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Vendybots (for selling multiple items and with batch limits)

To add a new twist to "the economic game," I propose the addition of vendybots that would offer items for sale in a little more flexible manner than is now possible with vending SDBs. Specifically: For a seller, depositing items into the vendybot would work a lot like putting items into a cabinet of SDBs, but in addition to setting a price for each item, a seller also could set a batch limit for each item. For a buyer, a vendybot would display multiple items for sale much like a street vendor, but showing how many of each item could be purchased as well as the price.

Vendybots would co-exist with Auction House and vending SDBs. Unlike these, however, vendybots would not make their contents knowable via the API.  To find out what a player's vendybot had for sale, one would actually have to visit that player's street and interact with the vendybot.

It would be cool if vendybots could make announcements like gnomes and also log who made purchases (like butlers log street visitors, but accurate). It would be super cool if vendybots also could be taught to buy as well as sell.

Posted 4 months ago by Splendora Subscriber! | Permalink

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  • +1. Love the idea!
    Posted 4 months ago by Llewella Subscriber! | Permalink
  • -1 I'd rather see features added to the already-existing mechanisms (and I don't like the idea of things being hidden from the API).
    Posted 3 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1: the name vendybot alone makes this awesome.
    v. glitchy.
    vendybot.
    I just like saying that word now.
    Posted 3 months ago by CrashTestPilot Subscriber! | Permalink
  • I know, right... vendybot... vendybot... if this idea doesn't get added, I want all street spirits to simply be called vendybots from now on.
    Posted 3 months ago by Kaelyn Renai Subscriber! | Permalink
  • In addition to batch limits, I'd also like to be able to "bundle" groups of non-same things: a garden restoring bundle, a sammich-making bundle, etc.

    And I'd also like a Home Street Spirit to be my "vendybot."
    Posted 3 months ago by Pascale Subscriber! | Permalink
  • +1 to the idea of bundles, but I think these should be equally sellable across all channels (AH and SDB, as well as any future methods)
    Posted 3 months ago by Janitch Subscriber! | Permalink