encased plasma ammo zero price

[kurja]

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.

[Anarch Cassius]

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.

[kurja]

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.

[Anarch Cassius]

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.

[geever]

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?

-geever

[Anarch Cassius]

3 days old.

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

[geever]

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:

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item encased_plasma_assault_ammo
{
    ....
    price 1500
    ....
}

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

Could you upload a save?

-geever

[kurja]

save

[Anarch Cassius]

Damn. I hoped this meant they had a seperate build and sell price and someone forgot to set one.

[geever]

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.

-geever

[Anarch Cassius]

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.