Merchants

Alpha-2 Vendor NPC work-in-progress UI.^[1]

Merchant NPCs (also called Vendors) are present from the first stage of node development (Expedition).^[2]

Merchant NPCs are identified by a golden shimmer on their nameplates.^[3]
Merchant NPCs will in general be able to buy items from players.^[4]

List of items sold by merchants

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Tavern NPCs

The way that the tavern NPCs are going to work is you'll have patrons of either in-node taverns that will have the ability to list items as part of that NPC's merchant store and those items will mainly be around food and drink; and those types of craftable things that are relevant to these taverns; and those items will grant buffs based on proximity. And then additionally players can build taverns on their freeholds- we've discussed this in the past- they will list their craftable foods and drinks and whatnot with their NPC at that tavern as well; and players who interact with that can purchase them- have a drink at the tavern, eat some food at the tavern; and that'll give them a buff for a period of time as long as they remain proximity of that freehold.^[4] – Steven Sharif

Tavern NPCs ("bartenders") are merchants that are present in 酒館 in nodes and on freeholds.^[4]^[5]

Tavern NPCs sell food, drinks, and other crafted items that have been made for that tavern. Consuming these items will grant buffs for a period of time, providing the character remains in proximity to the tavern.^[4]^[5]

You're going to probably want to sell items to other players more than necessarily tavern merchants but they'll be there as well.^[4] – Jeffrey Bard

Artisan classes timeline

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匠人職業 (採集、加工、製造) 將於 Alpha-2 及其後 Betas 測試全面實裝。^[6]^[7]

In Alpha One the core basics of what crafting represents as a gameplay loop that is represented. So that means that there are gatherables out there. You will have to have tools in order to service those gatherables. There will be processing that's necessary; and then there's crafting stations that are available and can be constructed by the players. This is in Alpha One. You have to collect the recipes, you have to collect the materials, and you have to refine the materials; and then you have to create the reagents and then use those to create the final crafting component of that you're trying to create. So that in and of itself is present, but it is a very very small piece of really what will be the larger crafting puzzle for Alpha 2 and betas.^[6] – Steven Sharif

Alpha-1 中的匠人系統大約只有最終設計的十分之一，其遊戲核心循環藉由商人 (NPC) 系統變得簡易。^[8]^[6]^[7]內容包括：
- 採集物及採集工具。^[6]
- 有限的材料加工功能。^[6]
- 收集配方。^[6]
- 可以由玩家建造的製造台。^[6]

Crafting honestly will not come online in any sense of its true form until Alpha-2. Alpha-1 has essentially what are intended to be the core gameplay loop of crafting, meaning the collection of materials, the translation of those materials into processed goods, and the use of those processed goods into item acquisition. That's the core gameplay loop that is currently present in Alpha-1. But those are mostly facilitated piggy backing the merchant systems right now and not actually using the real crafting system; and that's because crafting hasn't been completed in a form that can be implemented in Alpha-1, but will be for Alpha-2. What's present in Alpha-1 doesn't even really scratch the surface for crafting.^[7] – Steven Sharif

Player merchants

玩家攤檔, personal shops, and auction houses enable buying from and selling to other players.^[9]

Player merchants will not be able to be placed on ships.^[10]

	玩家攤檔	Personal shops	Auction houses
Cost	Rental fee.^[11]^[12]	Placement certificate purchase.^[13]^[14]^[15]	Listing fee.^[16]
Location	Can be rented at locations near the unique building in an economic node^[16] or in 市场.^[17]	Certificates from non-metropolis nodes, allow placement near the node's unique building or on a freehold.^[13]^[14]^[15] Certificates from economic node metropolises allow placement anywhere in the world.^[13]^[15]	At 市场 in 村莊 economic nodes allow raw resources and crafting materials to be posted.^[18] At Exchanges in Town nodes allow all goods/items to be posted.^[18] Metropolis stage Economic nodes enable remote bidding from linked economic nodes.^[18] Auctioneer NPC emissaries present in 附庸節點 allow some access to the parent node's auction house.^[16]
Player presence	An attendant NPC is assigned to the stall. Character does not need to be online or at the stall.^[19]^[11]^[12]	Player must be online and present at the shop.^[19]^[12]	N/A
Storage	Linked to character's warehouse.^[20]	Linked to character's inventory.^[20]	Raw materials and gatherables are automatically deposited within the listing node's local warehouse.^[21]^[16] Anything other than raw materials and gatherables will be mailed to the purchaser.^[21]
Advertising	Items and services are listed on 告示板 in the same region.^[22] There may or may not^[13] also be listings at auction houses.^[9]	Custom billboard appears above the character.^[19] Items are not listed in the parent node or auction houses.^[9]	Items listed are visible in community boards (bulletin boards).^[13] 大都會 level economic nodes enable worldwide sale prices for auction houses across Verra.^[18]
PvP	Players are not able to be attacked or robbed while occupying their player stall inside the limits of a node.^[14] Material losses may occur if the node's warehouse is destroyed during a node siege.^[23]^[24]^[25]^[20]	Players may be killed while occupying their personal shop and are subject to material loss due to normal death penalties.^[20]	N/A