Drastically nerf the barter value of fiction books

[Inglonias]

Summary

Balance "Drastically nerf the value of fiction books"

Purpose of change

I think it's a little silly that I can sell three novels for a gun at the refugee center, and it depends which novels they are.

Describe the solution

All fiction books have a barter value of 50 cents for paperback or 1 dollar for hardcover.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I tried making this into a mod instead, but the number of dependencies and snippets in the book section makes this infeasible. If someone better at JSON-fu than I am can make a mod for this instead, I would also accept that.

Testing

Tested in my personal install. It seems to work.

Additional context

If this is not wanted, I would appreciate some help with modding this. It looks like just modding the abstract does not work.

[RenechCDDA]

These prices seem too low for the pricing guide

[Inglonias]

I would argue that novels and other fiction books are pretty common and have limited use - If your only objection is the number itself, I would be willing to change them, but I maintain that a base price of 1500 cents is a little much.

[Novacat]

Edit: I have been informed that book values are already redefined in magiclysm, so my concern was unwarranted.

[RenechCDDA]

I would argue that novels and other fiction books are pretty common and have limited use - If your only objection is the number itself, I would be willing to change them, but I maintain that a base price of 1500 cents is a little much.

The values you ar PRing are 50-100 cents, not 1500 cents.

[Inglonias]

1500 cents is the current value

[RenechCDDA]

Common items that are useful tend to be in the ~(250-2000) price range.

[GuardianDll]

we use this guide awfully rare, so i question how valid the approach described in it is, because, as it stands right now, the books totally match the guide, yet their price is deemed to be too high

[RenechCDDA]

we use this guide awfully rare, so i question how valid the approach described in it is, because, as it stands right now, the books totally match the guide, yet their price is deemed to be too high

250(cents) would be in the price range.

And paying less attention to standards will not help. (Next week someone will come by and crank the prices right back up because [argument that it's too low].)

[GuardianDll]

If it should be 250 cents, i tend to agree in this case

wonder if there is a chance we can CI it somehow and, most importantly, is it necessary

[Inglonias]

I would be willing to raise the baseline price to 250 cents. It will have to be later though - I am currently away from my dev computer.

[Nebnis]

My argument that it should be high value is that entertainment is one of the 3 foundations of any society. It is security, food, and entertainment. If i were living in the Apocalypse, i would totally trade resources for movies or fiction books, not everything to do with survival has to do with staying alive, boredom is part of it too.

[Inglonias]

Closing on the grounds that I don't wanna anymore. If someone else wants to do this, fine.

[GuardianDll]

Looks good for me, if you don't mind, i would prefer to merge it as is

[Inglonias]

I do mind that you reopened the pull request after I closed it, but can't exactly stop you from merging it at this point.

[GuardianDll]

Sorry, i saw it being unmerged only after you closed it
I didn't mean to be disrespectful, if that looked like i was