Merchants and gold

[Ebok]

First off.

[Updates]
 - Merchant gold is now persistent / Updates slowly accross the module  to cut down on the 'load off millions of little items' for 'massive  gold' to distant merchants. This seemed like an odd way to become  wealthy.

If this is working correctly, then resets have nothing to do with merchant gold. As for items it could be very interesting to allow something like a 50% or 75% markup in base prices as the normal for dealing with npc merchants, then provide them a number of items that are worth buying. The costs of most of their gear now is honestly more hilarious then anything else.

If we are going to care about how merchants generate wealth, and then how they reintroduce it into the population. Give them things worth buying, make them expensive so it's always more interesting to work with PCs. etc. Seems to be a good way of working with the stores..

That said, I think the OP's suggestion is already functioning as per Mort's announcement a few months ago.

[MrGrendel]

If this is working correctly

Might not be. Seems like after a reset a merchant always has money, though I could be wrong.

[Ebok]

Six weeks ago when I was flirting with the idea of starting back up again, I had the opportunity to play with the merchants some with my three or four start-up attempts. Unless I'm mistaken, the market's gold did not refresh even through series of quick resets without character involvement. If the reset was truly the culprit, and not simply the reminder/incentive for PCs to go look, then multiple resets should have restored the merchant. That was not the case then.

The only way to tell is to buy out the merchant just before the reset, and check in right after--then figure out how much gold they are "restocked" with, if any. It might simply be timing of the resets which gave the appearance of the restored gold. Easily testable.

[MrGrendel]

True that! If someone happens to be at a broke merchant before and then after a reset, maybe they can report in. :)