Price of bins doesn't reflect the price of its content

[stiff tapir]

While trading, the price of a full bin does not always correspond to its content. When it happens, buying or selling a full crate is at the player disadvantage. The price difference is HUGE and not caused by rounding error or by the price of the bin.

Example:

I'm selling a bin containing 170 socks. The full crate is worth ~3500¤. The 170 socks selected one by one are worth 13159¤.

In the same trade agrement, I want to buy a bin of 10 rope reed cloths. The full bin is worth ~1000¤. The 10 cloths selected one by one are worth 340¤.

So basically, selecting the items one by one is 10 times more profitable than buying/selling full crates.

It seems to depend on the content of the crate. In the same caravan, they sold the full crate of wool cloth 200¤, or 170¤ if selected one by one. Accounting for the price of the bin itself, and rounding error, there is no apparent bug here.

I'm playing on normal difficulty, although I tried changing it to hard economy but it did not change anything for the current caravan.

[tired trellis]

What's your broker's appraisal skill? @stiff tapir

This sounds like it might be "technically not a bug but really silly" if your appraisal skill is less than legendary.

Basically your broker is bad at guessing the value of high value items like bins full of stuff, but good if you have them judge/sell each item individually.

Which of course makes no sense, so it still should be considered a bug yeah.

Sounds like the math for appraisal and containers needs to be tweaked.

[stiff tapir]

He is not good because I just replaced the old broker. But I'm not sure it's related. And even if it is, it's bad game design.

[stiff marsh]

Yeah this is a thing that actually goes both ways actually which is why im fine with it... if your broker is bad at their job theyll massively undercut you and sometimes get outright scammed... meanwhile you can do the same ive gotten plenty of bins of high value leather and the like for around a 1000 when it should be so much more... just watch out with gem bins you might have one or two absolutely insanely priced ones in there and sell it alongside a ton of trash for much less than its worth... think of it like a bulk discout

[stiff tapir]

I'm not against random prices or getting screwed because I have a newb broker. I'm against having to click 250 times because it's 10 times more profitable that way, and just not worth it to buy full bins.