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[OOC Thread] The Lesser of Two Heresies.
HexaDoken:
UHHHHHHHHHHH
Dear LuckyDee, you said that I returned the last throne to Van Bohr, but actually I didn't. I just decided to gift it to the random stranger I see for lulz, but I didn't yet. Just to point out a logical flaw in your post.
To buy a weapon, you must roll for it's availability. It is an Inquiry test(basic Investigation skill, fellowship(oops I have 19 fel and no skill)), and it gains bonuses or penalties from 3 factors.
1) Item's availability. Each item has it's own availability - higher it is, more bonus you get, lower it is, more penalty you get.
2) Population of community in which you search for the item. Searching in a 10,000+ people city will give us a nice bonus of +20, while searching in a community of less than 100 people will give us a -10 penalty.
3) Item's craftmanship. Poor is +10, Common is 0, Good is -10 and Best is -20.
But of course GM can change all that. Honestly, with my 19 fellowship and no inquiry skill, my chance of finding a common item of poor quality will be 50% at best.
THATS A BIT TOO SMALL, DONT YA THINK?
LuckyDee:
--- Quote from: HexaDoken on June 08, 2012, 03:04 ---Dear LuckyDee, you said that I returned the last throne to Van Bohr, but actually I didn't. I just decided to gift it to the random stranger I see for lulz, but I didn't yet. Just to point out a logical flaw in your post.
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Oh, I misunderstood then... I'll edit the post.
--- Quote from: HexaDoken on June 08, 2012, 03:04 --- Honestly, with my 19 fellowship and no inquiry skill, my chance of finding a common item of poor quality will be 50% at best. THATS A BIT TOO SMALL, DONT YA THINK?
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Yes I do. That's why we have 'Motormouth' MkLear with us. :)
The fact that you are the one who wants to buy an item, doesn't mean that you have to be the one to do the actual purchase.
In fact, I was aiming for the IC thread to take a turn towards us getting to know each other on a professional level; it should soon become obvious that both MkLear and Lazerus are from Hive worlds themselves, and thus know their way around. This gives you ample opportunity to turn this knowledge to your advantage, for example where shopping is concerned.
HexaDoken:
* HexaDoken calculates
60%. Not much actually.
I'm still thinkin of my role in the team. Most probably I'll just be the main source of brute force. But I'm still thinkin :P
LuckyDee:
You're miscalculating by the way: the table only runs up to 'Easy', for a +30 modifier. There's also 'Very Easy' (+40?) and 'Automatic' (sic). So with availability Plentiful and population <100,000, a poor quality item is still automatically available, generally speaking.
Klear:
Well, I want to buy a revolver and ammo which is both automatic success (AP rounds are scarce, but I can live without them I guess).
I'm worried about the flak jacket I really really want. It's average, so +20, half of my Fel is 19, so I'll roll against 39, not the greatest odds. I think we should make a list of what everyone needs and then split up and search individually, so that each of us can roll for availability (if that is how it works).
Edit: Hmm... I might even get a compact revolver. It might be useful to be able to easily sneak a wepon wherever relatively easy.
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