Post: #8

Well it is more than that: Okay. Everything Coruja said is exactly right, but what is being left out is that if there is no value set to an item that Sphere will calculate item value based on value of every item in the RESOURCES= Property.

If you want items to sell at a normal price, set your tag.vendormarkup with a value of -15. You can then override this on each vendor and set the tag to those vendors. I keep tossing around editing the source to add in more code handling for the value itself. It used to be value=<1_val>,<2_val> with 1 being for buy value and 2 for sell value. Which is what I think should truly be done, because even EA, sell values are 50% of item cost and they increment/decreases prices based on sales that day on that vendor. It is actually interesting how they handled their commerce. Another thought was to avoid two values per item and just edit tag.vendormarkup into two tags. Tag.vendorbuymarkup and tag.vendorsellmarkup. This would give more control over buy/sell prices.

Personally I like both ends of it. Like you could charge 100,000 gp for an item and have it only sell back for 1gp. Which is the most precise control. But the tag idea would be more for a mass control versus individual. Maybe both would be ideal.