Good question... we're already limited on how quickly we can earn merits... the additional restriction on puchasing never made sense to me.
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I'm guessing they don't want us to save up merits and then flood the market all at once with rare stuff. Maybe to keep a steady supply flow? I don't know.
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This. If they didn't set the timer as they did, you would see merit farmers stocking up, then flooding WW/BM with the more expensive IOs. Which would mean less at any given time, sending prices up, then a bunch showing up at once at the higher prices.
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Originally Posted by FredrikSvanberg
I'm guessing they don't want us to save up merits and then flood the market all at once with rare stuff. Maybe to keep a steady supply flow? I don't know.
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My guess, which has an attractive lack of evidence, is that it is designed to encourage people who've been saving up for something big to KEEP saving up for something big.
Let's say you've got 26 AM's and you're having doubts about buying the IO Of Doom. It would take you 13 days to burn off your AM's buying LoTGs or what have you; you might just want to keep going to get the last four merits. From the Dev point of view it increases the supply of IOs Of Doom, the lack of which bothers people greatly, and from the player point of view it doesn't interfere with your play if you just want to turn merits into 1 or 2-point recipes.
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I'm curious...why is there a time limit attached to buying items from the Alignment Vendor?