Holiday Shops

[Kyttias]

Is it possible to have items be in shops only during certain time periods? For example - if we wanted to create holiday items?

I think this would be a great addition to the site and I was hoping for a shove in the right direction before I start. There are three different ideas I have, but I'm not sure which one I'll share to the community (hopefully all three!):

1- An ordinary shop that, in addition to it's normal stock, also has some stock only available on holidays. (I'd like to do this, because the technique would be good for what I want to do with my shops.) - Medium

2- A holiday-only shop (ala Flight Rising's "Festive Favors" shop, only without the unique currency, yet anyway) that has different stock entirely based on an event period and is otherwise closed for business. It is open on every holiday, but only holidays, and has stock based on that holiday only. (I'd like this to be semi-automated, that way items can be ready to go in advance and I don't have to be online to open the shop at midnight manually. Just visiting the shop directory or the shop's link directly would be enough to trigger a rollover from Closed to Open status, at least on appropriate days) - Hard

3- A single holiday shop that does not have alternate stock and is only open for one, single event. (I find this to be the easiest and probably would not need help with implementing it.) - Easy

All of this also might leans towards the start of shops that 'stock' in a way more like existing games do, down the road, anyway. You know, limited quantities of certain items and they restock based on set intervals and a slightly random array?

I'd like to see more done with shops in the future. ^^