Precisely the same thing happened to me, except that I didn't delete my character. I agree that you should not give out precise strength levels, but a message like "you are not strong enough to wear this type of armour" when attempting to buy it would be very nice

I am now brainstorming a little. It may or may not make sense I will give an example in the end so please bear with me.

The way I see it, the price of a product (product price) should be given by the total price of the raw materials of which it is composed (raw price), multiplied by a certain factor (effort).

( product price ) = effort * ( raw price )

That certain factor needs to be a function of the time invested in making the product (time) and the number of skill points required to produce this product (skill). I propose

( effort ) = f(time) * g(skill)

where f and g are functions.

As far as f is concerned, I propose:

f(time) = (1 + time) ^ (time const)

where time const is a constant bigger than 1 (e.g. 1.2), which needs to be determined. time could be in minutes for example.

As far as g is concerned, I propose:

g(skill) = (skill const) ^ (no. of skill points)

where skill const is a constant bigger than 1 (e.g. 1.3), which has the same value among similar skills, but needs to be determined. This formula just means that having a skill of 2 is more than twice the effort of having a skill of 1.

If one requires two or more skills, the respective g's should be added, but subtracting the number of additional skills required:

g_total = g₁ + g₂ + g₃ + ... + g_n - (n - 1)

All this formula means is that requiring 3 different skills at level 2 is not as much effort as needing a single skill at a level of 6.

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An example - Producing iron stock vs. producing steel stock:

Assuming that both iron and coal have a cost of 1 tria, the cost of resources is 10 in both cases.

( product price ) = effort * 10

Let's assume that the time needed for both products is 2 minutes, then

f(time=2) = (1 + 2)^1.2 = 3.7

The skill required to make iron stock is 1 in metallurgy, so

g(skill=1) = 1.3¹ = 1.3

Therefore for iron

effort = 3.7 * 1.3 = 4.9

and

Price iron = 49 trias.

If one wants to produce steel stock, one needs a metallurgy skill of 5, so

g(skill=5) = 1.3⁵ = 3.7

Therefore for steel

effort = 3.7 * 3.7 = 13.8

and

Price steel = 138 trias.

The way things are at the moment, both iron and steel sell for 60 trias at Harnquist's. In any case steel stock should be more expensive than iron stock.

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Does this make sense at all or am I just being a useless geek 

I know this doesn't solve the mining problems. I could sit down and work out a similar formula for the price of getting the raw materials in the first place. If the devs think it is worth it I could also tidy this up and produce an easier to read version with pretty graphs and what not.

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/edit: of course one would need to adjust the constants and maybe even skew the functions a little. This was just an example of how one could determine the prices.

Thank you.

How do we contact GMs? By finding one? Filing a petition? Using the /advisor command?

I tried the latter but didn't get a response. So I thought I should try the forums. My apologies if I did by part in annoying you with yet another quest problem 

Regards,

Magnoil

"About blablabla", though boring usually works well with npcs.

@Arastral: Nope, the weaver is still as stubborn as a mule. Thanks for the hint though, might come in handy some other time.

@Jeraphon: Looks like I will have to keep trying then.

Hi everyone,

I made myself two shortcuts as follows:

Sheath Weapons

/dequip Rock Pick
/dequip Battle Axe
/dequip Battle Axe
/dequip Leather Gloves

and

Draw Weapons

/equip Battle Axe
/equip Battle Axe
/equip Leather Gloves

They sort of semi-work. The problem I have is that some of the commands seem to be ignored from time to time: when I draw my weapons, my character often just equips one battle axe as opposed to two. When I sheath them, the axes disappear, but the gloves remain on my hands with the message You cannot swap with Battle Axe; it won't fit in that slot.

Anybody know what's happening?

Thanks,

Magnoil

/edit:

I also noticed that this sometimes causes problems with the inventory: two pairs of leather gloves are displayed, once equipped and once unequipped. If I put the equipped one on top of the other one, they don't get stacked but just merge into a single pair.