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Appraisal Service
Appraisal customers bring 2 to 4 items of one kind for an estimate. You inspect each with the Magnifying Glass and send an estimate; every accepted estimate pays a fee. The items are not bought or sold.
- Day 8
- Board offer
- 85 Credits
- Join fee on Mark Up
- 95% to 105% of the true value
- Perfect estimate
- Third refused estimate
- Customer leaves
Offers membership on day 8, or on day 5 with Skip Intro.
Your first certificate. Put it in the display case to bring appraisal customers.
Given on joining.
Given on joining. The only tool that opens the Inspection Tray.
Join fee
- Price Gouge (Cozy Mode)
- 85 Credits
- Mark Up (Normal Mode)
- 85 Credits
- Thin Margins (Hard Mode)
- 170 Credits
- Red Ink (Challenge Mode)
- 255 Credits
The Join choice appears only while you have the fee in cash. Asking them to come back later brings them back 7 days later with the same choice. Declining sends them away for good.
On day 9, if you joined on day 8, a Scavenger brings 2 Cybernetic Hands.
Appraisal customers come only while an Appraisal Board certificate is in the display case. The daily chance rises with every day one does not come and drops back when one comes.
Each customer brings one item type your rank has unlocked: 2, 3 or 4 of it. Activating a certificate you own opens the Appraisal Items window, where older types can be switched off. The newest unlocked type is always allowed.
If you joined and own no certificate, a new one of your rank is in the store inventory when the shutter opens in the morning.
The estimate is typed into the Inspection Tray. It starts at the customer's own figure: 100 for a Cybernetic Hand, 150 for a Ribwich, 300 for a Plasma Cartridge.
Grade by distance from the true value
- Perfect
- 95% to 105%
- Excellent
- 90% to 95% or 105% to 110%
- Good
- 85% to 90% or 110% to 115%
- Mediocre
- 75% to 85% or 115% to 125%
- Awful
- 75% or less, or 125% or more
- Always refused
- Below 50% or above 150%
Fee by rank
| Rank | Base fee | Perfect | Excellent | Good | Mediocre | Awful |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior Appraiser | 20 Credits | 15% | 12% | 10% | 8% | 5% |
| Appraiser | 40 Credits | 18% | 15% | 12% | 10% | Refused |
| Senior Appraiser | 60 Credits | 21% | 18% | 15% | Refused | Refused |
| Master Appraiser | 100 Credits | 25% | 21% | Refused | Refused | Refused |
The fee is the grade's percent of the estimate you sent, plus the rank's base fee. A Junior Appraiser who sends 320 for a Carbon Composite, Neural Interface, Armored Cybernetic Hand (worth 320) earns 15% of 320 = 48, plus 20 = 68 Credits.
An estimate in a grade your rank refuses is turned down as too high or too low. After the third refusal the customer says "You clearly don't know what you are doing. I'm out." and leaves.
Each accepted estimate prints an Appraisal Slip with the grade, the estimate sent, the true value and the fee. The customer leaves when no items are left.
Base fee 20 Credits. Customer chance 33% a day. Unlocks the Cybernetic Hand.
Base fee 40 Credits. Customer chance 42% a day. Unlocks the Ribwich.
Base fee 60 Credits. Customer chance 48% a day. Unlocks the Plasma Cartridge.
Base fee 100 Credits. Customer chance 55% a day. The highest rank.
- 10
- Perfect estimates on Mark Up, Junior to Appraiser
- 15
- Perfect estimates on Mark Up, Appraiser to Senior
- 25
- Perfect estimates on Mark Up, Senior to Master
Each accepted estimate adds progress by its grade. A refused estimate gives only the minus values below.
Progress as Junior Appraiser (100 to promote)
- Perfect
- +10
- Excellent
- +7
- Good
- +5
- Mediocre
- +4
- Awful
- +3
Progress as Appraiser (150 to promote)
- Perfect
- +10
- Excellent
- +7
- Good
- +5
- Mediocre
- +4
- Awful
- -3
- Customer walks out
- -5
Progress as Senior Appraiser (250 to promote)
- Perfect
- +10
- Excellent
- +7
- Good
- +5
- Mediocre
- -3
- Awful
- -4
- Customer walks out
- -5
Progress by difficulty
- Price Gouge (Cozy Mode)
- Gains x1.25, losses x0.5
- Mark Up (Normal Mode)
- Gains x1, losses x1
- Thin Margins (Hard Mode)
- Gains x1, losses x1.5
- Red Ink (Challenge Mode)
- Gains x0.75, losses x2
Promotion
With full progress, an Appraiser Board Member visits from the next day. Accept and pay, ask them back in 7 days, or decline for good; the certificate stays valid either way. On promotion every certificate you own becomes the new one, and the guide for the new item type arrives.
| Promotion to | Price Gouge | Mark Up | Thin Margins | Red Ink |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Appraiser | 106 Credits | 106 Credits | 212 Credits | 319 Credits |
| Senior Appraiser | 128 Credits | 128 Credits | 255 Credits | 382 Credits |
| Master Appraiser | 149 Credits | 149 Credits | 298 Credits | 446 Credits |
The true value is the base value plus every part below.
Material
- Aluminum Alloy
- No change
- Carbon Composite
- +50 Credits
- Gold Plated
- +200 Credits
Control interface
- EMG
- No change
- EMG+
- +45 Credits
- Neural Interface
- +120 Credits
- Unspecified
- -60 Credits
Condition
- No wear or damage
- No change
- Wear
- -35 Credits
- Damage
- -85 Credits
Add-ons (both can apply)
- Armored
- +50 Credits
- Blade
- +80 Credits
Carbon Composite, EMG+ or Neural Interface, no wear or damage, Armored and Blade.
Gold Plated, Neural Interface, no wear or damage. Add-ons count on top.
Example: Carbon Composite, Wear and EMG+ make 100 + 50 - 35 + 45 = 160 Credits.
Value
- 1st production run (425 to 429)
- +80 Credits
- First or last month (01/425, 12/438)
- +50 Credits
- High quality facility (01, 02, 05, 08, 21, 34)
- +50 Credits
- Low quality facility (07, 15, 18, 26, 31)
- -50 Credits
- Deluxe Edition (sesame bun and extra pickles)
- +300 Credits
- Double meat patty
- +800 Credits
- Opened or counterfeit
- Exactly 40 Credits
The barcode shows the production date as month/year and the facility as #number. A double meat Ribwich shows two patties and no top bun or pickles.
Counterfeit or opened
Month not 1 to 12, or year outside 425 to 429 and 432 to 438.
Packing facility outside 1 to 35.
No barcode date, or no facility number.
Any of the 7 wrong logo variants.
Only one of sesame bun and extra pickles.
Wrap torn open on the left or right. Worth 40 like a fake.
Condition and plasma color
- Light Wear
- -45 Credits
- Heavy Wear
- -90 Credits
- Cracked
- -150 Credits
- Exposed Screws
- -30 Credits
- Reinforced
- +60 Credits
- High-Grade color
- +150 Credits
- Low-Grade color
- -150 Credits
The seal names the maker. A maker's bonus counts only when every condition it names matches. A cartridge without a seal gets no maker bonus.
Maker bonus
Standard or Low-Grade color, any condition.
Standard color; no wear, crack or exposed screws. Reinforced is allowed.
Standard color and no crack.
High-Grade color; no wear, crack, exposed screws or reinforcement. Worth 1,200 Credits.
Example: Heavy Wear, Exposed Screws and a Low-Grade color make 300 - 90 - 30 - 150 = 30, raised to the minimum of 90 Credits.
Tools
From the Mentor on day 3, on joining the Board, in Skip Intro starts except Rock Bottom, and from Dr. Jackson while you own none.
Arrives with the promotion to Appraiser.
Arrives with the promotion to Senior Appraiser.
Shows every liquid in a container and a chemical product's true purity.
The Magnifying Glass is never used up. It also works on a customer's items. The Sentinel Collapse Disorder and Welfare Program perks start with one, and so does the Retired Winemaker network upgrade.