Merchant Archive

Hi,

Sorry if this has been mentioned already, I've been away for the last couple of weeks - I did look back through the forum but didn't see anything that looked like it addressed this issue.

I am a 3004 merchant. I have nine vendors. This should give me 1350 merchant XP per hour, therefore taking just over 59 hours (approx. 2 and a half days) to cap merchant XP (80000) from zero. This was the approximate time it took me before I went away for Christmas (I have been converting XP for FS skills). Upon returning I immediately converted my banked merchant XP from the period when I was away. 24 hours later I noticed that I had far more merchant XP than I expected - 10000 XP more. As the day progressed I continued to accrue merchant XP at an accelerated rate, approximately twice as fast as I expected. I decided to submit a ticket and began the requisite knowledge base search. To my surprise the knowledge base entry for merchant XP seems to have changed. It now reads:

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Knowledge Base:
Merchant experience is gained through use of merchant abilities. Merchant experience is awarded for each of the following: - When someone pays to enter a structure with an access fee. - When someone checks your vendor, but only once every 10 minutes. - Every time maintenance is deducted from a vendor. This amount is doubled if your vendor's maintenance is fully paid. The exact amount of experience granted is based on a couple specifics that should be discovered through general game play. The awarding of merchant experience is currently working as designed.

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(emphasis mine)

So, does this mean that merchant XP gain has been doubled (provided you pay your vendors)? If so, when did this happen?

EnigmaBsc

Wow didn't know about that, must have been a stealth change as they fixed the thing that you have to actually pay your vendors.