@Sinicero this mod is functionally a lightweight version of that one, it fixes the issue of NPCs not having money. This mod gives them money in the ballpark of vanilla, that mod gives them much more.

Which one you prefer is up to your taste in game balance.

This mod basically does the same thing like the Better economy mod but giving NPC less money?

Is there any improvement?

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Dude I could kiss you, I was looking for this

@Loopstop sorry this mod is a bit low on my priority list right now. Giving NPCs expanded inventory space can work by giving them their own gigantic, or item stacking backpacks. The issue is that I can't stop the player from getting the backpacks by looting civilians.

It's been a while since I've used the kenshi editor but I believe a decent solution is adding a ton more traveling merchant style caravans and ensure they can respawn when killed. Merchant NPCs are the only ones who can hold infinite items in a way the player can't use.

Another, very silly option would be to make ores and the like edible and add behaviors where the npcs would 'eat' the ore to remove it from their inventory. I couldn't figure it out at the time but it may be the perfect solution excluding the script extender.

@gravenwitch you were talking about how to fix npcs being cluttered, is it possible to modify it so npcs have infinite inventory? (or at closest as possible to infinite) dont know if you're still working on this mod but its just a idea.

probably the best NPC shopping / economy mod

Thanks for this Gravenwitch.

By any chance if I load your mod after Cat's, will this overwrite that component of Cat's and only use yours?

Wondering if possible to still use Cat's for the clothes, armors, etc but have your logic for shopping/populated towns etc

@Jelly Creeper sadly no. Though that issue takes more than 9 months in game to be a problem vs ~3-7 days for cats to be an issue. This can be further mitigated by item stacking mods.

This problem may have some workarounds and I have been looking into it in the meanwhile. I believe the optimal solution is to provide shoppers a merchant inventory where all their items go as these inventories reset every X hours like merchants do. I have not figured out how to do this without causing further issues yet.

Worst case I will post a mod on the kenshi nexus using the script extender to fix this, no planned release date there.

Does this mod suffer from the problem where npcs inventories get cluttered over time and they stop buying things?

nice mod! I have struggled to find a shopping mod that doesnt cause everyone to go aimless for a while

Interesting. I'll give this a try.

@RagEgnite in my testing NPCs enjoy more shopping used the old version of this fix by ensuring all NPCs have spawn money to ensure wages work. At some point the bug flipped and now NPCs will only gain wages properly if they have 0 spawn money.

Enhanced Shopping Economy gives NPCs far more money than this mod does, and further expands their quantity and categories of items they shop for. This mod keeps purchase amounts similar to vanilla but expands the varieties of goods most people will buy.

For the average civilian after they do each of their 2x a day food shopping they have a 50% chance of wanting to buy a misc item. This includes most trade goods, most luxury goods, as well as narcotics, etc. After this check they have around a 10% (more for adventurer archetypes) chance of wanting to buy a piece of combat equipment or piece of clothing.

How does this mod compare with other mods that claim to do the same thing, namely NPCs enjoy more shopping and Enhanced Shopping Economy