Minimum Rupee Balance For Shop Owners

Hi all,

Lately, a number of shop owners have been complaining about bulk selling. This is an issue because it places shop owners in a position where they have no spending money. In this position, they can't do anything to replace out-of-stock items, can't reserve rupees for auctions, can't save up for things they like or need. Having a zero-rupee balance sucks.

If you have multiple accounts, like me, you can put money in another account to save it up.

However, a single-account player can't do this, which places them at a real disadvantage.

Ordinarily, the shop system doesn't let a player's balance drop below zero. I am proposing a feature that lets a player or shop owner set the minimum rupee balance. Rather than 0, they could set it to, for example 10,000r.

Everything works the same as present, except instead of 0, if a player tries to sell them an item and it would bring their balance below the minimum balance, the player would receive the same indication as if they were out of rupees.

For example, if I set the minimum balance to 20,000, and I have 30,000 rupees in my account, I can only be sold up to 10,000r worth of items. After that, the seller will receive 'Shop owner is out of rupees.' At that point, I may lower the buy price of the bulk-sold item, and lower the minimum balance to 15,000 rupees, so I can, once again, allow players to sell items to my shop.

If I bid on an auction or have to pay a supplier, I can increase the minimum balance temporarily to ensure I wont lose that money between now and when I have to pay for things.

Every player would start with a default minimum of 0, so the behaviour is the exact same as it is presently unless they decide to use the feature.

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YES YES YES YES YES YES YES

I did really have problems with this when I was still a single-accound player, I tried about everything, but I wasn't able to make it work well. There, or corse, have been suggestions like this before, but I defenetly think that this will work, since those others all had a benefit, this one doesn't seem to have one, maybe someone else sees one...

Just by the title I was like "wth," and as I moved through the post I was like "holy crap"

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Sounds awesome +100

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Yes. So much yes. Even as someone with multiple account, this would be amazing for when I officially open "my" shop.

Yes. So much yes. Even as someone with multiple account, this would be amazing for when I officially open "my" shop.

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Is there a way to maybe run a script with a command that examines your shop chests? It'd scan for empty space on all chests with shop signs with your name on them. Itd just do a little math from the shop signs to determine how many rupees you need to fulfill 100% shop capacity. Then shop owners could plan around that.

I noticed 3 people disagreed in the voting, and was curious if anyone would care to elaborate on their reasoning.=

You probably could make a mod to do that, or a simple Excel spreadsheet. But it's a bad idea.

If a shop on your residence is overflowing with items, that means one of two things. Either you could have paid less for the item, or (if you have also been selling out) you don't have enough shelf space and should expand your shelf space.

If your plan is to have every chest on your residence overflowed with items:
1) You'd have to pay a higher price than you reasonably should for the item,
2) Nobody could sell to you except the few items that others have recently bought,
3) All your cash is tied up in items and you can't do anything with it, and
4) You're really vulnerable to market price drops.

Unless the purpose of your shop is specifically to accumulate or get rid of items, the optimal strategy is to have your inventory levels at the midpoint, which gives you the maximum visibility into price increases/drops and ensures customers can both buy and/or sell to you for the longest period of time.

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one way to prevent bulk sell is 2 fill up ur chests with other stuff like dirt but ofc that doesnt help if the items can stack ^.^

I have seen a "cure" to this problem proposed many times, usually in the form of seperate shop transaction accounts or something of that nature. I think this is probably the best solution(as far as being least invasive and drastic of a chenge) suggested so far. +1 good sir. From here forth you will be deemed the problem solver... assuming that aikar and/or chickeneer actually implements this since it seems like it would be very easy to do and would keep them from getting suggestions on this same subject every few weeks

Elegant solution, or so it seems. +1

As I'm not a shop owner, I don't have any reason to use this, but I can see reasons why this would benefit other people. If they still wanted to increase their profits from the shop, they could just keep increasing their minimum rupee amount. I don't see any loss here.