[crossfire] Selling price variance and buying price variance

[Mitch Obrian]

I think the variance is a good thing.
Please keep it.

--- Brendan Lally <
     brenlally at gmail.com
     > wrote:

>
      On 11/8/05, Mark Wedel <
      mwedel at sonic.net
      > wrote:
     >
      > Brendan Lally wrote:
     >
      > > This is because there is an arbitrary adjustment
     >
      to price based on the
     >
      > > item count and map name, it is in the range of
     >
      +-5% it is designed to
     >
      > > allow otherwise identical shops to give a small
     >
      variation in price.
     >
      > >
     >
      > > Possibly it shouldn't apply to shops selling
     >
      items, only buying them?
     >
      >
     >
      >   How does it do that?  does it just randomize the
     >
      price in the query strings
     >
      > (if so, how does that remain consistent), or does
     >
      it change the actual objects
     >
      > value?
     >
     
     >
      It is the price returned by query_cost that changes.
     >
     
     >
      lines 295-300 server/shop.c
     >
      /* we will also have an extra 0-5% variation between
     >
      shops of the same type
     >
      	 * for valuable items (below a value of 50 this
     >
      effect wouldn't be very
     >
      	 * pointful, and could give fun with rounding.
     >
      	 */
     >
      	if(who->map->path!=NULL && val > 50)
     >
     
     >
     
     val=(sint64)val+0.05*(sint64)val*cos(tmp->count+strlen(who->map->path));
>
     
     >
      making this not apply to a shop when it sells items,
     >
      is as simple as
     >
      adding an '&& flag == F_SELL' to the if statement.
     >
     
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