My Merchant Rp
Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2016 12:00 am
Many of the old veteran players know this, some have forgotten and others havent been told, and i also know we have plenty of new players who are unaware of certain things.
This is not a rant, or me venting as im not even upset over it but i figured i would just throw this out there for common knowledge.
Here are a few do's and do not's when interacting with me on miranda.
DO:Have patience if you step into to her tower during her business times, there are plenty of slow times where she deals with one customer at a time but at other times ive had as many as three or four people in a holding pattern, shes only one person and im only one player so please be patient and understand it may take five min to get to you or it may take an hour!.
DO:Feel free to send me a tell and ask if she is open, the reason i will answer yes or no is because icly when she is doing business she usually makes a magical display of somekind.
DO:Expect magical and merchantile RP, with miranda it is mandatory, if you come to her tower she will treat you like a merchant and i ask that her customers play the part too, (i understand people are in a hurry sometimes but just rushing in, asking for +X this and rushing out with little to know rp is a turn off, you came all the way to the ladys ward to visit her shop, stay awhile and listen))
Those are the big three DO's, now for some DO NOTS.
DO NOT:Send me tells asking if Miranda has X item or material etc etc. Sigil does not have internet shopping, asking me in tells will earn a polite response telling you your asking the wrong person, you need to ask Miranda and not me.
DO NOT: Expect instant inventory reloading when you sell her something. I see this almost every time when i rp with her, but PC A will sell Miranda something and then PC B (owned by the same player will happen by looking for that same item). This, while not against the server rules since the other PC is spending resources on it, I personally think its skirting a grey line so this is what you will find.
PC A see's that miranda is short of a building material by one peice of X material, so they take their other PC B who happens to have one of the missing materials so they have that PC sell the material to Miranda, so then PC A suddenly comes back to have the item made.
Well if you do that, your going to hit a dead end because you will find out that Miranda still only has the one peice of material in stock. ICLY:She does this on purpose because she has to evaluate the items she buys on a dailey basis to examine them for flaws and potential dangers to her customers and she has to decide on what price she is going to sell the item for and a bunch of other things that are parts of her normal procedures. If you intend to sell something to her and expect it to be immediately available for another one of your pcs, then your going to be dissapointed, check back at a later time when she has a chance to process the days aquisitions and place them into circulation.
Those are the IC reasons, and I do this on an OOC level to slow down the amount of grey line muling that people skirt all the time, its kind of a moral thing on my part.
DO NOT:It doesn't happen very often, but please understand Mirandas tower is TALL, it is not WIDE. Her doors are magically set up to allow customers of all heights and girths but not lengths, and I hate to do to it, but im mainly pointing the finger at you dragons. If you want to come into mirandas tower, change down to a reasonable size, her tower simply wont accomodate the length of some dragons.
Obviously if your a young dragon or one of the smaller size catagories your fine, this mainly goes to the LONGER residents and the larger of the dragon sizes.
The last thing I would have to mention isnt really a DO or DO NOT per say but I encourage everyone who interacts with merchants, especially miranda to try and roleplay out icly, asking for what ever it is you may need. We have a extensive list of Jargon in common circulation that we use to describe magic and abilities in game, and if we dont have one in common use we will make one up!.
Example:It's commonly excepted and encourged to ask for a "fifth tier enchantment" on your sword but its not common to ask for a +5 (plus five) sword.
The word Tier itself is useful in almost ANY magical situation in which there are different grades of magic available.
Take bags of holding.
10%, 40, 60, 80 and 100% weight reduction, look at that, five grades!. You can ask for a first or second, third fourth or fifth tier bag of holding, or just ask for a true bag of holding and most will know what your talking about.
Most of the time the enchanters or merchants will be nice enough to ask what tier of magic you want, and if your not sure just ask!.
Now, that being said somethings its hard to express icly when discussing, such as the elemental damages, so if you ask for a flame enchantment and the merchant asks you what tier, just ask for clarification, most merchants at this point might send you a tell along the lines of "First tier does 1d4, second tier does 1d6" or something relevant since thats something that isnt always easy to put into IC Words.
I know this only increases the time it takes to interact with other pcs, especially merchants but in the long run it benefits the merchant community as a whole and the players who interact with the merchant pcs. It makes us feel like we are actually playing knowledgable merchants and not just expensive item dispensers.
Anyway, this ended up being a longer post then i had intended but i just wanted to throw some of my own personal DO's and DO NOT's and some friendly advice on interacting with your fellow merchant, and please...if any other merchant pc (or customer) out there has constructive do's and do nots they would like to add to this list please feel frere.
Feed back from other merchants and our customer base is more then welcome and can only lead to prosperity for all involved but please KEEP IT CLEAN AND PEACEFUL.
ALSO:As I finish writing this, I want to know from the merchant pcs and those who deal with them, how useful would you find something on the forums that is a comprehensive list of IC terms, Jargons, slang what have you that you can reference?.
Maybe we can even come up with kind of a consumers Alminac that visitors to the cage can pick up that tells about the dedicated, active merchants out there?.
This is not a rant, or me venting as im not even upset over it but i figured i would just throw this out there for common knowledge.
Here are a few do's and do not's when interacting with me on miranda.
DO:Have patience if you step into to her tower during her business times, there are plenty of slow times where she deals with one customer at a time but at other times ive had as many as three or four people in a holding pattern, shes only one person and im only one player so please be patient and understand it may take five min to get to you or it may take an hour!.
DO:Feel free to send me a tell and ask if she is open, the reason i will answer yes or no is because icly when she is doing business she usually makes a magical display of somekind.
DO:Expect magical and merchantile RP, with miranda it is mandatory, if you come to her tower she will treat you like a merchant and i ask that her customers play the part too, (i understand people are in a hurry sometimes but just rushing in, asking for +X this and rushing out with little to know rp is a turn off, you came all the way to the ladys ward to visit her shop, stay awhile and listen))
Those are the big three DO's, now for some DO NOTS.
DO NOT:Send me tells asking if Miranda has X item or material etc etc. Sigil does not have internet shopping, asking me in tells will earn a polite response telling you your asking the wrong person, you need to ask Miranda and not me.
DO NOT: Expect instant inventory reloading when you sell her something. I see this almost every time when i rp with her, but PC A will sell Miranda something and then PC B (owned by the same player will happen by looking for that same item). This, while not against the server rules since the other PC is spending resources on it, I personally think its skirting a grey line so this is what you will find.
PC A see's that miranda is short of a building material by one peice of X material, so they take their other PC B who happens to have one of the missing materials so they have that PC sell the material to Miranda, so then PC A suddenly comes back to have the item made.
Well if you do that, your going to hit a dead end because you will find out that Miranda still only has the one peice of material in stock. ICLY:She does this on purpose because she has to evaluate the items she buys on a dailey basis to examine them for flaws and potential dangers to her customers and she has to decide on what price she is going to sell the item for and a bunch of other things that are parts of her normal procedures. If you intend to sell something to her and expect it to be immediately available for another one of your pcs, then your going to be dissapointed, check back at a later time when she has a chance to process the days aquisitions and place them into circulation.
Those are the IC reasons, and I do this on an OOC level to slow down the amount of grey line muling that people skirt all the time, its kind of a moral thing on my part.
DO NOT:It doesn't happen very often, but please understand Mirandas tower is TALL, it is not WIDE. Her doors are magically set up to allow customers of all heights and girths but not lengths, and I hate to do to it, but im mainly pointing the finger at you dragons. If you want to come into mirandas tower, change down to a reasonable size, her tower simply wont accomodate the length of some dragons.
Obviously if your a young dragon or one of the smaller size catagories your fine, this mainly goes to the LONGER residents and the larger of the dragon sizes.
The last thing I would have to mention isnt really a DO or DO NOT per say but I encourage everyone who interacts with merchants, especially miranda to try and roleplay out icly, asking for what ever it is you may need. We have a extensive list of Jargon in common circulation that we use to describe magic and abilities in game, and if we dont have one in common use we will make one up!.
Example:It's commonly excepted and encourged to ask for a "fifth tier enchantment" on your sword but its not common to ask for a +5 (plus five) sword.
The word Tier itself is useful in almost ANY magical situation in which there are different grades of magic available.
Take bags of holding.
10%, 40, 60, 80 and 100% weight reduction, look at that, five grades!. You can ask for a first or second, third fourth or fifth tier bag of holding, or just ask for a true bag of holding and most will know what your talking about.
Most of the time the enchanters or merchants will be nice enough to ask what tier of magic you want, and if your not sure just ask!.
Now, that being said somethings its hard to express icly when discussing, such as the elemental damages, so if you ask for a flame enchantment and the merchant asks you what tier, just ask for clarification, most merchants at this point might send you a tell along the lines of "First tier does 1d4, second tier does 1d6" or something relevant since thats something that isnt always easy to put into IC Words.
I know this only increases the time it takes to interact with other pcs, especially merchants but in the long run it benefits the merchant community as a whole and the players who interact with the merchant pcs. It makes us feel like we are actually playing knowledgable merchants and not just expensive item dispensers.
Anyway, this ended up being a longer post then i had intended but i just wanted to throw some of my own personal DO's and DO NOT's and some friendly advice on interacting with your fellow merchant, and please...if any other merchant pc (or customer) out there has constructive do's and do nots they would like to add to this list please feel frere.
Feed back from other merchants and our customer base is more then welcome and can only lead to prosperity for all involved but please KEEP IT CLEAN AND PEACEFUL.
ALSO:As I finish writing this, I want to know from the merchant pcs and those who deal with them, how useful would you find something on the forums that is a comprehensive list of IC terms, Jargons, slang what have you that you can reference?.
Maybe we can even come up with kind of a consumers Alminac that visitors to the cage can pick up that tells about the dedicated, active merchants out there?.
