Greetings!
As many of you may remember in FF11, guild vendors were only open during certain times of the in-game day and sold limited quantities of their wares to players. Once they sold out of the item, you had to either wait for the shop to re-open the next day, or buy it at a higher price from the auction house.
What I'm asking for is an expanded form of this concept to be implemented into FF14 once food & potion items get their respected effects fixed.
Make these vendors sell food & potion items that can't be crafted or obtained from anywhere else other than these "Specialty Shops". If you want to get these items you HAVE to go to the vendor.
Instead of limiting the shop to only have "X" stock of these items available when the shop is open during "X to Y" in-game hours, make the shop only open during certain days of the real life week, such as Monday, Wednesday, & Friday or Friday-Sunday
When someone from Japan talks to the NPC and he happens to be closed, the NPC would tell the player "We are closed. Shop hours are from Friday at 08:00 JST to Sunday 23:00 JST". While someone playing on the NA version would get the same message except that "Shop hours are from Thursday at 17:00 PST to Sunday at 08:00 PST". Same thing applies to EU version of game... they'd get a message for GMT.
Also don't limit the quantity the shop has to sell but rather limit the quantity players are able to purchase. This would cause players to constantly want to visit the shop because they're only able to purchase "X" of each per week. If they want more they'd have to buy them for an inflated price from someone else off the wards.
This would also create a much needed gilsink because currency would be coming out of the economy.
Place different shops in all 3 of the cities so that players have to travel to each city if they want the wares from that shop.
Make the effects of the items the shops sell comparable to something craftable, yet at a higher price. If this can't be done then make their effects exclusive, this would make people want to go to the shops.
Lastly, update the wares of the shop every other patch for with new items or seasonal event items. Like a new love potion for Valentines Day or something!
Sorry for the long post but I wanted to get my entire idea across. Thoughts? Ideas for improvements?
Cheers!
Specialty Item Shops Can I Have It?
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01-30-2012, 07:57 AMMizoreShirayukiSpecialty Item Shops Can I Have It?
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01-30-2012, 07:58 AMRokien
anything that makes the world more alive, I'm all for!
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01-30-2012, 08:01 AMDoctorMog
Good way to take money out of the economy making items vendor available only I suppose.
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01-30-2012, 08:09 AMFelis
Something like valentines chocolate and christmas dodo? ^^
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01-30-2012, 08:19 AMAmyNeudaiz
I agree it would bring at least some life into other cities and give a little treat for those who love every extra bit of immersion.
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01-30-2012, 08:26 AMfaris
I don't want to sound like a naysayer, but shops closing on certain days and not open through 22:00 (I think?) ~ 9:00 Vana'diel time was infuriating on XI. Doing that on real life days seems a ballache for little reason to me.
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01-31-2012, 04:19 AMMajidahthats kind of the fun of it. knowing you can miss it if you don't hurry up, take shortcuts, etc.Quote:
Originally Posted by faris
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01-31-2012, 04:24 AMArcell
I'm fine with this as long as the "Open" windows aren't prohibitive in scale for a particular timezone. Like, don't open a shop from 12-6 AM for a particular timezone every single time. If need be shuffle them around so that while the window may suck one week, it'll be great the next week or have multiple windows for a shop in a given week.
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01-31-2012, 04:35 AMDeadRiserWhy wouldn't they just use the ingame time system? That's what it's there for lol. Everyone has the same ingame time so use thatQuote:
Originally Posted by Arcell
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01-31-2012, 04:38 AMNuinn
Sounds like an interesting idea, but I can see a few problems rising there. . .
I'm all for not limiting the amount of items the NPC has in stock (I'd be pissed off if the same old campers were buying out all the stock), but having them limit us with the amount we can buy would, I think, result in people asking everyone in their LS "Could you please go to the NPC and buy as much as you can, I'll pay you" every time the shop is open, or prompting people to make mules for that purpose. Both of which seem rather annoying and troublesome in their own regard as well :confused:
Perhaps if you don't impose any other limitations on the players other than the open hours, it wouldn't be so bad. For example: I could either buy 9999 of items on the day the shop is open and be set for a week of crafting, or buy 99 items and when I run out I'd have to wait for the next day when it's open or, if I'm in a hurry to craft, just buy from other players who are willing to sell (for a presumably higher price than the NPC itself). It's perhaps less exciting, but allows more flexibility as well. Perhaps the shop could be open twice a week then or in longer intervals (every 5th day?) and have a town crier NPC reminding us about such things the day before or something. . . -
01-31-2012, 08:53 AMfarisIt's a complete bitch for how casual this game's supposed to be though. On XI, guild shops being closed was a total pain when you needed an item for a quest (I think CoP was one, with a NPC in it. Either that or Zilart.) and waiting about half an hour while your LS bitched at you to hurry up was a pain. But real life days? Dunno about you but that'd entirely throw my play schedule for the week right out of the window. I switched to XIV because the game revolved around my schedule, not my schedule around it. A move like that would entirely reverse that.Quote:
Originally Posted by Majidah