Offline Shops

smoo
smoo Posts: 0 Arc User
edited October 2008 in Suggestion Box
Is there any particular reason why players have to keep windows open in order to keep shops open?

If shops remained open while players were offline, it would enable everyone to sell stuff during their off times without having to keep the game open. Also, less bandwidth. Mainly, I play more than one game, and keeping one PW open for a shop doesn't rank very high on my list of favorite things.

Likely problems and solutions:
Crowding- I saw someone complain about having to load too many shops.
Solution- have a distance requirement on shops? So you cannot drop then within a certain distance of each other, and once a certain number of shops are dropped in an area, that distance starts increasing drastically. That would keep shop clusters from getting too big.
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  • Hisui - Heavens Tear
    Hisui - Heavens Tear Posts: 1,369 Arc User
    edited October 2008
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  • X_livia_x - Heavens Tear
    X_livia_x - Heavens Tear Posts: 49 Arc User
    edited October 2008
    I definitely agree with this suggestion.
  • Tara - Lost City
    Tara - Lost City Posts: 137 Arc User
    edited October 2008
    But... that would be too easy...
  • Biovolk - Heavens Tear
    Biovolk - Heavens Tear Posts: 27 Arc User
    edited October 2008
    if they do make offline shops, it will probably be a premium option (like pay for it)
  • smoo
    smoo Posts: 0 Arc User
    edited October 2008
    One other possible problem would be MULTIPLE accounts... simple enough, I suppose, have it be one shop per IP. If the account has Zen though, it could bypass that, so max would be one free account and your main that you buy stuff on, or just one free account. Just have each shop-dropping action check that IP against a list of all other IPs with shops.

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