Star Wars Galaxies: Galaxy-Wide Vendor Search

Galaxy-wide Vendor Search is here!

Have you ever wanted to search for an item to buy without having to travel across the entire planet randomly checking vendors? Well now you can! We have enhanced the functionality of our bazaar terminals to include the ability to search all player vendors for items you may be looking for. This new feature will greatly improve how vendors are handled in the game. Read on for more information.

Overview
The purpose of vendor search function is to allow vendor owned items to be searched and bought from anywhere in the galaxy. This will include the following functions:

Each vendor owner can decide whether to allow his or her vendors to be searchable in the market. There is an option for vendor owners to turn on/off the search option on his or her vendor. The vendor owner will be able to find current search option settings for each of his or her vendor(s)
When a vendor owner turns on the search option, a player should be able to go to any vendor or bazaar and list all items owned by this vendor
When a vendor owner turns off the search option, the vendor is no longer listed in the galaxy-wide network search. With this search option turned off, vendor owners have the ability to conduct private auctions. Players will need to physically go to the vendor and click "Use Vendor" to list items from this vendor.
When a player lists items with the search filter he or she chooses, he or she will be able to buy any of the items listed, even if the item is owned by a remote vendor
Purchasing Items
Players who purchase an item using this system will have the item sent directly to them. After a successful purchase the player will receive a message telling them if the item was delivered successfully to their inventory or if the delivery failed. If the item was not successfully retrieved then a waypoint to the location of the vendor will be mailed to player. The player will then need to travel to the waypoint location to retrieve the item from vendor or bazaar directly.

Vendor Status
For all the existing vendors, the default option is set to no. Players have to go to their vendors and enable this search option. For all future vendors, this option is set to yes by default. For vendor owners to check if the search option is on or off do the following:

Select the Vendor you wish to turn search on/off for
From the radial menu choose "Vendor Control"
Once you have selected "Vendor Control" then choose "Status"
A pop-up window will show if the search option is on or off
Below is a picture of what a player will see when accessing a vendor.

On the upper left corner, there is a Location Filter panel; vendor owners can choose to list all items on this vendor, this region, this planet, and this galaxy. In this snapshot, the Entire galaxy is chosen. All items that are for sale galaxy-wide (including all vendor and bazaar items) are listed on the right side. The Location column on the right side tells player where this item is located. Players can buy any items listed on the search.