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Thread: Why Can't we place Bazaars?
/disagree, this would be a nightmare.
Reason 1 - decentralized hell. I buy a ton of stuff off the bazaar. As a productive Bio-Engineer, I constantly buy stacks of organics from all over the galaxy to keep my factories running on tissues and pet stims. After a bout of buying, if I was to hit all the locations I bought from, I'd fly to most planets and about 2-3 cities per planet... it would take a couple hours at least. That's with the pre-established "static" cities! Now say I do the same buying routine, but now when I go pick up goods, I have to stop by 10 or so cities per planet! With no starports and not every city having a shuttleport... can you say all day event?
Reason 2 - faction chaos. Say an Imperial buys a few things from the bazaar. He goes to pick them up in Mos Donkey... but gets there and finds it a fortified hostile Rebel city. Turrets spot the city and militia are on patrol... this Imp is going nowhere. Too bad kid, guess you're screwed out of those items you bought!
I would think that placing a bazaar in a city would be technically feasable based on what I had read during beta (not that I participated in beta personally). At one point any vendor item was listed in the bazaar, and upon purchasing it you would follow the waypoint to go and pick up the item. That's why the Item Purchased messages still feature a waypoint attachment- it is a legacy feature left over from those days.
There are a lot more people playing now, but also consider that the vendors are no longer listed on the bazaar. I would think that with a PC cap at 130 across all planets the number of possible bazaar terminals would not exceed what was being tested with vendorsin beta.
That said, a method of addressing item loss should the city be destroyed would need to be implemented. I'm not sure what is involved there, but a relocation of those items to the nearest static city sounds like it would be in order.
But my magic 8-ball of developer answersagrees with the previous poster. <shake-shake-shake> "The database will not handle this."
- Acroyear