Item Shop Stock

[Miyka'el]

First off, I want to apologize for so many postings. What I should have done was gathered everything into one list of questions and then make the post. I'm sort of doing it as I go along and run into this stuff. Good lord, why am I still awake?

*ahem* Anyway, I was adding some stuff to my shop and it got me thinking...what if there are items that I don't want the store to sell to the player until the player has accomplished a certain task? I want my storekeeper to say something like "Oh, we just got some new stuff in stock...blah blah blah." Is it possible to hide items from the inventory until a certain event has taken place?

I will try to make this the last posting for tonight, and I apoligize if I've bumped any down in favor of my noob-ness. I have to admit, the response time I've seen so far is truely exceptional...one of the reasons I've posted so quickly I suppose. Thanks again for all the input!

[Perversion]

Re: Item Shop Stock

If you want to do this, I think you will have to make a seperate NPC selling the items.

[DYRE]

Re: Item Shop Stock

You could make two shops, lock them out of the second until the stock improves, and lock them out of the first after. Just say that they needed to move their store to fit all the new items that they got.

[Auron]

Re: Item Shop Stock

Yeah, you can do what Dyre said, or also you can make a Treasure Item that allows you to open the 2nd Shop, like a credit card, although there`s no such item like that (you can make a Golden Coin or a Lucky Coin).

[Miyka'el]

Re: Item Shop Stock

Yuck...I'm not too happy with either of those solutions. I want it to be the same shop with the same merchant...I have the story written accordingly.

Could I have maybe a second NPC with the same name as the first one, and hide the display of each respective merchant until the right time? That way when the time comes it looks like you're talking to the same person but it's really the second one, while the first one is hidden.

[ErikaFuzzbottom]

Re: Item Shop Stock

I'm pretty sure it's restricted to one merchant per shop.

[Pagerron]

Re: Item Shop Stock

Yeah, you can do what Dyre said, or also you can make a Treasure Item that allows you to open the 2nd Shop, like a credit card, although there`s no such item like that (you can make a Golden Coin or a Lucky Coin).

Since, during gameplay, you never actually see the treasure items, you could use any graphic and just call it "Credit Card."