Not getting price i should?

[That Guy]

So i started a new game with custom settings (100% habitats, 70% prices). And whenever i go to sell, i get significantly less than what the finance tab or the fish market at the port says its going for. I thought it was giving me 30% less than the shown price because of my setting, but doing the math, it doesnt add up. Lobster said it was going for 9.77 a lb, i sold it for 7.42 (the in game tooltip at the market said "Very good price, lobster usually sells for 9.77", not sure how 7.42 is very good when its over a 2 dollar loss per lb but ok. But doing the math, if it was giving me 30% less than shown prices, i should have only gotten 6.84 a lb. Not sure if custom games are bugged but im thinking they might be....

[Malkuth]

Not sure if you've figured it out but fishprices are set by demand. so 9.77 would be the price if the demand was at 100% but usually they are much much lower than that. and then you also have different prices per town aswell just to make things more confusing

[davidt_man]

Did the $7.42 include a reputation bonus or a fresh bonus?

[That Guy]

Originally posted by Malkuth:

Not sure if you've figured it out but fishprices are set by demand. so 9.77 would be the price if the demand was at 100% but usually they are much much lower than that. and then you also have different prices per town aswell just to make things more confusing

I dunno. I just check the current prices at the fish shop in the port, and when i go to sell, i get less than that.

[That Guy]

Originally posted by davidt_man:

Did the $7.42 include a reputation bonus or a fresh bonus?

No, its the price that it says i would get if i sold it. Then when i go to sell it, its like $2 less per lb than it said.

[Woober]

What is the fish quality? If the quality is not top notch you get lower price

[That Guy]

Originally posted by Woober:

What is the fish quality? If the quality is not top notch you get lower price

It was tuna so i dont know

[saga286]

I am having the same issue. I'm at Yarmouth and the Fish Price is $12.49/lb for Tuna, but when I attempt to sell it, I am only getting $8.74/lb for it. 100% fresh. Both the Market Fish Price and Finance Page Fish Price show $12.49/lb. I don't understand.

[Lancero]

I have the same issue, at main port it says Tuna for 34$! But when i did sell it only gave me 16$, wth is that? Im a very experience player on Barrents Sea, but in this one im new. Any advise please?

[Nobody]

This is a bug. Someone has duplicated the math. I noticed this after having started this game on the standard easy setting, and finding it too easy, I started a custom game at 50% price. in the easy setting on june 1 tuna was around $20/lb, go catch tuna, go to port, sell tuna @ 20/lb. on the 50% setting, june 1, tuna is around $10/lb (makes sense, 50% of 20 is 10), go to port, sell tuna, get $4.5X /lb. hmm??? 100% fresh. so I go catch more tuna, save the game, edit the save file (yes I know, im a bad boy), change the fish price from .5 to .7, reload my save, tuna is now around $14/lb (20x.7=14 okay that tracks), go to port, sell fish, get $9.8X/ lb (14*.7 = 9.8).


So basically, this game has a setting that determines the sell price fir each port. when you change the % setting it auto adjusts in the fish price tab to match that, but then when you actually pull into that port, it takes the % off the already reduced % price again. Effectively, 50% fish price is actually 25% of what you would get if you had the setting on 100%.


Just for the sake of it I set the % to 1.5 and was getting around $45 / lb for tuna in the port despite the fish price tab saying $30

[BirdDog]

Wth 70% you need farm alot wich is no fun just waste of time.

[That Guy]

Yeah. The normal standard setting is way too easy. I need to get it to 50% and actually have the fish price reflect what it actually sells for in the ports.

[Nobody]

Originally posted by That Guy:

Yeah. The normal standard setting is way too easy. I need to get it to 50% and actually have the fish price reflect what it actually sells for in the ports.

.71 (71%) will net you 50.41% in the docks. closest you will get.

be forewarned, at 71%, some of the lower selling fish, like mackerel, will only turn a profit if you net or trawl them. even silver hake is hard to turn a profit long lining at this setting.

[Antikcommando]

Originally posted by Nobody:

Originally posted by That Guy:

Yeah. The normal standard setting is way too easy. I need to get it to 50% and actually have the fish price reflect what it actually sells for in the ports.

.71 (71%) will net you 50.41% in the docks. closest you will get.

be forewarned, at 71%, some of the lower selling fish, like mackerel, will only turn a profit if you net or trawl them. even silver hake is hard to turn a profit long lining at this setting.

Hi, so what percentage of difficulty should we set it to make the game seem a little more realistic?