Are we getting shop price bargaining (please say no)

[IronJelly]

If you read some of the changes on crawl.develz.org/trunk/ there are two entries a few lines down mentioning something I've not seen in Crawl before:

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2dcda89 | Pekka Lampila | 2013-04-12 10:43:40 -0500

Show lowered prices on shopping list with bargain
Also don't give invalid "You cannot afford" prompt if the item is only
affordable thanks to bargain status.

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6ea6a6e | Pekka Lampila | 2013-04-12 10:43:35 -0500

Ignore bargaining when adding to the shopping list

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I am very curious what this is actually talking about, as last i checked, bargaining isn't an option in the game. In fact, i'm pretty sure it goes against parts of the game's philosophy. I may be reading too deeply into this though, or it may be referring to something else.

Bargaining might maybe be alright as a mutation. Call it "empathic speech" and lower (or as a bad mutation, call it "tourettes" and raise) shop prices by 5/15/25%, but i can't see it being a skill in the game that you would train.

[crate]

pretty sure this is referring to the bargain card

[Grimm]

[prozacelf]

The one and only time I've ever drawn a bargain card I was about a mile deep in Lair.....

[Psieye]

Bargain card has been around long ago, this is just fixing some interface quirkiness with it.

[Sandman25]

It looks like stacking bargain cards can be useful before Orc4.

[Sojiro]

Bargain is from the Deck of Oddities so you can't aim for them. Unless you noticed one while peeking!

[prozacelf]

To be fair, the effect does last quite a while longer than I expected it to. But it still would have been touch and go for me to haul up 6 or so floors of Lair and another 4-5 floors of dungeon to get to a shop that didn't have anything I wanted that badly anyway, so it was just a waste for me.

[Sandman25]

To be fair, the effect does last quite a while longer than I expected it to. But it still would have been touch and go for me to haul up 6 or so floors of Lair and another 4-5 floors of dungeon to get to a shop that didn't have anything I wanted that badly anyway, so it was just a waste for me.

The duration is not reliable.

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random2(power) + random2(power) + 2

With power 700 it can last from 2 to 1400 turns.

[prozacelf]

Awesome. Even more reason not to bother with decks unless I wanna use Nemelex.

[mrbobbyg]

Prozac, imo decks can be useful if you have enough identify scrolls to make sense of them. If you find a deck of escape for example, the Tomb card can save you from some really horrible situations.

[prozacelf]

I wasn't really implying they were useless. But blind drawing them seems like a bad idea, and I don't usually have so many ID scrolls sitting around that I want to use them on decks. On the occasions that I do, sure. Or if I'm using Nem and there's a tangible benefit to blind drawing periodically.

[IronJelly]

Ok, I really don't use Nemelex. Thanks for the answer though.