Merchant Mining Nerf

[eldibar]

When exactly did they nerf merchant mining ?

Man, I'm not happy. That's my second source of income gone in a flash. No more visits to Katta.

Now that every idiot (me included ) and his dog is making golden idols of tunare, my number one source is gone too... *sigh*

Oh well, back to playing the game I suppose.

At least LDoN was worth the money, even if the rewards are a bit costly.

For those who haven't spotted it yet, there are no longer any "hidden" slots on the npc merchants. If the merchant is full up, buy out one item to free a slot. sell him two back, then buy out one, and you'll see that the second item you sold is gone. There's no hidden stash underneath the junk on top.

That's a lot of acrylia and windstones we're losing...

[Cubwynn]

http://mboards.eqtraders.com/upload/...threadid=11049

[Itek]

The patch for 10/9/03 -might- fix the vendor mining.

One way to read it "we fixed vendor mining back the way it was."

Another way to read it "when you bought the last of something it would complain about "lore items" and now it shouldn't do that anymore."

Personally I've never had -any- success with vendor mining, but here's my fingers crossed for those who make a living on it.

[KyrosKrane]

Just confirmed that it HAS NOT been fixed. Merchants still have only the 80 slots you can see, nothing under the table, so to speak.

[Emeraldeye]

Man..I vendor mined for something to kill the time while LFG. I always loved coming across that one in a million find. I had hoped they would unnerf it. It has just reinforced my opinion that SOE would like to eliminate any alternate sources of plat income that aren't exp related.

[Cigarskunk]

One thing that I alway wonder about whenever Sony says that they've fixed something that no one has ever considered broken (such as this) - is it because

- someone found an exploit but it hadn't become common knowledge yet

- someone at Sony considered it to be an exploit (Hey - we can't have people exploiting the fact that merchants have 10 hidden slots - these players are gaining an unfair advantage!)

- they broke it while doing something else and simply decided to cover thier tracks by calling it a "fix"

[KyrosKrane]

To my knowledge, SoE hasn't commented on the vanished slots one way or another yet. They haven't said it's a fix, but they haven't said it's a bug either.

Keep /feedbacking it, and we may see them returned soon.

[Emeraldeye]

I do

Originally posted by KyrosKrane

Keep /feedbacking it, and we may see them returned soon.

I will feedback this each and everytime I log on and I will keep it up till they shut off the servers!

I miss my vendor mining! I think I am gonna cry ....again.

[KyrosKrane]

Re-confirmed after the mini-patch, BTW. Still no hidden slots. =(

[Cigarskunk]

Originally posted by KyrosKrane
To my knowledge, SoE hasn't commented on the vanished slots one way or another yet. They haven't said it's a fix, but they haven't said it's a bug either.

That's what inspired the - they broke it while doing something else and simply decided to cover thier tracks by calling it a "fix" comment - Sony is too prone to not mention rather important changes (like the new success/fail rate for JCM3 AA skill) and then continue to ignore the player feedback and comments in the hopes that folks will just give up or that enough people who don't care will simply slap down those who do care with the old "stop whining - this is a dead horse" routine.

Again, yet another reason to burn the dead horse flag.

[Arfyak Reflux]

Whoa!

Glad I decided to browes through the messages tonight. Did not know that mining had been nerfed.

This sucks. Merch Mining was a must for getting tailoring items from vendors. Now the items get wasted.

Thanks again for the info/warning.