Shop searching

[Corvus]

Ok, quick question regarding searching in shop threads. Say I was looking for weapon A, which has an X% chance of being found in any given shop. Could me and a friend(or theoretically me and another me, whether via simply being in multiple threads, or using Shadow or Medical, or possibly even Futongo clones) search independently, and, assuming one of us found it, i could then go and purchase it.

To clarify, I'll give an event list:

Jill agrees to help Ben find Weapon A, which has an X% chance of being found in a shop.

Ben and Jill each go to different shops and begin searching.

If they a unable to find the weapon, they leave and reenter the shop thread 'some other day'.

Jill finds Weapon A first, but she doesn't have enough for it, and Ben was the one who wanted it. Could Ben travel to the shop where Jill is and buy Weapon A?

[👺 Usiel]

Corvus. I answered this already. I told you this already in the cbox. What, do you think someone else is going to give a different answer and you're going to run by that?

You cannot improve the chances of finding the item with multiple people or animals inside a shop. It will be 1 roll, as a collective. Not as individual rolls. So if 50 people enter a shop. It's still 1 roll. Why? Because the shop isn't an open world where you can just keep traveling to find it. It's there, or it's not.

[Defiant]

I don't see why it can't be a roll per person if the person (or group) is in -different- shops.

If I went to Yozamu's shop and he went to Mo, even if he had 20 people with him in Mo, and I had 10 people in Yozamu, it would still be one roll for mo BUT also one roll for Yozamu due to the fact that they're different shops.

Of course, clones can't be in different boards, so the most he could get by himself would be what, 3 rolls at once? They'd still all be X%, mind.

For A more clear example

Blue goes to Macs Milk to get some Sprite, but they're sold out, so blue then goes to a 7/11 where they do have Sprite.

ALTERNATIVELY

Blue goes to Macs Milk to get some Sprite, and at the same time, his buddy Corvus goes to the 7/11 to see if they have some Sprite. The Macs Milk is sold out, but Corvus finds the Sprite at the 7/11. Corvus calls Blue and tells him they have his Sprite here. Blue goes and buys the sprite at the 7/11 that Corvus found for him, and it's delicious.

So for this to have any actual effect, he'd need friends to help him out, and collaboration is always nice.

[Corvus]

Thank you Blue, for saying what I meant in a clear and consise fashion

[👺 Usiel]

If 1, or 20 people went into Tanzaku-gai (Poem Card Quarters) shop looking for the same item it's 1 roll. If 1 or 20 people went into Otafuku Gai (Homely Woman Town) shop looking for the same item it's 1 roll. If 1 or 20 people went into Mo Village shop looking for the same item it's 1 roll.

Now I can't speak for Mo, but I can speak for the other places that they have only 1 shop, 1 main shop. If you and friends go to the shop, and can't find it, it's not within the board. No person, or people may leave the thread, and come back in the same thread acting as if it's a new shop, to get a new die roll.

I hope that helps.

[Corvus]

I wasn't thinking it would be a new shop with the leave/reenter part. I was thinking a vague number of days later that they go back to the shop and try again. So if it's not there, on day 1, it might be there three or four days later. That's what I was thinking.

I was also wondering if it would be possible for 'Jack' to go to the shop in Town A and 'Jill' to go to the shop in Town B. And if neither could find it on day 1, then they would leave and return a number of days later, giving the store time to get new shipments of stock in, and therefor possibly altering the availible items at said store.

To keep ballence, I assume that should this be possible, it would require waiting one to three and a half days OoC to get a new roll at that shop.

[Deleted]

I think that sounds perfectly reasonable honestly. Regardless of the number of people in one shop THAT SHOP has an X% chance of having whatever in stock. However in two different shops, say the Leaf Village Shop and the Otafuku Gai Shop, there would be two separate X% chances that the desired item would be in stock. Regarding checking back a few days later to see if a shipment came in, that's on Heero if it is or is not possible.

In fact, that is already established practice - roaming from shop to shop to find what you want. So the only thing different about your question is whether or not you can check in some way or another multiple DIFFERENT SHOPS simultaneously. Given the right scenarios like a friend and communication devices or a PHYSICAL BODY clone, I see absolutely no problem with this. Nor do I see the room for misinterpretation that it seems that there is.

Ho-hum, I'm done~

/20yen

[zenoske1ryu]

Just search the same shops on different days, that way they have time to order the item in/ restock.

[Corvus]

I was checking to see if that was possible. Or if you get one die roll per shop period. I hope not. I'd also like to know how long I'd have to wait before getting a new die roll. 12 Hours? A day? 3.5 days? What? It would be great to know that so that I could plan out my...plans

[👺 Usiel]

1 roll per shop as stated.

3.5 days of wait, to make it a week for new shipments.

Same Die roll will carry over for the same item no matter who goes into the shop.

[Corvus]

Thank you. May I suggest that this be added to the FAQ to prevent this question from coming up again?

EDIT: oh, and lockible

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