Equipment fixing pricing is beyond rediculous

[Psyhix69]

40k for fixing Jacket....

[XI_RiVaL_IX]

Yeah, finding new weapons or given them as rewards only to see the repair cost is almost 20K or more is crazy. I like having something to work towards, but it's a bit much currently in the game's economy.

[cinkov]

and all this for accepting a mission for 400 credits :D

[BigTpsychoboy]

I feel like repair costs are broken and/or selling price for items is too low.

There is a mod on Nexus mods that will reduce the price of repairs or even remove it completely.

https://www.nexusmods.com/stalker2heartofchornobyl/mods/77

I also found a post showing how to sell items for the "full" retail amount.

Steps to sell for full amount:
1. Put all items you want to sell into the window. Right-Click on any of the items and hover over the word "remove," but do NOT click it.
2. Un-hover and you should see the amount of your sale go up to the full retail price.
3. Drag ANY stacked item up to the window. While that stacked item is asking you how many to drop you click on the confirm for the sale of the item.

[fox]

Veteran = hobo difficulty, because your always recycling weapons picked up off the ground

[BatriX]

at that point you just bin it, unfortunately the economy is very poorly done, but on the one hand i think they want it this way. the game doesn't inspire hauling guns for profit but if you are not doing this to some extent you are going to be very broke.

the logistics of this game are here and there. you really have to do runs and decide to, ♥♥♥♥ is not going to work out if you pick up some stuff then suddenly need to be able to run at full speed from some deadly monster in the swamp so. the game can be very unforgiving.

also if you enjoy hording its also going to hurt when you have to sell stuff you kind of would rather keep.

[Vlad]

Yep! I spent 38k on fixing the Tourist suit at like 50% condition? And after a mission or two I'm back in the same situation. I've just given up on repairing the suit for now.

[DaweSMF]

There is clearly something wrong with how the game calculates things. Seen some wild stuff. On the other side, the game showers you with gear, medkits, bandages and so on, it just have very little value. Even artifacts, not to mention they kinda suck now an even the old ones were nerfed af.

[Terminal Velocity]

How am I swimming in money? The beginning is rough. Once you sell yellows a few times, and harvest a few artifacts, you will have money to repair your favourite weapon and armour.
After that, the damage rate is low - you will be able to earn far more money by the same procedure than the depreciation rate when you use your equipment.

I've got 25k already, and Im at the Garbage zone, on my 3rd set of armour. I have so much ammo and consumable from looting around that I have to back to towns to deposit in my stash so that they dont encumber me.

And then the main issue of the game shows: since there's no revolutionary A-Life, and nothing is happening outside the player's range, once you have your economy sorted out, there's nothing interesting to do other than follow story missions. There's no reason to go get lost in the wilderness hoping you will find something interesting. Because you know there's none, the world is empty and static, and everything spawns around you.
And you don't have any other money issues either, so there's zero need to go looting for stuff.

[Terminal Velocity]

Also set your automatic rifles to short bursts and aim for the head. It will save you money immensely.

[FluffyGuy]

Yeah In game I'm told it would "take a stalker years to make 20k" yet the techs seems to be making bank from us, it's way way way to expensive even on easy mode

[Chape]

Money Glitch:

1) Stack of items (Ammunition appears to work best, particularly 5.56 AP)
2) Drag into sell box, when prompted select 'Sell All'
3) Drag the stack back from the sell window to your inventory.
4) A prompt will appear to return all, do not click it yet.
4) The sale price will noticeably increase.
5) Left click on 'Sell'
6) Left click on 'return all'
7) repeat.

This should give you the funds and the stack back, rinse and repeat. In theory, this should give you lots of coupons for upgrades, repairs, etc.

Tis pretty scummy, but, I agree, the running cost of stalking is incredibly high at present.

I think the expectation of the game on the player is to take as little damage as possible and to repair often - The game cycle suggests you go out on a raid for a specific objective, collect, return, repair, so, for those long exploration raids, you have to be even more cautious with engagements and selective with what you pick up.