Should the Merchant skill effect the whole party?
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- Leprechaun
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Should the Merchant skill effect the whole party?
I say this mainly because in MM7, You always have the same party and they always go everywhere together. If you all walk into a shop, wouldn't the party's merchant advise everyone on the best price?
This would eliminate the need to leave stores to shift items to the one with the highest skill.
Most people only have one merchant expert so would it effect the game too much to make it effect the whole party?
This would eliminate the need to leave stores to shift items to the one with the highest skill.
Most people only have one merchant expert so would it effect the game too much to make it effect the whole party?
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Well, i don't think so. Might and Magic is building your characters in a way that each one is unique. How would you like it if a knight can cast Armageddon (well, stupid axample but what if), that makes the lich WAY less special then it already is. Yeah it's conveniant, but it also brings down the strong factor of the game...
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I do understand what you're saying here and you're right your example wasn't the best. This isn't about having someone do something outside the realm of their class. The Merchant skill is fairly benign in that it does not directly effect gameplay other than to make journeys to shops a little less tedious. Much different than having a knight cast spells.darknessfood wrote:Well, i don't think so. Might and Magic is building your characters in a way that each one is unique. How would you like it if a knight can cast Armageddon (well, stupid axample but what if), that makes the lich WAY less special then it already is. Yeah it's conveniant, but it also brings down the strong factor of the game...
You would still have to have someone level up in the skill to benefit so it doesn't make the skill redundant, nor is it truly a cheat due to the fact that the guy with the high merchant skill never leaves your party. If the character with the skill was dead or otherwise incapacitated, the party would/should lose that ability until they are revived.
Much like bags of holding in other games, I just think this would be something that improves the game rather than spending time micro managing inventories and repeatedly leaving a shop just to pass the goods you want to sell to the correct party member.
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Yeah, it's tedious, but that tediousity is a part of the game, that's what makes it classic. I don't think that it's fair either that a cleric, or whatever, can sell his/her goods at about the same price as a master merchant, it doesn't make any sense AT ALL! Well, maybe a little bit, but not a whole lot...
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This is nice idea, but i would "depict" it differently. Imagine that your highest merchant fella is selling the equipment for their comrades, even if it is in their backpacks. (contrary to all characters getting merchant boost).
Same should be for many other misc skills (i.e. it would be enough for one member to spot a trap for all of them to know there is one, so the merchant should work the same way, also, repair would be conducted by your best repairman, without need for it to be in his inventory, after all, he can fix stuff someone is wearing on spot)
Same should be for many other misc skills (i.e. it would be enough for one member to spot a trap for all of them to know there is one, so the merchant should work the same way, also, repair would be conducted by your best repairman, without need for it to be in his inventory, after all, he can fix stuff someone is wearing on spot)
I think the point is that, just to make things less tedious, the game could assume that, when you go into a store, the person with the highest merchant skill automatically does all the negotiating, regardless of who actually hands the seller the cash and puts the item in his backpack. If it bypassed the tedium of thousands of mouse clicks just to buy and sell all merchandise through a single NPC, I'd be all for it.darknessfood wrote:Yeah, it's tedious, but that tediousity is a part of the game, that's what makes it classic. I don't think that it's fair either that a cleric, or whatever, can sell his/her goods at about the same price as a master merchant, it doesn't make any sense AT ALL! Well, maybe a little bit, but not a whole lot...
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I'd completely agree with your point if your party ever split up but MM7 is more about managing a group than role playing one character in a cast of four.darknessfood wrote:Yeah, it's tedious, but that tediousity is a part of the game, that's what makes it classic. I don't think that it's fair either that a cleric, or whatever, can sell his/her goods at about the same price as a master merchant, it doesn't make any sense AT ALL! Well, maybe a little bit, but not a whole lot...
For example, perception helps you spot hidden doors but only one of your party has to have a high perception for the effect to take place. However, if the party sets off a trap, only the high perception character would have a good chance at avoiding damage. That's exactly what I mean by saying benign. It isn't game breaking to have merchant as a global factor but if things like disarm trap were global I believe it would be.
I certainly don't want to remove anything about the game that makes it classic and I don't think this is something that would do it. This is only my opinion after all. I don't have the time nor the skill to try to mod this out so I guess it doesn't matter all that much.
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Well, you don't actualy have to make it to bring up a discussion about it. I just wanted you to see that it's merchant only and no other skilles or anything. But maybe if a modmaker is willing to make it, that would be awesome, BUT,i do think that there should be going off some skill points from the characters overall, because otherwise it would NOT be fair...
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This definitely only applies to the merchant skill. I think using the same factor for something like repair would be wrong due to the fact that weapons break in combat. I don't think it's as plausible to believe that you'd hand your weapon off to the best repair person in the middle of the fight.darknessfood wrote:Well, you don't actualy have to make it to bring up a discussion about it. I just wanted you to see that it's merchant only and no other skilles or anything. But maybe if a modmaker is willing to make it, that would be awesome, BUT,i do think that there should be going off some skill points from the characters overall, because otherwise it would NOT be fair...
There's no real conflicts of interest in regards to the Merchant skill as it's only used for one thing and to be honest, is only a time saving device.
What do you mean about going off skill points from a characters overall? As in they should at least have some skill points allocated to merchant? I was going on the assumption that most people (like myself) would have only one character put skill points aside for merchant.
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I didn't acknowledge this post before but this is exactly what my point is. You spend time managing inventory when the time could be better spent getting a promotion or playing Arcomage.Corribus wrote: I think the point is that, just to make things less tedious, the game could assume that, when you go into a store, the person with the highest merchant skill automatically does all the negotiating, regardless of who actually hands the seller the cash and puts the item in his backpack. If it bypassed the tedium of thousands of mouse clicks just to buy and sell all merchandise through a single NPC, I'd be all for it.
And of course, if your merchant character was dead, then you wouldn't get the benefits of his skill when purchasing something (the 2nd best merchant would determine the transaction) until you raised the dead dude. Seems very logical and reasonable to me. I always hated funnelling every transaction through one character.
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On the issue of the cleric being the grandmaster merchant and the skill being personality based, I usually just imagine it that the MM world is a highly devout pagan society where priests of various deities are revered and respected, and the shopkeepers probably consider it good luck and traditional to offer discounts to priests.darknessfood wrote:Yeah, it's tedious, but that tediousity is a part of the game, that's what makes it classic. I don't think that it's fair either that a cleric, or whatever, can sell his/her goods at about the same price as a master merchant, it doesn't make any sense AT ALL! Well, maybe a little bit, but not a whole lot...
Also, I'm playing with ModRev4 currently, and I find the gift of MerchantExpert6 to the whole party to be a welcome convenience - no more constantly remembering to make sure that all merchandise gets put in my cleric's inventory before selling, at least in the early game!
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