Main shops stock deeper and allow for multiple purchases
👑 New Feature: Buy in bulk when the shelf is deep. Any main-shop item with more than 10 in stock has a "Buy multiple" button now: pick how many (up to 20), see the total, and buy the stack in one go. A bulk buy only counts once toward the purchase cooldown. This came from Kumos, a feature people enjoyed.
🔍 Improvement: The purchase cooldown forgives you faster. Heavy buying still slows you down, but a 30 minute break now clears your cooldown completely, and the slowdowns themselves are about half as long as they were.
🔍 Improvement: The main shops carry about twice as much stock. Shops now fill to roughly 665 items instead of 325. Common items come in deep stacks, so if someone corners a cheap restockable in user shops, the main shop keeps selling it at the normal price until the squeeze stops paying. Rare items show up in more variety but in small amounts, usually one or two at a time, and they rotate through faster, so checking back often is worth it.
🎨 Visual Update: The shop page is denser and quicker to read. Less scrolling between you and the item you want: the grid packs more items per row, and item hovers finally work right on the shop page, with the description and a try-on preview for wearables. The hover keeps the shop's secrets, though: no rarity, no resale price. Knowing which item is the find is still your job. The restock time sits at the top of the page, the shop directory shows when each shop last restocked. Buying works exactly as before.
Maybe I'm too old to know "trendy," but I legitimately couldn't figure out what "until the squeeze stops paying" even meant, and "which item is the find" is nonsensical to me although I understand what it's supposed to mean. And I agree; the whole "sassy" tone is suspicious. (Not to mention annoying. I expect sass and snark from certain NPCs, but not from news posts.)
i am so excited about this update, so tickled, so thrilled!
i must ask though, if maybe we could get a toggle switch at the top of the shops directory to On/Off the little indicators of when each shop last restocked. theyre super cool sometimes, other times it can feel a little overwhelmingly busy with all that information.
plus i kinda like checking each shop without already knowing how long its been idk. its like a surprise
I'm stunned by Subeta. I've been basically inactive for years (partly driven by wanting to change my username but what I want is taken, haha, and partly by things feeling stale). And now it's like this constant flow of updates like back in the day. I read the prior update so now I understand why; I'm just so impressed. Thank you, Keith, staff, for sticking it out with Subeta.
love this, every few hours when I'm bored i click through my high rarity wishlist items and every once in a while i see 'em in the shop now, its fun !