how can i modify what kinds of goods a merchant buys?

[stevie70]

i have a vendor that should

1) only accept food items

2) accept no caps, but trade his goods for food items only

(if those two are actually really two separate things)

really hope someone can help on that, would be a real storyline breaker if i can't get that to work (or i'd have to do some messagebox-menu-crap for that), but i can't seem to figure it out - best thing i could acchieve so far is control what they sell (but not what they buy) and pop up the barter menu in no-money-needed-at-all-mode (which isn't quite what i want either), which isn't really much...

[stevie70]

*bump* :-)

[Korodic]

*bump* :-)

I can honestly say I've never seen a modification like this.

 

In dead money the dev's used a machine with a redeem (custom) list for the tokens rather than editing their trade screen.

 

I don't believe there is a way to do this as the trade screen is likely to be hard-coded into the game. I too was looking for a way at one point to make NCR and Legion $ to be usable to their faction merchants... The only possible solution I could think of would be to use a script when dealing with specific merchants that would monitor your current legion money... and when you trade with a legion merchant it temporarily converts it to caps and then determines how much legion money to give back and so on... but even that sounds like a logistical challenge.

[stevie70]

I can honestly say I've never seen a modification like this.

In dead money the dev's used a machine with a redeem (custom) list for the tokens rather than editing their trade screen.

yep, that in fact got me heavily concerned, too, i have to say...

 

I don't believe there is a way to do this as the trade screen is likely to be hard-coded into the game.

maaan, i really hate killer words like that... :-)

but apart from emotionalities, how was that done in oblivion? or ok at least SOMETHING like it, before you had a certain barter skill, you could only sell the same kinds of items they sell to a merchant, so there should at least be some way to narrow the selection... please don't say hardcoded now or i'll scream ;-))

 

I too was looking for a way at one point to make NCR and Legion $ to be usable to their faction merchants... The only possible solution I could think of would be to use a script when dealing with specific merchants that would monitor your current legion money... and when you trade with a legion merchant it temporarily converts it to caps and then determines how much legion money to give back and so on... but even that sounds like a logistical challenge.

tell me about it... i spend most of my modding time figuring out weird workarounds :-)

hm... what comes to mind (meaning not thought through the slightest :-) about that legion money thing, have you thought about doing it the other way around? i mean, just, before transaction, _rename_ the caps to legion money and then back? yeah i'm pretty sure there's some good reason why this is stupid, presumably gonna come to me the moment i click reply :-)