AfterWorld Survival Forum

Getting Obligatory Bills

You can trade crafted items for Obligatory Bills to a minimum value of 50% of the items current Craft Cost at the Swampville NPC (see this topic for maps).

The Obligatory Bills reward is "skills affected".
These relate to the "Persuasion" profession skills (e.g. Trading, Charisma, ...)
Increasing this profession increases the value offered by the NPC.

The following images demonstrate the process:
Right Click the NPC within the building:


Add crafted items to the slots

Here I have added items with Craft Cost of 3.36 AWD.


I received Obligatory Bills to the value of 1.68 AWD.




Note: you can give broken craft items to the NPC - however these are worth 0 AWD to him.
However, 10 broken items can be exchanged for a 0/100% item of the same type at the Weaponry & Tools craft building.
This then can be taken to Swampville and turned into an Obligatory Bill.

Cashing in Obligatory Bills

The NPC at the swamp Turfary B Outpost (see the map post reference above for location) turns Obligatory Bills into AWD.
(no screenshots as I have not been to the Turfary B Outpost).


Note: in version C216, unlike other outposts, Turfary B Outpost does not have a revive.
The NPC does not register your DNA, nor can you get clones (though the options are there) - instead he makes a excuse that this is a small insignificant outpost without the luxury of modern equipment.

"Skills affected" could also refer to a certain new, special trading skill. Did u get any skillgains while doing the trade?
IF my theory is right u might be able to get more than 50% for ur stuff.

I'm a bit puzzled by the purpose of this. Why wouldn't anyone sell these items to another player for full value? Why would anyone craft these or buy them, and then want to lose money? For non-basic items the materials cost can exceed the craft cost. The system doesn't know what this was, so why would anyone exchange these items and lose the materials cost?
If a hunter can only exchange what he can craft, and the swamp is PvP, doesn't this mean players have to travel in pairs, a crafter and a hunter, in order to exchange non-basic items?

I did get a new Profession [...]

Profession? Think you was meaning Skill

New Skill: Trading
New Skill: Empathy
New skill: Persuasion
New Skill: Loyalty

Old Skills: Charisma, Intellect, Logic

Maybe more new Skills available, don't
feed the NPC much so far.

And the NPC at Turfary take more then
only Obligatory Bills ... RICs and Scout-
Cheque could feed too (why ever any-
body want doing that)

Attached NPC Dialog for "Cash out" and
"Exchange Notes" (this one is worth the
long journey for sure  )



Greetings - Zwarky
 

Speaking of English, perhaps "Letter of Credit" or "Bill of Exchange" is better than "Obligatory Bill".
An action can be obligatory, but not an object.

Also note i got a 0awd bill from the first guy.  I put in a dead peice of armor (just 1) and got this back.

maybe more important,do the npc only take crafted stuff,or crap loot and tons of batterys also?


edit:bah did read 1st post again,question answered:(..

Added the following text to the 1st post:

Note: you can give broken craft items to the NPC - however these are worth 0 AWD to him.
However, 10 broken items can be exchanged for a 0/100% item of the same type at the Weaponry & Tools craft building.
This then can be taken to Swampville and turned into an Obligatory Bill.