21hrs and I have only gained 5400 merchant xp. That is still rough 30xp per vendor per hour. It is going to take 5 times longer to get the xp I need.

Doc help!! Why was this xp decrease never mentioned?

After submitting a customer service ticket I was told it is working as intended. WTH?

DOC!!!! HELP!!!

Many times. Stuff has sold so other people have clicked on the vendors as well.
I have even shuttled in the hopes of an update. Nothing. It has now been about a day and I have only gotten 6350xp.
Working as intended my foot.

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Chavabegga wrote:
Many times. Stuff has sold so other people have clicked on the vendors as well.
I have even shuttled in the hopes of an update. Nothing. It has now been about a day and I have only gotten 6350xp.
Working as intended my foot.

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Ok. Questions first:

Are all the vendors initialized and paid up with maintenance?

When you say the CSR told you it was "working as intended" please be more specific. Someone told you that you were supposed to only get 31xp per hour per vendor? Or did they tell you there was a cap on the amount of xp you could gain per hour? Or something else? I need more facts about the CS conversation.

No one told me I was suppose to get 31xp per hour, that is what I calculated I have been getting.

I passed onto the CSR's that I was not getting the 150 xp per vendor per hour like I was suppose to and the only response I got from them was that it was working as intended. I took a screenshot. http://plaza.ufl.edu/maarkean/csr.jpg

All vendors are initialized. I did realize that I had not paid maintence on them in awhile and recently added some. I will see if that helps shortly. I never keep up on maintance since it never seems to affect anything. They can not be repaired after damaged and they have never stopped working. Maybe they stop giving xp but I will see shortly.

All of my vendors have maintence on them, but a few are really old and are at 0% because I never know when they got low and saw no reason to keep them up.
However, there are 4 vendors at 100% because they are new. I should have been getting at least 600xp per hr for those 4 vendors even if the 0% ones are not working. By my math that would mean 14400xp over the course of the last day. Since I have only gotten 7250xp over 24hrs, some from sales, I can only assume the maintence thing is not the problem, or at least not the only problem.

Well with one vendor in particular, I have 50k maintence in it. It needs 15k in repairs. I can still use it but it does not repair nor does the maintence go down any.

Unfortunately I can confirm this bug (or intended change?).
I have started Shipwright and along with it Merchant, i have two boxes of Management. All 5 vendors up, should be 750xp/hour. Yesterday i had roughly 16000xp and figured that today I have Management 3 (30k xp). Not so! About 24h later I have 21800xp!
Now, out of my 5 vendors, 2 were set up as real vendors with vehicles and powerups on them, the other 3 I have in the backroom solely for xp (with a high priced Bristley Hide in them :-)). No maintenance was in any vendor.
Ok, today I have put maintenance in all vendors (they were roughly at 77%) and destroyed and rebuilt the three xp vendors, so they at least are at 100% from now on. I'm really curious if this fixes the problem, will report soon.