How's the bartering system work?

[eigenvector001]

I remember the tutorial mentioning something about bartering during a dialogue tree, but I don't remember what. How does it work? Only an option during dialogue for a contract? A button press?

[Spazfrag]

Seems contract only. And useless.

You'd be lucky to barter an extra 5 gold. That's it. Better off looting a single enemy weapon and selling for 60 gold.

Another wasted feature.

[Dread Arkive]

While it is pretty useless overall, you can sometimes get a fair amount of extra. As someone mentioned elsewhere, try asking for much more on contracts being "funded" by those of a more finacially strong status (an army, rich noble, business, etc). The small peasant contracts and "we pooled our paychecks" contracts are less prone to giving out more.

[Gabriel Angelos]

Originally posted by Spazfrag:

Seems contract only. And useless.

You'd be lucky to barter an extra 5 gold. That's it. Better off looting a single enemy weapon and selling for 60 gold.

Another wasted feature.

eh? i usually get between 15-30 gold extra.

[TickleMeRifle]

Originally posted by Dread Arkive:

While it is pretty useless overall, you can sometimes get a fair amount of extra. As someone mentioned elsewhere, try asking for much more on contracts being "funded" by those of a more finacially strong status (an army, rich noble, business, etc). The small peasant contracts and "we pooled our paychecks" contracts are less prone to giving out more.

this. one time i took on a contract from a very wealthy man. his clothes, his stature and the way he talked and bragged about being filthy rich all screamed that he was loaded. so i put the contract bar up to maximum and he said "that seems fair for the job"...i got the max out of a monster contract for the first time ever!

[Go0lden_Archer]

It's random. Every time you barter, you get different max overall, and max of what you can get.
There's a contract on a missing husband on Skellige. On my 1st playthourgh I was able to get only +1 coin from barter. On 2nd playthourgh it was about +40.
Basically, this randomiser is crazy. And yes, only before you accept the contract, there's this option.

[TickleMeRifle]

so does anybody know what happens when the annoyance bar is high or reaches max??

i have a feeling that the annoyance level will actually effect the max level of coin he is willing to give for the next barter....that actually makes sense if it worked like that...

[urfragmeat]

Maybe it depends on your axii skill, or diff level, but I've at the very least got +10 and on average get between +20-60.

[TooTall1]

Originally posted by Dread Arkive:

While it is pretty useless overall, you can sometimes get a fair amount of extra. As someone mentioned elsewhere, try asking for much more on contracts being "funded" by those of a more finacially strong status (an army, rich noble, business, etc). The small peasant contracts and "we pooled our paychecks" contracts are less prone to giving out more.

Totally, Definitely This ^^

If you are taking the guys dowry for his daughter, or the people are dirt poor, you will be lucky to get 25 to 30% of the slider if you are realllllly lucky. If the contract giver has orens, florens and crowns shooting outta every orifice, then you will probably get 70 to 100% of the slider.

Just 'read' the situation....

[TickleMeRifle]

my saying "if he's poor he won't pay much more, but if he's rich snitch that b-i-t-c-h"