I dunno. What I am buying is jewels for my jeweler. However,
I will admit I do not buy such things from apprehensive merchants.
I cast Alliance and make the merchant amiable to me to begin
with.
Meara, level 13 Enchanter from Erud, Phoenix, Solusek Ro
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Boller [mailto:eboller@...]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 12, 2000 6:56 AM
>To: eqbards@onelist.com
>Subject: Re: [eqbards] Digest Number 651
>
>
>From: Eric Boller <eboller@...>
>
>My ranger friend needed to buy some rubies for his ivy
>armor. I have a cha of 124 so I told him I would buy
>them for him. With 124 cha with an apprehensive
>clocwork jeweler the ruby would've costed 135. He
>then gave me some more cha gear that bumped my cha to
>143 i believe. The ruby then costed 131. So, yeah, I
>don't know if there are any hard level limits in
>charisma to achieve certain costs. Probably not. It
>is probably just the case that most people buy low
>costing things--water, rations, etc. from merchants
>that have such a "small" price that what they pay for
>with 120 cha may still be the same with 140 cha. It
>may only make a difference on the high priced items.
>Not sure though. I haven't tried to buy water with 143
>charisma.
>
>Thex Luteslinger (Tunare, 31st level)
>
>
>>
>> As near as I can tell, the prices you get are based
>> on
>> charisma, faction, and possibly race and diety.
>> With a 110
>> charisma, I was able to get the best possible prices
>> from
>> indifferent merchants, but only some apprehensive
>> merchants.
>> With my current 154 charisma, I'm able to get the
>> best prices
>> from most apprehensive merchants. I suppose it
>> could be
>> capped at 120 cha (which is between 110 and 154),
>> but based on
>> the extreme nonlinearity I saw when I tested prices
>> at
>> different charisma from 75 to 110, I don't think
>> Verant
>> would've made it quite so simple. Items do have a
>> maximum
>> buy/minimum sell price though.
>>
>> Btw, anyone notice they finally fixed the wood elf
>> merchant
>> faction? For the longest time, WE merchants viewed
>> wood elves
>> apprehensively. They're amiable now.
>>
>> --
>> John H. Kim
>> kim@...
>
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