From kevinz5000 at gmail.com Sun Nov 30 13:00:41 2014 From: kevinz5000 at gmail.com (Kevin Zheng) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:00:41 -0600 Subject: [crossfire] Shop prices overhaul Message-ID: <547B6959.8010505@gmail.com> Hi all, At the moment, Crossfire's shops aren't particularly useful. For medium-level players, prices seem unreasonable, while new players can't afford to buy from shops at all. Old players with high charisma and bargaining, on the other hand, don't notice a huge discrepancy. The attached patch attempts to fix some of these issues: Charisma and bargaining now only affect the shop buy price, with multipliers ranging from 2x for new players to 0.5x for very advanced players. This is consistent with rogue-style shopkeeper greed but still better than the existing situation. Bargaining is now significantly less useful; the hope is that in the near future it is replaced with interactive "haggling". The sell price is clamped down to 0.5x base price, subject to additional shop specialization and greed. This sell price is mostly better than the existing prices, and at the very least prevents high level players from buying and selling for a profit. Comments, questions, clarifications, or hate mail? Thanks, Kevin Zheng -- Kevin Zheng kevinz5000 at gmail.com | kevinz at kd0lgh.mooo.com | PGP: 0xC22E1090 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: 0001-Overhaul-shop-prices.patch Type: text/x-patch Size: 7226 bytes Desc: not available URL: From lembark at wrkhors.com Sun Nov 30 20:09:25 2014 From: lembark at wrkhors.com (Steven Lembark) Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 20:09:25 -0600 Subject: [crossfire] Shop prices overhaul In-Reply-To: <547B6959.8010505@gmail.com> References: <547B6959.8010505@gmail.com> Message-ID: <20141130200925.1353e409.lembark@wrkhors.com> > Comments, questions, clarifications, or hate mail? Nice idea. -- Steven Lembark 3646 Flora Pl Workhorse Computing St Louis, MO 63110 lembark at wrkhors.com +1 888 359 3508