Stores

by Richter

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Richter2005-04-21 05:51:27
So, I put some more food in my store. I priced them, one kind showed up, the others did not. So I removed some paintings, weapons, and I repriced the food just to be sure. They still don't show up...

First, I don't understand all of this, but I do understand that we need wares list limits changed.

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glass34067: a shot glass 6 45gp
soup62499: a bowl of vegetable beef soup 7 112gp
chicken47368: a leg of roasted chicken 12 112gp

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2860h, 2200m, 2860e, 10p, 15116en, 14160w elrx-price rolls 125 bin 7

You set mixed vegetable spring rolls to sell for 125 gold sovereigns each. Bin
7. Total in stock: 11.

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2860h, 2200m, 2860e, 10p, 15120en, 14160w elrx-wares rolls

Proprietor: Archon Richter Carthan, Dark Hart.
--------(Item)-------(Description)----------------------------(Stock)-(Price)-
The shop attendant smiles warmly, showing that you are especially welcome.


rolls42026: mixed vegetable spring rolls 11 112gp

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glass34067: a shot glass 6 45gp
soup62499: a bowl of vegetable beef soup 7 112gp
chicken47368: a leg of roasted chicken 12 112gp


So, it's not showing my wares. Whenever you're there, remember to do WARES ROLLS to see those rolls, hmm? Cause you can't do WARES FOOD, and that's too much anyway. People walk in, see no (item) and leave, they don't bother to search for it. Not like this is Wal-Mart, and you can physicall browse.

In my opinion, this really hurts shopkeepers.
Drago2005-04-21 05:55:32
I'd say get a shop sign, color it bright yellow.

Or set the first Bin in your shop to say "Try using WARES if you can't see something you'd like to buy."
Sylphas2005-04-21 05:56:44
Now I have an image of you running Lusterni-Mart, with a pet smiley face following you around. That's scary.

On topic, I think They need to fix that. I know I'm not gonna stick around if I don't see it on the list when I enter. Maybe if I'm looking for something specific, I'll pop in and just do WARES TINT, or WARES SHIELD, but for food? No.
Drago2005-04-21 06:00:55
Proprietor: Count Drago n'Lochli.
--------(Item)-------(Description)----------------------------(Stock)-(Price)-
The shop attendant smiles warmly, showing that you are especially welcome.
rose50065: an entrancing red rose 1 9000gp
painting21792: a painting of Bricriu 1 9000gp


pipe53006: a simple oaken pipe 3 36gp
tinderbox53718: a soot-blackened tinderbox 2 90gp


lobster43276: a plate of chilli lobster 3 108gp
steak33201: a braised mutton steak 10 108gp
steak40187: a merian t-bone steak 10 108gp
sandwich39394: a grilled tiger shark sandwich 10 180gp

Not very nice, true. It'd be nice if WARES FOOD would show all food items though or if you could use WARES -bin name- to show only the items in a certain bin. I love that there's no item limit in shops, which is why this change got put in. I found that if you take everything out, drop all the food, price it, then drop everything else again, the food will show first.

Edit: added the italic bit.
Richter2005-04-21 06:13:07
We just really need to be able to see everything...

And I do have a sign, but I don't think people are going to stick around and read that all the time, looking for every tiny thing, like rolls, or... something.
Acrune2005-04-21 14:12:39
I never read signs, no matter how bright and pretty the color is. They aren't going to do much to solve that problem I don't think. I spend a max of 5 seconds in a store, for the most part, depending on what I'm looking for.