P-J
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Just in case you aren't aware MA have decided to damage the value of shopkeepers... in a kind and generous Christmas gesture to the community (think of two fingers, one finger ...etc). Perhaps this was a case of hiding bad news...just two days before Christmas and just after the VU...
Two items of interest here:
1. For most shopkeepers trading has been very, very tight. A handful are making a profit and those that are hanging in there are using shopkeepers to do so. Many of the people on the forum know me and know that I a. have a lot of shop owners as friends and b. have run shops (and still do so) in game for a long while. So believe me having a shopkeeper is not a nice to have its a necessary item for anyone with a shop.
2. Shopkeepers don't drop that often and are valued and go for between 2500 and 4000 ped. These are not cheap items.
Oh and the reason for this...so that the owner of the new shopping malls won't be upset by the competition.
Now I am 'slightly upset' because I estimate that I will lose a few thousand peds...which I can ill afford atm.
I guess this should, however, worry anyone with an item in game of medium to high value...today Shopkeepers... tomorrow ..who knows what ? We all have items in game we prize.. how will you feel when MA decide to nerf that so significantly that it becomes almost worthless?
The vote ..should MA radically alter the stats on an well established item in game - without compensation?
The text from MA:
Due to the inclusion of the new Shopping Malls, it was necessary to adjust the Shopkeepers system. Shop owners could place items for sale through Shopkeepers and thereby evade paying the 2.5% sales tax to the landowner.
So, the following revisions will be made to all Shopkeepers in the near future.
The fee for making an item available through a Shopkeeper by setting its price will be abolished.
Deterioration of Shopkeepers when items are sold will be reduced considerably.
A 2.5% regressive markup tax will be introduced for all sales made through all Shopkeepers in the Entropia Universe. This tax is paid to the landowner. The existing fixed tax of 2.5% paid by shop owners to landowners will also be made regressive.
Just like the auction, the regressive tax on the markup ensures that as the markup value increases, the percentage tax decreases. This ensures that the total tax will never exceed 50 PED.
Two items of interest here:
1. For most shopkeepers trading has been very, very tight. A handful are making a profit and those that are hanging in there are using shopkeepers to do so. Many of the people on the forum know me and know that I a. have a lot of shop owners as friends and b. have run shops (and still do so) in game for a long while. So believe me having a shopkeeper is not a nice to have its a necessary item for anyone with a shop.
2. Shopkeepers don't drop that often and are valued and go for between 2500 and 4000 ped. These are not cheap items.
Oh and the reason for this...so that the owner of the new shopping malls won't be upset by the competition.
Now I am 'slightly upset' because I estimate that I will lose a few thousand peds...which I can ill afford atm.
I guess this should, however, worry anyone with an item in game of medium to high value...today Shopkeepers... tomorrow ..who knows what ? We all have items in game we prize.. how will you feel when MA decide to nerf that so significantly that it becomes almost worthless?
The vote ..should MA radically alter the stats on an well established item in game - without compensation?
The text from MA:
Due to the inclusion of the new Shopping Malls, it was necessary to adjust the Shopkeepers system. Shop owners could place items for sale through Shopkeepers and thereby evade paying the 2.5% sales tax to the landowner.
So, the following revisions will be made to all Shopkeepers in the near future.
The fee for making an item available through a Shopkeeper by setting its price will be abolished.
Deterioration of Shopkeepers when items are sold will be reduced considerably.
A 2.5% regressive markup tax will be introduced for all sales made through all Shopkeepers in the Entropia Universe. This tax is paid to the landowner. The existing fixed tax of 2.5% paid by shop owners to landowners will also be made regressive.
Just like the auction, the regressive tax on the markup ensures that as the markup value increases, the percentage tax decreases. This ensures that the total tax will never exceed 50 PED.
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