Trade Goods

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are the trade goods worth different amounts at different merchants? and what is the difference between the blue and yellow symbol next to a trade good?

[Prozac]

The yellow $ means that it's price is same in all merchants.

[AlmightyDunkle]

As said above while water prices change depending on your ego and bargaining skills trade goods remain the same.
It’s generally better to horde a lot of trade goods and have just enough water to survive your current journey as it will generally weigh less than having 10 waterskins all full of 64 drams of water.

[Prozac]

Originally posted by AlmightyDunkle:

As said above while water prices change depending on your ego and bargaining skills trade goods remain the same.
It’s generally better to horde a lot of trade goods and have just enough water to survive your current journey as it will generally weigh less than having 10 waterskins all full of 64 drams of water.

All the trade goods? Even those with the blue $? Didn't observe that. So all the bracelets worth the same at different merchants?

[DuckBoy]

You can sell anything to anybody for exactly the same price.

There are a few trade goods that don't change price depending on your stats, normal ones are copper and the various gems at $50 increments. A dram of water, of course, is always worth one dram.

[Rittless]

Blue dollar sign means your effective water-trading price for the item. The price is indeed affected by your skill tree (or negative mutation), and your Ego skill. Note that it is only your Ego bonus that affects the price, though, so an extra point in Ego that doesn't increment your bonus modifier won't give you better prices.

Yellow dollar sign are 'fixed price' goods that always trade for that amount of water. Even if you had 1 Ego and the Socially Repugnant mutation.

Generally speaking it is a much better idea to trade for yellow-dollar-sign items (usually copper, bronze etc.) than it is to carry enormous amounts of water around. The bronze ingots were too heavy (before the latest patches) but otherwise all of the items you can trade get you more water than their equivalent weights.

Your trade prices will NOT vary across different NPCs, so there's no Drug Wars/Elite-style trade routing you can do in this game. I'm not convinced that's a bad thing...

[Prozac]

Originally posted by Ritty:

Blue dollar sign means your effective water-trading price for the item. The price is indeed affected by your skill tree (or negative mutation), and your Ego skill. Note that it is only your Ego bonus that affects the price, though, so an extra point in Ego that doesn't increment your bonus modifier won't give you better prices.

Yellow dollar sign are 'fixed price' goods that always trade for that amount of water. Even if you had 1 Ego and the Socially Repugnant mutation.

Generally speaking it is a much better idea to trade for yellow-dollar-sign items (usually copper, bronze etc.) than it is to carry enormous amounts of water around. The bronze ingots were too heavy (before the latest patches) but otherwise all of the items you can trade get you more water than their equivalent weights.

Your trade prices will NOT vary across different NPCs, so there's no Drug Wars/Elite-style trade routing you can do in this game. I'm not convinced that's a bad thing...

So it's great.

One thing that I've learnd is that the rule of thumb is since 4 drams of water = pound, everything that's fall beyond this point must be selled.

You only carry things that worth way better than 1 # - 4 drams