** Although by that point, you can [[DoorToBefore teleport]], so you don't have to put up with most of that nonsense.
* {{Averted|Trope}} in the ''[[Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Pokémon]]'' games. Everything costs the same amount wherever you go (though it does strike one as a little strange that a small shop in tiny little Mahogany Town would stock Ultra Balls when Goldenrod City's massive department store doesn't), and Pokémon Centers are always free. This is justified since you're just a Pokémon trainer, and you're ''not'' saving the world by any means.
** The fourth generation even averts the odd stock issues - the stock in all stores is dependent on how many badges you have - they just won't sell Ultra Balls to greenhorn trainers. The only city-dependent items are specialty balls that generally have explanations as to why they're only sold there (like selling balls that are better at catching Water-types in a fishing village).
** Also in Goldenrod City (both in the original Gold & Silver and their fourth generation remakes) there is a "bargain shop" that sells you expensive items with no use other than being sold, at 90% of their selling price. However, you cannot get rich from it; the salesman is only there on Monday mornings, and only sells you one of each item each time. It's more of a steady income than anything.
** Let's not forget the fancy store in the center of Black City. $10,000 for a Poke Ball?

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* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'': 
** {{Averted|Trope}}: Everything costs the same amount wherever you go (though it does strike one as a little strange that a small shop in tiny little Mahogany Town would stock Ultra Balls when Goldenrod City's massive department store doesn't), and Pokémon Centers are always free. ** The fourth generation even averts the odd stock issues - the stock in all stores is dependent on how many badges you have - they just won't sell Ultra Balls to greenhorn trainers. The only city-dependent items are specialty balls that generally have explanations as to why they're only sold there (like selling balls that are better at catching Water-types in a fishing village).
** Also in Goldenrod City (both in the original Gold & Silver and their fourth generation remakes) there is a "bargain shop" that sells you expensive items with no use other than being sold, at 90% of their selling price. However, you cannot get rich from it; the salesman is only there on Monday mornings, and only sells you one of each item each time. It's more of a steady income than anything. 
** Also: the fancy store in the center of Black City. $10,000 for a Poke Ball?

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** This is somewhat justified by the fact that despite the number of turns remaining the same thought history, as you progress each turn represents a progressively smaller amount of actual time (from centuries in the Ancient era to a single year in modern times), so while building things takes the same amount of "time" from the player's perspective, it takes much less time from an in universe perspective.
*** Still doesn't explain why modern technology is more 'expensive' than older tech. Building a communications mast, for example, takes a ''lot'' less time, materials and manpower than building a library in RealLife, while in ''Civilization'' it's the opposite because the tower is more modern. Same deal with the Wonders, who only get more and more expensive in terms of hammers the newer they are -- the Pyramids are a lot cheaper than the Eiffel Tower, for example.
*** An modern city with up-to-date technology and infrastructure would produce much, much more shields than an Ancient Era one. Warriors in cities without mines take as long as spearmen with a few mines, pikemen with mines all over and stabilized population, riflemen with mines and railroads or infantry with factories.

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16th Apr '13 9:36:24 AM StarSword

Send StarSword a PM notification explaining the badness of natter: natter-fy

Rising Cost Of Health Insurance goes straight back here. Killing it.

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