Trade Authority Dropbox V1.0

“Valued Customer,

Thank you for opening an account to use the new Trade Authority Dropbox.

Dropboxes can be found at all participating Trade Authority franchises. How do you use the Dropbox? It’s easy! Simply deposit any number of items, of any value, in the Dropbox. Our friendly and helpful franchisees will then despatch your items to our warehouse, where we will sort, value, and despatch them across the settled systems to be sold. As your items are sold, their value will be transferred to your account via GalBank courier ship, wherever you may be in the Settled Systems!

We look forward to your future custom, and will strive to provide you with the very high level of service for which we are renowned!”

Overview

This is another mod to make selling loot in Starfield less annoying. Bethesda’s game setting can be used to increase the number of credits that traders carry, at the cost of experience. This mod allows a differnt trade off; convenience for credits. You can dump any quantity of items in the dropbox, and each day you’ll receive a payout of the value of items deposited (up to 50k credits each day) until the value of the items has been paid off.

A handling fee will be charged, which will depend on your commerce skill. At a skill rankof 0, the handling charge will be 30%, falling to 10% with a commerce skill rank of 4. This makes the dropbox most useful in the later stages of the game, when loot flows like water and you’ve already done the rounds of the traders and picked up any quests they may offer.

You can find the dropboxes at the Trade Authority locations in New Atlantis, Akila City, Neon, Cydonia, The Den and The Key. There isn’t one in Hopetown; the Trade Authority there operates out of a bar… and I couldn’t find a good place to put the dropbox.

To avoid turning this into an inventory management minigame, the dropboxes are implemented in the same way as the Trade Authority kiosks so you can sell direct from your ship’s hold, except that the upfront price they offer is zero on all items. The payout you get will be automatically credited to you every 24 Universal Time hours until all the stock you’ve deposited has been paid off, but you can deposit more stock at any time.

Close to each dropbox you can find a slate which will always tell you the number of payments you’ve received, the number of hours to the next payment, and the value of stock remaining. The slate will update every in-game hour (approximately 3 minutes in real time), and there is an option to make the slate a quest item so you can’t accidentally lose or sell it. If you don’t choose this option and do lose the slate you can just pick up one of the others.

Installation

It’s best to install using a mod manager (eg Vortex or MO2). To install manually, copy the .esm and .ba2 files from the .zip file to your Starfield Data folder.

Uninstalling mods can cause problems with your savegame. If you’re determined to uninstall, wait until the slate shows Remaining Stock Value as 0.

Compatibility

This mod only adds some items to the game world, and moves one piece of static clutter in The Den, so it will only be incompatible with mods that make significant changes to the layout of the Trade Authority locations. Any mods which change the sale bonuses awarded by the Commerce skill will work, but won’t have any effect on the value received for items deposited in the dropboxes.

Credits:

AndyW1384