Vendor Rental Contracts = Vendor Commission Rental Contracts

[Dan]

I can convert all existing and future rental vendors to the new Commission style. They will still fully function as they did before but will simply no longer charge the daily fee and instead just a commission on sales.

I would then most likely remove the older type player vendors and simply use the commission type going forward.

Things to note about Commission Vendors:
- Easy to manage. Less worry than original player vendors.
- Count against house storage. This may require rental shops to create certain rules. That being said all houses have the auto 60% storage increase and it could cut down on item counts, in high traffic areas. Since multiple houses are the thing here and bulk order books only count as 1 item, I don't see this hurting.

Thoughts?

 

[adverserath]

Considering im worse with my money in UO than real life, its only going to benefit me.
What % or fee are we talking on commission here?

 

[Dan]

The same as the other current commission player vendors, 5.25%

As the shop owner you can choose to absorb, pass along to the buyer, or a mix of both, on the commission.

 

[Piet Zah]

Epic, this way some of the higher value stuff can finaly apear on vendors again without just burning money if it doesnt sell fast enough
Had a vendor for recipes, sold one recipe then just idled for ages so i deleted it.

 

[Meireffer]

So wait, we would be able to RENT commission vendors to others? If that so - hell yeah!

 

[Dan]

Yes. Rentals would otherwise appear normal except now function as a commission vendor in regards to transactions/fees, not including rental fees.

I'm almost finished with a decent working version.

The plan is to get it up on the TC today so people can mess around for a day or two, report any issues, then go from there.

 

[Dan]

The following changes are now live on the TC for testing:

• All existing Rental Vendors have been converted over to the new Commission Style.
• Newly placed Rental Vendors will automatically be of the Commission style.
• Rental Vendors now count against house storage.

Test Center Login Information
IP = test.trueuo.com
Port = 2593

 

[Magus Zeal]

I tested this today.

The rental contract was successfully offered. The landlord can see the contract options and so can the tennent



However, when testing the commission function - I was unable to buy the item - it just stayed there as if I didn't do anything. I checked that I didn't try to buy it with the wrong character.

Basically I clicked on the context to "buy" and nothing happened.

Termination of rental contract:
This does not work - clicking on the context item does nothing.

 

[Magus Zeal]

So retesting this - I had the notification area out of view. The buying issue i had was the 1 minute listing cool down to prevent people from sniping items at 1 gold.

The terminate function has some kind of "buyout" option for the landlord to offer the tennant a sum to terminate early (or wait out the renewal of the contract)

The commission is working fine - after waiting a minute


I was able to terminate


I even tried going out of range to see if I could troll my tenants by spamming termination of their contract (no one would do this really would they?)

anyways it wont work


Looks good @Dan

 

[Dan]

Thanks bud, appreciate the time taken to test.

 

[Magus Zeal]

I owe @Danny a handy for this feature!

 

[Dan]

These changes will be getting pushed to Heritage tomorrow.