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I've got a solution!!!

IF the root of the issue with the merchant changes is the Database and cleaning up database junk, I have what I think is an Iron Clad Solution!

Database issues and unlimited storage can be handleled in one fell swoop byallowing Merchants to CRAFT Vendors that Business people (Crafting Classes)would then have topurchase or Leasefrom them! Instead of paying maintenance on a house, you pay maintenance on a vendor, a percentage of which goes to the original merchant who produced the vendor. The purchaser sets up rights on the vendor when they place them that grants administration. Vendors of this sort can only be placed in MERCHANT HALLS that must be administrated by MERCHANTS.Architects need to build these, and they cost like 6 or 8 lots! Merchant who runs the hall would then be able to take a percentage per vendor OR take a flat percentage off of all sales in the Merchant Hall!!!

The vendors that were produced by the merchant would have an item cap varying from50 to 1000, depending on skill of the producer, resourcesquality, experimentation when crafting,ect. Just like any other crafter!!!The number ofVendor deeds you as a business personcan hold/use would be contingent on your business skills, or Merchant skills! Business 3: No Vendors.Business 4: 1 Vendor. Nov Merch:1 vendor. Management 1: 2 vendors, Mgmt 2: 3 vendors, Mgmt 3: 4 Vendors, Mgmt 4: 5 Vendors, Master Merchant: 6 Vendors

Bang Zoom, Interdependency of classes -- now all crafters rely on Merchants to be able to sell items not on the bazaar.Merchants Rely on Architects to build their merchant halls. If a crafter doesn't want to deal with another deed for a vendor, then they can sell to a merchant as a re-seller. Zip Pow, Database issues are solved b/c # of items is limited by the capacity of the vendor, and the need to burn skill points to get the max number. Perceived as reasonable item caps are instituted with a hard cap by the skill of the merchant when producing the vendor!

Thoughts / Ideas / comments / flames? Let's discuss this and see if we can make it feasible! Are there holes in the idea? What problems could occur over short and long term?

Let's hear it!

--N'Uro M'Bok

Master Tailor,

EGC,

Corbantis

Ok, first off, let me say that I personally don't believe that monopolies are a problem. What I've seen is that it's not long after a crafter achieves a huge amount of popularity (generally well deserved) they burn out and want to do something else and then there is a void left for others to fill, and the cycle continues. BUT, if the devs insist that there is a problem here, and that is has to be dealt with, I feel that attacking the problem at the "vendor level" is really really misguided, and here's why.

First off, why is it that a newcomer to say the weaponsmith or armorsmith profession has trouble competing with the very best in that profession on his/her server? It's not about popularity, it's not because their names are on everybody's lips (although that certainly helps) it's all about resources. The fact is, there is just no way that a newcomer can make a weapon as good as someone who has been accumulating the very best spawns over the last 12 months. It's an impossible task. And the amount of time it will take to get competitive is very long road indeed. And given that this situation exists, there is an absolute need to hoard gigantic amounts of materials cause you never know when the next spawn will come. It may well come months or years later. SOooo, understanding that this is actually the barrier, and not some silly vendor-thingy, why not attack the problem at the source?

Solution: very simple, increase the spawn rate of the better materials used in some of the more quality-centric professions. This lowers the barrier to newcomers entering the profession, and takes away a lot of the incentive to hoard quite as much materials. If you suspect that you'll be able to harvest an equal of better material in a month or so, there is little incentive to hoard it. Boom, done, problem solved. Next?