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Re: Heroes of Westhaven
« Reply #270: June 16, 2015, 12:41:21 PM »
Remember that their evaluation can be much above your purchase price.

For example, that wizard DID pay 222 gold for the stuff that you bought at 200 gold. He was actually willing to pay more, something around 240 gold. So you can still make a profit there.

The problem right now is if he already owns a Staff of Fireball (200 gold) and you want to sell him a (hypothetical) Staff of Fireball +1 (300 gold). He will think his existing staff is worth around 100 gold, and the +1 might be worth 390 to him, but because of that he'll only pay 290 - a loss for you.

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Re: Heroes of Westhaven
« Reply #271: June 16, 2015, 12:45:32 PM »
I see you've bled them dry. :-)


I am actually thinking about adding achievements, and one of them would be for taking every last gold coin from a party. Maybe it's too easy. :-)

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Re: Heroes of Westhaven
« Reply #272: June 16, 2015, 12:50:31 PM »
New Turn - what's going on with all these failed quests???

2015/06/16 12:49
The ivory elephants have failed the quest "goblins".
Academy Expedition Group have failed the quest "daughter".
The tolim have failed the quest "rats".
Elven Rangers have returned to town.
The nerix have returned to town.
Reformed Bandits have arrived in town.
The Filthy Frigate Pirates have returned to town.
Mighty Heroes finished shopping in Tom's Shop and have gone questing.
The Dolm have failed the quest "thief".
The Black Bandana Rovers have failed the quest "thief".
Northmen have returned to town.
Ordained Berserkers have returned to town.

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Re: Heroes of Westhaven
« Reply #273: June 16, 2015, 12:56:19 PM »
it turns out, there's a bug in the town news. It shows all quests as failed, even if they succeed. I'm working on fixing it.

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Re: Heroes of Westhaven
« Reply #274: June 16, 2015, 01:00:55 PM »
I had to clean out all current quests for all parties so I can reload them with new data (trophies, etc.)

Unfortunately I don't yet have a way to update them smoothly.

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Re: Heroes of Westhaven
« Reply #275: June 16, 2015, 02:04:03 PM »
When does gold for maintenance get taken? Twice now I've gone back to find my gold has reduced to zero (from under 10)
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Re: Heroes of Westhaven
« Reply #276: June 16, 2015, 02:05:32 PM »
Maintenance is paid every turn.

New turn has been run, parties now have selected new shops and adventures.


There are probably bugs in the maintenance still, negative values are strange.

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Re: Heroes of Westhaven
« Reply #277: June 16, 2015, 02:15:24 PM »
Maintenance is paid every turn.

New turn has been run, parties now have selected new shops and adventures.


There are probably bugs in the maintenance still, negative values are strange.

Seems a very high value to be paying every turn, especially with parties that don't really spend much/anything in the shop. What is the maintenance figure based on?
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Re: Heroes of Westhaven
« Reply #278: June 16, 2015, 02:26:48 PM »
I see you've bled them dry. :-)


I am actually thinking about adding achievements, and one of them would be for taking every last gold coin from a party. Maybe it's too easy. :-)

Considering I did it to two parties yes. Firstly you can always sell at a loss to do it. Secondly the fact that characters will carry in excess of 5 potions makes it easy to finish off those small amounts. If you want an achievement it should be along the lines of >x% on a single item, bleeding a party dry with one sale (limit it to parties with more then x gold)

Seems a very high value to be paying every turn, especially with parties that don't really spend much/anything in the shop. What is the maintenance figure based on?

I like it, forces you to keep an actual gold reserve.
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Re: Heroes of Westhaven
« Reply #279: June 16, 2015, 02:29:11 PM »
Maintenance is explained, actually: http://shopkeeper.lemuria.org/info/shop

However, right now it is paid per turn, not per week, but at half the usual amount.

Probably it is too much or too little - very little balancing has been done so far. Keep that in mind, please.

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Re: Heroes of Westhaven
« Reply #280: June 16, 2015, 02:40:29 PM »
With a lot of bugfixes, I ran another turn:


2015/06/16 14:39
The nerix have completed the quest "The Labyrinth" successfully.
Reformed Bandits have failed the quest "The Labyrinth".
Northmen have completed the quest "Clearing the Road" successfully.
The tolim is done shopping in Zakky's Best Gear Shop and continues their spending spree in Penchant's Emporium of Battle and More.
Elven Rangers have completed the quest "Goblin Hunt" successfully.
The Filthy Frigate Pirates have failed the quest "Rats in the Basement".
The Dolm finished shopping in Solid Simon's World O'Stuff and have gone questing.
Mighty Heroes have failed the quest "Finding a Thief".
The ivory elephants have failed the quest "The Labyrinth".
The Black Bandana Rovers have failed the quest "Rats in the Basement".

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Re: Heroes of Westhaven
« Reply #281: June 16, 2015, 02:52:01 PM »
Maintenance is explained, actually: http://shopkeeper.lemuria.org/info/shop

However, right now it is paid per turn, not per week, but at half the usual amount.

Probably it is too much or too little - very little balancing has been done so far. Keep that in mind, please.

I had read that... Forgot... I guess until the general flow is sorted it will be difficult to tie down. Once a better idea is got of an average amount of parties/gold passing through each week it will be easier to work out what it should be.
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Re: Heroes of Westhaven
« Reply #282: June 16, 2015, 02:59:36 PM »
might be an issue with shields... Trying to sell them and get the error: no_space
first one had two axes so thought that might make sense, second one only has leather armour though, so should be able to take a shield

tried selling:
44 to 54
43 to 63
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Re: Heroes of Westhaven
« Reply #283: June 16, 2015, 05:21:23 PM »
Shields count as weapons, so if he doesn't have 2 weapons, he should be able to buy it.

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Re: Heroes of Westhaven
« Reply #284: June 16, 2015, 06:06:32 PM »
The priest only had leather armour at the time, nothing else, and it gave the no_space error. I've since sold him a couple of clubs instead.
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