Bartertown
v1.0
by Nekhanimal


http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=35504


This mod makes the Barter skill more useful by making the skill/effect curve much steeper. With a low Barter skill your items will sell for toenail clippings, and merchants will overcharge you horribly. With a high skill you'll be making fat wads of cash from their sorry hides.

Vanilla New Vegas:
With Barter skill 1 -> Selling at 45% of value, Buying at 155% of value.
With Barter skill 100 -> Selling at 90% of value, Buying at 110% of value.
This is without any modifiers applied, the values will be different depending on stuff like town reputation, but the merchant's barter skill doesn't matter at all. Note that the barter system is hardcoded so that you can never sell items for more, or buy them for less, than their true value, for obvious reasons.

So, even with a CH and Barter of 1 and playing on Very Hard difficulty, you can sell stuff for half of its value. Now, if you were trying to maintain a shop in an extremely hostile and competitive environment, without any government support or standardized currency, and some ugly, insecure, naive oaf stumbled into your establishment trying to trade 50 sarsaparilla bottles for a submachinegun, would you:
A: Tell him exactly where he can stick his bottles?
B: Give him the gun and the rest of your money?
If you answered B, Bartertown might not be a place where you'll want to live. If you answered A however, you can download the mod, activate one of these .esps and move to your neighborhood of choice!

BartertownDangerous.esp:
Barter skill 1 -> Selling at 5% of value, Buying at 300% of value.
Barter skill 100 -> Selling at 75% of value, Buying at 140% of value.

BartertownRough.esp:
Barter skill 1 -> Selling at 10% of value, Buying at 260% of value.
Barter skill 100 -> Selling at 80% of value, Buying at 130% of value.

BartertownPeaceful.esp:
Barter skill 1 -> Selling at 15% of value, Buying at 220% of value.
Barter skill 100 -> Selling at 85% of value, Buying at 120% of value.

BartertownIdyllic.esp:
Barter skill 1 -> Selling at 20% of value, Buying at 180% of value.
Barter skill 100 -> Selling at 90% of value, Buying at 110% of value.

Here in Bartertown we like earning caps by doing quests, finding them in random places, winning them by playing Caravan or hitting the slots. We make sure we're good pals with our merchants so they give us a discount. Sometimes we even pick the Fortune Finder perk! Sure, we dump loads of 9mm pistols and Tire Irons at our local merchant like everyone else, we just don't expect to be able to walk away with his whole inventory for it. Looking forward to seeing a bunch of new faces, now!

Good one, i like the different esp's i think ill go for the peaceful one. Thanks!

Awesome. Certainly a tweak that needs to be available for those of us who want wealth accumulation to feel like an actual accomplishment in the game (and nice to have it as a separate tweak, not requiring the larger more complex mods).

Personally, I like the barter100 values of peaceful, but the barter1 values of dangerous...

As long as Aunty Entity isn't part of the mod I'll give it a go. Her big hair frightens me.

much needed! thanks for sharing your mod with all of us :goodjob:

hum.. small question, Bartertown alters global settings? if i add a custom item to a vendor the value of that item will be altered too, based on my barter skill ?

Nice, I just wanted to the same mod for my needs

Now I only have to increase the prices for stims and ammo a bit further

Glad you all like it! Any custom added items should be affected by this mod, unless they are special (like NCR money which stays the same values). The settings I've tweaked are
fBarterBuyBase
fBarterBuyMult
fBarterSellBase
fBarterSellMult
Feel free to edit these yourself.

Ok, tank you!

I must be getting old, either no one knows who Aunty Entity is or my joke fell flat

Wherever you go - there you are!