ExpWarehouse - Proposed Changes

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ExpWarehouse - Proposed Changes

Post by time_limited » Wed Nov 20, 2019 9:54 am

After spending now in total of about 12 playhours with the Expanded Warehouse and its options I would like to suggest the following changes to it:

1 Remove the "Class" option
The Class option for the warehouse is a complete OOC method that breaks the IC and can be used to metagame the character classes.
The Class option is very restrictive and setting it up would require one to know the class composition of other characters.
How in IC a character would know that?

2. Remove the flat 25% tax on Sales
I don't understand its purpose completely - the players who are handling the warehouse should have full control over the pricing and its their own responsibility and IC consequences if they screw up. Existence of the flat 25 limits the possible pricing models you can set in the warehouse.

3. Factions options
The factions integration should be the MAIN focus of the expanded warehouse as it allows the players to control the Warehouse based on IC interactions

a) At present we have trippling of the system which could have been much easier and more understandable - we have Factions, Divisions.. and Restrictions.
Remove the Restrictions group and bake warehouse control simply into Faction. Enabling it would require simply to define the faction in the warehouse.

b) Allow finer control over faction prices in the warehouse.
The fact that all factions are treated as the same in the warehouse limits possible pricing setups.
at present if we define Faction A and B into the warehouse they both fall into the category of Faction price.
Whereas an ideal situation would be to allow Faction A to have prices at 30% while Faction B have prices at 130% of base.

c) Allow Race&Faction option for the warehouse pricing

4 Allow the NPC to output all of the Sell or Buy prices in one dialog answer
Effective management of the warehouse requires using NWN Log parsing to be effective , make it more accessible by adding an option of outputting whole product list at once instead of 5 subsections that have to be glued together from logs

5 Make it more visually understandable in which selection category you are currently (ex Race)
Right now it's easy to get lost simply because the indicator in which section you are is written in small white letters. Make the capital and colored something like:
RACE configuration
RACE&CITIZEN configuration


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Re: ExpWarehouse - Proposed Changes

Post by Irongron » Wed Dec 18, 2019 4:03 pm

Morderon's system, leaving this for him to decide on.

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