New NPCs for SG base

[Shred Monkey]

I'd like to see:

 

a P2W vendor 

a vender that sells what Luna (from oro) sells in the SG base.

if the /ah command isn't going to work there, add an AH vendor (but really just make the /ah command work?)

A training dumby (something we can target and hit forever)   Or maybe even better, some targets that have fixed numbers of hp so we can time ourselves killing them.

It'd be sweet to be able have customized trainer costume rather than have to pick between Vanguard, Arachnos, and Midnighter.

 

Any others?

[srmalloy]

7 minutes ago, Shred Monkey said:

if the /ah command isn't going to work there, add an AH vendor (but really just make the /ah command work?)

It's been fairly concretely established that the auction house is unlikely to ever work in bases. Because of the way the auction house works, its entire database needs to be loaded into the data structures for the instance -- whether an instance of a zone, a mission instance, or a base instance -- for it to work. That database gets loaded when the instance spawns, and from there only receives updates. For a zone instance, this happens when the servers are restarted, and when a new zone instance spawns due to population, so it only needs to happen once until the zone instance restarts. For a base instance, this happens when the base zone is instantiated -- i.e., when someone transports to their base. Separately for each base that has someone in it, and that database gets thrown away when the base becomes empty, and the instance is removed. Unless there is someone continuously in a base (possibly for a base like the cosmic transport hub), the server would have to copy the full auction house database into the memory for the instance when the base instance is created. This would functionally cripple the performance of the server, with the entire auction house database getting loaded each time someone travels to a base, whether or not they actually use it while they're there. It was bad enough when /ah was introduced, and every zone needed to have a copy of the auction database instead of just the zones with a Wentworth's or black market; making it accessible in bases means that the server will have to load hundreds of separate copies, usually for a base that only has one person in it.

[Apparition]

From what I understand, there is some sort of technical issue that prevents the addition of any new NPCs to SG bases, and it sounds like a complicated one.  So don't expect any new NPCs any time soon, if ever.

[Grindingsucks]

Well, these are very sad answers, alas.  🙁