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Cromage

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Lost in the Big City
« on: March 14, 2012, 03:14:42 am »

Just started Adventure mode the other day. I trekked all the way to a city in an attempt to find an armor shop, but it seems like there are only leather armor shops and clothing!

How are you supposed to find your way? Can't seem to ask the locals for directions...
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Re: Lost in the Big City
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2012, 05:04:48 am »

When fast travelling, on the right side of the screen you should see what shops are nearby. then just travel around the town and when you see icon of a shop you need, then ">".

Metal related shops have black icons, so search for a black "/" for weapons and black "[" for armors
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Re: Lost in the Big City
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2012, 09:56:52 am »

Though you likely won't have any luck; few if any weapon/armor shops exist in .34.05. Your best bet is to try the marketplace. Barring that, imported goods stores will occasionally have weapons.
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Re: Lost in the Big City
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2012, 11:43:10 am »

Though you likely won't have any luck; few if any weapon/armor shops exist in .34.05. Your best bet is to try the marketplace. Barring that, imported goods stores will occasionally have weapons.

true, even if there are any shops, they either wont have any items to sell, or they have useless items.
One armorshop sold only copper gauntlets, nothing else but copper right and left gauntlets.

EDIT: btw, if you need weapons / armor, find keeps (can be found in larger towns and castles) there are usually tons of good equipment
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Re: Lost in the Big City
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2012, 12:05:17 pm »

There is a bug report for this.

When I was exploring that giant goblin city, I found out that there are basically only shops that work with "animal" and "crop" raw materials - almost nothing is built in cities with stone, wood, or metal.

If you find shops that deal in those materials, they usually have almost no stock.

I think that the game simply doesn't produce more than a tiny amount of those materials, and it's coming out in game play as never having any weapon shops.
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Re: Lost in the Big City
« Reply #5 on: March 14, 2012, 04:51:44 pm »

Thanks, managed to find some armor in keeps. No luck with the armorsmith, although there WAS a weaponsmith in town.
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Re: Lost in the Big City
« Reply #6 on: March 14, 2012, 05:02:42 pm »

Yeah, you can usually find a full set of equipment for any build by going through three or four forts/keeps.
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Re: Lost in the Big City
« Reply #7 on: March 14, 2012, 10:50:27 pm »

There's also a truly enormous amount of armor and weapons in the dungeons, although most of it is random no-quality silver and copper crap. 
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Re: Lost in the Big City
« Reply #8 on: March 14, 2012, 11:07:07 pm »

Yeah, the dungeon under the keep of one of my starting towns in my last adventure had about 12 random bandits, a seriously powerful elven crossbower, and roughly several metric tons of crap, and I mean on the order of at least 500 chests or bags full of silver breastplates, bags full of 20+ gems, etc. all in one single room.

Basically, it was enough wealth to buy half the city... if everything you could ever need wasn't already free for the taking.
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