I was at work [Still am] and one of my guildmates told me that someone came to our town I assume to find shops, and they were about to report my shop since I offer lower than market deals to my guildmates behind a guild only shopping area, But by default the shop searching has those prices in the searching system.
My question is, Am I considered breaking any rules? I like that it is available to be seen by my guildmates they can all get into the room, and can buy any of the things in there, but non-guildmates who come to the planet, or have some external scanner looking for shops on the planet and it shows my super low pricing-- is this in violation of the game at all? I figured it would be a very nice benefit for my guildies to get stuff for slightly lower than market pricing [Itâs hunt related drops so nothing super impressive]
I would say yes, itâs against the rules. I went to one the other day while shopping and it was really frustrating after running to the shop, only to find it locked and un stoppable.
Despite the signs leading up there to say âThis is for guild members on top?â It is still is against the rules?
The default it to keep the shop searchability to be on, I havenât changed any of them because it is part of a shop. Weâre a medium traffic city in general. so itâs not specific for footfall or anything. I have a sign on both ramps going up stating âGuild Shopping upstairsâ
imagine you arrive on a planet, search for an item, find a shop with a good price, run for 2 kilometers, because you donât know where the portals are, just to discover itâs behind a closed door. sign or not, itâll be unpleasant
if the beacon itself isnât named ââthis shop is for guild members onlyââ it would annoy people
If they show up on the scanner people wont see the guild sign until they run to your beacon. By then theyâre probably mad enough to report it. Though im sure its obvious youâre not trolling since you took the time to post, i doubt you would get banned from the scanner. But to avoid it altogether best to turn those shop stands off
You indeed can turn off the stands, but I still like it findable for people who live ON the planet since a good majority of the planet is part of our guild.
I just wanted to know if this is a problem from a game rule-wise. Since I am not griefing, itâs not as far as I know breaking any rules, since only certain people can access it.
If people want to take advantage of that benefit, you are welcome to join the guild to shop there. I couldnât lock down independant shopstands [I tried to use the advanced locks and that didnât work] So I closed the shopstants upstairs of my public shop with no moret han a 30% drop from the publicly available stuff down below that shop.
I totally get that, but if you are running that far to try and get to the shop is it really worth all that effort? Or pay the extra 1c per item?
Even still, annoyance shouldnât be a reason you report people/locations.
Otherwise, 90% of people on hunts should be reported too, and report the meteors as well-- those things always troll by landing on people and killing emâ.
But still, I just want to know from a formal standpoint is it against the rules.
it sure would be useful if you could turn the searchability only for guild members, but since that feature does not exist, I suggest using the guild chat to inform people about restocking and suchâŚ
regardless of your good intentions, strangers have no idea whatâs going on nor they care to investigate. I personally would not report it, but I would leave with a sour taste in my mouth making a mental note not to return there
it is worth considering I think.
I plan on turning off just those, but even still I wanted to know the formal standing, since I cannot be the only one who thought of a shop for guildies to get supplies. [Granted. Only monster drops, so nothing major like hammers or anything]
Thanks for the reference â I donât often read the forums, but turn to it when I need help or advice, or reporting a bug. So I definately missed that.
I agree this statement would indeed put me in a grey area. It is accessable by people-- more than 100 members currently. I think I only have 1 stand which advertises Tallow at 0.20C but everything else should be no less than 30% the prices I have publicly available.
I will be turning off discoverability for them, because I donât wanna be a troll or mess with anyone, or discourage friends to visit our town. But at the same time I would like to hear how this stands with a Dev/Admin because it is available, just to select people. And I have no current way aside from posting the stuff to Discord [assuming all my guildmates use discord] or post it here-- which could also anger people, or post it to guild chat-- which we all know is so reliable to catch up on 100+ messages when we are offline.
So there isnât a good solid way to advertise those shops without the discoverability.
Just put the stands that have the special prices for your people so they do not display the prices to the global search area. The public area that you see in the knowledge tab for buy/sell should be on shop stands that all people can access. Any other way would get you in trouble. You can set each stand separately just go through the options till it is not displayed.
If the stands arenât for public use they shouldnât be in the scanner. I wouldnât be too happy to cross a world for that either.
âI want to know if itâs formally within the rulesâ is cute and all that but it simply makes me feel like instead of being annoyed and moving on I WOULD want to report the shop.
