Honest Zone Economy

The mod doesn’t touch individual traders or prices of specific items – it only gently tweaks the global economy multipliers tied to difficulty level.

The core trading logic stays vanilla, but how money feels across difficulties becomes fairer and smoother.

There are four versions of this mod available.

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[]Honest Zone Economy (standard version)

Easy – Comfortable StalkerThe overall economy is almost completely vanilla.

• []Artifact prices stay at their base level

  Artifact_Cost = 1. 0 (from Empty) — no hidden buff or nerf.

The main focus of this difficulty is gentler weapon/armor wear and free saving, not the economy.

This mode is for those who want to wander the Zone without harsh resource pressure.

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Medium – Fair Default BalanceDurability is still softer than vanilla, armor lives a bit longer.

Artifacts become slightly more valuable:

• []Artifact_Cost = 1. 05

It’s a small income boost that doesn’t break the economy, but rewards artifact hunting a bit more.

Medium remains the “classic” Stalker experience, just with more satisfying returns from artifacts.

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Hard (Veteran) – Tough but Not Punishing EconomyVanilla Hard is very punishing money-wise. Here the economy is made fairer:

Buying from traders is much less brutal:

• []BuyCondition raised from 0. 5 → 0. 9

  (you no longer overpay almost twice for everything).

Selling is not as miserable:

• []SellCondition reduced from 1. 25 → 1. 0

Quest rewards are brought back to 100% of the base level:

• []Main story: 0. 75 → 1. 0

  []Side quests: 0. 75 → 1. 0

Artifacts become one of the key, but not the only, sources of income:

• []Artifact_Cost = 1. 2 (vs 1. 0 in vanilla)

As a result, Hard is still challenging in combat and survival, but it no longer forces you to feel completely broke after every purchase.

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Stalker (Master) – Hardcore Zone with Fair EconomyThis is the harshest mode, but now the harshness is about survival, not “minus all your money for everything”.

Buying from traders:

[]BuyCondition = 0. 9

instead of 0. 4 (vanilla)Prices are still high, but n