• brsrklf@jlai.lu
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    4 months ago

    In Elder Scrolls or Rimworld for example, you’d be limited by how much money the trader has.

    Or you could trade with something of equivalent value. And before you know it you’re encumbered again, now with a set of oak furniture to sell to someone else.

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      In Starsector markets have infinite money, but the per-unit price actively drops the more of a good you offer. Combined with sky-high taxes if you’re not selling on the black market (which has its own gotchas), this makes it impractical to earn a profit off of hoarding a single good. You’re expected to watch the intel feed for market shortages and take advantage of their desperation if you want to make it as a bulk trader. Or be a little sneaky and create a shortage yourself.

      It’s one of only a few games where trading requires more than finding a good route and traveling back and forth. It’s surprisingly fleshed out for a title that’s mostly focused on combat.

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        I love games that do that, one of the mods for FO I used to use did that where the more you sell an item the less it’s worth for a bit,although I think I could switch areas and have that reset because I think it was per area

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      Yeah, this mechanic is pretty common in any decent RPG. I’ve always found it weird when I run into a RPG that doesn’t put a limit on how much you can sell. It removes a lot of the immersion when you can just dump 10k into a shop (or give the clear grocery merchant armor and swords lol)

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        First thing I always mod away:

        • Carry size
        • Trader gold limits
        • weapon durability (totk being a notable exception)

        I want to play the game, not the inventory.

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          4 months ago

          Fair, I sometimes will mod away(or adjust) weight limit, but I do like some form of realism in my games, so I keep the others.

          I also wanna add that I refuse to mod it period until I have beaten it at least once how the devs intended it to be as well though.