Merchant Archive
Thread: The item limit for vendors will be almost certainly raised:
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SWGaddict01
Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:39 am
#1
Here is a hypothetical convo between Devs:
Dev 1: We have to do something about the unlimited vendor space.
Dev 2: Yes but any limit we put will be cause outrage in the community
Dev 3: Well, why don't we do the same thing we did for the house limits (first proposed 25 items than raised it). Lets throw them the lowest possible limit. There will be outrage, we then increase the limit by 2-3 fold to a reasonable level, most will now be thankful that we listened to them!
Dev 2: that's brilliant!
Dev 1: That's a great idea guys let's have it rolling right before the weekend so they can vent as much as possible and don't expect a response from us.
So as you can see from this scenario, the limit will be raise almost certainly for at least 2 or possibly 3 times the current limits. Give credit to Devs, they know how to crowd control
Dev 1: We have to do something about the unlimited vendor space.
Dev 2: Yes but any limit we put will be cause outrage in the community
Dev 3: Well, why don't we do the same thing we did for the house limits (first proposed 25 items than raised it). Lets throw them the lowest possible limit. There will be outrage, we then increase the limit by 2-3 fold to a reasonable level, most will now be thankful that we listened to them!
Dev 2: that's brilliant!
Dev 1: That's a great idea guys let's have it rolling right before the weekend so they can vent as much as possible and don't expect a response from us.
So as you can see from this scenario, the limit will be raise almost certainly for at least 2 or possibly 3 times the current limits. Give credit to Devs, they know how to crowd control
Crimsonsplat
Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:41 am
#2
Oh I agree. I've expected them to triple the current limits all along.
Doesn't matter. My account's still canceled if they put ANY limit. I might have agreed to something reasonable, but this isn't even close.
Hero_DarkJedi
Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:43 am
#3
SWGaddict01 wrote:
Here is a hypothetical convo between Devs:
Dev 1: We have to do something about the unlimited vendor space.
Dev 2: Yes but any limit we put will be cause outrage in the community
Dev 3: Well, why don't we do the same thing we did for the house limits (first proposed 25 items than raised it). Lets throw them the lowest possible limit. There will be outrage, we then increase the limit by 2-3 fold to a reasonable level, most will now be thankful that we listened to them!
Dev 2: that's brilliant!
Dev 1: That's a great idea guys let's have it rolling right before the weekend so they can vent as much as possible and don't expect a response from us.
So as you can see from this scenario, the limit will be raise almost certainly for at least 2 or possibly 3 times the current limits. Give credit to Devs, they know how to crowd control
Yep ... that is the DEV's MO.
But in all fairness ... I don't think they really cared about it being the weekend ... I think that just happened :-)
VarnaxDespin
Mon Aug 09, 2004 9:45 am
#4
100 items per vendor...200 items... 500 items the number is irrelevent.... You cannot go from an infinite number to a finite one and maintain any rational perspective.
Heres a real life example from another post of mine to point out how absurd a vendor limit is:
2 assumtions:
Humans need to breath air inorder to survive
Merchants need vendors is SWG to survive as a proffesion
Lets say you live in a large industrial city (SWG) and the goverment (Sony) comes to the citizens and says, "Hey guys, we have a carbon dioxide problem (database) and inorder to to solve it we are going to have to limit the amount of times each person breaths per day. Now in order to make this fair, we cant base the number of breaths on the size of the person (the amount a crafter produces/sells) because larger people and athletesbreath more then small people and that isnt fair. So next month (publish) each family is going to be alloted a number of breaths per day....If you a single Adult you'll get 50 breaths, a couple each get 70 breaths, couple w/ 1 kid each get 80 breaths, couple w/ 2 kids each get 90, couple w/ 3 kidseach get100 and a couple w/ 4 kids each get 110 breaths per day, Have a nice day."
Well of course the community (forum) gets all up in an uproar and yells, screams and kicks thier feet because they cannot survive only breathing so few times a day. People start throwing out ideas on how many breaths "they" could actually live with, how they could get around the breathing limit and how they could change the way they breath. The problem with this is they have by doing this already accepted the insane idea that they should have to limit thier breathing to solve the cities air problem rather then the city working on solving the amount of carbon dioxide being emited by the city's Industries.
So after a week the city government comes back and says, "We hear your plee's/concerns, and thanks for the feed back and ideas, we understand your points of view and feel your pain, so we have decided to double the amount of breaths we previously proposed. We have given, now you must."
Well I am sorry I cannot live on 50 breaths (items), 100 breaths, or 1000 breaths a day....This leaves me very few options, try to live with the absurd demand to limit my breaths and die, or leave the city (swg)I have loved up until now, for another town (MOG) that will allow me to breath.
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