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Increase the difficulty of your barting experience by simply selling at a lower price, and buying at a higher one.
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
Description:
This mod increase the difficulty of your barting experience by simply selling at a lower price, and buying at a higher one. I know this has been done in a lot of mods, many of them are the ones I've ben using until now, but all of them, at least those I found, changed other features of the game, and I just wanted this simple change.
I felt that I was getting rich too easily by selling stuff (more with mods increasing spawns, adding new weapons, etc) and I wanted to keep the game balanced, feel like the wasteland is still a hard place to live beyond level 10.
Features:
I only changed 4 values of the game:
-fBarterBuyBase from 1.55 to 2.00
-fBarterBuyMult from -0.45 to -0.30
-fBarterSellBase from 0.45 to 0.25
-fBarterSellMult from 0.45 to 0.5
I used those values inspired by http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/42234/? which adds a whole bunch of features appart of this.
Let's analyse the impact in the game of this change with some maths I did. All results are aproximate, just to have an idea.
We will work with an item, let's say a tiny mutant-crusher pistol, of VALUE:150. The formula to calculate the prices is:
Buying price = (Item Value * fBarterBuyBase) + (Item Value * Skill * fBarterBuyMult / 100)
Selling price = (Item Value * fBarterSellBase) + (Item Value * Skill * fBarterSellMult / 100)
VANILLA:
-with barter skill of 1, we would BUY it, more and less, at 232 caps, and SELL it at 68 caps. That means you sell at the 29'3% of the price you bought it for.
-with barter skill of 100, we would BUY it, more and less, at 165 caps, and SELL it at 135 caps. That means you sell at the 81,8% of the price you bought it for.
-The BUYING price has changed, with the change of barter skill, from 232 to 165, so you buy 30% cheaper by maxing the skill
-The SELLING price has changed from 68 to 135, so you sell at a 200% maxing the skill
MODDED
-with barter skill of 1, we would BUY it, more and less, at 300 caps, and SELL it at 38 caps. That means you sell at the 12.5% of the price you bought it for.
-with barter skill of 100, we would BUY it, more and less, at 255 caps, and SELL it at 113 caps. That means you sell at the 44.3% of the price you bought it for.
-The BUYING price has changed, with the change of barter skill, from 300 to 255, so you buy 15% cheaper by maxing the skill
-The SELLING price has changed from 38 to 113, so you sell at a 300% maxing the skill
Conclusion:
In general therms, now barter is a harder way to become "rich", but skilling up barter is still meaningful since you get a a boost of x3 in the selling price, and still a little reward at buying price, but you will never see those stupid situations when you can almost buy and sell and item at the same price.
FEEDBACK: I'd apreciate feedback
Feel free to use this whole mod where you want, took me 10 min to find the setting and 10 secs to change them. I've been writing this and making maths way more time. Sorry for my english skills.
This mod increase the difficulty of your barting experience by simply selling at a lower price, and buying at a higher one. I know this has been done in a lot of mods, many of them are the ones I've ben using until now, but all of them, at least those I found, changed other features of the game, and I just wanted this simple change.
I felt that I was getting rich too easily by selling stuff (more with mods increasing spawns, adding new weapons, etc) and I wanted to keep the game balanced, feel like the wasteland is still a hard place to live beyond level 10.
Features:
I only changed 4 values of the game:
-fBarterBuyBase from 1.55 to 2.00
-fBarterBuyMult from -0.45 to -0.30
-fBarterSellBase from 0.45 to 0.25
-fBarterSellMult from 0.45 to 0.5
I used those values inspired by http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/42234/? which adds a whole bunch of features appart of this.
Let's analyse the impact in the game of this change with some maths I did. All results are aproximate, just to have an idea.
We will work with an item, let's say a tiny mutant-crusher pistol, of VALUE:150. The formula to calculate the prices is:
Buying price = (Item Value * fBarterBuyBase) + (Item Value * Skill * fBarterBuyMult / 100)
Selling price = (Item Value * fBarterSellBase) + (Item Value * Skill * fBarterSellMult / 100)
VANILLA:
-with barter skill of 1, we would BUY it, more and less, at 232 caps, and SELL it at 68 caps. That means you sell at the 29'3% of the price you bought it for.
-with barter skill of 100, we would BUY it, more and less, at 165 caps, and SELL it at 135 caps. That means you sell at the 81,8% of the price you bought it for.
-The BUYING price has changed, with the change of barter skill, from 232 to 165, so you buy 30% cheaper by maxing the skill
-The SELLING price has changed from 68 to 135, so you sell at a 200% maxing the skill
MODDED
-with barter skill of 1, we would BUY it, more and less, at 300 caps, and SELL it at 38 caps. That means you sell at the 12.5% of the price you bought it for.
-with barter skill of 100, we would BUY it, more and less, at 255 caps, and SELL it at 113 caps. That means you sell at the 44.3% of the price you bought it for.
-The BUYING price has changed, with the change of barter skill, from 300 to 255, so you buy 15% cheaper by maxing the skill
-The SELLING price has changed from 38 to 113, so you sell at a 300% maxing the skill
Conclusion:
In general therms, now barter is a harder way to become "rich", but skilling up barter is still meaningful since you get a a boost of x3 in the selling price, and still a little reward at buying price, but you will never see those stupid situations when you can almost buy and sell and item at the same price.
FEEDBACK: I'd apreciate feedback
Feel free to use this whole mod where you want, took me 10 min to find the setting and 10 secs to change them. I've been writing this and making maths way more time. Sorry for my english skills.