Merchant Archive
Thread: Why can't we rent vendors to other players?
Darkov wrote:
The fundimental reason is that Merchant is supposed to be a service profession. We are supposed to take goods from suppliers and get them into the hands of consumers. We aren't crafters of vendors. We use the vendors to provide those services. One might ask why doctors don't rent rez kits. The answer is if they did the player renting they wouldn't have the skill to use them anyway. That would be the answer here too.
The idea is that our vendors need to support a MUCH better form of interaction with suppliers than it does now. That would allow us to provide those services in a manner that would encourage suppliers to sell through us instead of competing with us for the market.
All of that is my own personal opinon but it seems rather obvious from game design that it was meant to be that way. That it isn't is mostly because of the lack of decent tools to do the job.