Limiting Merchants

[Former-GM-Circe]

I don't know where this "Forums are dead" idea is coming from.
As someone who is required to read everrryyy single post, I can tell you there is a lot of posts going on, though quite a bunch are in guild areas, as always.

The limiting merchants per IP idea makes me want to pull my hair out.
The time involved in policing that would be horrendous.
We'd need to go through every merchant, manually check their IP, then manually check the IP of every other account on that IP to see if there is any other @aters on the same IP.
Merchant by merchant, account my account.

I don't see anything wrong with merchants myself, other than the stagnant stock.
RO generally only loads what is on the screen at any one time.
So, when you enter Pront, you are not loading every single merchant in Pront. You're loading those in your line of sight.

As for "Getting a true idea of population", you can do that via the CP, if you wish. To basically.. limit the extent of the economy to save a bit of manual counting is eh to me.
.. Not that even counting would give a true idea of population, unless every single player is online at the same time.

Yes, I know most of you are like "But we didn't agree with this idea anyway, Circe", but I like reasons, and this means if it comes up again, you guys can be "Look at this Circe post!". ;D


As for the other idea. I personally like it , but I'm only a single GM. So don't take that as a yay or nay.
(However, I think it'd be fun with a random timer. Say, it randomly assigns a time between say... 72-84 hours when you @at and doesn't tell you what it is. This would fix people spot camping anyway. Cycle of shops as well as cycle of items.)

In a nutshell, we have read it and know the idea/suggestion exists.