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Offline kurja

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encased plasma ammo zero price
« on: January 09, 2013, 08:07:40 pm »
Encased plasma ammo has a market value of nil, and it cannot be bought. Can be sold though.

I was told in some thread here that new phalanx-developed technologies would not appear in the market untill the player had sold some, but that is not the case - is that a bug or just bad info?

playing 2nd jan. version.

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Re: encased plasma ammo zero price
« Reply #1 on: January 09, 2013, 10:03:07 pm »
I think it's a bug/oversight, nobody put that value in yet.

However this wouldn't be a tech the market can replicate as it relies on alien materials. I don't think they can copy those.

On the bright side this means that construct value and market value are not the same. I've been hoping to see a better handling of construction prices and being able to adjust by actual materials and time is better than a flat discount.

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Re: encased plasma ammo zero price
« Reply #2 on: January 10, 2013, 10:34:54 pm »
I'll add that that researched items that have never been sold, and items that have never even been manufactured (by the player), appear in the market. Is this supposed to happen? I thought player first needed to "release" an item into the market, before it could become available for purchase.

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Re: encased plasma ammo zero price
« Reply #3 on: January 10, 2013, 10:56:42 pm »
Maybe I was wrong. I had heard this was how the behavoir worked because it was mentioned. On the other hand you may be seeing a bug.

I do recall someone saying they wanted an option to keep tech secret so you are probably not alone in seeing this.

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Re: encased plasma ammo zero price
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2013, 10:59:23 pm »
The other day I checked the plasma ammos and none of them had 0 price. Which exact item you are referring to?
Are you still using weeks old builds?

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Re: encased plasma ammo zero price
« Reply #5 on: January 11, 2013, 12:03:28 am »
3 days old.

All plasma ammo has a reasonable build costs but sells for 0 and can't be bought back.

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Re: encased plasma ammo zero price
« Reply #6 on: January 11, 2013, 12:42:54 am »
3 days old.

All plasma ammo has a reasonable build costs but sells for 0 and can't be bought back.

From the scripts it doesn't look like that:

Code: [Select]
item encased_plasma_assault_ammo
{
    ....
    price 1500
    ....
}

Which means:
buy: 1500
sell: 1350
produce: 1500

Could you upload a save?

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Re: encased plasma ammo zero price
« Reply #7 on: January 11, 2013, 04:51:02 pm »
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Re: encased plasma ammo zero price
« Reply #8 on: January 11, 2013, 07:32:40 pm »
Damn. I hoped this meant they had a seperate build and sell price and someone forgot to set one.

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Re: encased plasma ammo zero price
« Reply #9 on: January 11, 2013, 08:04:29 pm »
Damn. I hoped this meant they had a seperate build and sell price and someone forgot to set one.

They could have different produce cost which defaults to the buy price if not set.

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Re: encased plasma ammo zero price
« Reply #10 on: January 11, 2013, 08:16:08 pm »
That seems good. I was thinking when I saw this it would be nice to adjust the cost by the time needed and antimatter and alien materials instead of adding a flat discount to production.