On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Proteus wrote:
>
> Last night I was checking prices on plate mail, and
> decided to mem up the charisma song just to see if it made
> even a 1cp difference in prices. I used my mino horn and
> targeted the indifferent shopkeeper. Low and behold, he
> con'd amiable after the song took affect. Not only did he
> con amiable, but so did every other shopkeeper in east
> Freeport.The price of the chest plate remained at 794pp
> though with my 90 charisma. (I think prices can only go so
> low).
Yup, I've pretty much verified this. I dropped by the gypsies
again and at 110, 115, and 120 charisma, their price for a
combine longsword was always 52.5pp. The selling price was
47.5pp, so that establishes (for gypisies and this item at
least) a base price of 50pp and +/- 5% being the best you can
do.
The shady swashbuckler is still giving me better prices as I
increase my charisma though. 223pp at 110, 220pp at 115. I
just got back to Freeport last night and need to test it at
120. So there's definitely some faction/race/diety component
to all this. The charisma song may be worthwhile in this
regard (especially since half those damn stuck-up Erudite
merchants won't sell to me).
> thru Neriak for a half hour. On the other hand (if you
> dont have invis yet), use it on a Dark Elf guard and run
> thru Nektulos on your way to Lavastorm without them
> attacking you. Thats just an example. I'm sure there are
> many other uses yet to be discovered. Say you die inside
> the house of Unrest and you need to get your corpse.
> Perhaps you can target a skel or whatever, use the song on
> it and then the entire UnrestInhabitants faction will be
> amiable to you for a few minutes? Enough time to /corpse
Perhaps that's the intended use of the song? Not getting
better prices at merchants as previously thought?
> your corpse to safety and wont have to worry about getting
> someone to cast invis + invis vs undead on you. Just an
> idea, but I havent actually tested these things yet. I
> suggest you all experiment with this a bit.
Just a safety question - does the NPC ever attack you if the
song somehow fails? I get nervous targeting songs at NPCs
that are red to me. :-)
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John H. Kim
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