Merchant Archive

I havent done much testingbut the evidence is there

Have you noticed that when you run into a house more often than not the house is initially empty then after a lag spike (length depending on house contents) everything appears?

Well I've noticed that even when my vendors barking _is_ working they never bark at me if I'm the one who causes the house contents to render (say for example someone follows me in after the contents is displayed my vendors will bark at them). This obviously isnt such a problem on larger houses (where your entry causes the contents to render before you get within range of the vendor - Tatooine Medium is a good example) but on a small house (as I have) I hate to think how many potential customers get missed because the game decided to 'de-spawn' my vendors because no ones in the house)

I'm not sure how they could fix this - obviously de-spawning house content when its not needed is good for game speed, but it does make ad barking under certain circumstances pretty redundant.