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Lemunde

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Flattery will get you better bargains.
« on: February 26, 2011, 11:32:47 am »
Knowing my luck this is probably common knowledge but I thought I would share something I just recently discovered.

So I'm doing some trading with elves. I'm scrolling through the list of all the items I want to sell off. I come across two very similar marble crafts. One is a marble crown, the other is a marble ring. Both are fairly decent quality and encrusted with the same gems. However the ring has a trade in value three times that of the crown. Curious, I looked a little closer at each one. It turns out their base values are exactly the same.

Then I viewed the description on the ring. It depicted a battle between elves and humans. It didn't say who won but I figure the elves just thought it was pretty cool to have a ring with elves on it. I'm guessing the same would apply for trades with other races.
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« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2011, 11:34:36 am »
Was one of them decorated with spikes? Elves ignore spikes when determining the value of an object.
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« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2011, 11:38:46 am »
Quote from: Akura on February 26, 2011, 11:34:36 am
Was one of them decorated with spikes? Elves ignore spikes when determining the value of an object.

that's weird.
I wonder why?
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« Reply #3 on: February 26, 2011, 11:40:01 am »
Elves have [ART_FACET_MODIFIER:OWN_RACE:512] in their entity raws, so they *really* like stuff with images of elves on it.  They also kind of like images of plants. animals, 'good', and dislike spikes and 'evil'.
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Re: Flattery will get you better bargains.
« Reply #4 on: February 26, 2011, 01:02:50 pm »
So much for selling all these skull totems to elves....
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Re: Flattery will get you better bargains.
« Reply #5 on: February 26, 2011, 02:14:30 pm »
I know that dwarven merchants pay more for things that menace with spikes, and less for those with hanging rings. Which makes me wonder why my craftsdwarfs keep putting rings on things.
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« Reply #6 on: February 26, 2011, 02:57:45 pm »
Quote from: Strangething on February 26, 2011, 02:14:30 pm
I know that dwarven merchants pay more for things that menace with spikes, and less for those with hanging rings. Which makes me wonder why my craftsdwarfs keep putting rings on things.

Because they like it, so they put a ring on it.
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« Reply #7 on: February 26, 2011, 03:06:48 pm »
Quote from: PopeRichardCorey on February 26, 2011, 02:57:45 pm
Quote from: Strangething on February 26, 2011, 02:14:30 pm
I know that dwarven merchants pay more for things that menace with spikes, and less for those with hanging rings. Which makes me wonder why my craftsdwarfs keep putting rings on things.

Because they like it, so they put a ring on it.

Hur hur hur.
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« Reply #8 on: February 26, 2011, 03:25:34 pm »
Huh. I noticed that two nearly identical items had radically different values when trading. I didn't realize that that's why, though.

Pretty awesome, actually.
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Lemunde

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« Reply #9 on: February 26, 2011, 05:04:16 pm »
Quote from: Sunday on February 26, 2011, 03:25:34 pm
Huh. I noticed that two nearly identical items had radically different values when trading. I didn't realize that that's why, though.

Pretty awesome, actually.

Well when trading with dwarves I always assumed it had to do with items they requested the year prior. Now I guess it's a little of both.
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