Smalltalk adds to game lore and it is a means to acquire unique rewards:
- Trade Agents
- Discounts with NPCs on purchases
- Skill visibility for stations or individual traders
- Location and skill visibility for hirable NPCs
- Collecting Virtual Seminarshirable NPCs
- Virtual Seminars
Please follow the above links for details but in short:
- Trade Agents provide up-to-date information on trades at stations.
- Smalltalk discounts are different to other discounts so they are a stackable, additional option.
- You can ask for info on the better-skilled NPCs in the area.
- Virtual Seminars allow you to train one of your NPC's skills (addition of a star).
While <player> is docked on stations, NPCs will occasionally start talking, and when they do a speech bubble appears over their head to help identify them in a crowd.
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** A score of 4+ for all 3 minigames.
Trade Agents
These will only be offered by a subset of NPCs.
NPCs that can offer Trade Updates:
Inventory item traders (eg Food Merchant, Arms Dealer, Recruitment Officer or Black Marketeer).
License broker
Mechanic
Police Chief
Ship Dealer (unconfirmed)
Specialist
Non-hirable station crew (they are working on the station) - typically found on Administration platforms (ie Defense Officer, Engineer, Manager).
NPCs that never offer Trade Updates:
Architect (even if they are working on plot-rated NPC CVs)
Hirable crew if they are available for hire (ie Defense Officer, Engineer, Manager but NOT Specialists: Specialists will always offer Trade Updates atm (v4b6)).
Your own hired (green as opposed to blue NPCs) crew if on your own station (v4b6 - needs checking)
Discounts for stations or traders
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