Can't sell items

[Nick]

I do wonder why the devs chose to make no selling the default, it does trip up the newbs. Perhaps they wanted to make sure the feature was noticed?

Yeah, that and the fact that most people, even those initially dead against it, seem to come around to preferring it. Given that, it seems sensible to make it the default.

That said, people getting tripped up to the point of thinking there's a bug doesn't seem ideal, so a way around that would be nice.

[Bill Peterson]

I could have been the OP, got tripped up on this the first 3.5.1 game I started. The option does make the early game a bit more tedious while you're trying to gear up when drops aren't exactly to your liking. It does make you want to carry a shovel and dig for AU a lot deeper than in previous versions. At any rate, by midgame you'll usually have enough money to buy anything in the market and the best things will be from drops anyway.

I do wonder why the devs chose to make no selling the default, it does trip up the newbs. Perhaps they wanted to make sure the feature was noticed?

[Lionmaruu]

yep not being able to sell all your crap looks bad at first, the hoarder in me was crazy at first but, it really is refreshing after a while!
When you see that you are free to trow everything away mid dungeon and only keep what is really worthy, and that makes a lot of space for things you usually wouldnt even try to use, like some wands/staves, potions and even two or more swap weapons and swap armor/jewelry.

[AnonymousHero]

Thanks, looks like I'll have to start again but at least I wasn't that far in!

Please try playing at least a couple of longish games with no-selling. Like a lot of people I was skeptical at first, but (for me at least) it really does make the game much more enjoyable. So do give it a real try -- you may change your mind .

[bengal110]

Thanks, looks like I'll have to start again but at least I wasn't that far in!

[Derakon]

It's a birth option, which means it has to be set during character creation. Hit '=' to bring up the options during chargen and you can toggle it.

Note that with no-selling turned on, you get vastly more cash from money drops to compensate for the "lost" money from being unable to sell loot. The idea is to encourage players to spend more time in the dungeon and to use their entire packs for potentially-useful items, instead of having to reserve space for useless things that nonetheless have high sale value.

[bengal110]

Hello everyone,

Sorry for what is probably an easy question, but in my defense I did check the FAQ's and didn't quite see this. Anyways, I just downloaded 3.5.1 (probably haven't played this game since I was 10 or something) and I am unable to sell anything except unidentified items. How exactly do I switch this? I saw a command to switch to this mode in the manual, but not how to switch out, and I'm not really clear on where/how to enter the command either. Thanks!