English is not my first language, so expect some eccentric grammar and wording. Here’s the thing. The prices in the game don’t make any sense. Well, maybe they do in the modern day, real America, but not in the world of Cataclysm. Merchant dude just sold me a bunch of 9mm rounds for the price of di…

there is a seperate barter valeu for many items but ye the pricing and trading systeem is broken. merchants don’t refill there inventory and prices don’t always make sense. but i think the developers intent to address this after they have somewhat fixed and fleshed out NPC first which they are doing…

There is ongoing project of making post-apoc prices more sensible - part 15 (!) of this project for example. In short - we’re working on it ©.

Merchants should restock their inventory every 3 days.

might be becease i was playing a somewhat older version only recently updated.

Is it somewhere explained from where they get the refill or is that just abstract?

We don’t have code for it yet - or possibly ever - but abstractly, yes, there are supposed to be other scavengers selling stuff to the various merchants.

the economy is messy because of the collapse of all infrastructure and law? shocker. Consumerism is a pretty difficult drug to kick for most people, and the vast majority of people aren’t smart enough to see only utility value. You’re also vastly forgetting the psychological value of items, not ju…

No one will be stupid enough to sell good ammo for 30 abstract cents a pop in the middle of zombie apocalypse and alien invasion, “psychological value” of fancy stuff be damned. Or, should I say, these alternatively gifted individuals will have a funny way of ending up dead very soon. Besides, I’m …

[image] Jake_Armitage: What is the “psychological value” of the one-use battery? I keep my disposable batteries around so I can remember back to the time when my clock needed replacement ones… Oh, and this one was once in my gameboy. Sigh… this one… this was in a remote controlled forklift …

I remember using a single set of disposable batteries for a long time. As a wee lad, I didn’t have my own money to recharge my Chinese pseudo-console, so I kept trying to coerce more electricity outta little bastards. Still, wouldn’t trust them to help me when the zombies are around, hungry for my …

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead

The post-apocalyptic economy is kinda borked

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