I noticed when selling lizard folk gear in Good Bay that i could sell the scimitars with no lag but when it came to the bigger gear (heavy x-bows and great axes) it lagged so bad that it lagged me out of the server.
Hopefully this info is of use
Kyre

P.S selling armour seems to be ok

Hmm, interesting. We will deffinetaly look into this. Thanks.

That is because when selling gear make sure its gear a shop is already selling, if not the store is going to generate space and additional pages of inventory, as this increses it also produces large amounrs of lag. So best thing to do is sell large quantaties of items to a shop that already sells said items.

If it is possible.. to make it so when selling an item, it doesn't even add onto the buy list that the merchant has, completely destroying the item as the items the people are selling are quite easy to come by anyhow. What shop needs 40 more of it?

Yeah, that, so it continues to clean up all the shops and doesn't add 200 completely unnecessary items every..what...20 minutes there are at least 5 people on? lol. From what I see, it is the amount of items going into the shops and then more coming in that is causing the lag, no?

Even an inventry cleaning script will not work,, because . . .

Player " A " takes 50 of the same item to merchant " B " who deos not sell the item
Merchant " B " has to create space for 50 of the said items thus causing lag
the inventry cleaning script fires after the dialogue box closes and cleans the merchant
Player " C " walks in with another 40 of the said item,, and Bingo,, back to square one

So . . .

The build team needs to look at the custom items that are dropped on a regular basis. ( i would begin around Zaradene with those pesky goblins ) and place one of each loot item in to the inventry of each merchant in the town. Do this and the lag will stop.

The reason i say custom items is because changing / creating the name causes the server to look for something that is not generic
example Medium Quality Short Sword is a custom name
short sword + 2 is the generic name.

But im only a brit.. what would i know..lol

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I dont know much about the scripting building part of it all I'm just trying to lob suggestions so the server doesn't cave in on itself lol.

(Which it does on a regular basis from the excessive lag that comes from selling items)...

(Which I've tested, it is indeed, selling of items)