Pawn Shop Suggestions
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Since there is a Pawn Shop trend going on I thought I would jump on it as well. Here are just a couple of suggestions or changes to be made that would not really change the difficulty of obtaining the empty pawn shop achievement but perhaps give the site feature some more life in it.
I need help coming up with forum title names let me know if these are reasonable you guys must be tired of me by now with my constant pawn shop rambling (Mostly complaining)
NPC/Item Suggestion
Jeremy needs some loving. How come we don't know his name is Jeremy unless we look up the img url? If we can have him talk and use his name could [item2=Pawn Shop Guy Plushie] get a name change?
Pawn Shop Stock
For there to be a ? to represent the number of items in stock. ? = 1-9 items, ?? = 10-99, ???= 100-999 you get my point. This won't make pawning necessarily easier but at least allow us to know roughly how many items are stacked.
Pawning
When you pawn an item to Jeremy you make some sp, but I am pretty sure it a discounted shop price. In order to lighten the amount of unloading junk, could that discount for Jeremy go up as that particular item is overstocked? So let's say the discount for him goes up 5% per ever 50 he has of that single item.
Achievements
We really need a forum title to give the shop some loving. Could we have tiers for both selling and buying from the shop therefore making people use it more. For selling to it, the title would be Pawn Star, for buying from it the title should be... (Someone suggest something). For the tiers also have items like a Pawn Shop Sticker, Jeremy beanbag things that are collectable to entice people to use it. This will help the influx of items in my opinion be more stable because it really takes a group of dedicated people to clear it out when there are pages upon pages of hundred + stacked items
I don&;t see anything wrong with clearing it out every once in awhile, and not announcing it ahead of time. Maybe just a news post &;THE PAWN SHOP HAS BEEN EMPTIED - THAT DAMN HUSTLER STOLE IT ALL!&;
or something?
Then people would have to be quick on their feet to get the achievement, and the amount of items would be lower for a bit, maybe easier to keep clear for a day or so?
I like suggestion number 2 the most out of what you have suggested.
Sp vouchers [tot=aries][tot=pyritefraxure]
Unless I'm mistaken, I believe there is a specific reason why it doesn't tell you how many are in stock. I don't remember that very clearly, but I thought there was a discussion about why it is that way, back in the day. Hope that makes sense.
Pretty neutral about the plushie, I like him as a character so why not?
The other two though, you seem to be overlooking the fact that the pawn shop serves a purpose beyond sitting there waiting to be emptied for an achievement. It helps clear out deflated/underpriced/undervalued (whatevs you prefer to call them) items from shops, keeps items closer to their price in NPC shops, etc. So anything other than that seems counterintuitive to its purpose, even if it does help you get the achievement.
I don't see anything wrong with clearing it out every once in awhile, and not announcing it ahead of time. Maybe just a news post 'THE PAWN SHOP HAS BEEN EMPTIED - THAT DAMN HUSTLER STOLE IT ALL!' or something? Then people would have to be quick on their feet to get the achievement, and the amount of items would be lower for a bit, maybe easier to keep clear for a day or so?
Yes to all of these! It's taken a month to knock the pawn shop down to 1 page from page 20 and I have to buy over 1k items a day just to keep it to page 1. It's agonizing buying the same item over and over not knowing how many are left in there, so I really support suggestion 2.
I also like suggestion 3 because the amount of magic shop items that get sold to the pawn shop is ridiculous. I had to buy almost 3k Nori Shoes to get them out of the shop. [that took like 20-30mil sP just to clear out this one item alone]
[edit] "You have 2525 items on hand. We will only display 250 at a time." And these were all sold to the pawn shop in the last 5-6 hours I think. So many items in such a short amount of time. T-T
I get that it takes out items from shops, but once people get the achievement of an empty pawn shop, no one really goes back to it unless the item is cheaper than shop prices. My suggestions were to make more people go to it essentially even if they got the empty achievement already or not. Plus who really is against getting a collectable like a beanbag or sticker for tiered achievements? Who doesn't like new achievements really? I do like your last suggestion though so if you don't mind I would like to quote it and put it in the first post.
I thought about you as I wrote this. Like I myself have spent millions as well, but I feel like out of the group you may have spent the most sp wise to clear it.
yeah, but people do use it. Who do you think puts all of that stuff in there that you guys keep buying out? Other users do, because they are selling items to it. You're right on the other side of it though, people don't often buy from it. Maybe because the types of items that end up in there aren't the type that get searched for the most, I don't know. The items that are most commonly searched for are quest items, I would assume. Also, I know there wasn't a news post/site update post when they changed the coding so you can just click the Pawn Shop buy link in the shop search and one-click buy it. It used to be that when you clicked it, it took you to the shop and you had to manually search for the item to buy it. I'm sure there are people who still aren't aware of that change. Maybe letting more people know that it's WAY easier now will encourage people to use that link more often?
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Oh sorry I forgot to mention - feel free to quote whatever XD
Oh I know people are throwing stuff in there, but again that is why I made my 3rd suggestion which also curbs the incentive to sell. The achievements are just because it is always good to have achievements. There are 3 achievements for selling to the pawn shop but only 1 for buying. Also 1 for just being there while it is empty. By adding tiers with prizes and forum titles you just bring more people in. Also not a lot of new users even know about the pawn shop or how to get it. I made the suggestion of tiers for selling just because I didn't want people to assume that I just want to make the clearing achievement easier to obtain. Like I have spent a lot of sp already trying to clear it and I sure as hell don't want the achievement to be easier because that is kicking myself like multiple times. Plus clearing the shop requires a few people making it a more social aspect of the site, I like that.
Was it really necessary to make another thread about this? The exact same discussion is going on in the other one.
I agree with all the suggestions! I'd like to see Jeremy's art updated too :3