I've been told that before................galraen wrote: .... although it's too late for you now Kate.
Cionaoith wrote:Here is the file:
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You will need to delete the grn_model file, and replace it with this. Also, I think you will need to restore your sprites file.
I'll cross that bridge when I need to. I'm just really glad that I actually *have* the game disks to re-install with! LOL
Well, then the Worts would be way too hard to find. They should actually be easier to find than the much-higher-level katal "Mordis Vine".I still think something indigestible like claws or beaks would be better, the Ophelia wort could be added to the stuff that are dropped by Ents
Well, if you have a hex editor you could just edit mname.dat yourself and put the old names back in.My biggest criticism, in fact only real criticism (the other was just a suggestion), is the silly names you've given the creatures you've modified. Upo and Secret Car may mean something to you, but I think it undermines the good work you've done.
The Ochre Pollen are dropped by mush men, which cannot be encountered in the sewer unfortunately.I'm still in the sewers, just about the enter the theater basement. I have found ONE ochre pollen to go along with all that Ophelia Wart. *heh* You really ARE a tease, FRED. *cough*
Yes, of course. As I said somewhere else, I increased monster group sizes.FRED, did you add more danged goblins and slimes in the sewers?!
They can already be found, just go and eliminate some mush men!Don't be such a tease and give us more ochre pollen!
You're bound to find a blast nova book sooner or later. If you have the cash, sell one of them to a vendor of your choice and buy back several. And make sure you kill all the mush men at Lake Lohr (where you get ordained favor). Do this with a high Alchemy skill active for best results.even if I want to do *bad things* to those danged goblins! LOL
file read error wrote:Well, then the Worts would be way too hard to find. They should actually be easier to find than the much-higher-level katal "Mordis Vine".
Sure, it's not as if the unmodded game was unbalanced in any way...Not that it actually matters to me as I've uninstalled the mod, far too many unbalanced drops for my liking.
That's too bad, but anyway, have fun with the boring unmodded version that is always the same old stuff most players would be sick of seeing. Although I could also help you make your own mod if you like to, I have all the knowledge you would need and I'd gladly share it with you, but beware: making your own mod will probably take some time. Especially if you want to make it "balanced". It would take a lot of testing to see how it actually plays out in-game.That's not to say that there's anything wrong with doing what you've done, I appreciate all the hard work you've done, having done similar things in the past with other games to find what I've missed. it's just not for me.
Almost 5K in gold from the merchants (not the thieves guild obviously) in Skuldoon! That pays for a lot of Ophelia Worts!:laugh:file read error wrote:By the way, you cannot equip the Fumata-Yari without high penalties anyway, so what's the point?
Well, that was actually a point that I had always hated - why should it work like that for Celestial magic only, while all other magic schools are available to anyone? Having just a bare handful of spells available, which are always the same old fireball, magic missile and burning hands, is just boooooooring like you cannot believe! That's why I made this (IMHO) very important change. A non-celestial player will have trouble getting his Celestial Magic skill up high enough to get a real use out of the new findable celestial spells anyway. It takes 10 points into Celestial Magic to have a reliable divine intervention (with 9 points it doesn't appear every other time, and with 8 or less it rarely ever appears) and without learning bonuses it costs hundreds of thousands of ADV points to reach such a high skill level!However the one area that I thought was fairly well balanced, not being able to get high level Celestial spells unless you were a Celestial, was actually undermined by your mod. The same with Arcane unless you did the very unbalancing Big Bad Mog's quest, and of course spammed more than one cataclysm spell.
IIRC (don't have the sheet here at the moment) the "Treasure Class" of a monster is found at offset +162 (decimal number), which means you have to jump 162 bytes forward if your cursor is on the first letter of the monster's name. There will be a hex offset that links to D6TREAS.DAT entries. All of those D6TREAS entries have the same length, I think it was 200, and a D6TREAS entry is made up of ten subrecords of 20 bytes each. The first such byte controls whether the slot is actually in use, and if yes, what kind of items the slot will create. If it's a 03 then it links to a D6TRLIST.DAT entry (it can actually link to two of these, in which case there are also bytes that control the chance for the monster to drop either of them) and if it's a 02 then it links to a specific item. Yes, this sounds very complicated, but maybe I'm going to explain it a bit better (it's 11:15 PM where I live now and I'm very tired) tomorrow. You can also compare my mod's .dat files with the original ones, maybe that will explain it better than I can do.So far figuring out how link from the D6Mons to D6Treas works is stalling me.
I was a Nether Specialist in a previous life! Well then, hurry up and get out of Fargrove or you will never see all the new monster types that I added!Goblins
Rats
Slimes
Goblins
Rats
Slimes
Goblins
Rats
Slimes
Goblins
Rats
Slimes
.............. I could go on..and on..and on... but somehow, this seems so ...repetitious...........*heh*
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My sanity is saved. I now have to go back and kill the troll, and clean out the rest of the basement/sewers, but I do so armed with a bezillion poison clouds.
By the way, you could have sold one piece of ochre pollen to someone and then buy back infinite amounts. By my definition that does not qualify as "cheating" because you still have to pay for them.file read error wrote:Well then, hurry up and get out of Fargrove or you will never see all the new monster types that I added!
Then out comes the poison cloud and the blast novas. (Oh, and eventually, the shards of stone..yum!) Yes, for some reason it doesn't always work, I think it has to do with the type of vendor and the type of items he/she normally has to offer. For example, Orlan Drey doesn't seem to stock arcane spells if I sell them to him while Aleister won't sell me any crystals I try to sell to him....and that's all I had, was the one. It has happened that I've sold a kataal (or was is a spell? I think a kataal--and it was to Aleister..) to a vendor and it wasn't there for sale when I tried to buy more.
Well, of course I wouldn't ever do something that lame either. Maybe I should have said that this mod is supposed to be played without any kind of infinite-money exploits! Of course now the game will be incredibly easy for you because you have infinite money once again. All challenge will be gone now. That's very unfortunate.That said, I now think your prejudice against the bargaining skill is misplaced. I can purchase the kataals to make spells and sell the spells to the shopkeeper for a profit infinite times.
It's not particularly useful for weapons, either. Going from skill level 9 to level 10 takes how many million ADV points? And you get something between one and four points for each successful swing? It would take eons to reach the next skill level by just using the weapon.IMO, encouraging people to use their melee attacks by pointing out that the more you USE your weapons, the less it costs to advance your skill. I haven't noticed that with magic. (It may work that way with magic too, but I haven't noticed that it happens like that.)
Yeah right. Taking away all the challenge of the game isn't cheating, suuuuuuuure. I bet it wasn't intended for the game to work like that, the developers just left a big fat loophole and either didn't ever realize it's there, or they are just too lazy to fix it. Would it be so hard to just increase the amount of $ one has to spend for buying stuff by a factor 10 (and of course not increase the amount one gets for selling stuff). It would fix the endlessly overused bargain exploit instantly.We all have different view on exploiting game mechanics, but using the bargaining skill definitely isn't cheating.
Of course that's true, but as a person who has a conscience and uses it, I always feel guilty when exploiting a game like that. There's much more fun to be had without such cheats, that's for sure, because I have tried out both and every time I used bargain I got bored to tears within one hour of playing, sometimes even earlier. I swear I will never ever use this exploit again in my life! You couldn't even PAY me enough to make me do so!We pay for the game, we can play it how we like.
Maybe you would also be interested in changing monster spawns? What about Gazers, Cacodemons and similar "rare" enemies spawning in the wilderness, would that be interesting to you?Thanks for the tips FRED, so far I've got the hang of changing drops now, good fun. I always do hack a game to pieces once I've played it to death, just top see how it's done, and what I've missed, adds a few more hours of enjoyment to the game for me.
(Using one of the citizens for an enemy seer..)