In the old days, you could find a vendor with everything on it. All the carpentry items, all the smith items, you name it, they held it.
Now?? not so much, darn hard to buy a yew table when ya need one sometimes
Why? Low demand is one reason, coupled with merchants hesitance to load a vendor with slow selling items, and pay a daily fee for the right to do so.
Solution?
Make vendors fees simple, a flat rate 10% or 5%, taken out when item is sold. This way, the merchants can go back to stocking everything, without it costing them to do so. But, and rightfully so, IF an item sells, then the vendor gets his cut, the merchant his, the customer was able to find what he wanted, everyone is happy...
Makes sense, and I really can't figure why it isnt this way already.
And before you go to yelling that peeps will put stuff on there overpriced so no one will buy it, and just load vendors to abuse them for storage space, who really cares? We are penalizing a whole lot of peeps, and putting merchants (except the overpriced Luna guys) out of business, all to stop a handful of sploiters looking for any way to beat the system...
I personally wouldnt care if half the houses had vendors being used for storage...since this way I believe would bring back the days of finding vendors loaded with furniture, with a full complement of scrolls, clothing, oddities, slow selling plants ya only want once ina while, you get the picture?
Come on Draconi, make it happen!