Nazon_Katts wrote: »

@Alphashado there's about 120 kiosks, iirc. That's max 60k slots. Not taking into account that only a fifth of those are in high traffic areas and people occupy up to 5 slots. By design, it excludes the majority of the player base.

@Nazon_Katts‌ where are you getting the 120 number from?

kitsinni wrote: »

I am also curious if there is a guild trader in a town, does that same guild trader show up for the other factions when they enter that town? Or are there three separate guild traders in each town?

well since my non-vVR templar sees VR level characters, I would say it doesn't replicate them.

AlexDougherty wrote: »

kitsinni wrote: »

I am also curious if there is a guild trader in a town, does that same guild trader show up for the other factions when they enter that town? Or are there three separate guild traders in each town?

well since my non-vVR templar sees VR level characters, I would say it doesn't replicate them.

The question is if the players in the other alliances see them since they are in a separate instance of that town than you are. Non-VR and VR characters of the same alliance share all the same areas. It is the VR characters in the other alliance that are instanced to a different area. Otherwise all the starter areas would be filled with the other factions VR characters.

Yes, my vet EP character and my non vet DC character see the same guild traders in Glenumbra.

Not really. If you assume that each region has an equal number of traders, and EP has 38, 38 x 3 = 114. Plus 6 in Coldharbour makes 120.

And that's not counting the ones in Craglorn. I haven't counted those, but there are probably between 4-6 there too.

The pattern that I noticed in EP is that there are usually 5 or so traders in the capital city of the zone and then two single traders in different areas of the map. I'm pretty happy with that distribution, actually.

I have noticed, however, that there are empty carts in some places (like in Bal Foyen, there is one trader, but there is another cart across from him). I hope this means that ZOS plans on increasing the number of traders in the future.

Someone counted them and came up with a 120ish number. Think it was 122, but my memory doesn't serve me all too well at times.

EDIT: Nope, I knew memory was failing on me. 122 is correct, tho it's been from the horses mouth actually, see here: http://dulfy.net/2014/07/12/eso-paul-sage-the-road-ahead-qa-transcript/

AlnilamE wrote: »

Well the "time is money" adage means you have the choice of spending one or the other. If you don't want to spend time finding the best possible price for whatever it is you want, you can take the risk of buying it at a bit more than if you had spent more time looking for a deal.

Sure but there is still no logical reason for having to travel to 120+ vendors other than a time sink. Otherwise it is basically just making the richest guilds richer. Whoever spends the most money will get the best kiosk and a huge amount of people would just pay a bit more as opposed to spending all of their play time going from vendor to vendor.

I would think ZOS would want us actually playing the content instead of spending a bunch of time vendor hopping.

kitsinni wrote: »

I would think ZOS would want us actually playing the content instead of spending a bunch of time vendor hopping.

Oh I don't know- the more time people spend shopping, the less time they have to complain about lack of new content or bugs in the game, right?

But seriously it's nice to have options. People don't have to spend all their time shopping if they don't want to.