Does the barter skill stack?

[Bamith]

Say if I have 3 members with one level of barter; will it stack to 3% discount, or will it only count the highest level?

[Kuki]

PerfectLife eredeti hozzászólása:

Just make barter stack. It's not complicated. Sure if you give everyone in your team 10 ranks that's 70% 70% but you'd be really dumb to do that.

Thats stupid too. This punishes a team with 1 good barterer and fosters a team with 7 crappy barterers. It makes no sense logically, nor gameplay wise. Who would want to even waste those skill points for every character? Just buff it to 2% per level or something... Highest skill should count

[Nanako]

Barter can be fixed easily, It would onyl break the economy if the developers are dumb.
simply put, no matter how powerful you make it, no matter how many bonuses you add to it, it should be hard-capped at 1:1 So that even if you have a million barter skill, you can never buy a merchant's items and sell them back to them. That's it, problem solved.

Then buff it to 3% per point.

[tomimt]

At this moment barter is about the most useless skill in the whole game. You benefit nothing from it, as when it could come usefull you alreay have more than enough money to not to care.

[Spocks Toupee]

tomimt eredeti hozzászólása:

At this moment barter is about the most useless skill in the whole game. You benefit nothing from it, as when it could come usefull you alreay have more than enough money to not to care.

^ This right here. +1

[Kissamies]

Yeah, definitely most useless skill. Might be worth it if it was 2,5% per level or, more interestingly, tied to charisma in some way. For example, the bonus could be Barter x Charisma/2 %

[Icebound]

It's trash compared to just stripping weapons for scrap and selling them to the citadel

[Bamith]

Icebound eredeti hozzászólása:

It's trash compared to just stripping weapons for scrap and selling them to the citadel

What do you do for money after you get to LA? I've actually had minor problems buying a steady stream of explosives to use on hard mode there :l

[Churd]

Well, since its 10% to both.. its kindof like a 20% discount.

You have $100 worth of goods to sell.
You sell for 110.

You want to buy something worth 100.
You buy for 90.

You now have $20 left of the original $100 value of goods you traded.

Essentially saved 20% of your money.

[Zorop]

i just traveled to LA with about 25k scraps on my party and all the best equipment i could get before there. Im a hoarder, i dont leave anything behind and i completly think barter is useless and should not be bothered with.

[Charrander]

Well, looks like you're all power gamers, but let me break it down for you. Barter at 10 is 10% and 10% basically 20% over all buying and selling, then add the first perk pawner is +20% more for junk so when selling junk it's 30% more and there is a lot of junk in this game, it adds up really fast. Then add perk #2 loose change +15% more scrap in all containers, that's a lot of scrap. Lastly if you're smart and not just maxing skills to max them instead you're perk hunting, lvl 7 kiss ass gives you the perk silver tongue that adds 5% discount on purchases and lvl 6 perception perk that adds 25% scrap from holes. For a grand total of 15% discount when buying, 10% when selling (30% for scrap) plus all the looted scrap. I've had a barter char snice the start and gunned for those perks right away on a 10 int char. Money hasn't been an issue since the first radio tower, I have 20 scrap I have my storage full of bullets and med packs, before I went to LA I always broke down my weapons for scrap and sold the scrap to the citadel for his premium price +10%. Some of you are thinking that isn't worth the skills but it is completely you need perception and kiss ass anyways. And with a god sniper (lvl 5 blunt perk,charge is a must have for best positioning at the start) who has more kills than half your party added together having a diplomatic char fits easily in the fold of the group