RF15-110 Missing items from vendors

Reported: Several weapon and armor vendors in the HQ open a store with no items in it, such as the Sword Vendor in the screenshot.

Found: RF Online 1.5 replaced the classic HQ weapon and armor vendors. In the 1.5 game data, including the game client's own copy, the Knife, Sword, Staff, Bow, Gun, Helmet, Shirt, Pants, Glove and Boots vendors sell nothing. In their place, 1.5 added new stocked shops to each race's HQ: the beginner equipment and item manufacturing vendors, the Archon armor and weapon vendors, the War weapon and armor vendors, the Talic Point vendors, and others.

Our server still places the old, empty vendors and none of the new shops. The 1.5 data does not say where the new shops stood, so they were never placed.

Planned fix:

• Each empty classic vendor is replaced, on the same spot, by the closest matching new 1.5 shop.
• The remaining new shops stand in rows near the portal in each race's HQ, so every one of them can be found and opened.
• Shop positions will be adjusted over time from player feedback.

Work on it is starting.

Reported: Several weapon and armor vendors in the HQ open a store with no items in it.

Fix: The old vendors that RF Online 1.5 emptied are gone from each race's HQ. Each one has been replaced, on the same spot, by the closest matching 1.5 shop: the Archon armor and weapon vendors, the War weapon and armor vendors, the beginner equipment and item manufacturing vendors, and others. Every other 1.5 shop stands in rows next to the main portal in each HQ, so all of them can be found and opened. The fix is ready for testing in the next RC build.

These positions are our own layout, because the 1.5 data does not say where these shops stood, and they can move based on feedback.

To verify: Please contact Ron directly for the latest RC build. Visit your race's HQ, open the shops where the old weapon and armor vendors stood and the ones in the rows by the portal, and report back here with anything that is empty, misplaced or hard to reach.

We’re missing multiple NPCs that sell basic weapons and armor, such as the knife vendor, bow vendor, armor vendor, sword vendor, and many others for each weapon type and armor piece. GameServer · v0.2.1-rc1

Reported: The HQ is missing the basic weapon and armor vendors: knife, bow, sword, armor and the other per-weapon and per-armor-piece shops.

Found: RF Online 1.5 removed the classic gear and the vendors that sold it. In the 1.5 game data, including the game client's own copy, those vendors sell nothing, and no 1.5 shop sells the classic weapons or armor. The game client fills a store window from its own copy of that data, so the server cannot restock them.

1.5 hands out gear in two other ways:

• Normal gear ([일반]) for each level drops from monsters. Every monster has a chance to drop weapons and armor for its own level range.

• Rare gear is claimed with item cards. Quests pay Destruction cards (weapons) and Protection cards (armor). At the HQ High Quality exchange merchants, you register a card, choose the weapon or armor piece and a level within the card's range, and receive that item.

This is how 1.5 is designed, so the classic vendors will not return, and this report is closed. The HQ shop layout stays as it is in the release candidate.

Also affected: The card exchange is not built on our server yet. That is the Destruction Card problem in RF15-111, and progress will be posted there.