Mat Shop (For the love of god, stop storing)

[grimjim]

Jyudas: Good Morning.
Mat Merchant: Good morning, sir. Welcome to the Materials Emporium.
Jyudas: Ah, thank you my good man.
Mat Merchant: What can I do for you, sir?
Jyudas: Well, I was, uh, sitting in the Public Baths just now, with a good Tryker friend of mine, and I suddenly came over all ‘crafty’.
Mat Merchant: Crafty, sir?
Jyudas: I desire to fashion one thing into another.
Mat Merchant: Eh?
Jyudas: I wanted to make some armour.
Mat Merchant: Ah, I see.
Jyudas: Anyway, I thought to myself, 'a few materials will do the trick'. So I curtailed my bathing activities, sallied forth, and infiltrated your place of purveyance to negotiate the vending of some animal or vegetable construction items.
Mat Merchant: Come again?
Jyudas: I want to buy some Materials.
Mat Merchant: Oh, I thought you were complaining about the Mektoubs.
Jyudas: Oh, heaven forbid. I am one who delights in all manifestations of the glorious Mektoub.
Mat Merchant: Sorry?
Jyudas: I don’t mind animals.
Mat Merchant: So they’re fine there?
Jyudas: Most certainly, I seem to be able to walk through them anyway. Now then, some materials please, my good man.
Mat Merchant: Certainly, sir. What would you like?
Jyudas: Well, eh, how about a little supreme resin?
Mat Merchant: I'm afraid nobody puts supreme resin in the shop, sir.
Jyudas: Oh never mind, how are you on supreme wood?
Mat Merchant: I'm afraid we never have that, nobody puts it into the shop, sir.
Jyudas: Tish tish. No matter. Well, stout yeoman, four pieces of supreme sap, if you please.
Mat Merchant: Ah. It's been on order, sir, for two weeks. I was expecting it this morning.
Jyudas: It's not my lucky day, is it? Er, supreme oil?
Mat Merchant: Sorry, sir.
Jyudas: Supreme shell?
Mat Merchant: Normally, sir, yes. Today the Mektoub got killed by gingo.
Jyudas: Ah. Supreme teeth?
Mat Merchant: Sorry.
Jyudas: Supreme fangs? Supreme goo?
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: Any supreme ligaments, per chance?
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: Excellent wood?
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: Excellent resin?
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: Excellent oil?
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: Excellent sap?
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: Excellent fangs?
Mat Merchant: ..... No.
Jyudas: Excellent goo?
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: Choice blue wood?
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: Anything supreme at all?
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: Excellent, perhaps?
Mat Merchant: Ah! We have excellent toes, yes sir.
Jyudas: You do! Well, Kostika likes crafting jewels.
Mat Merchant: Yes, sir. It's, ah... it's a bit ‘runny’.
Jyudas: No matter, she likes it runny.
Mat Merchant: Well, it's very runny, actually, sir.
Jyudas: No matter. Fetch hither the excellent toes!
Mat Merchant: I think it's a bit runnier than you'll like it, sir.
Jyudas: I don't care how kinching runny it is. Hand it over with all speed.
Mat Merchant: Oh .....
Jyudas: What now?
Mat Merchant: The yubo's eaten them.
Jyudas: Has he?
Mat Merchant: She, sir.

(pause)

Jyudas: Any choice resin?
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: Choice wood?
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: Choice oil?
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: Choice sap?
Mat Merchant: No, sir.
Jyudas: You do have some materials, do you?
Mat Merchant: Of course, sir. It's a materials merchant, sir. We've got...
Jyudas: No, no, don't tell me. I'm keen to guess.
Mat Merchant: Fair enough.
Jyudas: Choice shell?
Mat Merchant: Yes sir!.
Jyudas: Very well, I’ll take 20.
Mat Merchant: They’re Jungle materials sir.
Jyudas: And yet, I am, quite clearly, a Fyros.
Mat Merchant: Yes sir.

(pause)

Jyudas: Choice goo?
Mat Merchant: What quality level sir?
Jyudas: 160.
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: Choice fangs?
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: Choice ligaments?
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: Choice prime root gibani rectums?
Mat Merchant: Not today, sir, no.

(pause)

Jyudas: Ah, how about choice teeth?
Mat Merchant: Well, we don't get much call for those around here, sir.
Jyudas: Not much ca- It's the single most used material in the world is lining!
Mat Merchant: Not round here, sir.
Jyudas: And what is the most popular material round here?
Mat Merchant: Amber, sir.
Jyudas: Is it.
Mat Merchant: Oh yes, sir. It's staggeringly popular in this manor, squire.
Jyudas: Is it.
Mat Merchant: It's our number-one best seller, sir.
Jyudas: I see. Ah, amber, eh?
Mat Merchant: Right, sir.
Jyudas: All right. Okay. Have you got any choice amber, he asked expecting the answer no?
Mat Merchant: I'll have a look, sir ..... nnnnnnooooooooo.
Jyudas: It's not much of a materials shop, is it?
Mat Merchant: Finest in the district, sir.
Jyudas: Explain the logic underlying that conclusion, please.
Mat Merchant: Well, it's so clean, sir.
Jyudas: It's certainly uncontaminated by materials.
Mat Merchant: You haven't asked me about claws, sir.
Jyudas: Is it worth it?
Mat Merchant: Could be.
Jyudas: Have you- MOVE THAT BLOODY MEKTOUB!
Mat Merchant: (To Mektoub) Told you so.
Jyudas: Have you got any choice claws?
Mat Merchant: No.
Jyudas: That figures. Predictable really, I suppose. It was an act of purest optimism to have posed the question in the first place. Tell me:
Mat Merchant: Yes, sir?
Jyudas: Have you in fact got any materials here at all?
Mat Merchant: Yes, sir.
Jyudas: Really?

(pause)

Mat Merchant: Yes, sir.
Jyudas: You do?
Mat Merchant: (Opens doors to the stable, revealing that it is stacked to the very rafters with materials.)
Jyudas: I can see some supreme and choice materials right there!!!
Mat Merchant: I didn’t think you’d want them sir.
Jyudas: Why not?
Mat Merchant: Well, they are over 50,000 dappers each sir!
Jyudas: 50,000 dappers, each?
Mat Merchant: Some are 99,999,999 dappers each sir.
Jyudas: You’re having a giraffe aren’t you?
Mat Merchant: No sir, neither giraffes nor rhyming slang are native to Atys.
Jyuas: Why in the name of Ma-Duk are you selling them so dear?
Mat Merchant: Ah well, people sell them here at that price you see.
Jyudas: Why?
Mat Merchant: I’ve no idea sir, they just have to buy them back again.
Jyudas: At the price they set I hope?
Mat Merchant: No sir, just what we pay them in advance.
Jyudas: I see, so you are, in fact, perpetuating this annoying situation?
Mat Merchant: Indeed sir.
Jyudas: Well, I’m afraid I’m going to have to decapitate you.
Mat Merchant: Right-O, sir.
Jyudas: (Cuts his head off) What a senseless waste of homin life.

[systemv]

I laughed out loud, good stuff.

I have stored mats before so don't know if I have any place to complain... It's just so convenient.

While we're on the subject what's the popular rate for choice/excellent materials? I've tested this in the last couple of weeks and have only found that people are really only willing to buy them at below 100% markup and that they don't sell as well as fine/basic materials. Go figure.

[grimjim]

I laughed out loud, good stuff.

I have stored mats before so don't know if I have any place to complain... It's just so convenient.

While we're on the subject what's the popular rate for choice/excellent materials? I've tested this in the last couple of weeks and have only found that people are really only willing to buy them at below 100% markup and that they don't sell as well as fine/basic materials. Go figure.

I'm generally willing to pay up to 20x QL level for mats.
So Q160 for 3200 or less. But I prefer paying less obviously

Maybe up to 30x for choice and 40x for excellent/supreme

[grimjim]

I laughed out loud, good stuff.

I have stored mats before so don't know if I have any place to complain... It's just so convenient.

While we're on the subject what's the popular rate for choice/excellent materials? I've tested this in the last couple of weeks and have only found that people are really only willing to buy them at below 100% markup and that they don't sell as well as fine/basic materials. Go figure.

Oh, and to me, its an exploit.

The packer bug that let you teleport items around the land was fixed to stop this being done, this is just a new way to exploit.

I'm sure they want baggage trains being escorted and apartments and guildhalls being used to store.

Not this.

Of course, you CAN filter to cut out this stuff, but fiddling filters can be tricky.

If you MUST store, set the price so ridiculously high that the mats can't be accidentallly bought. Its only polite.

Me? I hope they change it so you can only buy out at the price you put in.

[kibsword]

cool story

[b00ster1]

Good stuff..

50,000 dappers each sir

Some cost more (i mean are ppl willing pay per 1 *specific* mat)
Problem (storage at merch) - exist, and all know this, including GMs and etc.
Last ~ month usually saw much less "overpriced" mats than was before, but now problem came back due temporarily (?) unaccessible guildhaills

Me? I hope they change it so you can only buy out at the price you put in

Or just pay additional %, when buy back, depending on item/mat price.

[morgan73]

LOL Good story.. sad, but true.

I *sell* jungle mats.. but you being Fyros.. Sorry.

My stuff goes amazingly fast, because I *do* sell it, but .. I'm only 1 homin, and my specialty is Jungle, so what I can do to help isn't much.

Eventually I'll be making rounds in Fyros too, but it'll be a while before anything I pull there is of much value.

[hunter17]

LOL Good story.. sad, but true.

I *sell* jungle mats.. but you being Fyros.. Sorry.

My stuff goes amazingly fast, because I *do* sell it, but .. I'm only 1 homin, and my specialty is Jungle, so what I can do to help isn't much.

Eventually I'll be making rounds in Fyros too, but it'll be a while before anything I pull there is of much value.

Heh i buy your stuff when i get zorai swords and stuff made, it's nicely priced for excellent q230

As for storing mats, it annoys me, you see some nice supreme gun mats (since i craft guns, i have special vision ) in a nice big stack, you look at the price and its 1mil per, it's very annoying that people taunt you with these nice mats

[morgan73]

Heh i buy your stuff when i get zorai swords and stuff made, it's nicely priced for excellent q230

As for storing mats, it annoys me, you see some nice supreme gun mats (since i craft guns, i have special vision ) in a nice big stack, you look at the price and its 1mil per, it's very annoying that people taunt you with these nice mats

Hehe 240 now

And yeah, supreme.. well, I doubt we will ever really see that for *sale*.. it's just too scarce. I myself hoard every last sup I get my hands on, for when my craft can use it, and then sell the finished product. I wish I could sell supremes like I do excellents, but .. I'm sure you see the problem.

[hunter17]

Hehe 240 now

And yeah, supreme.. well, I doubt we will ever really see that for *sale*.. it's just too scarce. I myself hoard every last sup I get my hands on, for when my craft can use it, and then sell the finished product. I wish I could sell supremes like I do excellents, but .. I'm sure you see the problem.

Most supreme mats i get are degraded, but at a usable quality and boss mats in a small quantity