drgrieve

I haven't tested the formula completely for the city. But for the dungeon it works exactly. CHR does not effect the result. If you offer one less copper than the above formaula (or forget to round up) you get outrageous offer. However if you do not start off on a clean slate with the shop owner then the formula does not work. I think CHR effects the inital price only. I'm working on the monster/weapon statistics trying to work out the trends buts its hard, when you kill the monster you can't see what your last damage was ... any ideas? Does anyone have any weapon or monster data already compiled?

Hi all, Just started playing again after ten or so years .... I played the dugeon alot back on the Atari, never completed it since I didn't know how to cross the ferry. Anyway playing the city and surving quite well on my first character after spending a hour getting some good stats. First thing I needed to do was get a dagger. Previously I always went to Sharps but from reading here Occums is cheaper. Anyway in the dungeon I determined the bargining formula and it worked last night in the city. Bascially to get the best price without getting thrown out is: ((Current Price - Last Offer Price) / 3) + Last Offer Price then rounded up. It works for at least three offers. Last nights example. I was at Sharps with CHR 14 so the current price is 208 coppers and my last offer price was 0. So (208 - 0) / 3 + 0 = 70 (you must round up!) Sharps changes price to 139 so (139 - 70) / 3 + 70 = 93 Sharps changes price to 116 so (116 - 93) / 3 + 93 = 101 Sharps changes price to 108 and I accepted the offer. If I had gones to Occums I would have saved more but if you follow this formula you only need to pay around 50% of the inital price. David.