Shop quality text doesn't appear for guilds

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13thsyndicate
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Shop quality text doesn't appear for guilds

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In Classic, every non-temple guild had a shop quality just like stores did, like "Rusty relics lie wherever..." or "Incense and soft music..." etc. In DFU these popups don't show, even though in Classic they did affect the prices of services inside the guild (such as buying spells from a Mage's Guild).

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Re: Shop quality text doesn't appear for guilds

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13thsyndicate wrote: Sat Aug 01, 2020 10:01 am In Classic, every non-temple guild had a shop quality just like stores did
A bit of a correction: TG and DB don't show them, but the Knightly Orders, MG and FG do.

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Re: Shop quality text doesn't appear for guilds

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Oops, sorry. I've never done TG or DB in Daggerfall so.

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Re: Shop quality text doesn't appear for guilds

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Displaying the message seems simple enough:
https://github.com/Interkarma/daggerfal ... op-quality

However I noticed that standard spells cost didn't vary from MG to MG, so some logic may be missing...
What services should be affected exactly?
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Re: Shop quality text doesn't appear for guilds

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Pretty sure it was decided that it was not applicable to guilds, but it's a long time ago so I could be wrong.
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Re: Shop quality text doesn't appear for guilds

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This is intentional. Shop quality messages don't appear to fit guilds very meaningfully, and the descriptive text seems more suited to shops. Not all guilds display these even in classic, only a few of them. It seems inconsistent and more like a bug in classic. This topic went through the community some years back and the decision was not to display for guilds.

Spell costs formula is based on skil values - building quality does not factor in at all. Some other guild services might change based on building quality.

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