Trading. Am I missing something obvious?

[stretch]

I figure I must be missing something really obvious because so far trading with my first merchant is an absolute abomination and I cannot understand why it is so monstrously over-complicated. It really can't be as awful as it appears to be so I hope I must be doing it the hard way.

Why is gold not common among the team?
Why do I need to treat each team member interdependently - like drop out of trade to sort all the gear I want to sell to my highest charisma character?
Why is it so complicated? Don't they want us to use merchants?
Why doesn't the highest team members charisma used by default?

Gotta be something I am missing here because I am hating this chore.

Please explain. Thankyou in advance for any help.

[AwoYion]

gold is "common" among the team im solo so i dont know about co-op. Use the barter section when you click the balance twice it'll pull gold from other companions. Most the things you want can be solved easily, speak to a merchant with the character with highest charisma then switch between characters by the pictures in the bottom left rather than tab or whatever your next character button is. oh forgot to mention when switching with the bottom left pictures the charisma stat will persist so no worries there.

[SmiteMeister]

Yes, lets get an answer to this

[KesslerCOIL]

It's just like DnD.
If you were playing in a campaign, you couldnt just sell another players stuff without first receiving the items from them. It's setup like this likely for both that reason and because it'd mess up multiplayer if you could just steal other peoples stuff.

[BeautifulFlowerField]

You don't have to do that - CHA is only taken into account from the character talking to the trader, so everyone can sell from their inventory at the best price. Gold is common among the team, when you're in the trade screen it pools the gold together and you can see that in near the top left corner.

[elrosx]

If you press the button that looks like scales in the middle, it will add gold to make it even. Press more than once to use your party's gold.

You can also switch to 'barter' which is a different type of selling interface.

Giving the merchants 6 gold or 6 gold worth of items for free will increase your favor with them. The favor/ attitude level is listed in the bottom right.

[BeautifulFlowerField]

Originally posted by elrosx:

If you press the button that looks like scales in the middle, it will add gold to make it even. Press more than once to use your party's gold.

You can also switch to 'barter' which is a different type of selling interface.

Giving the merchants 6 gold or 6 gold worth of items for free will increase your favor with them. The favor/ attitude level is listed in the bottom right.

the screen with the scale is the barter screen, the other screen is the trade screen which is just buy/sell. the point of barter is that you can give gifts to the merchant for better prices down the line, maybe there are other advantages but it seems like the gold works out the same.

[SmiteMeister]

Well, at least I figured out that you just need to talk to the merchant ONCE with your highest CHA character. Then when you change your character-inventory shown by clicking them individually in the bottom left side of the screen, you can sell their stuff as well, using the character with the highest CHA's barter-skill. That at least cuts down some of the inventory-chore

[Zef]

You are wrong though.

You can sell stuff from other companions inventory in the barter menu and gold is SHARED when bartering.

Seriously try it. Try to buy something with a companion that has no gold and you'll see i get's automically trransferred from your money mule.

[stretch]

Originally posted by elrosx:

If you press the button that looks like scales in the middle, it will add gold to make it even. Press more than once to use your party's gold.

I knew about pressing it once. Not about doing it twice. That should help. Thankyou.

Only having to start with your high charisma person is great. A little silly that it cannot just do it automatically but better than nothing.

I will look into the barter thing next time I can summon up the motivation to try this game again.

Thankyou folks. I figured if nobody was hating on it there must be something easier and it looks like that is the case.

[2headedfrog]

I'm hoping this isn't a glitch in my game, but that pushing the scales button twice does nothing for me. Maybe it's because of multiplayer? I can't seem to use party gold.

[Mike]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.