Merchant Market

[Soloyos]

Aye it was a good turn out and no problems.

[miomo]

As member and representative of The Elite Reign, I am writing this post to contact the "powers that be", whomever you are. We would like to host the next Merchant Market on Saturday September 24th, 17:00 GMT. The location, however, we'd like to move slightly east, to Camp Banished.

I hope you find Miomai's credentials in order, and her qualifications to help with this are that she once hosted a mug of beer in her belly, along with some fish. They got along quite well and I'm sure you know the happy ending. I wont speak for the other members, but you will find similar tales of heroic hostings if you enquire.

I'm not entirely certain what all this entails, beyond posting information about the event in game, in the forums, and purchasing key Google ad words such as "Merchant," "Market," and "banana."

[Maisent]

Camp banished? baddies will just murder everyone and steal the weapons, wouldn't really be a safe market would it? then again, that might be your plan all a long

[Sarva]

I can possibly see a special group of merchants who cater to the less than lawful types maybe getting together hand having a market at the Banishment camp but I am having a hard time seeing an IC reason why the regular merchants would attend. Instead of this being one of the regular merchant markets that we are rotating between the cities I think this would have to be a special market for those who know the special risks involved in trying to conduct business at that location.

[Vakachehk]

As member and representative of The Elite Reign, I am writing this post to contact the "powers that be", whomever you are. We would like to host the next Merchant Market on Saturday September 24th, 17:00 GMT. The location, however, we'd like to move slightly east, to Camp Banished.

I hope you find Miomai's credentials in order, and her qualifications to help with this are that she once hosted a mug of beer in her belly, along with some fish. They got along quite well and I'm sure you know the happy ending. I wont speak for the other members, but you will find similar tales of heroic hostings if you enquire.

I'm not entirely certain what all this entails, beyond posting information about the event in game, in the forums, and purchasing key Google ad words such as "Merchant," "Market," and "banana."

Well I'm sorry but Camp Banishment wouldn't be on a normal map, so shoppers and merchants ICly wouldn't be able to find it. I do believe it doesn't hold enough IC reasoning for it to be there. We are currently full with hosts, and if you wish to take over hosting a city/town then please speak with one of the hosts. We have made the Merchant (not villain or outlaw) Market's located in cities/towns because it gives each town a good chance to get some economic boost for the citizens there. Trying to take the most popular market (Hydlaa's) is a bit silly.

Anyways you'd first need permission from the Bounty Hunters and then probably Sarva, contact me so I can change the date, time, location and host on the display post.

[miomo]

Thank you for your consideration. I shall not attempt such silly requests in the future.

[Vakachehk]

Thank you for your consideration. I shall not attempt such silly requests in the future.

I don't mind you willing to host the event, we are more than grateful you are willing to do such a thing. I just think you thought to quickly about it, without think about the Bounty Hunters. To make an event work you need time to make sure all members are aware of it, the Bounty Hunters might had been rallying up all their members to come along or planning a little surprise, players can put a lot of effort into an event, and you jump in a week before the event and try take over is a little harsh.

So I suggest that next time you plan your event, plan it a few months in advance where it probably wont effect the guilds, merchants and/or shoppers involved, then you may see about getting it accepted.

On the other hand having a market at a camp is fine, camp banishment is a little weird though. So what about running a Market at the Explorers Outpost?

[miomo]

I wasn't going to comment further, but I feel the need to explain how I am a fool, and not a malcontent. Please do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.

It was only just this evening that I noticed the front post of this forum thread. Prior to that, I had come across this up-coming event from the PlaneShift web site's events page. There it says:

If you would like to host this even please contact a GM in game or via a PM in the forum. If there is no host then this will be an event organized by those who show up at the event.

So, I followed the instructions and contacted a GM in-game. This person requested that I post a message on the forums. I don't know why I didn't read the first page of this thread. Perhaps I was just eager to post my inquiry. Whatever the reason, I skipped to the third page, noticed that the last post was in regards to the previous event, and assumed that there was not yet a host for this month's Merchant Market.

If I had read the first page prior, then my request would have been worded differently, or more likely not been posted at all.

As to why Camp Banished? Well, Miomai's insane.

[Sarva]

Miomo sorry I was a bit busy when you contacted me in game thus the reason I asked you to post your request here instead of talking to you more about it in game. As I said I think there probably is a need for a special market to help arm the lawless type characters featuring crafters who would like to cultivate business from that sort of person. In this case having it at Banishment camp is probably a good idea. I think it could be a special market outside of the regular market that is held on the last weekend of the month. I think there could be some interesting RP out of this kind of outlaw market, as long as some people don't just use the market as an excuse to kil a bunch of people at Banishment camp.

[bilbous]

Sounds like a valid kind of idea to me but you are not taking it far enough. What you need is an army of urchins to act as intermediaries and have your merchant only appear on demand, springing up from a barricaded root cellar underneath Guile's tent. Even better would be some kind of guild hall under there where prospective customers could be led to the slaughterale.

[novacadian]

How convieniant! All the bad guys in one PvP area at one time! 

Be like the Champion's Cup only with teams.

- Nova

[Sarva]

Who is doing the Oct Merchant market, when and where so I can add it to the calendar.

[Soloyos]

According to the first post it is Klyros Junction.

[Mekora]

Hey Sarva, thanks. We've decided the time will be Saturday the 28th of October at 6 PM GMT.

[BoevenF]

October 28, it's Friday. at 6pm GMT (8pm CEST, 2pm EDT).
Daylight saving time will change October 30.

http://www.worldtimezone.com/