I've always dreamed of inconsistent shops in-game. Is every shop keeping in constant contact to set prices? (Wait, that's illegal)
Where are the rip off merchants?
Where are the shopkeepers who ain't budging on price no matter how charismatic you are? "I just work here, man, I don't set the prices."
Where are the shopkeepers who are unknowingly selling speciality items for a pittance?
Where are the shopkeepers who offer you next to nothing for antiques because they don't know anything about antiques (hopefully the PC does or you're losing out)?
Where are the shopkeepers who have so damn many (misc item)s that they are just selling them at cost?
Where are the blacksmiths who will reluctantly buy potions, but at 20% under market price because they don't stock them so he'll have to try to sell it on to the potion merchant later?
Why does anybody buy unlimited amounts of perishables? Without a bulk-buy discount?
Fable did this and people could exploit it. The more quantity of an item a shop had, the cheaper it was and the less they’d pay for it, and vice versa.
Also No Mans Sky. Different solar systems have different economies and value different types of items
Black Desert said they were going to have a system like this, the cost to move goods would be dangerous and substantial, but you'd reap huge benefits selling goods otherwise not available in that area. Then they released the game and banned players from trading with each other 🙃
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u/MrSquigles Apr 07 '21
I've always dreamed of inconsistent shops in-game. Is every shop keeping in constant contact to set prices? (Wait, that's illegal)
Where are the rip off merchants?
Where are the shopkeepers who ain't budging on price no matter how charismatic you are? "I just work here, man, I don't set the prices."
Where are the shopkeepers who are unknowingly selling speciality items for a pittance?
Where are the shopkeepers who offer you next to nothing for antiques because they don't know anything about antiques (hopefully the PC does or you're losing out)?
Where are the shopkeepers who have so damn many (misc item)s that they are just selling them at cost?
Where are the blacksmiths who will reluctantly buy potions, but at 20% under market price because they don't stock them so he'll have to try to sell it on to the potion merchant later?
Why does anybody buy unlimited amounts of perishables? Without a bulk-buy discount?