The DDO Chronicle: Issue 359 is now available

[Cordovan]

Thank you for reading the DDO Chronicle! Don't forget to reply below to the Chronicle Comment for your chance to win 500 DDO Points. We'll select a winner after Noon Eastern on Friday, November 22nd. Good luck!

[C-Dog]

The NPC - because a Vendor ~is~ an NPC, so he has double duty.

(#1!)

[guzzlr]

Depends on who manages the buybacks. Is it the vendor or an NPC hired by the vendor?

[ForgettableNPC]

Honestly it depends on the NPC.

Like if it was a Bartender, then they would have to deal with more selling of the items compared to the General Vendor.

If it's one of those NPCs that you can only buy stuff from, then that's not too hard since all you have to do is get platinum from players.

Regent and Scroll Vendors? Also usually visited for buying, rarely selling.



Now, if it's one of NPCs you have to keep alive (looking at you, Commander Tesara) then you are going to either be very dead or kept alive despite repeated swords to the face.

[Dark_Chocoholic]

general vendor

[Aelonwy]

General Vendor because a ForgettableNPC still has to keep up with the forum postage. ;P

[ComicRelief]

Going by ForgettableNPC's signature, it seems NPCs have an awful lot to do. Therefore, I'd have to go with General Vendor.

(Now, if it were Private Vendor or even Corporal Vendor, that may be a different story...)

[Jango-EX]

NPC, for sure!

[btolson]

An NPC. Especially the ones you're supposed to protect but die often. Waaaaaay less responsibilities to deal with when you're dead.

[Fedora1]

The NPC - because a Vendor ~is~ an NPC, so he has double duty.

(#1!)

Hate to be the one to tell you this, but I've never seen #1 post win the 500 DDO points. lol


Now on to the question: Who has the easier job: A General Vendor or an NPC, and why?

Don't know, don't care. Can I have my DDO points now? Please?

[juliusisnotcaeser]

The code for the week is actually SENTIENTKIT I thought you all should know that.

[Arkat]

NPCs...because they don't have to keep track of money.

[minorpenthes]

Neither one is a real person, so it's a bit of a moot point, really...

[Brekian]

The General Vendor of course, because he gets to ride the General. Oh wait, that was the General Manager.

[Breezwyn]

NPC is easier

General vendor has to take junk off our hands and repair all our stuff

[Brandwynn]

Well The NPC belong to a union.. And the vendors do not.. Though to be honest the NPC Union is the same one that the Kobolds have.. So yeah.. Maybe the Vendors have it better.

[Saekee]

NPC except one in particular that I will not mention as it is reading my mind even as I write this

[EnragedBears]

The NPC - as the vendor are loved and the NPC get a lot of hate.

[SocratesBastardSon]

I think people are missing the important issue. Everyone is focusing one what NPCs and GVs have to do, as if the only measure of their worth is how much energy the toon has to expend in order to carry out its tasks.

But ask yourself, how would you like to be known by what you're not? Where your title, indeed your very essence, was always preceded by Non-? As if what defines you as an entity, your very existence, is nothingness?

What a sad commentary on how we view those who are around us and even help us, that they are mere non-entities, non-people, non-players. Is this what we as a gaming community have become, people who look down on those around us who are less fortunate because they don't have player accounts?

For shame!

So this forum thread is a sign of our own hubris and loss of empathy. Or the answer is "Neither" because as bots the servers are doing all the work. Yep, one of those two: Hubris and the loss of our humanity, or the server does the work. Hmm, tough call.

[Vyrzain]

NPC would be easier because most of the time all they do is talk.