Merchant Archive
Thread: This Elder has had ENOUGH of SOE's STUPIDITY!
When will they understand that this is not just a game. This is a virtual world with real people's heartfelt investment in their character's development. That we LIVE here. That many of us were children when we saw the glory that was the Star Wars universe. And now, we get to BE there, and it takes our breath away. And the devs just play games with us like gods with giant boulders. They make a mockery of the grandeur that is the Star Wars universe. They forget that we who play this "game" are the biggest Star Wars Fans on this planet called Earth. We could adore the devs, but they would instead have us hate them.
OmniReaperr wrote:
Right...so I've played since launch. I've experienced every major nerf to come along in this game...some good, most bad. I've experienced "balances", I've experienced "changes"...I've been through everything this game has had to dish out to me, and I still keep on trucking...that being said...
This new merchant change makes me GENUINLEY mad...no, I don't suppose mad is the right word. PISSED, raging, fuming, absolutle engulfed in a sea of hatred and despisal...that works better. Up until now, the market has worked. It has worked WELL...there are a few dumbasses who use vendors for their own personal storage. Great, fine, punish them, I don't care. HOWEVER...what this is doing is punishing the MAJORITY for the faults of the MINORITY..and it just might sound the deathknell for this game untill their precious JTL, or the much-anticipated, never delivered, combat balance. The devs have done some relativley stupid things in the past (see unlock restriction)...but I believe that this takes the prize for being, quite possibly, the LARGEST blunder that the developers have made in this game, and I believe, firmly, that this will seal the economy on most servers. ARE YOU LISTENING DEVS?! You have a 34 page post, 99.8% of which is AGAINST this change...you have overwhelming comments AGAINST it in other posts, MUCH feedback from many forums, focus groups...whatever the hell you use to make your descisions, and yet you STILL find it in your pea-addled brain to DO THIS?!...
Right. I know about 8 people on my server alone that WILL quit if this thing goes through. This dont mean squat to SOE, and it doesnt mean diddly **edit** to the people reading this, but this MMO is about COMMUNITY...and personally, I believe the devs are very quickly and efficiently distancing themselves from that.
So, bravo devs. You have finally reached the peak of stupidity. What will you do now?...."LIBELAW LIBELAW TIMMAH!"...you get the picture.
End of rant, flame all you wish, dont care...had to get that off my chest on the 0.0000000019% chance that the devs will actually pull their heads out from their collective asses.
Gnight.
Yogol wrote:
Withthe artisan-vendor you can store 50 FULL backpacks in the vendor. 50 FULL ones. Don't tell me that's not enough storage...
Sure you can hold 50 full backpacks of 50 items on your vendor, but the trouble with that is the items inside are inaccessable in most cases as you would then have to clear 51 slots of room on your person to get to any of the items inside them. And will probably have to keep a record sheet of all the items you have on a word doc or notepad doc as you wont know what is where.
Currently i have a tailor vendor on 1 server and he currently has all 6 vendors in 1 place. 1 have a few wookie clothes on (3 of each type normally when i can get around to stocking it) then i have a normal clothing vendor that i havnt stocked for a while but has been known to have 200+ clothes on. After that i have a special orders vendor that doesnt often get used, but is basicaly there so people can make drop offs and collections easier. Like everyone else it seems i have a storage vendor, where i store bags of heavy duty leather and all the other stuff i need or want.
So so far just on those least used vendors i have 140 clothing and probably 60-80 storage, so im ok there for my vendors. But now here comes the killers.
I have 1 vendor who has 1 or EVERY type of clothing on it (about 220-230 items). This is so i can have a full catalog of items that people can buy and means they can find exactly what they want on them. So i guess i will now need to find a link to one of those sites that show a 2D piccy of each item. And in addision to that i have a vendor on my wall who sells supplies. This vendor (untill i went on holiday for a while) had an average or 1000-1500 crates of fiberplast / reinforced / synth / fasteners / jewel settings / armorweeve segments (usful for training armoursmiths) / cargo pocket / trim / shoe sole, on and also some large bags of 1000 units of synth / fiber / trim / reinforced / armorweeve.
So add them on to my last total and you have about 1500-2000 items on my vendors. So there is no way i can continue to run a business like this as i can normally shift between 100,000 - 300,000 creds worth of stuff every couple of days. And currently i have 8 factorys churning out products 24/7 (well probably 16/7 as im not going to switch my comp on at 4am just to start a new run of stuff). This is unless of course i start only selling in 1000 unit wearable containers, but this will mean many of my regular customers who either cant afford the 65k for 1000 fiberplast or 100k for 1000 trim or 120k for 1000 synth / reinforced will have to stop shoping with me.
To me this "solution" SOE have made will just make the large scale merchant or those who provide a service (like my 1 of every tailor item, or component salesmen) a thing of the past. And this will bring the community to its knees as no one will be able to make anything without the parts they need from other classes (like i need to have a good store of BE stuff for making BE clothes anda BE needs alot of trims to make their brandy) (the same goes for armoursmiths who need alot of reinforced fiberplast and synth).
Soltari-bacca wrote:
I haven't even read the changes for the Jedi for Publish 10 because I saw the vendor changes. Omni, 5 stars man. In the same state of anger as you are.
That's because they didnt bother to enumerate the jedi changes... only some RP blurb about it being changed.
BlackEdge wrote:
That was uncalled for calling people dumbasses for using vendors as storage..
Righto, It was the heat of the moment...I guess what I was trying to convey was that I didn't CARE about the people that used vendors like that...was saying that was the devs problem to figure out, not ours...sorry if it came off wrong.
By the way...there are 2 main systems in this game...combat, and crafting. Combat is royally messed up. And now, they want to mess up crafting. With both of those messed up...then the game is messed up. Think about it devs.