Should vendors also have a rental function?

Not sure where this post should go but I know as a POT owner it is on my mind. Just wanted to get some feedback from the other POT community.

A percentage, a flat rate, or heck no that's no where near what I would want???

 

Do you mean, can we rent vendors to place on our property (house or PoT)?

 

Do you mean if I have a vendor should I be able to rent it out to someone else?

Another way to look at it.. should vendors have permission settings allowing other players to use them?

I'm not sure I see the point in it as I assume all players will have the option of hiring their own vendors. Unless you had a siuation where you wanted multiple people to be able to sell items off the same vendor as a collective effort. But there are other ways to do that.. such as sharing a chest where people put things they want to sell and the vendor owner then puts them up for sale.

 

This is a good point. I do believe long ago there was discussion of Bazaar's and being able to rent out vendors from it. Now the question might be asked to the devs could the bizaar be a NPC building per say to place in a POT?

 

I guess I mean for people who get a tax free vendor but dont want to run a shop/vendor or let go of their reward. I think it would be a nice feature to rent them to other players or be able to charge a tax, basically the same as a lot deed and house(room rental).

 

I like this idea, it certainly adds to the immersion element of the game specifically regarding trade and commerce.

 

Would be nice to be able to have maybe a guild permissions setting on them also where you could set permissions for ranking guild members.

 

Vendors are people not property! They're hired, not rented!

 

I think we can stretch this one out for 30 pages....

How about renting out the pledge vendors to multiple players?

BTW: I voted yes/

 

I was thinking of assigning mine social security numbers. . Hilarious.

 

I don't think New Britannia has a social security program, probably because of the hard heart of Lord British.

 

It could even be done outside the context of creating a custom UI for it, but with more risk involved, by way of a gentleman's agreement. I like the idea of consignments.

 

He wants to avoid paying minimum wage.

 

Just wanted to collect the extra tax from the workers and keep it for myself.

 

We used to rent vendors out in UO so I don't see why it wouldnt be added here as well but i'm not sure. Great post!

 

I don't think they would add code for collecting rent on vendors but I don't see why the vendor's "owner" couldn't set permissions. I could see something along the lines of a guild vendor where multiple crafters could put stuff up for guild members to buy or similiar scenarios. Rent payments could be worked out between players.

 

Well vendors be subject to encumbrance?

 

My main conundrum is we would like to have specific areas/houses that are "commercial" but don't want to specifically charge a set amount. Who is to say what is too high or too low until the economy gets going. So a percentage tax would seem to work best for both players and make the economy more dynamic. A merchant wouldn't be stressed with paying too much rent but rather just a portion of sales. Then the city and economy could grow seamlessly and organically. So if inflation/deflation takes affect it is fair for both parties.

 

I shouldn't think so. Vendors would presumably have a store inventory.. much like any shop has a back area for storage of goods.. except being a game of course such storage would be assumed... also vendors don't really need to move around. So even if they were subject to encumbrance you wouldn't be able to tell..

I think the real question you might be asking here is.. should their inventory be limited.. presumably be weight or volume.. to which I still think the answer should be no.

 

Neat idea! but the only thing that scares me is that. If people can rent out there tax free vendor's, will it make drastic effects on the use of taxed vendor's? Which might effect the economy in a bad way....

So with that said I am on the fence about it. Great idea and I like the sound's of having lot's of features so as long they don't have negative impact's. But without knowing how many there will be or not be it's hard for me to get an image of the out come of this feature in particular. And also would it draw other's from having to donate to get there own?