Mercantile

Mercantile is a social skill.

“ Your ability to work out favorable prices in a business transaction. ”

— In-game description

Related Base Ability	Skill Synergies
Intelligence	Persuasion 20%

Details

Mercantile is a social skill mainly used to lower prices when trading. As of version 1.0.2.2, mercantile is also used to unlock special mercandise tiers on some merchants.

Dialogue options for mercantile are also fairly common. They let you negotiate cheaper deals when buying certain services, better rewards for your deeds or access to special shops.

Related feats

• Category:Mercantile feats

Mercantile skill checks

Character	Related quest	Required skill	Result
Becket	None	45	Gain access to special merchandise.
Blaine	None	25	Gain access to special merchandise.
Captain Herve	Get rid of the Faceless Save Buzzer	40	Get 400 charons for dealing with the Faceless.
Colton	None	40	Receive better currency conversion rate.
Constantine	None	55	Gain access to special merchandise.
Daniel Arda	Meet Ohad Xander	45	Buy Hercules for 400 charons.
Duff	Retrieve ICPD	55	Buy ICPD for 500 charons.
		110	Buy ICPD for 200 charons.
Efreitor Hanna	None	70	Gain access to special merchandise.
Fixer	None	75	Buy Chemistry and Biology workbench for 1000 charons.
Fraser	None	45	Gain access to special merchandise.
Fredd	None	105	Buy Tailoring workbench for 700 charons.
		60	Get 500 charons for Isaac Hathor's helmet.
		100	Get 1000 charons for Isaac Hathor's helmet.
Gangster (Drop Zone)	None	35	Pay the Gangsters 250 charons to abandon the crashed tunneler.
Harlan	None	50	Gain access to special merchandise.
Harold	Battery trouble	70	Get 500 credits for the optoelectric nuclear battery blueprint.
Johnny Filth	Deploy T-ray emitter #2	35	Pay the Zone Boys 500 charons to let you go if you told them you were doing scientific research.
		75	Pay the Zone Boys 200 charons to let you go if you refused to tell them what you were doing.
Katherine	Find Blaine Kill Blaine	35	Pay 75 charons to learn Blaine's location.
Kevin	None	10	Gain access to store.
		40	Gain access to special merchandise.
Lieutenant Stratford	None	50	Gain access to special merchandise.
Milton	Milton's Key	20	Get 100 charons for the key.
Mordre	Hungry Eels	25	Get two health hypos for the meat.
Myles	Find EMP device	30	Pay Myles 150 charons to help you with the bots.
Nicolas	Assassinate Olivia	50	Get 800 charons for murdering Olivia.
Ola	None	50	Gain access to special merchandise.
Old Jonas	Find Old Jonas's watch	15	Get all three rewards in exchange for the watch.
Olivia	Assassinate Nicolas	55	Get 850 charons for murdering Nicolas.
Quinton	Tissue sample collection	20	Get two freebies in exchange for the tissue.
Rista	None	55	Get 500 charons for the Beast's head.
		110	Get 800 charons for the Beast's head.
		145Verify	Get 1500 charons for the Beast's head.
Sophie	Old man Nosek	40	Get 500 charons for a Captured Borer.
Superintendent Rubin	rob Protectorate warehouse	0	Pay 200 charons to get the utility room unlocked.
		50	Pay 100 charons to get the utility room unlocked.
		90	Pay 50 charons to get the utility room unlocked.
Vlatko	Old man Nosek	0	Get 200 charons for fixing the monitor.
		35	Get 300 charons for fixing the monitor.
		60	Get 400 charons for fixing the monitor.
West	Fix Gloria	45	Pay West 400 charons to help you fix Gloria.
	None	50	Buy Electronics workbench for 800 charons.