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Post by grävling on Apr 12, 2015 4:11:16 GMT -5
Brand new baby knight. Sniper. Negotiation skill of 0. I am escorting a mark through Ganger land to Copley Square from Boston Harbor. Some people meet me in the street, wanting to move the timeline of the job. A quick round of negotiation raises the job price by 0, to a total of 1590 but the timeline is much shorter now. The bosses will be pleased.I guess I shouldn't have said those things about the way the leader was dressed ....  |
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Post by fallen on Apr 12, 2015 8:49:36 GMT -5
Thanks, will look into this set of edge conditions. Should probably just disable the Negotiate button.
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Post by grävling on Apr 12, 2015 9:52:06 GMT -5
I didn't think of it as a bug, just something very funny.
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Post by fallen on Apr 12, 2015 9:58:06 GMT -5
"The bosses will be pleased."  |
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Post by grävling on Apr 12, 2015 10:27:55 GMT -5
They are getting the job done, quicker, for no more money. Extremely pleased, I would say. |
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Post by slayernz on Apr 12, 2015 16:58:04 GMT -5
Oh you didn't say how much the deal went from in the first instance ... if it went up by zero, then there is no bug. WELL even a person who is absolutely crap at negotiation would try and get something thrown in for a shorter timeframe. No, on second thought, I've seen too many Americans at asian markets  |
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Post by grävling on Apr 13, 2015 2:29:03 GMT -5
It went up by 0. When I went to university in Toronto, some Chinese friends of mine taught me that many of the markets had different prices marked in Chinese numerals than in Western numberals. (wow, a use for all that mahjongg!) They also taught me how to count in Cantonese, and
how to say 'I am not playing those inflated prices for westerners' (well, actually somthing a good bit ruder than that) so that I could get the good prices. I wonder if they still do that.
Grävling
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Post by slayernz on Apr 13, 2015 4:36:00 GMT -5
They look for the white skin and loud talking, and they go ... Mmmm, American prey. Let's sell this thing that costs $1 for $50. They might bargain down to $45. Usually they don't though. Muahahahaha
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Post by grävling on Apr 13, 2015 8:44:45 GMT -5
Well, these were in Toronto brick-and-mortar stores. If the prices were marked in Arabic numerals and in Chinese characters, sometimes it was
a convenience for grandmothers who still couldn't read Arabic numbers ... though I honestly met many grandmothers who could not speak English
but who had the numbers down cold. But mostly, if you could read the prices, you could see that the Chinese ones were cheaper. Lots cheaper. I lived in the middle of Toronto's chinatown while I was at university.
I was supposed to live in University residence, but they had a rule about how late women could be out at night, and a different one about having men in the building, and, well, physics majors needed to work all night on problem sets, so I got expelled. Knowing that this was coming, I was looking for a place I could afford (must not cost much of anything) when, amazingly, a friend of mine said that there was a place listed which had 2 bedrooms (so much larger than I was thinking of) for something I could afford, and it had been up for a month and no takers. The renter was listed as 'speaks cantonese only'. The advert was in chinese script, and at the chinese student union.
I couldn't believe that I could get a place that was a walk to classes -- I was all set for the 1 and a half hour commute to get to my price range -- as Chinatown in Toronto borders the south border of where all the university buildings are, but on the other hand it wasn't much of a walk to find out the place was already rented. So my friend and I went there.
It was on top of the 3rd largest chinese fish market in town, so the smell at ground level was rather pungent. Upstairs and in the apartment,
it was fine. And, yes indeed, it was available. I grabbed it. And spent nearly 4 extremely happy years there. It turns out that the
best way I had to make the rent every month was to cook lobsters and have a lobster party the first friday of every month. Lobsters were cheaper at my place than at a comparable restaurant downtown. We also did tempura vegetables, shrimp, and on occasion pieces of lobster. The company was eclectic and interesting. Much wine, beer, sake and Chinese rice wine was drunk. People had a good time. It was a party where you paid for the food.
And my landlord, unlike other Toronto landlords who scream and yell if the rent is not there on the first, was the first to understand that
I could make more money if I had my feast the first friday after payday at the university, which was in the fourth week of the month. So getting the rent on the monday thereafter was always perfectly fine with him. He gave me the restaurant rate on seafood and fish for the
feasts, as well, which I think might have been illegal.
I went back to Toronto, and now where the place stood there is a huge apartment complex. I hope he got a _great_ price for the thing.
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Post by Cory Trese on Apr 13, 2015 8:52:54 GMT -5
It sounds like your Knight shot off their mouth, and wound up bragging about how they were going to finished the job in half the time for no extra pay!
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Post by grävling on Apr 13, 2015 11:07:43 GMT -5
It sounds like your Knight shot off their mouth, and wound up bragging about how they were going to finished the job in half the time for no extra pay! I can well believe that. And given a 1 job computer, it would not be wrong, either ... |
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Post by Officer Genious on Apr 13, 2015 12:18:45 GMT -5
It sounds like your Knight shot off their mouth, and wound up bragging about how they were going to finished the job in half the time for no extra pay! That's not how it works. That's not how any of it works.  (e-surance meme INBOUND!) |
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Post by slayernz on Apr 13, 2015 17:22:55 GMT -5
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Post by Officer Genious on Apr 13, 2015 23:52:56 GMT -5
Is it me or does that cat look like its got WAY too many fingers? Damn it, I thought my meat suit was perfect for human camoflauge, ala Men in Black...
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