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  • The point is solid, but one part of the example doesn’t work as an opposite in my experience. “Acted like a total queen” is an insult around here, because it implies a sense of being above everyone else and expected that everything revolve around them.

    It doesn’t get flipped like the first half.



  • It was never a system that existed to just verify the ability to get a loan. Banks were the ones who did that.

    The credit score was always a measure of how individuals took on an paid off debt in a way that the creditors wanted for maximum profits. That’s why it wasn’t something individuals even had access to until they came up with a way to have people interested enough that they would pay for the privilege of being able to see their personal debt monkey score.

    It has always been a shit system for the average person.




  • Look, you started by saying Bethesda games don’t have encumbrance but Skyrim was the first game I thought of that had stuff you couldn’t use but had some kind of value and weight and encumbrance was a huge part of Skyrim when wearing heavy armor. There is even a whole strategy of figuring out value for the weight to increase the amount of value you get when selling. Baldur’s Gate 3 and I assume earlier ones have the same thing.

    We are talking about the games that have those things when saying they are an issue. Of course it isn’t an issue in games that don’t have it, but when it exists it absolutely is an issue, especially when game mechanics include a ‘loot all’ option. There you need to drop what you don’t want.

    Hell, inventory management by space and encumbrance have been a thing for all the years I have played rpgs. Not having either seems more like the exception to me.


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    I’m talking about the things you can’t use, like bowls and trinkets and other stuff that games frequently include as ‘white’ items that literally cannot be used. Those things that exist to be sold to vendors.

    They have been in many of the rpgs I have played. In the rpgs that don’t have them, there isn’t a vendor that buys stuff and no ‘economy’ that exists.