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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale / Re: Mystery Ring
« on: September 16, 2010, 08:28:46 PM »
I've heard they make chest items rare while you have the ring equipped.
I haven't tried it out though, so no guarantees that's actually the case :P

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale / Re: Louie's priority for equipment wrong?
« on: September 15, 2010, 04:38:53 PM »
Yeah, i think its related to him being a numbskull :P

The other adventurers seem to be mor intelligent when buying equipment, but they don't buy stuff they can't afford (for instance, I've never had Elan try to buy any equipment, because its all out of his price range. He sticks to food)

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale / Re: I Hate Euria Club
« on: September 15, 2010, 04:02:33 PM »
Be glad that you haven't seen her in your store :P

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale / Re: Known Issues: Recettear Demo
« on: September 15, 2010, 04:01:59 PM »
My Quadro 3500m runs Recettear just fine...

Before I updated the drivers I had all sorts of problems with other games, so maybe you need a driver update?

If you're running a 3500m like me, one of the newer drivers works great. It doesn't list 2500m as compatible (its for the later Quadros) but it installs fine, and works great.

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale / Max Fusion Multiplier?
« on: September 14, 2010, 10:49:04 PM »
I just used fusion to make an item. Before fusing, I removed all the lower multiplier ingredients from my inventory (so they wouldn't be used) and added up what I had to get +28. But when I fused the item, it was only +15...  :'(

I guess you can't get higher than +15 then, unless it turns out that mufflers have a max bonus of +15, or there's some bug or soemthin'?

Its annoying me that often by the time I get the ingredients to fuse an item, its stats are too low to matter anymore :P

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale / Re: Best Haggling Experience
« on: September 14, 2010, 10:16:07 PM »
From my customer's point of view, it had to be when I sold an expensive item for 1 pix by mistake. The old man had pissed me off by wiping out a combo. I didn't remember having the item in stock, so I set it to 1 pix, only to find out he was buying, not selling  :-X

And then, just to top it off, the little girl came to get her order, but because I'd sold it to the old man, I didn't have enough  >:(

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale / Re: Known Issues: Recettear Demo
« on: September 14, 2010, 10:13:05 PM »
Let me guess, your graphics card is intel integrated, or a *really* oooold low end card?

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale / Re: Known Issues: Recettear Demo
« on: September 14, 2010, 03:00:24 AM »
Yeah, you can't have a res in fullscreen higher than the one your screen does. Do it in any game, it will either crash or automatically lower the res.

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale / Re: The big Crunch - Day 30 to 36 help request
« on: September 12, 2010, 09:38:23 PM »
They have a larger budget when they make an advance order.

If you've repped them up a few times (got the little heart in a speech bubble) then they can pretty much afford anything.

The reall really cheap ones (Little girl and Elan) still seem to have budgetary woes though. Maybe there's a cap on how much cash they can ever spend at any one time?

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale / Re: [Typo] Caillou's request
« on: September 11, 2010, 02:01:59 PM »
Judging from Arma's appearance and... robotic... nature, I think thats intended ;)

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale / Re: Charme
« on: September 11, 2010, 04:27:52 AM »
She turns up at the Pub alot, check to see if the Pub is flashing (means there's an event availible there)

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General Discussion / Re: Post If You're Counting Down The Hours Till Release!!!
« on: September 10, 2010, 04:03:51 AM »
Well, over here Recettear will be availible when I wake up :)

Whether or not I have the bandwidth to download it is another matter :(

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale / Re: :( You guys got leaked. Early figures inside.
« on: September 10, 2010, 04:00:24 AM »
Yup, they're both wrong, but if you had to decide which was worse, pirating a very affordable game from a small indie company, or pirating an overpriced title from some huge firm who release a whole new game instead of patching their old one...

Ariolander, that post sounded scarily similar to what my cousin has to say on DRM  :o

You know its bad when the pirated version is more functional than the legal one. I believe that Steam DRM is the future, because Steam integration has more upsides than downsides, and doesn't screw over consumers.

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale / Re: :( You guys got leaked. Early figures inside.
« on: September 10, 2010, 03:46:03 AM »
The "no demo" reason is only really justifiable if you honestly will buy the game if you enjoy it - Which is pretty much never the case for pirates, because they're too poor/stingy/full of other lame excuses to pay. It can work though - Game companies have got a few more purchases from me simply because someone I know pirated a game and gave me a copy, and I liked it. Of course, these days I can afford to just buy the game outright after reading a few reviews, nevermind the risk that it might be crap. Although after wasting a significant amount of cash on Starcraft II, I think I'm going to trust the reviews a little bit less now :P

If you want to be a pirate, go play the DOS Classic "Sid Meier's Pirates!"

If you pirate this game, then be warned: SA Goons aren't your regular sort of "debt collection" agency ;)

EDIT: Wow Skip, those comments do seem quite unusual. I guess at this point most of the "pirateers" *are* impatient fans (*hopes*) :P

Also, wow at how impatient some people are :P

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Recettear: An Item Shop's Tale / Re: :( You guys got leaked. Early figures inside.
« on: September 10, 2010, 03:11:48 AM »
There are some cases where Piracy can be (at least partially) justified:
* The game is "abandonware"
A few more less justifiable and common justifications:
* The game has no demo availible to try, and costs an obscene amount (so in order to try before oyu buy, you'd *have* to pirate)
* The game is by Ubisoft, and has the worst DRM in the world (Well then, buy the legal copy, then get a crack or something :P)
And then the classicly pointless one:
* The big company won't care, its "only" one sale

If you notice, Recettear doesn't match up with ANY of those criteria. The game is actively supported, there is a demo, and the game is cheap. There's no DRM, and its also a small indie company.

Pirating Recettear is quite possibly the *worst* thing you could pirate, and then claim that it was justified. It just doesn't add up.
Sure, if you tried to justify pirating Starcraft 2, or Windows 3.1, or Assassin's Creed 2... I could understand why you did it.

Pirating Recettear.. now thats just EVIL.

EDIT: And just for the record, I did use to be a pirating scumbag (like virtually every short-of-money teen with broadband, lol)
Now that I have a stable income (or, to be precise, *any* income at all), I have bought all the ones I gained lasting enjoyment from, and I encourage everyone else to do the same.
In the case of indie game companies, they, more than any other, need the cash. The sales from this game aren't going towards making some rich exec's mansion, they're going towards making sure this guy doesn't have to live in a cardboard box... Do you seriously want to live with the fact that you being a pirating scumbag might mean this guy has to go without food for a day? DO YOU?

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