Actually,none of this bothers me as I can't rs anyway : P

Thank you, Keith. It's a relief to finally get some clarity on the situation haha I had to believe it was a bug or something.

Im glad for the change

Glad to see shops restocking more frequently and thank you for explaining. ^^ People were either oblivious, nervous, or just plain freakin out!! I'm hopeful that this will all work out how you intend it. ^^

I just wanted to return to comment my observations while spending a few hours RSing tonight:

There's a TON of diversity in items now. I've only been back for a couple weeks and there's like millions of items, but even so, after a few solid weeks of restocking in several shocks at least once a day and getting familiar with the "usual" items, seeing new things now brightens my interest considerably, even when they aren't always very rare.

Small thing, but makes a huge difference--at least for me.

Coupled with the fact that with the tweaks, I'm back to my same amount of participation in buying and selling and my profits are back up rather than relying on solely coasting by with quest rewards, I'm pretty happy, personally!

What a short honeymoon that was... Things are almost back to the frustrating way they were before. But plenty of other users have detailed this out better.

I'm seeing this today in the Beanbag shop. There were some rare items, a few, but there are still large stacks of very common items and the shop is very full.

I looked through all of the other shops on the Main Shops page. They all had restocked pretty recently, within six minutes or less except for -

All That Glitters Restocked 25 minutes ago

Grooming Parlour Restocked 21 minutes ago

Food Market Restocked 18 minutes ago

Music Shop Restocked 12 minutes ago

Seedlings Restocked 22 minutes ago

The Sable Smithy Restocked 1 hour, 47 minutes ago

Magic Box Restocked 17 minutes ago

Cavern of Curios Restocked 11 minutes ago

I'm guessing, based on the shops that are affected, it has something to do with either the amount of rare items vs other, or the official price of the items that are set in the shops, maybe specifically the prices of the rarest items? Also, the beanbag shop is the MB shop today, so there's an outlier to throw in there for ya ;)

I think we could maybe do with dialling back the numbers of each item restocking a bit (if possible). Restocking's only fun if items have value, and that won't last for a good chunk of things if they continue being put out at the same rate as they are now.

There are a lot of SR's showing up in shops now. I don't see them holding value very well unless demand in the economy picks up somehow. I've noticed a lot of r95+ minions getting stocked and they've all been under 100k for ages because no one (not even the quest-givers) really want them. At the rate they're stocking, many will be below 50k soon.

ok but, the shops had stacks of items of more than 5? Is it just that they weren't cleared before you started the new system? Because if that's the case, some of these shops will now only ever restock super rares until all the old 'junk' items are cleared out by users, right?

wait times seem really long again

It seems to be back to the shops crammed full of worthless junk again. There's more than 5 of a lot of items.

Under the old system the shops cleared every hour which gave a chance for the better stuff to come in. Can you arrange for the shops to clear again every so often?

Clothing Rack Restocked 39 minutes ago ????

I was also noticing the long wait times on some of the shops and wondering if that had been addressed. I guess, in a way, it has, but I'm with ciannwn in having the occasional clear out. It seemed to help, even if it only happens every other hour or so.

Right now I'm watching a 37 min time for last restock in the beanbag shop, which is better than before but still sucky. Here's to hoping this gets better as the testing wears on.

There are 10+ of some items sitting in the shops. Please tweak this system again because it's not working the way it is now.

I am usually on and restocking from about 2300 till 0600 (Subeta time)

Last night (4/19-4/20) the wait times were quite long in the shops. No wait times that I saw were under 20 minutes, and a few were over an hour. I just thought I'd mention it because I'm a bit curious if the restock times increase with more users onsite, or if it was just not my lucky night.

When is this going to be sorted out? The original system worked so please go back to it.

Thanks for the updates!

I also wish the shops would clear more often the way they used to.

Not only would it encourage people to buy from user shops and maybe help address bottomed-out values when the store's temporarily empty, it would be nice not to see a Wall O' Items in the store once in a while.