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Why is this still a thing? Most if not all MMOs have moved past the running-around-searching for the correct Vendor as a gameplay mechanic and have recognized that it just adds an 4th wall breaking timesink that actually discouraged play.
All vendors should buy trash for the same rates.
While fixing this, please please add a sell-or-salvage so we can salvage we can, and sell everything else.
All vendors should buy trash for the same rates.
While fixing this, please please add a sell-or-salvage so we can salvage we can, and sell everything else.
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Takes to long. Better to open up the replicator and just recycle it. Give a nice click list you can speed through, instead of having to click scroll to discard, and click. The only time I do it one at a time like discarding, is when I want to salvage, upgrade or re-engineer.
Back on topic, I think ESD has only 40% vendors.
Lessa in the equipment vendor area over by the tailor buys at 50% if I remember correctly.
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I can see where they might have done this in the name of immersion... but really... do SFA bartenders make so much they can give the MAX credits? Seems immersion breaking to me!
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The ground and space ones both give 50%. I don't think that I've ever sold to the bartender in the club there, but I would bet that it's 50% there, too. Only the Commodity Vendor pays 40%, which is standard for Commodity Vendors.
Totally unnecessary remark: I doubt they're running their own business there, instead are employees of SFA, so it's a question about the government grants SFA gets. Basically your tax credits at work
Ugh, now I know why I've never bothered with the bartender in Club 47. You have to chase her down to sell to her, since she moves around behind the bar. She definitely does pay 50%. As far as I know, there are only four vendors who will buy stuff from you on ESD, and three of them give 50%, with only the Commodity Vendor being 40%.
On Drozana, everyone but the Commodity Vendor says that they'll buy for 50%, but only Belan and the other bartender actually do. The others actually give you 30%! Is this a bug, or the inherent dishonesty of a Ferengi? Who knows? They are the stingiest vendors in the game, as far as I know.
Ferengi indeed, they're paying less than using your recycling tab!
There is no dishonesty involved here, it's just a common problem with translating Ferenginese and Federation Standard. When the Federation acquired the Ferengi language translation matrix, they unfortunately relied on a less than competent but well-meaning Ferengi computer expert. You see, there are no different words for selling and buying in Ferengi, it is instead used either in the Future Acquisis or the Future Providis grammatical tense, with the grammatical case - either the fiscally donative case or the fiscally receptive case - further complicating the translating.
So when a Ferengi says "I am offering you a bargain", he might really mean "I am buying a bargain".
The Ferengi Trade Comission has repeatedly tried to provide upgrades to the Federation Translation Services Subcommittee to resolve this confusion, but unfortunately, the Federation claims that the software upgrade does not follow security standards (something to do with it being classified as "spyware" by the security filter). The Ferengi Trace Commission is offering interested parties advanced training courses for the Ferengi language, with a permanent discount for our hypnotic training courses that allow you to learn Ferengi in your sleep. We even offer Orion comfort women at a small surcharge to help you to get tired enough for the sleep!
The exchange is goo and all but it just feels a bit sterile to be honest and not very in keeping with the world building they should be aiming for.
Not sure it is necessary, if this is up to date (either way it's a start):
https://sto.gamepedia.com/Category:Vendors_buying_at_50%
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You can still get that from Grym, but it's once per account now. I don't remember if I even bothered to do it on more than one character when we could, but it would have only amounted to 11 extra Lobi up to that point.
The Ground Equipment Vendor in the Dyson Ground Battlezone HQ will also pay out the 50%.
l don't know.
l really don't know what l'm about to say, except l have a feeling about it.
That l must repeat the words that come without my knowledge.'