Yea 1k per day is quite a chunk considering the fact that people will often forget to vote or often vote late. I personally vote like an avg of once per 35 hours or something. So considering that, this is effectively going to cost 20%ish of nx income for those that will always have shops. Oh well guess this means fm spots will be easier to come by at least
Permit store is the answer. I used only permit stores with my mule in GMS and I was completely fine with that. If you want to sell some extra stuff along with it, you can use the hired merchant once in a while, it won't do much to your income. You can call it "small income tax on nx" (which you are getting for free anyway). Then, use the forum to sell the rest. You can't sell really expensive stuff with these stores anyway, they are mostly made to "clean" your inventory from scrolls/clean equips and some scrolled items. Nothing to worry about. I'm more worried about the whole char creation thing, soon we will have no inventory left to keep our items, both from gach and farming. If I knew the whole new sauce thing will happen, I would made over 9000 item mules.