New Pet Peeve: Big Difference between Trader & Fixer Shops
I have a new pet peeve, and I'd like something done about it.
My adventurer character had occasion lately to buy a set of BBI Faithful 22 pistols at far above my character level. These are, as by now almost everyone knows, primarily available from the various Specality Commerce terminals in Special/Superior Supermarkets, or colloquially, the trader shops.
They didn't have the QLs I needed. So the trader suggested I wait outside with him, so he could try again in three minutes. Why? Because the trader shop terminal cycles every five minutes, and (like all shops) in half that time if the shop is empty.
The Fixer Shop in Borealis, which is just as important to fixers as the specialty commerce terminals are to fixers and traders, is only one shop, not the dozen or so like the trader shops. But it, like every other shop on the planet, cycles its merchandise in half hour increments.
This is profoundly annoying to my fixer character, who has averaged not much better than a one in six chance of finding Area Burst bullets anywhere near the QL he wants. In other words, to check it the six times he's needed on average would take three hours. To check any one trader shop for merchandise with a similar range of QLs would take at most half an hour.
Please fix the cycle time on the Fixer shop so that it matches the trader shop.
