Acceptance

Several checks are done when the character enters the shop and as long as he is inside:

• Opening hours:

  Shop	Opening Hours
  Smiley's Shop	08h to 20h
  Honest Trader	08h to 21h
  Adventurer's Outfitters	08h to 19h
  Warrior's Supplies	05h to 17h
  General Store	05h to 23h
  Exclusive Outfitters	10h to 15h
  Rocky's Emporium	09h to 17h
  Best Bargain Store	09h to 21h
  Special Imports Store	10h to 14h
  Betelgeuse Sales	03h to 22h
  Merchant's Grotto	04h to 19h
  Sunset Market	09h to 19h
  Pauline's Emporium	11h to 16h
  Da Place!	08h to 17h
  Trade Winds	08h to 17h

• Character inebriation:

  If the character is or becomes Very Drunk, he is shut-out and friendship is decreased by 0.09 (23/256).

• Friendship:

  If the friendship is or becomes < 1.0, the character is shut-out by the shopkeeper.

Friendship

Initially 2.0 for each shop.

When the character enters the shop after 30 days without visiting it, the friendship may be updated:

Friendship is used by:

• The acceptance.
• The welcome message.
• The bargain.

Welcome Message

The welcome message is determined by the friendship and frequency:

The frequency is initially 0 for each shop and is only used by the welcome message.

It's reset when the character enters the shop with a friendship >= 1.0 after 30 days without visiting it.

It's increased:

• When entering (even if closed or if the character is shut-out for drunkness or low friendship).
• After a bargain.
• After the wares list.

Wares List

Wares have 4 intrinsic properties: quality, color, fabric and type. They are used to determine the following properties:

Every hour, when the characters enters the shop, 6 distinct wares are randomly chosen. Each intrinsic property has equal probability to appear except for the quality: cheap and simple have 25% each and fine 50%.

A last property depends on the shop. This is a factor applied to the ware warmth and waterproofness:

Unfortunately, a bug when accessing the array gives a factor depending on the ware quality (and not the shop):

Anyway, even if the bug wasn't there, it's strange that almost half of the shops have a null factor.

The final values for the ware warmth and waterproofness are:

• Final ware warmth = ware factor * 0.5 * ware warmth
• Final ware waterproofness = ware factor * ware waterproofness

Remarks:

• See Metabolism - Warmth for more details on character warmth.
• It seems that waterproofness is not used in the City.
• A compass can be bought for 50 coppers when leaving the shop.

Bargaining

Each shopkeeper uses a minimum and initial factor to compute the minimum and initial price:

• minimum price = base price * minimum factor
• initial price = base price * initial factor

See Smithies - Bargaining for more details on the bargaining sequence.