Countessa
Knight
A Guide to Vendors
Vendors
Vendor Rental Contracts and Contracts of Employment are sold by bankers and minters.
- If you are placing vendors in your own house with the titled house owner, you will want a Contract of Employment.
- If you are allowing others to place in your house, or if you are using an alternate character for vendors, you need a Vendor Rental Contract.
To place a vendor with a Contract of Employment, stand on the tile where the vendor should stand and then double click the deed. The vendor appears on top of your character,
To use the Vendor Rental Contract, dbl click the deed and target the location you want to rent out. The deed moves to the targeted location, locked to the floor. If you need to move/remove it, you can unlock it with 'I wish to release this'.
Once the deed is in place, double click the deed for the contract gump. This is where you will set the contract options.
You can choose 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, or one month for a contract time.
Price Per Rental will be the cost to rent the spot. If the contract is set to renew, this is also the amount charged per renewal period. This amount will be removed from the renters bank each renewal period, and transferred to the landlords bank.
Renew On Expiration is a toggle and both Landlord and Renter must have it toggled on for rental renewal. As a Landlord, click the arrow and the 'no' turns to 'yes'. Once rented, the renter can do the same and the contract will renew automatically at the end of each contract period.
Once the owner has set the options, the contract may be offered to a player. Click the gold arrow at the bottom of the contract and target the potential renter.
The targeted player is presented with a gump
If the targeted player accepts, their vendor appears on the tile where the contract was.
A single click of the vendor (by either renter or house owner) will show a contract option in the vendor gump. Choosing this option brings up the rental contract gump, allowing either player to turn the vendor renewal on or off. Both Landlord and renter must choose 'yes' for vendor renewal.
Vendor Management
Vendors are managed from the vendor management gump. Access this by dbl-clicking your vendor.
On the left, vendor accounting information is shown. The account information has been simplified so all the information is real time, not uo days.
# of days Vendor salary is paid for: this is real days. If this drops to 0, your vendor will run away.
My charge per real world day is: this is the vendor fee for one real day
Gold held in my account: your profits and the account from which vendor fees are pulled.
Shop Name: set by the owner from the right tabs
Vendor customizing is accomplished through the right-side tabs.
See goods - opens the vendors pack for stocking (more information on stocking later).
- If the vendor owner is outside the house when picking this option, the vendor will appear outside the house beside its master. It will not move within the house or to the inside of another nearby house. After two minutes it will return to its position by itself, or can be returned by the vendors gump.
Customize opens a second gump. With this gump, players can change the vendors sex, hair style and color, and facial hair and color.
Rename Shop is the vendor's name on the house sign gump (as seen below).
Rename Vendor is the vendor's name. Both names are limited to 20 digits.
Open Paperdoll opens the vendor paperdoll. This is how the vendor is dressed. Items can be dragged on and off the vendor, including held items; in the same manner you would dress your own character.
Collect Gold the vendor will ask how much you want. Enter the amount.
Dismiss Vendor will dismiss the vendor. It does not ask if you are sure so dont choose this by mistake.
Stocking the Vendor
To stock:
Open the vendors backpack and place an item inside. You will be prompted to enter the price and a description. Type in the price and hit enter. If you want to add a description type in the price, space bar and then the description, hit enter. The description is optional and shows along with the items regular name.
Bags and other containers can be used to organize stock within the vendors backpack.
Place the empty container in the vendor's backpack and hit the escape key.
This sets it as 'not for sale'. Optionally, you may enter a description(no price) and hit enter. The container will not be for sale but will be named. The same applies to books and BoD books.
If you place a container in a vendor with items inside it, the bag must be priced and all the items inside will be sold with the bag.
If you forget to price an item, the default cost is 999. Be sure to double check items as you stock.
Vendor commands:
Vendors will respond to 'spoken' commands as well as the options on the vendor gump.
<vendor name> collect
The vendor will ask you how much you want to collect. Leave enough to keep them paid if they are to be used further. Enter the amount you want to take and hit enter. A check for that amount is deposited in your bank.
vendor collect
the closest vendor you own from a tile away will deposit everything they have in your account.
<vendor name> dismiss
The vendor disappears. Be sure everything you want to keep has been taken off the vendor.
To turn your vendor to face another direction:
Stand where you want them to look (the tile in front of them for them to face forward, for example) and do one of two things: drop a small amount of gold on them, or open the customize menu and right-click out of it. The vendor will turn to face you.
Terminate vendors (for house owners):
To remove a vendor from your house (not owned by you) use one of two methods:
- Set the contract renewal so it doesnt renew. At the end of the contract the vendor will be gone. or
- Pick terminate contract from the vendor gump:
You are asked how much you offer the vendor owner to terminate the contract. The player who owns the vendor must be online at the time. Enter the amount offered for ending the contract.
The vendor owner receives the following gump:
If the vendor owner declines, the house owner will need to wait until the contract expires.
If the vendor owner accepts, the vendor disappears and the gold and items from the vendor can be retrieved by the vendor owner via the house sign.
Shoppers can now access vendors from the house sign. A single click on the house sign gives the vendor gump. Choosing this opens a window listing all vendors in the house (by shop name). Picking any vendor will open their pack for shopping.
The number of vendors on a custom plot is dependent on plot size. The largest houses allow for 42 vendors, a 7x7 plot will allow 10. Classic housing retain the old rules and there is no limit beyond space for vendors.
Vendors
Vendor Rental Contracts and Contracts of Employment are sold by bankers and minters.
- If you are placing vendors in your own house with the titled house owner, you will want a Contract of Employment.
- If you are allowing others to place in your house, or if you are using an alternate character for vendors, you need a Vendor Rental Contract.
To place a vendor with a Contract of Employment, stand on the tile where the vendor should stand and then double click the deed. The vendor appears on top of your character,
To use the Vendor Rental Contract, dbl click the deed and target the location you want to rent out. The deed moves to the targeted location, locked to the floor. If you need to move/remove it, you can unlock it with 'I wish to release this'.
Once the deed is in place, double click the deed for the contract gump. This is where you will set the contract options.
You can choose 1 week, 2 weeks, 3 weeks, or one month for a contract time.
Price Per Rental will be the cost to rent the spot. If the contract is set to renew, this is also the amount charged per renewal period. This amount will be removed from the renters bank each renewal period, and transferred to the landlords bank.
Renew On Expiration is a toggle and both Landlord and Renter must have it toggled on for rental renewal. As a Landlord, click the arrow and the 'no' turns to 'yes'. Once rented, the renter can do the same and the contract will renew automatically at the end of each contract period.
Once the owner has set the options, the contract may be offered to a player. Click the gold arrow at the bottom of the contract and target the potential renter.
The targeted player is presented with a gump
If the targeted player accepts, their vendor appears on the tile where the contract was.
A single click of the vendor (by either renter or house owner) will show a contract option in the vendor gump. Choosing this option brings up the rental contract gump, allowing either player to turn the vendor renewal on or off. Both Landlord and renter must choose 'yes' for vendor renewal.
Vendor Management
Vendors are managed from the vendor management gump. Access this by dbl-clicking your vendor.
On the left, vendor accounting information is shown. The account information has been simplified so all the information is real time, not uo days.
# of days Vendor salary is paid for: this is real days. If this drops to 0, your vendor will run away.
My charge per real world day is: this is the vendor fee for one real day
Gold held in my account: your profits and the account from which vendor fees are pulled.
Shop Name: set by the owner from the right tabs
Vendor customizing is accomplished through the right-side tabs.
See goods - opens the vendors pack for stocking (more information on stocking later).
- If the vendor owner is outside the house when picking this option, the vendor will appear outside the house beside its master. It will not move within the house or to the inside of another nearby house. After two minutes it will return to its position by itself, or can be returned by the vendors gump.
Customize opens a second gump. With this gump, players can change the vendors sex, hair style and color, and facial hair and color.
Rename Shop is the vendor's name on the house sign gump (as seen below).
Rename Vendor is the vendor's name. Both names are limited to 20 digits.
Open Paperdoll opens the vendor paperdoll. This is how the vendor is dressed. Items can be dragged on and off the vendor, including held items; in the same manner you would dress your own character.
Collect Gold the vendor will ask how much you want. Enter the amount.
Dismiss Vendor will dismiss the vendor. It does not ask if you are sure so dont choose this by mistake.
Stocking the Vendor
To stock:
Open the vendors backpack and place an item inside. You will be prompted to enter the price and a description. Type in the price and hit enter. If you want to add a description type in the price, space bar and then the description, hit enter. The description is optional and shows along with the items regular name.
Bags and other containers can be used to organize stock within the vendors backpack.
Place the empty container in the vendor's backpack and hit the escape key.
This sets it as 'not for sale'. Optionally, you may enter a description(no price) and hit enter. The container will not be for sale but will be named. The same applies to books and BoD books.
If you place a container in a vendor with items inside it, the bag must be priced and all the items inside will be sold with the bag.
If you forget to price an item, the default cost is 999. Be sure to double check items as you stock.
Vendor commands:
Vendors will respond to 'spoken' commands as well as the options on the vendor gump.
<vendor name> collect
The vendor will ask you how much you want to collect. Leave enough to keep them paid if they are to be used further. Enter the amount you want to take and hit enter. A check for that amount is deposited in your bank.
vendor collect
the closest vendor you own from a tile away will deposit everything they have in your account.
<vendor name> dismiss
The vendor disappears. Be sure everything you want to keep has been taken off the vendor.
To turn your vendor to face another direction:
Stand where you want them to look (the tile in front of them for them to face forward, for example) and do one of two things: drop a small amount of gold on them, or open the customize menu and right-click out of it. The vendor will turn to face you.
Terminate vendors (for house owners):
To remove a vendor from your house (not owned by you) use one of two methods:
- Set the contract renewal so it doesnt renew. At the end of the contract the vendor will be gone. or
- Pick terminate contract from the vendor gump:
You are asked how much you offer the vendor owner to terminate the contract. The player who owns the vendor must be online at the time. Enter the amount offered for ending the contract.
The vendor owner receives the following gump:
If the vendor owner declines, the house owner will need to wait until the contract expires.
If the vendor owner accepts, the vendor disappears and the gold and items from the vendor can be retrieved by the vendor owner via the house sign.
Shoppers can now access vendors from the house sign. A single click on the house sign gives the vendor gump. Choosing this opens a window listing all vendors in the house (by shop name). Picking any vendor will open their pack for shopping.
The number of vendors on a custom plot is dependent on plot size. The largest houses allow for 42 vendors, a 7x7 plot will allow 10. Classic housing retain the old rules and there is no limit beyond space for vendors.