Buying and SellingFollow

What the heck is up with the total lack of buyers and sellers? I'd say on the Neriak server the amount of merchants has decreased by over 80%, and the buyers are down quite a bit too. It is taken me 2 and 3 nights to sell what I used to be able to sell in one night. I am just wondering whY? Does this have something to do with the patch or what? ANyone know?

Also, it has suddenly got a lot harder to make pristine items so a lot of people are just giving up on the whole crafting thing and not selling their goods. I for one have taken a break from crafting because of it....the alchemy resources I needed to craft have gone from 2s to 5s+ overnight and when i do craft, more often than not i make something that no-one would want to buy because of the extra difficulty. Bah!

Minky

I agree that it is completely ridiculous that you have to have a pretty good machine to run eq2 (see the whole shader pixel problem posts) and they expect you to leave it running over night or while you are gone in order to make money. If this keeps up, they might as well stop advertising the tradeskill part of the game for the simple fact that no one will be doing it anymore.

I agree with you Heightserz....
SOE needs to do something and FAST!!! If they do not fix the buying and selling issue this game will collapse...
They canot expect from you to have two different accounts so you can have money and get XP at the same time...
If they dont fix this,sooner or later people will loose interest in playing the game because they will not be able to get armor, weapons, etc. They will not craft anymore, etc, etc.
And, at the end, that will leave your char with nothing else to do and unable to continue advancing.....
Why cant you place a vendor in your room??? what is the problem with that?? It has been proven to work magnificient in other games..

Pasho.

I kinda liked Shadowbanes method ( Iknow we don't have player made houses) but like you said buy a merchant dump your stuff on them and go back to collect your gold when your ready. Just make it so you have to pay X amount for merchant on a weekly basis, like the housing(to dump money back into the economy)
and also set it up like in west freeport (sorry don't know qeynos) so guild can have merchant stalls there (not individual becuase lag would be unbelievable)

why does sony want to restrict the market anyway? All they are doing is restricting it to those with crappy computers that they are willing to leave there computer on all night and day to make gold. I mean eq2 is sweet, but my machine cost me a pretty penny, and its no good for it to run all night long, especially now that it runs all night long just to make 8 silver instead of 80 silver. If this continues I might as well go play something else that I don't have to put my machine at risk to play.

I know, it is total bull$h!+. I'm half tempted to spend an extra $50 buying gold from a bot farmer than risking my machine sitting on all the time. Either that or just play something else. I really like EQ2 though, except for this problem.

"They canot expect from you to have two different accounts so you can have money and get XP at the same time..."

Ah, but you see - that is where you are wrong. Sony has restricted the market this way to FORCE you to buy another account. Sony is a business, they exist solely to make money ... they want to make their stockholders happy, not you. If they force everyone who wants to both sell and XP to buy two separate accounts, then they've made twice as much money off of those folks and profit margins are up. If some people decide to leave the game altogether, there's always more suckers right behind them who will cough up their hard-earned money for the right to make Sony richer. Supply and demand: if you want it bad enough, you'll pay for it. Ain't capitalism grand?

well despite the annoyance of the must be logged in and in your home.. there's several issues to the current market system.

Firstly.. people want to XP, gain levels, and abilities.. Best time to do this is prime time.. in the afternoon when more people are in-game..

unfortunately this is also the best time to sell things because this is when the buyers market is largest...

I think the best solution to this problem is to simply get rid of the "must be in your house" part of the selling market.. simply link your market board to your bank instead of your inventory and that way you can only sell things in your bank .. best bet would be to link it to the non-shared slots.

that way you could actually setup your store to take advantage of the highest point in the buyer population and be out there getting things done as well.

obviously when you log off, your store closes..

It has been proven that turning off or leaving your PC on for extended periods of time cause about the same "damage"--both negligible. By the time either function would cause any "damage" most of us will be replacing the machine (3-5 years).

As for the high end gaming machines, I have one, and have built quite a few. I have worked with PCs that their video card alone costs more than most of our "high-end" gaming machines. However, I guess I am an idiot since I leave mine on all the time except when patching or getting rid of the memory leak from a certain game... As long as the case is designed correctly and it is not in a hot room, there is not a problem. There is one benefit from turning your machine off, the performance boost that you have for about 5 minutes until your CPU and GPU heat up to core temp. As everyone knows, the colder the better.

As for servers being designed to run longer...they are just PCs that cost more. They are not made out of anything different than a PC. They have more expensive components, such as RAID Cards, and error correcting RAM (if you want to pay for that), and some pretty bells and whistles. The motherboards, RAM, cables and such are made the exact same way.

Updating when logging in: you try to explain why a developer has a slow machine for 5 - 10 minutes so that an "update" can happen. Does not fly....checking his Fantasy Football scores are important. Not to mention, trying to tell a CEO why his PC takes longer to login is not fun. It is easier on the business and a person's sanity to do it at night.

Also, if a "low end" machine can handle the heat and your "high machine" cannot, then I would re-evaluate your designs. A case should be designed to remove as much heat as possible and keep it at the processors core temp. To do this, you use fans. As you know, A fan is not cooling off a machine in that they are not "lowering" the temp. They are designed to remove heat so that it stays at a semi consistent temp...usually the temp that a chip is made to operate at. To remove more heat, you need to move more air over the chips--usually by putting in fans like sound like a 747 taking off. However, even moving more air is only going to lower the tempurature a little as there is only so much surface area to work with (unless you want to put cooling fins on everything, that gives you more surface area. In some cases, replacing the existing fins with more conductive metals and better designs). Then again, you can use water cooling if you choose. This will lower pretty nicely and hold it there.

But, what do I know, I don't know anything about hardware.

As for selling, you are correct, I don't know what is happening on your server. For me on Kithicor, I have no issues other than Tier 3 going for less for about 2 days. Now I price my stuff as I was and it still sells.