Personal feelings about personal shops?

I think some of you are missing the point even though you rather not look through a bunch of people to find an item you might want to buy a tleast the option is there. who does not want a person parked outside of a dungeon selling food or pots now that's not a bad idea

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Originally Posted by DannyNobuser

I think some of you are missing the point even though you rather not look through a bunch of people to find an item you might want to buy a tleast the option is there. who does not want a person parked outside of a dungeon selling food or pots now that's not a bad idea

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In 1.0 that worked since people actually had to travel to the dungeons to enter (call my an nostalgic person, I really wish that was still the case). So having someone selling wares outside was a nice bonus when one of your members forgot a potion or food. However, in 2.0 there is what...three pieces of content that require you to be in the zone and not even at the entry point? Chimera, Hydra, and Coil. Everything else is "instant teleported to dungeon" via duty finder.

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Originally Posted by NovakAlder

Thats pretty cool, might get people to actually come to the wards. =o

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I see this being a big boon to FC's coffers themselves. Basically have a internal FC economy. Supply your crafters with mats, have them make food (have them keep a portion as payment or just pay them a small fee for the work), then put the food up on your FC merchant at a cheap price. FC members have ready access to food, FC gets a little money coming in, and some of that money goes to pay for more food.

Sadly the only way for a FC to make money really is some form of "tax" and really giving FC members HQ food for say 100 gil seems next to nothing compared to what they would pay were they to get it themselves and lets the FC make money.

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Originally Posted by Hvinire

Hey all,

While it may be a bit early to start discussing details, we can confirm that in patch 2.2 players will be able to place an NPC in the garden of their free company estate and open up their own store!

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I would rather be able to place sales on my own person. As done with FFXI and FFXIV 1.0 versions. I would prefer to sell while I am leveling up in the middle of nowhere where there are no nearby venders to assist others if they happen to need something so they don't have to run/teleport out of the area just because they ran out of.. say food (for example).

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Originally Posted by Borland

There's always the issue of taxes with the marketboard which adds a bit to the cost of items, so it may be the FC NPC you can setup will let you sell things without a tax or some other sort of bonus.

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I highly doubt that they're be tax free. They want to keep money moving out of the game's economy. There may be a reduced tax, but they won't pull the tax completely. This is basically just dragging Rolan-mall in from FFXI and making it like the old market wards where I'll have to run, NPC to NPC, looking for something specific. Or I could, you know, just go to the Market Board and save myself a massive headache.

I've definitely seen personal shops before. DFO and RO2 are the first other games that come to mind for me.

In the current system? It'd work well in areas where it is inconvenient/unpleasant to travel back to the marketboard/vendor to get the items you need. Like Nova_Dresden said earlier, I also don't expect it to be tax-free.

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Originally Posted by Kimikryo

What has this to do with anything?

I am in favor of that.

Bring bet the "market place" from 1.0 for that. That was funny. Also to be able to make your Retainer look sexy was awesome

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Well if you played 1.0 you would have know what he meant by asking you that.

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Originally Posted by niwaar

I can understand this. Although I would counter with... if you don't want people to see your house, then you don't need to have a "shop".

As I said, the last thing I want is to see the housing ward ending up looking like a bunch of houses with Lemonade stands out in front.

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In the real world, even back when people first started opening up shops and selling wares, usually, they did so either out in the street in FRONT of their home...or in a special room attached to their home, but separate from the living quarters. (THINK main street store fronts, where the store is on the street level, but the merchant and his family lived in the 2nd/3rd story apartment above it.

I don't know where you are from, but where I grew up in the Rural US, people had vegetable/crafted goods etc stands along the road all the time. Heck ,you paid by the 'honor system' at many of them. You'd leave money in the box/basket for the items you wished to buy instead of having someone stand along the road all day collecting money.

My point: In real life, most people don't set up shop IN their homes, they do so outside it...or attached, but still separate from their actual living quarters..

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Originally Posted by LineageRazor

A lovely idea in theory, and I've often set such search comments myself. Unfortunately, in practice less than 10% of bazaars bother with a message, so you still have to wind up checking everyone out for fear of missing out on a good deal. It doesn't help at all that your seacom gets erased every time you log out for whatever reason, so if you disconnect and have to relog to set up your bazaar again, it's all too easy to forget to reestablish the message.

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Yeah you are right. The inconvenience of setting up the seacom again after a dc or even checking on other bazaar for hope of getting a cheap bargain.
This is also the reason why i've changed to using the guildwork command. I'm able to search for all bazaar in the world while hiding in the comfort of my moghouse and still be able to see the cheapest deal around vanadiel.

Silly people, in the 21st century only old people buy from the store, We now have Amazon! you buy from electronics to groceries, all in one place!

No really, the idea is farfetched, it is not viable for the way people like to flood most visited areas, it will be a complete mess to sift trough a bunch of retainers in a small area.

Do not go back, go forward.