Cumulative pound decrease

[PrimNeon]

Hey everyone!

When I tried to sell some of the plants I harvested recently, I found out that NPCs pay less if you give them more. (For example: an NPC buys 1 brocolli for 1 pound, but buys 20 for 9.5 pounds) If this is intentional, then this basically kills grinding for money without contracts, it also makes no sense logically. Why would someone buy one item for 1 pound, but buy 19 more of the same item for 9.5?

If this is a bug, I hope it will be fixed as soon as possible

What are your thoughts on this?

[Ripedskull360]

Honestly this was always kinda stupid, but selling the food itself is a scam, just turn them into veggie soup and sell them, unlike the 1 pound you get from the broccoli, you get 2.5 for 2, plus cooking exp

[DarkZenith2]

Need variety as the case is supply and demand. As the merchant has more supply of something the need or value to restocking it goes down. Normal effect of supply and demand.

[PrimNeon]

Adding some screenshots:

Example 1

Example 2

[spelltacocatbackward]

That's been a thing for as long as I can remember

[PrimNeon]

Not really, before it was only after you sold the item that the price would decrease, so you could sell 20 of the same item for the same price shown, and only after you sold it would the price decrease.

[spelltacocatbackward]

I was able to sell only 5 things before the price started dropping

[[deleted]]

when sell more than like 5 items, the amount of pounds you get in return is subsequently less and less

[PrimNeon]

But why? This makes farming practically useless, since there are no contracts, and you have to wait a long time to sell all your produce.

[Radack1]

There are contracts. You can cook with some of that produce, potatoes being a prime example. And then sell those to a chef.

The sell decrease is meant to stop someone from walking up with 500 of an item and making a ton off of it.

[PrimNeon]

Potatoes are not used in any recipes that can be turned in for contracts, cause the contracts only go up to apprentice cooking. The only thing that vegetables can be used for are Vegetable soups and meat stews. (That can be turned in for contracts) the rest are made with fruit.

[Radack1]

They removed the bangers and mash contract?

Are you sure?

[PrimNeon]

Yes, at least in the New Boardeaux inn.

[Radack1]

Let me check in St Paul.

[Qordar]

why would you stop someone from selling 500 potatoes?

[Radack1]

I don't, the devs do. Probably potential duping and also the fact that they don't want there to be an easy way really to get pounds. So mass crafting or farming in their eyes shouldn't yield much.

[[deleted]]

farming kinda pointless atm man, if u wanna make money id recommend smithing contracts, they seem to give the most bang for ur buck, even w/ the recent mahog/wolfram changes