» Sun Mar 06, 2011 8:53 pm
Okay, thought of a new thing.
How about being able to place orders at merchants?
Let me go into detail.
Say you want some 40mm grenades for your grenade rifle/launcher, it can be kinda hard to find that specific item in stock.
So at weapon and ammo traders you can place two orders, with 50 barter you can place three and with 100 you can place 4.
When you place an order it will take three in game days until it's arrive to their shop.
The items you ordered are in a separate shop window initiated through dialogue and cannot go away, this is your order, and will stay so until you actually buy it.
Each item you buy from your order costs 25% more (due to specific shipping costs) with 100 in barter it will be 5% more.
When you place an order you get a huge list of things available to order.
But you can't order ammo, weapons, armor, mods or anything from a doctor.
So when you place an order you don't get to decide how much you'll get.
Placing an order on C4 will net you 3 to 6 of them, the higher your luck the more likely you're going to get the most out of that order.
Placing an order on Mininukes will net you 2 to 4.
Placing an order on Max Charge Microfusion Cells will net you 50 to 100.
Placing an order on regular Microfusion Cells will net you 200 to 400.
Why would I want this in the game?
Cause it can be hard to get what you specifically want sometimes.
Say I want 10 Fixers to help that junkie in the quest for the Followers, then I need to go around to all the doctors and see if they have them.
If I only got 5 at all doctors in total then I need to wait three days and go around to all of them again.
That is [censored] annoying as hell.
And it can be even more annoying for an Explosives character.
So with this mechanic you could get ammo for those weapons that is rare to have in the shop.
This doesn't mean you can exploit it and get 50.000 mininukes.
It's all dependent on what you order.
If the ammo is for a weapon that is incredibly powerful then the ammo you get from the order will be balanced in order to not exploit it.
One should even be able to order Alien Power Cells but that is a whole other thing.
The APC would be costly, you pay 200% more for each power cell than it's usual value (Because logically it's a very very rare ammo type) and you only get 5 to 10 APC's per order.
This would work for most items in the game.
You could place orders on food at places like Grub And Gulp.
Place order on medical items like drugs, doctors bags and healing items at doctors.
And orders on weapons, ammo and armor at general stores or gun holders.
You cannot place orders on Energy Weapons or their ammo at the Gun Runners, for that you need to place it at a general store in Novac, Primm or Goodsprings or place it at Van Graffs.
The items also follow a certain level requirement to avoid people exploiting it to get the best weapon for their class at lvl 3.
So really good items like APC's, Gauss Rifle, Anti-Materiel Rifle, Grenade Machine Gun, Zap Glove and Rippers will not be available for you at lower levels.
And uhm...
Yeah I think this about covers it.