Money/Water

[Nothing]

Water is heavy. What do you use as a lightweight money? I've been using beaded bracelets, but those are still 1 weight. Are there any expensive, easily accessible 0 weight items?

[Kaaven]

Items with 0 weight - not really. You may occasionally find willowy daggers, but thats hardly reliable or worth it.

Just like in the real world, the best things that makes money are precious metals. Copper nuggets weight 1 and are worth 10 and on top of that they never loose value (you sell and buy them without any margin, always for 10 dhrams). There are also Silver Nuggets worth 50 and very rare Gold Nuggets worth 200.

You can also find precious gems, which serve the same function but can be even more valuable.

[Nothing]

I am playing an Ego focused esper, so trade loss is negligible. Bracelets are ~100 drams each, was wondering if there was anything better. Thanks!

[Ulrik]

You're rich as hell already! Well, you can tinker and add willowy to things yourself, to create 0-pound bracelets for example.

[Nothing]

Right! Forgot about that. But Ego usually makes it so I am carrying an insane amount of water around. Do merchants ever restock?

[Iduno]

Merchants do re-stock. You'll get a message when you get back to town after they do so.

You can also just leave stuff lying around wherever and find it later, unless a beetlebum picks it up. Most people pick a house in town to do that in. Just don't let anyone see you open a chest to use as storage.

[Nothing]

So chest inventory doesn't get wiped occasionally? I can have a chest in town filled with tons of stuff and it will be safe?

[Ulrik]

Yep, I always do that. Pick up a chest while adventuring and bring it back to furnish my own house in Joppa.

[Nothing]

That will be more useful when I don't get oneshot by a slumberling hiding in a dark area, having been woken up by snapjaws -.-

[dbennett88]

Originally posted by Nothing:

That will be more useful when I don't get oneshot by a slumberling hiding in a dark area, having been woken up by snapjaws -.-

RIP

[Aquillion]

The easiest way to store wealth is as bits. Take Tinkering, buy up stuff and disassemble it. Later on, you can assemble it into grenades and sell it back. At extremely high Ego, it is even possible to profit on the exchange.

[CHOO CHOO]

If you have recoilers and some base wealth (or solar cells), you can always just keep chests full of stuff in Joppa and Grit Gate and keep all your loot and/or water in there. Recoilers make it so that even if you have a metric ton of stuff to sell (more than you can carry), you can just recoil to the settlement of your choice and sell them in portable batches.

When raiding a dungeon and reaching your encumbrance limit, you can also plop down a loot chest wherever you stand, put all your loot in there, continue your raid, return to that chest when you're encumbered, continue your raid...and when you're done, you just pick up your five-ton chest and use a recoiler to get home, then drop that chest there.

In either case, you can then just use all that loot from the chest to buy whatever the Barathrumites and/or Tam and Argyve have for sale; without ever worrying about currency conversion or value/weight efficiency.

[Nothing]

Which brings me to the next question. I got a joppa recoiler, how do I get energy cells?

[Ulrik]

You can find them relatively often. In my latest games, I had found cells after visiting Rustwells and before getting the recoiler. Even snapjaws can have them, just look at every "flaming/freezing/electric" etc weapon and see if they are loaded with cells.

[Nothing]

Right, forgot about that. I usually rush through them and leave asap, because slumberlings and snoutshots love to wreck my day there. Will have to explore more.