Merchant Archive
Thread: More vendors?
Songe wrote:
I would link to the 19 answers thread but it never works... But go have a look, it sounds really promising for once.
The origin of that question was pretty intersting. I had literally no time to come up with it. I was asked for the question last week as I prepared to fly out to CA for Fan Fest and I came up with a quick question right off the top of my head that I figured would get no real satisfying response but wouldn't hurt us. The response is really sort of a semi announcement that we are due for some love.
I'm estatic for that and more than a little proud for any small part I may have played in helping to bring that about.
Why aren't Master Merchants Granted an extra vendor for achieving the role of Master of their profession? What was is the reasoning behind limiting the Vendors to 6 instead of 7 with the last granted at master?
The reasoning for limiting merchant vendors will forever be hidden in history’s shadows. It was a decision that was made during beta and no one remembers *exactly* why. With the commodities revamp that is currently underway and Runesabre’s plans to tweak the Merchant profession based on Docsavag’s community plan, this is something that can and probably will change (for the better )
be sure to delete any of the 'smiley's in the copy of the response.. .. i get that too if there is.
Songe wrote:
Thanks... I can never copy the answers without getting a 'you can't use html' error lol.
Good job Doc in any case... I'm pretty excited in the answer as well.
LonelyGhost wrote:
I copy everythign to Windows Notepad, then copy ou tof there to the forums. Works well.
I wonderwhere this "currently underway" commoditiy's revamp is slated for. LastI remember, Merchants were on the schedule for around 10.1, right?
I'm not sure I remember exactly where it is on the schedule. There are two things that I am aware of. The first is a re-write of the backend code for the comodities market (which includes vendors) and the second is a merchant vendor revamp. It is my understanding that the back end code is pretty much completed and will be in testing pretty soon. (Maybe 10 or 10.1 I don't remembmer) The vendor revamp is what TH was alluding to with "Docsavag's community plan" which as far as I know is a reference to a proposal I made and have since posted here about changing the interface and including some of the best idea from the past year on the forum.