BUG

[Zetro]

buying now lowers cargo weight and selling increases it strangely.

[frumple]

You sure you're not reducing weight by spending scrap? Scrap is heavy. When you sell, you add scrap, and when you buy you remove it.

If you buy medkits, you will substantialy reduce your load. They're lighhtweight and cost a lot of scrap.

[Zetro]

No selling stuff is adding weight something is not adding up. And buying stuff is making me lose weight. It’s like the opposite of what it should be

[Zetro]

Wait never mind what you said actually makes sense now that I think about it. It explain the buying part and selling part never thought about that. There should be a tooltip about this to avoid confusion

[robotig]

Price-to-weight ratios are nasty in this game. My truck was going 11 km/h for 300 km last night because I was trying to get tons of scrap back to Starlight for truck upgrades.

[madpraxis]

Bars are your friend. Buying/selling creds helps... A lot. A literal ton, actually, hah.

Note: Creds are weightless. Scrap is heavy.

[frumple]

You lose money trading creds though.
Why not buy something expensive but lightweight? Like Medkits? They're also useful for treating wounds.

Almost every dump will trade Medkits. Buy them when they are in abundance, always for lowest price. Sell when needed.

[Steelfleece]

Crafting cores works too if you have the other materials. Almost always need those for guns if nothing else, and they consume something like 3000 scrap a pop.

[CryonicSuspension]

Just craft cores to dump weight. You need a tonne of cores.

[frumple]

Wait, what you are suggesting is not the same thing at all. You do need cores yes, but you cannot trade cores!

If you convert your money into high value trade goods, you remove the weight but retain the value. The inconvenience is in that you may not be able to trade your valuable goods in every town, so you should never convert all your money.

The benefit is that unlike creds, you gain money this way. Trading creds costs you a fee + you lose a percentage. Trading goods makes a profit instead.


Think of it as storing your money, long term!
Medkits are the most convenient but other good goods are Liquor, Seasoning and Spices, Meds and Medicinal herbs.

When you need 12000 or 16000 scrap for a truck upgrade, or you need money for some other reason, trade your Medkits/goods away.
You may not have a store and truck shop in the same town, in which case you will have to sell in a nearby town and rive overloaded for a while, but anything is better than hauling twelve tons of scrap all the time.

[madpraxis]

Except towns only have so much scrap to buy your junk, see?
Unlike the cred trading, which has no limit, and honestly the exchange rate isn't even worth bothering about if you are even slightly liked.
Not even counting your own towns and that sweet, sweet exchange rate...with a repair shop right there...

[frumple]

Originally posted by madpraxis:

Except towns only have so much scrap to buy your junk, see?
Unlike the cred trading, which has no limit, and honestly the exchange rate isn't even worth bothering about if you are even slightly liked.
Not even counting your own towns and that sweet, sweet exchange rate...with a repair shop right there...

Yeah, that's a good point.

If you need tons of money, right nao. Creds are better.
If you just want to convert your money into something less heavy than scrap, put it into expensive goods.

[BrianV]

so what is the exact point of scrap versus creds mechanic, just an extra challenge? Like, was it too easy without adding weight? Any real society would not deal in scrap due to weight, they would deal in creds only for a common currency that's accepted everywhere, introducing a secondary level currency seems pedantic. err.. redundant.

[frumple]

It is to give you more to consider. Lots of wealth either makes you a fat, juicy target or it's heavy. Maybe so heavy that it slows you to a crawl if you seriously overload your truck.

I think i prefer weight to being attacked by bandits more often. It would be more realistic but more annoying.