I know a lot of you are very fond of my Merchant website. After numerous
nags, questions, etc., I have decided that I am going to be actively
maintaining it again and it will slowly reevolve in the coming weeks. For the
moment, the domain will remain http://battarken.tripod.com. I am currently
negotiating some webspace that will allow me to host my site at a location
where my host will not have popups that seem to not obey popup blockers, at
which point I'll post here and put a redirect on the old domain. Some of the
new features that will debut to the site are planned as follows:

1. A new sleek and more appealing design (I hope) to reduce the time it takes
for the site to load.

2. More skill and spell infos. Law, etc. Tune in.

3. Zmud Triggers for merchanting. I have lots of cool things that I have
coded/found+modified over the past year or so that I am willing to share and
package. Examples include: Autowalking and liting, identify translator and
quoter, a repair material database (long term-project with bi-weekly updates),
and some other fancy things.

4. A 100% complete material info database. The one I have is somewhat
incomplete, from my beginnings of merchanting some ~3 years ago. Ggr has an
equally complete list on his site. I've gathered the remaining materials and
will try to add a sorting function.

5. Info on ships. Just about everything anyone could want to know about ships
(minus spoilers ldo). Please don't ask for shipquests. I will NEVER publicize
them. Having been a coder once myself, I know their respective coders have put
a lot of work into giving us challenges and have thus respectfully requested
that 'walkthroughs' not be posted. And along those lines:

6. The belt quest will remain for now (Unless I am asked to remove it) since
there are similar guides already on the internet. The belt quest is quite
clear and specific on what needs to be done, so its not spoiling too much
other than whats going to be coming down the road. Some censorship has been
advised however and will be done.

I'd like to thank the many praises I've been getting from a lot of you.
The whines and arguments too. Alloys at this point will remain a work in
progress. Mostly accurate ones are still available on Dryad's site. Please
direct any whines, contributions, pkills, flames, immortal concerns regarding
my site to myself.


-- Lord Tarken Aurelius, the Sage