I added a 10% increased cost each 5 atk/def, but otherwise did the exact same thing as a personal mod.

weapons already seem to overpower defense, so i wouldn't worry about that. but i did lower most store costs, of weps/armor and left the unit costs the same

Here is a quick sweep through CoreWeapons and the attack and cost of each item. Next to it is the new proposed cost:

Weapons (att)Old$, New$

Gnarled Club   (2)   40, 20  
staff               (3)   90, 30 

war staff          (4)  95,  40  
war hammer     (5)  250, 50  
battlehammer    (8) 640, 80 8 
Lord Hammer    (12)1440, 120 
Mace                (6) 360, 60 
Axe                  (4) 160, 40
Battle Axe          (5) 250, 50 
Wood Spear1     (4) 160, 40 
Boar spear         (4) 160, 40  
Cedar Short Bow  (3) 100, 30  
Cedar Long Bow   (5)250, 50 
Dagger               (3) 70, 30 
Short Sword        (4) 300, 40
Broad Sword        (5)500,  50

Long Sword   (10)1000,  100
Fang Dagger  (3) 90,  30 
Imperial Short sword  (4) 320,  40 
Scimitar  (6) 700,  60 
Scythe    (8) 1200,  80 
Trog Scimitar  (10)1800,  100 
Great Scimitar  (14) 2800,  140 
Claymore  (14) 3000,  140
Karrazan  (12) 4000,  120
ElementiumKarrazan  (12) 12000,  120 

Some outrageous costs for some of these items...

Would the new price proposals be acceptable? or have i missed something?

I would say the weapons should have diminishing returns.

maybe a simple scaling.

1 = 10g

2 = 10g + 20g = 30g

3 = 30g +30g = 60g

4 = 60g + 40g = 100g

5 = 100g + 50g = 150g

6 = 150g + 60g = 210g

7 = 210g + 70g = 280g

8 = 280g + 80g = 360g

9 = 360g + 90g = 450g

10 = 450g + 100g = 550g

Indeed it has... Any idea where to find the new values that influence shop prices?

I think weapons should be valued based on tech level and materials they are made out of. I have also come to the conclusion that attack values should be changed to reflect this. Armor seems to stack and should probably be 1.5x more expensive as a weapon of the same class. Does anyone have a weapon mod that I can alter into what I propose? It would be nice to start with the values I see above.

Well the balance I choose to uphold is wood-->Metal-->Refined Metal-->Magically Imbued Metal--> Magical Metal (may or may not be imbued)-->Legendary Artifacts. If the game comes standard with this mindset that is great. If not, I am happy to share. The prices should affect these milestones and each weapon at every milestone should allow drastically different strategies. I am not trying to say my version is better, but just look at all the duplicates and strategic simularity between the techs Equipment and Basic Weapons. There is little strategic change. In my briefly altered version I plan to make right now, weapons will have vast advantages. Axes can be thrown, arrows do more damage but are very unlikely to hit, daggers are very very fast, staves allow defense and dodge, shortswords are fast and lethal, hammers get a much higher penalty to moves and keep the ridiculous high attack, magic allows a break in the stalemates of heavy armor (true damage added to the weapons), legenadary weapons will take an army to claim but make you unstoppable. I generally think that regular armies should stalemate at a certain point to force players and AI to pick a specific strategy to gain the advantage. Right now I beat them with small parties of staves.

I am hopeful though, that the next version will make the vanilla version a little more strategic. W00T global magic!