(no) discount in player shops

I agree Silver, its really hard to decide a good price when putting things in your own shop.

Great point, I would love to set some of my prices lower but then high level players can take advantage and I can be selling it for no reason and just sell it to the store. It should not count in player shops. It's okay in Ali's shop.

I agree with you guys that it is kind of annoying, but I don't think you can just eliminate tax entirely from player shops. If you did there wouldn't be much point to having the merchant lvl because the only thing most people buy from Ali is CPU, HD, and Memory. Maybe something a little different like having the ability to set different prices for people below lvl 50 and those above lvl 50 would work better than eliminating tax all together.

If you did there wouldn't be much point to having the merchant lvl

merchant:
lower price of items in the shop and bank api functions.

because the only thing most people buy from Ali is CPU, HD, and Memory.

and cards (sometimes you find a good one in the store - I found a +8dam card there once) and UAFW. This can be more important if there are more shop only items with high prices.

Maybe something a little different like having the ability to set different prices

suggestion about more control about discount/prices in player shops:
http://www.hackwars.net/node/506#comment-1165

I thought about another way which could make merchant (and other skills) more important (for functions). The limited benefits for scan and firewall listed below are the reasons why I started a new suggestion thread.
http://www.hackwars.net/node/540

again about
If you did there wouldn't be much point to having the merchant lvl
firewall skill:
< level 95: none. (every firewall can be aquired easier by hacking NPCs)
>=level 95: be able to buy UAFW from shop on your own.
other benefit: adds to your total level.

Scan skill:
the higher your scan level the better your chance to get more information about your target when you scan him - which is nothing when you don't want to leave trails by scanning him. It adds to your total level too, but it has "limited" benefits...

So I don't really think removing discount in player shops would be so bad to the merchant skill. And low level players would benefit from fairer prices in player shops (their bad discount removed AND reduced prices)

Why do you think we wanted store API functions for HTTP? How about setPrice(float); or getMerchLvl(); etc?

Then players would have the option to add a snippet, or even do some other cool stuff with it.

Don't you think store API in HTTP would be sweeet?

-LTL

I started this suggestion because it is easier/faster to change then the store functions ( my opinion ). No matter of whatever will happen about the store functions.
I am aware of "HTTP API and the store".
my post in that thread: Sat, 03/07/2009 - 16:10 — Silverlight
when I started this suggestion: Sat, 03/07/2009 - 16:13 — Silverlight
(i think it is in locale time. and I wrote both posts at the same time)

In "HTTP API and the store" you all talked about how to integrate the shop into the webpage - not about setting prices or the discount. Really no word about that.

Now the suggestion of this thread and "HTTP API and the store" will influence the trading in HW but both suggestions can be dealt with independently

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And like I already pointed:
suggestion about more control about discount/prices in player shops:
http://www.hackwars.net/node/506#comment-1165
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