Guild Holidays.... (Die)

[Zaknafein]

Just do away with guild holidays period. A little slave labor won't hurt pixels.

[Kojo]

IIRC, this weekly holiday comes from Japanese culture, shops have or used to have one day of the week set aside as a holiday. That's why it's like that, though not ALL shops have a holiday. If it were my choice I'd say just get rid of the holidays, but that opinion is out of pure annoyance.

[Kari]

We checked with the development team about the holiday NPCs. Since there would be no real way to get information from holiday NPCs if they simply removed them, they are looking to making the holiday NPC’s dialogue a bit easier to understand.

My question is, why do the Fishing guilds on the BOATS have Holidays?
They're on the boat, they're at their shop on the boat, but they went through this trouble to tell people they can't sell anything on their holiday?

"Guild shop" type NPCs always annoy me.
1> Holidays are frustrating, always.
2> Even fully stocked, there's not even enough of an item for one player, let alone multiple. Which leads to 3...
3> One player buying out all of an item due to reason 2, causes that item to cost a fortune and have very little in stock the next day. Then hours later you can have one person buy out the guild again~

[Zyeriis]

We checked with the development team about the holiday NPCs. Since there would be no real way to get information from holiday NPCs if they simply removed them, they are looking to making the holiday NPC’s dialogue a bit easier to understand.

Lock the door on those days and put a message saying they're closed when you click the door? Guess people could just be in there beforehand though. In which case, just code it so they get kicked out when the shop closes (at night) and lock it then.

It's quite silly that the NPCs are there when they're supposed to be closed, for whatever reason. It's not like there aren't other NPCs that disappear under certain circumstances, such as Besieged. And yes, this includes Merchants, like the one that sells Corsair Dice in Al Zabhi.

[Olor]

Just do away with guild holidays period. A little slave labor won't hurt pixels.

This. Please.

[Thala]

Personally, I would like to see the guild shops open 24/8 like every other shop in the game. Guilds could still restock at a certain time of day, and they could even not restock on their current holidays if you're worried about this small balance adjustment. Example: Woodworking shop is always open, and restocks its supplies at 6:00 every day except Firesday. But guild shops being closed at any time serves no purpose other than to be inconvenient.

[Rhianu]

I agree. I don't think NPC guild shops should ever have holidays. It's just an inconvenience for the player and makes the game more annoying to play.

Obviously REAL people running a shop need to have days off, but NPCs in a video game don't. They should always be open, 24/7.

[uptempo]

I'm with Kari regarding the fishing guild on the boats would be nice for these guilds to get a overhaul.

[Kojo]

You guys are SO selfish.. These NPCs have kids, they have families and they need their days off to stand at work all day and neglect those kids and families. You people are horrible! ; ;

[Twille]

Guild hours/holidays have done nothing but annoy the hell out of me for the last 8 years.