Let's talk about Stalls!

[Kyratio]

So, I went and had a little talk in the discord discussions, and I think that made me realize why we have so many problems with stalls in Eternia when we have so many at this point. It seems to be a popular opinion that you should just grab up any stall any time you see it, regardless of if you have things to sell, because you'll totally have things to sell later!

Okay but a lot of people don't. There's so many shops around that just are empty, almost empty, don't have priced wares, or hardly have anything actually in the shop!

I can understand the basis of this thought as while there ARE plenty of shops, there's even more players, so it's hard to come by one! Though, let's take a step back.

Here, have a big assortment of tons of shops across Esshar that are either unproperly stocked, or close to it.

Professionally made in MSpaint.

Yes, I understand a few of these shops restock on a weekly basis, such as Ethric's! (Or at least it seems to be on a weekly basis.) But a surprising amount of these shops have been like this for quite a while! Either players have gone inactive, or, in some cases, people buy a stall and don't have the appropriate stock to actually sell anything worthwhile!

This wouldn't be a problem if people would actually commit and begin to properly stock their stall with enough time given, but that seems to not be the case all the time, I mean- just look. This isn't even all of the stalls like this, I left out quite a few.

So what is the point of this post?

If you do not have the appropriate motivation to stock your stall so it's an actual functioning stall where items that people will buy, are being sold! And your items are actually priced appropriately! Then please do not rent a stall!1!!11 There are tons of people out there who DO have stock they want to sell to Esshar and are being locked out because of stalls like above! And mind you, a lot of these stalls have crazy prices, or have items that aren't even priced! I personally think something should be done, such as a system put in place in that if you don't properly upkeep your stall with a certain amount of priced items every week, then it should be free for the taking by another player who will- but, I realize I tend to go way too far and harsh with systems or punishments. So, I'm just leaving this thread here.

Hopefully someone can come up with a problem to this, because the problem of worthless stalls/trashbins/extra containers has been around wayyy too long, and the recent public ruling clearly isn't fixing it when there's still this many.