Pirate Market

[Deadvickyart]

the thing about the sec gear sale/traitor goods aspect of this black market concept is that you seem to be designing it to be used mainly by antags, but the truth of the matter is that it'll almost certainly be predominantly used by grayshirts, powergamers, and anyone else intent on getting their grubby hands on evil junk that they shouldn't usually have access to

I do trust the playerbase, and I believe that an overwhelming majority of them obey the rules and play in a postive manner most of the time. Usually when I see a traitor drop a katana or something, people who take the items usually just experiment with them, taunt beepsky, kill themselves with them, use them as status symbols, sell them to crewmates, save them for after the traditional end-of-round brawl, or get themselves killed with them (usually by thinking something like "Gee, with this C-saber I picked up, I'm invincible! Let's go to the ice moon!"). I don't like keeping fun toys away from the good players because some nerds (who usually get themselves banned anyway) might use them the wrong way.

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Anyway, here's a peek at my work in progress for Mad Maddy. Wrestler space pirate. This is more or less what comes to mind when I think of the random traders, like 100% Zambini or Zesty Susan or whatever. After I'm done with this passion project I might start making sprites for those. They'll pump iron with their cyborg arm for their 4 frame animation, and I need ideas for chestware.



So, this is the trader that specialises in telesci and telesci needs a lot more thought. I want people to weigh in with what each telesci zone should be worth and what items he should buy (Keep in mind that he should advertise loot in the zone. He should buy three tiers of items from each zone:
- "Reward" items at or near the end of a zone for big bucks. The weird meat weapon from the meat station is the perfect example. Mars station is fairly easy and the reward is a big pile of cash, look at that and balance accordingly - the more difficult or time consuming the zone the higher the value.
- Useful items from partway through the zones or the debris field, like soviet space suits from meat station or flare gun from the VR dungeon. Middling to low reward, something for a partial success or to shine a light on some commonly missed item.
- Weird flavour items, like the unique pen on the solarium or the eerily realistic latex mask from the biodome. Small reward, mainly just to give people an excuse to dedicate a slot to these items if they weren't going to bring them to the station already. Shouldn't offer a lot for these, this is mainly to advertise them.

Obviously, this will need to be spoiler free. If there's any places that don't have a reward that fits any of these catagories I can sprite and design something to be added there.

Also, is Katmondu permanantly removed? Literally herding cats through telesci would be funny to see.

As for what I want Mad Maddy to sell, I have no idea. What do telescience nerds and space diner regulars want? First aid kits and space suits? Solderable machine parts? Maybe sell some wrestling themed items?