"This item is not for sale."
When the cost of an item is 0, you can't buy or sell the item. I can understand why stations wouldn't want to but radioactive waste, but why would they have a problem with selling it? I really don't understand why anybody wouldn't sell it. If you were going to make money out of something worthless, why wouldn't you? This normally wouldn't be a problem because they are worthless and you wouldn't buy them anyway but radioactive waste can be converted into an actinide waste cannon. What I think is that such items should be sold for either 1 credit or 1 rin.
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goat not sheep
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Think of the laws... would you like stores selling poison to you?
Also, it is illegal to create a waste cannon...
Also, it is illegal to create a waste cannon...
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I wouldn't like stores selling poison to me, but if I wanted to buy poison, then I would be allowed to, right?goat not sheep wrote:Think of the laws... would you like stores selling poison to you?
Also, it is illegal to create a waste cannon...
It is illegal to make a waste cannon but that does not mean the seller has to automatically assume that you're buying the waste to make a waste cannon. That's why Radioactive waste is not illegal. I mean, blank CD's can be made into illegal copies of copyrighted software buit that deos not mean blank CDs are illegal and stores wouldn't sell them to us.
You can buy as many barrels as the store has to offer, providing it's still an unknown barrel type. And it doesn't really take much other than a trip to the Tinkers to determine if the unknown is radioactive. ...just a cheap work-around.
But as for wanting to buy identified radioactive waste only leads me to ask one question... Why?
OK, two questions... At 1 credit per barrel, wouldn't that make it a lot easier and rediculously cheap to build waste cannons? And surely the store keepers would have such thoughts in mind, which is why they don't sell the item.
So I think what's needed here is that instead of the stores telling you the item is not for sale, but to tell you that you need a special permit to buy it.
But as for wanting to buy identified radioactive waste only leads me to ask one question... Why?
OK, two questions... At 1 credit per barrel, wouldn't that make it a lot easier and rediculously cheap to build waste cannons? And surely the store keepers would have such thoughts in mind, which is why they don't sell the item.
So I think what's needed here is that instead of the stores telling you the item is not for sale, but to tell you that you need a special permit to buy it.
Why would the store keepers automatically assume that you are going to make waste cannons with it? It's illegal and you are not supposed to do it. And nobody expects you to do it. To the store keepers, its simply a way to make money out of worthless waste.
Why would the store keepers automatically assume that you are going to make waste cannons with it?
I guess for the same reason IRL, where stores limit sales of certain types of over-the-counter drugs...to prevent people from using them in "make-shift" drug labs to make illegal drugs.
In game actuality, currently there is no other function or purpose for having (or buying) radioactive waste other than to make waste cannons....aside from the first encounter of the players alarming discovery of them.
So unless George has intentions to later on make a waste dump/recycle facility where the player can legally dispose of and make a little profit by selling radioactive waste, that leaves us with the knowledge that currently, radioactive waste is only good for making illegal waste cannons.
In Transcendence, there are no shoe stores or movie theaters either. Are we to summe since they are not shown that they don't exist? No, we acknowledge that there are things that happen offscreen and that not all of them are important to show, or even mention.In game actuality, currently there is no other function or purpose for having (or buying) radioactive waste other than to make waste cannons....aside from the first encounter of the players alarming discovery of them.
So unless George has intentions to later on make a waste dump/recycle facility where the player can legally dispose of and make a little profit by selling radioactive waste, that leaves us with the knowledge that currently, radioactive waste is only good for making illegal waste cannons.
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Betelgeuse
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I think that the tinkerers would have a use for that stuff. (oh wait they do)
I think other sovereigns would have use for it we just don't have many friendlies right now (2 for early systems and 5 total
). Does the black market buy it?
I think other sovereigns would have use for it we just don't have many friendlies right now (2 for early systems and 5 total
). Does the black market buy it?Crying is not a proper retort!
Well, for that matter, there's also no clothing department stores in Transcendance either and everyone including yourself are all nekked.OddBob wrote: In Transcendence, there are no shoe stores or movie theaters either. Are we to summe since they are not shown that they don't exist? No, we acknowledge that there are things that happen offscreen and that not all of them are important to show, or even mention.
You overlooked a key word. I said "In Game Actuality", not in game assumptions.