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- Task Type Feature Request
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- Severity Low
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- Tuathanach (27.09.2014)
- Kamara (28.02.2014)
- Yann (20.08.2009)
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FS#1761 - Items purchased by NPCs should be availabe for sale to players
The way it works now:
I mine ore or get weapons drops from killing monsters and sell them to a NPC. These items then simply disappear into the ether.
The way it should work:
The items purchased by a NPC should be available for players to purchase, at a mark-up to what the NPC bought the item for.
Example, If I sell 20 Iron Ore to Trasok, then he should have 20 Iron Ore for sale.
Steps to reproduce:
1. Acquire an item that a NPC will purchase.
2. Open the buy/sell dialog with this merchant.
3. Notice that when in “buy” view there are no items in the appropriate category.
4. Sell the item in question.
5. Go back to the “buy” view and observe that there is still no itme for sale in that category.
Justifications:
1. The players/devs have expressed a desire in the forums to have a stable economy. This will help.
2. For RP, the prices should fluctuate depending on a very simplified supply/demand algorithm.
3. For RP, how can a merchant justify shelling out mountains of trias for items that never seem to get used.
a. Trasok shouldn't fit in his house with all the silver/gold ingots he has bought over the years.
4. This will help crafters be able to get raw materials at reasonable IC-justifiable prices and hopefully get prices for crafted items to be reasonable and IC-justifiable as well.
Not only will this require engine approval but also settings approval from Xillix.
Also should be considered how will all the items be held in the inventory of the merchant, right now they are not kept in the merchant. Also if we do this how will the network traffic be taken care of. We currently have some issues with network code so i dont see this happening if it does for a very long time.
Making new.
http://planeshift.top-ix.it/pswiki/index.php?title=Dynamic_Economy might be able to cover this or include it