Private stores only 30 minutes!

Well I feel better I wasn't the only one upset about people making private stores just to stay logged in:

09-25-09 02:56:32
views 39774 We are bringing the servers down at 6:00AM PST (more), September 25th, for maintenance. The purpose of this downtime is to tweak the way Private Stores work. A timer of 30 minutes will be implemented to prevent these shops from being abused as a means to prevent disconnection and alleviate queues.


The maintenance is expected to run no longer than 1 hour.


Thank you for your patience!

Thats one step in the right direction. Hope it relieves the queues.

What I'd like to see is control over where they set them up too. I'm having SWG flashbacks with all the clutter of these stores. Why in the world would you put so much time and care into making such a beautiful game, only to have the cities littered with these spam-bots? If they are going to institute player housing as they have hinted at then go EQ2 style and allow us to have private stores in our homes. The way that worked - your items were still displayed on the public broker, but to avoid the broker fees the person would see your address listed and needed to travel there to pick up the items(s).

What i do not get is, if you have an auction hall, why have personal stores? Avoid broker fees?

Yes, and perhaps to sell things near hot spots to unprepared travelers (Potions, Rez stones, etc).

I logged in around 9 last night and there were only 200+ people queuing and I only waited for 10 minutes. But I still think a "/trip stool" emote to kick the fake sellers out of the game is much more fun.

This reminds me of the way private stores were run in FFXI. Yes their main purpose is mainly used for avoiding the brokerage fees and to sell in hot spots to unprepared people. However, I would like to see another reason for having the private stores. The entire tax aspect that goes hand in hand with the Elyos/Asmo influence ratio should also be applied to the brokerage fees. This, I think, would make it even more strategic in holding sway over the Abyss influence. Also, they should implement a feature where the private stores are also taxed while set up inside city limits. This would fix the problem of all the store spammers messages ruining the beautiful cities like Twilah mentioned.

Good points! I bet they end up doing 'something' with them, because they made us take that survey. :)