P-J
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With the new VU the advantages of owning a shop have been reduced (as they can contain fewer items) and shopkeepers (the mannequin’s that can sell items) with their cost advantage (40 pec per item against 1 ped + a % to the landowner in a shop) have never been more attractive.
The price of shopkeepers has rocketed from about 600 Ped about 6 months back to about 2k now.
In short – if you want to sell an item the cheapest way is either through the auction or a shopkeeper. My view is that players that bought a shop have been inadvertently left out in the cold.
Players trying to sell through a shop now seem to be at a significant competitive disadvantage in comparison with both the auction (count the maintance fee and the cost of the shop into the calculation) and with players with shopkeepers in their apartments.
My personal view is that if MA wants a thriving community of shopkeepers then it has to do more for them. We paid MA a lot up-front and are paying a great deal in monthly maintance fees. At the moment only a handful of shops really seem to be working (Buzz’s furniture shop etc).
This thread isn’t about knocking resellers (there are other threads for this) – let’s just take it as read that shop owners can (if they want) perform a useful function and make a profit if they trade responsibly.
So – this thread is to suggest ways in which MA could improve the situation for players owning a shop.
To start the ball rolling:
1. Reduce the cost of selling an item to 40 pec per item (in line with the shopkeepers) – allowing us to buy items most players tt and sell them on to players that need them. This will help provide an important social and economic function in the game.
2. Allow us to use the display space on the walls in the shops to display items – without using a display board. Many players can do this already by exploiting a bug. Let us do this legitimately.
3. Redesign the inside of the shops to make them less ‘busy’. Players need to admire the items not the wallpaper – this is especially true of the top level shops in CND. I would love to see more neutral backgrounds in these rooms.
4. I do not want MA to remove the bug that lets people hang items directly onto their walls, nor do I want them to up the price of selling items in the shopkeepers. If they did do this it would show a disregard for players.
The price of shopkeepers has rocketed from about 600 Ped about 6 months back to about 2k now.
In short – if you want to sell an item the cheapest way is either through the auction or a shopkeeper. My view is that players that bought a shop have been inadvertently left out in the cold.
Players trying to sell through a shop now seem to be at a significant competitive disadvantage in comparison with both the auction (count the maintance fee and the cost of the shop into the calculation) and with players with shopkeepers in their apartments.
My personal view is that if MA wants a thriving community of shopkeepers then it has to do more for them. We paid MA a lot up-front and are paying a great deal in monthly maintance fees. At the moment only a handful of shops really seem to be working (Buzz’s furniture shop etc).
This thread isn’t about knocking resellers (there are other threads for this) – let’s just take it as read that shop owners can (if they want) perform a useful function and make a profit if they trade responsibly.
So – this thread is to suggest ways in which MA could improve the situation for players owning a shop.
To start the ball rolling:
1. Reduce the cost of selling an item to 40 pec per item (in line with the shopkeepers) – allowing us to buy items most players tt and sell them on to players that need them. This will help provide an important social and economic function in the game.
2. Allow us to use the display space on the walls in the shops to display items – without using a display board. Many players can do this already by exploiting a bug. Let us do this legitimately.
3. Redesign the inside of the shops to make them less ‘busy’. Players need to admire the items not the wallpaper – this is especially true of the top level shops in CND. I would love to see more neutral backgrounds in these rooms.
4. I do not want MA to remove the bug that lets people hang items directly onto their walls, nor do I want them to up the price of selling items in the shopkeepers. If they did do this it would show a disregard for players.