Smuggler Archive
Thread: Poll: Contraband on Vendors
Smuggler_Caylin wrote:
Just curious what you see happening in the event a robust slicing method is introduced. One that lets slicers pick and choose slices and tailor the item to the needs of the customer.
To me that means there will be no need for pre-sliced vendors at all. Spice will remain a consideration, but slicing? Doubtful. There would be little to no reason for that service to continue.
why would this change anything?
weaponsmiths and armorsmiths will simply ask for specific weapons to be sliced in particular ways knowing what sells and what doesn't. same for armorsmiths...then they will simply set up separate vendors as some already do..speed slices, damage slices, sets of encumbrance slices, etc.
basically all it means is that thosecrafters will not be destroyingitems that got the "wrong" slice type.
Smuggler_Caylin wrote:
Just curious what you see happening in the event a robust slicing method is introduced. One that lets slicers pick and choose slices and tailor the item to the needs of the customer.
To me that means there will be no need for pre-sliced vendors at all. Spice will remain a consideration, but slicing? Doubtful. There would be little to no reason for that service to continue.
It wouldn't chage anything, just have a vendor for speed sliced and a vendor for damage sliced which is pretty much what we see these days anyway.
I personally think the majority of the smuggler community is clutching at straws and calling it content. If you think removing the ability for merchant to sell pre sliced goods on vendors is gonna help you all out content-wise you are all insane. Most guilds have their own resident smuggler who does slicing for the guild at cost or FOC so all this means is that the guild WS would just get the guild smuggler to slice the weapon before dishing them out to the guildies.
TBH it won't make any difference except in some instances the prices of pre sliced weapons will go through the roof as they will be more frequently sold at auction on the forums.
Of course, I suppose it's highly fallacious to assume the Empire gives an s- about probable cause or that it has any kind of bill of rights that would grant general possession of such things, but it is an area where the law tends to get hazy, so worth bringing up.
Actually, to me it's about right and wrong. It has nothing to do with content, but to try and bring certain aspects of the game inline with what they should be.
WILDMAN_SOLO wrote:
It wouldn't chage anything, just have a vendor for speed sliced and a vendor for damage sliced which is pretty much what we see these days anyway.
I personally think the majority of the smuggler community is clutching at straws and calling it content. If you think removing the ability for merchant to sell pre sliced goods on vendors is gonna help you all out content-wise you are all insane. Most guilds have their own resident smuggler who does slicing for the guild at cost or FOC so all this means is that the guild WS would just get the guild smuggler to slice the weapon before dishing them out to the guildies.
TBH it won't make any difference except in some instances the prices of pre sliced weapons will go through the roof as they will be more frequently sold at auction on the forums.
Furthermore, contraband should NOT be sold on the bazaar. It is absolutely irrational for something illegal to be sold in public. It's like selling heroin on Ebay.
I would also expand the definition of contraband to include tools to make it such as knives, clamps, FANS, WUKs, and AUKs. Spice ingredients are tricky for they do have legitimate uses, kind of like the ingredients used to make Crystal Meth, which you can buy over the counter at a drug store.
Actually, I don't sell sliced goods on my vendors at all. I'm just against removing the ability to sell particular items from vendors. Add a fine, a faction penalty, etc. As a merchant I'm just stating my desire to keep the ability to sell what I want.
MadeEvil wrote:
Seems most of the people that are for B are the ones that stand to lose money if this is done.