Merchant's Home "Town"

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I just thought of this when i was checking another thread about having a level requirement for bases (Exclusive Level 40 Bace). Since my merchant would be excluded due to her low level (if this suggestion was enacted), i thought that it would be awesome if there was a trade chat channel that each player could turn on or off, that was for designed for the purpose of out-of-cs vending. Constantly in b* you see people selling stuff out of cs, which is fine, even i do it. but there is always the person who will spam a quick chat over and over no matter what kind words you try to use to steer them toward proper etiquette. I would expect this to happen in the trade channel as well, but it would probably lessen the amount that goes on in b*.

Excellent Idea.. it could even be like a branch off of Blackstar like the Guildhall previews. I only wonder though since it would be a new area and people would be chilling in there not merching, how would you ensure only merchants use it? It would need an auction terminal as well.

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Originally Posted by Ebalere

Excellent Idea.. it could even be like a branch off of Blackstar like the Guildhall previews. I only wonder though since it would be a new area and people would be chilling in there not merching, how would you ensure only merchants use it? It would need an auction terminal as well.

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It would obviously have a auction terminal and a stash terminal. There is no way to really ensure that everyone who entered it would be there to merch. But, with it being named "merchant's wing " or something like that, it would be understood that is what the purpose of the area is. Of course people are going to go there and chat, but im sure lots of the people chatting are still going to be looking to trade something, but people probably will show up with no intention of trading at all. even so, i think the percentage of these people would be significantly lower in the merchant's wing as opposed to all other home bases.

thanks for making me think deeper about this

I think this is an absolutely cracking idea!
bout time someone thought off this! They could have stalls around the base for tradersso they could stand behind to sell their wares/ trade ect. Would make it look really cool like a proper sci fi black market place!

Best idea yet!

thanks mitch. u made me think of something else....

/trade chat. maybe you can turn it on from the options menu (kind of like how you can shut off guild chat), and then if you want to trade you type "/trade selling......" and everyone who has their "trade chat" turned on would see it. this is actually a better idea than a merchant town i think

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Originally Posted by LelouchX

thanks mitch. u made me think of something else....

/trade chat. maybe you can turn it on from the options menu (kind of like how you can shut off guild chat), and then if you want to trade you type "/trade selling......" and everyone who has their "trade chat" turned on would see it. this is actually a better idea than a merchant town i think

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/trade already exists btw

/trade (name) brings up the trade window for that person

It is a good idea, though some people might abuse it.

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Originally Posted by Ardon

/trade already exists btw

/trade (name) brings up the trade window for that person

It is a good idea, though some people might abuse it.

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there is a trade chat that we can "turn on" and then when people type in the trade chat everyone who has it on can see, or are you just saying that /trade (name) is something that already exists? you can turn your guild chat on and off, and type /g (message) and your guild will see the message if the guild chat is turned on. i suggested something for trading, that everyone who would have the trade chat on could see (i.e. "/tchat wts nova" would send out a message to everyone logged in that turned the "trade chat" option on from their menu). i didn't think there was anything like this for SL or PL.

people find ways to abuse any system. anyone could still be reported even if they are in the trade chat, and people could turn it off if they aren't interested. i just thought that this would be a good thing for merchants

I was talking about there already being a command /Trade
It is a good idea though

kk thx for clarification

That why we have this great new thing called "THE AUCTION HOUSE!"

"It's a traders best friend!"- Some Unknown Trader

Side-effects may include:

-Making ton of credits
-Not having to vend
-Making sales while your offline
-and more

The auction house may not be appropriate for at traders, consult your wallet before you try.

Do not Use the auction house if you:
-Don't like making money
-Don't know how to use the auction house
-or if you are a allergic to money.

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Originally Posted by Crilon

That why we have this great new thing called "THE AUCTION HOUSE!"

"It's a traders best friend!"- Some Unknown Trader

Side-effects may include:

-Making ton of credits
-Not having to vend
-Making sales while your offline
-and more

The auction house may not be appropriate for at traders, consult your wallet before you try.

Do not Use the auction house if you:
-Don't like making money
-Don't know how to use the auction house
-or if you are a allergic to money.

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haha, I do use the auction house constantly and do good there. considering other games already do this, why not have a trade channel you turn on and off?

Also, some people look to vend and use the auction house.

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Originally Posted by LelouchX

haha, I do use the auction house constantly and do good there. considering other games already do this, why not have a trade channel you turn on and off?

Also, some people look to vend and use the auction house.

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I'm just jk, personally I have never made lots of money there anyways, you have a great idea.

this is a great idea
sellers and buyers could go to a merchant base to look for and sell things
it would be convenient

most people like me use the channel more than the auction house
but DO try to control spamming

it can be very annoying so try to control your time to bout 5 to 10 seconds per yell

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Originally Posted by Crilon

I'm just jk, personally I have never made lots of money there anyways, you have a great idea.

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I never did till recently and you can make a lot of money there. It's also something else to occupy time when i'm bored with runs

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Originally Posted by Ebalere

Excellent Idea.. it could even be like a branch off of Blackstar like the Guildhall previews. I only wonder though since it would be a new area and people would be chilling in there not merching, how would you ensure only merchants use it? It would need an auction terminal as well.

+1

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It wouldn't be enforced "merchants only" simply implied that if you go to this area, prepare to be spammed with sales. If you need to make a sale or buy an item, then this is the place to go. People there who aren't there for sales will have to deal with it or go to another world.

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Originally Posted by Kahlua

It wouldn't be enforced "merchants only" simply implied that if you go to this area, prepare to be spammed with sales. If you need to make a sale or buy an item, then this is the place to go. People there who aren't there for sales will have to deal with it or go to another world.

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exactly my point

Ahh i see. I read it wrong, I thought it was a "merchants. Only" area. So it's kinda like a Auction room, that isn't directly attached to Blackstar, so sales can be spammed without bothering the rest of B*, right?

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Originally Posted by Ebalere

Ahh i see. I read it wrong, I thought it was a "merchants. Only" area. So it's kinda like a Auction room, that isn't directly attached to Blackstar, so sales can be spammed without bothering the rest of B*, right?

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Lol, first you will never see me condoning blatant spanning. i should edit out the OP bc the option for a trade chat you can turn on and off from the menu would make a merchant town obsolete

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Originally Posted by LelouchX

Lol, first you will never see me condoning blatant spanning. i should edit out the OP bc the option for a trade chat you can turn on and off from the menu would make a merchant town obsolete

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By "spamming sales" I basically meant everyone selling at the same time.

The people that go:
"S) battleshell SET, asking 40k! Selling zany's 100k!"
"S) battleshell SET, asking 40k! Selling zany's 100k!"
"S) battleshell SET, asking 40k! Selling zany's 100k!"
"S) battleshell SET, asking 40k! Selling zany's 100k!"
"S) battleshell SET, asking 40k! Selling zany's 100k!"
Already have a place in Blackstar to go, it's called my ignore list. XD

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Originally Posted by Ebalere

By "spamming sales" I basically meant everyone selling at the same time.

The people that go:
"S) battleshell SET, asking 40k! Selling zany's 100k!"
"S) battleshell SET, asking 40k! Selling zany's 100k!"
"S) battleshell SET, asking 40k! Selling zany's 100k!"
"S) battleshell SET, asking 40k! Selling zany's 100k!"
"S) battleshell SET, asking 40k! Selling zany's 100k!"
Already have a place in Blackstar to go, it's called my ignore list. XD

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still wouldn't condone this in a merchant's town either, and that is exactly what my ignore list is for too

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Originally Posted by LelouchX

still wouldn't condone this in a merchant's town either, and that is exactly what my ignore list is for too

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If it happens in B*, it will happen in a merch town even more, with 25 people all competing for the 3 or 9 visible lines on the chatbox. However, the spam would lessen in B* consequently. I'm all for it, and like we said, there's an ignore button for the really annoying ones.

Some people just need to use the channel
So we can use the merchant town to avoid annoying people

Maybe there could be a new rule set saying u can spam but only spam sales
U will still get banned for spamming anything else in the merchants town

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Originally Posted by Anishavie

Maybe there could be a new rule set saying u can spam but only spam sales
U will still get banned for spamming anything else in the merchants town

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This will never happen. You can't control people's speech to that extent because they aren't being vulgar or directly/indirectly offensive. You can't ban them for spamming sales. When the people on a world change frequently, the new people didn't see the previous message. So while it is annoying, you can't completely blame them unless it's a constant stream of messages with no end in sight. Being annoying isn't ban-able; I'd have been gone weeks ago if it was.