• If we are not sure whether or not the trader would buy an item from us, we have to offer it, hear their 'nope, won't buy' speech, and then put it back into our inventory by hand. Not a problem in itself, but exhausting if done for many items.
  Idea: When trading, have items in your inventory that cannot be traded be marked/shaded/whatever, so that we can instantly see what the trader does not buy. The mechanic doesn't have to be changed, just mark the items.
• Traders have a limited amount of money. It would be neat if we could see that, so we know when we have to stop offering stuff, without trying to offer smaller and smaller items.
• If we sell identical items, they clutter the inventory by being listed singularly (even though stacks can be handled as well). It would be reasonable for Tony to show use one stack of 12 9mm mags instead of 12 single 9mm mags, no?
• When selling large quantities of items (like, say, using Flo to sell several truckloads of obsolete guns at once), we have repeatedly go to strategic, move guns into her inventory, go to tactical, sell them, go to strategic again... it would save a lot of time if we could access the sector inventory in tactical, at least while trading.
• While we always have to maintain compatibility to 640x480 resolution, we could increase the number of trade slots drastically if the resolution allows it, no? I mean look at this:
  

[1] If we are not sure whether or not the trader would buy an item from us, we have to offer it, hear their 'nope, won't buy' speech, and then put it back into our inventory by hand. Not a problem in itself, but exhausting if done for many items.
Idea: When trading, have items in your inventory that cannot be traded be marked/shaded/whatever, so that we can instantly see what the trader does not buy. The mechanic doesn't have to be changed, just mark the items.

[2] Traders have a limited amount of money. It would be neat if we could see that, so we know when we have to stop offering stuff, without trying to offer smaller and smaller items.

[3] If we sell identical items, they clutter the inventory by being listed singularly (even though stacks can be handled as well). It would be reasonable for Tony to show use one stack of 12 9mm mags instead of 12 single 9mm mags, no?

[4] When selling large quantities of items (like, say, using Flo to sell several truckloads of obsolete guns at once), we have repeatedly go to strategic, move guns into her inventory, go to tactical, sell them, go to strategic again... it would save a lot of time if we could access the sector inventory in tactical, at least while trading.

[5] While we always have to maintain compatibility to 640x480 resolution, we could increase the number of trade slots drastically if the resolution allows it, no? I mean look at this:

Perhaps instead of more slots, a set of tabs so once you opened a merchant you could have multiple characters (say the squad the Merc that starts the talk is in) so you could access all your buy/sell squad by having them nearby.

pheloncab wrote on Wed, 26 October 2016 22:32

Perhaps instead of more slots, a set of tabs so once you opened a merchant you could have multiple characters (say the squad the Merc that starts the talk is in) so you could access all your buy/sell squad by having them nearby.

You can already do that. Just move your mercs to Tony's room and start the trade. You can switch between the mercs and access each merc's inventory. That's how I usually do it. Pick up as much as I can with each merc, move the whole team to Tony's room and start selling until he runs out of money.

Don't you have to exit tony and re-click him for each merc? Guess I'll try that next time I load the game up, So cool I learned another trick. never can have too many of those, Thanks.