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Just wondering. I have been fighting over the idea of importing my old items from bg1 to bg2 from the start. I just kinda feel guilty about it. Silly I know when ppl are hacking the game up like crazy and I am worried about importing legitimate items. How do you guys feel about importing your old stuff.

fishhead

I did it Fishhead. I felt that it was a bit of a jip that a party so powerful was 'jumped' outside of BG then they sold your equipment. SInce there was little I could do to this story, I made something up myself. They sold it, but not *all* of it.

If you use the drop strategy you can only carry 1 persons inventroy anyway - so 5 have been stolen. Besides +2 weapons can be bought at the adventurers mart and +3 ones aren't that far away, so where's the harm? Many of the BG1 items are inferior but at least it helps you through the prison. Nad its nice to have 2 gauntlets of ogre power. That's how i rationalised it.

I thought it was a valid continuation from BG1 - I ported in my whole party. It doesn't quite fit with the story for a while, but I also felt it was agyp to lose all the gear you had to fight for in BG1.

If you feel really guilty about it don't do it

The only BG1 item I really missed (that I didn't get back anyway) was the Cloak of Balduran!

You can buy the cloak from the bonus merchants.

PS I also made a pact with myself to dump the duplicate items when I found them later in the game (lied about the ogre gauntlets). Stupid eh? There so much magic there you don't need much more.

It's the shield of Balduran you can buy from the bonus merchant. This items exists for the expressed purpose of making the beholders a joke. Any item that allows you to send in a solo fighter of any level to simply stand in front of the enemy and taunt them to death is bit too powerful.

Your right! Best import it then, -1AC and 25% magic resistance... mmm...

I don't know about the bonus merchants - it suck not getting them with the ordinary game and you feel cheated, but some of the stuff they sell is kind of un-balancing.

But anyone notice that if you're party is all there (i.e. not one guy with the shield) the beholders learn quickly and pound on those without miroring/shield etc. Sneaky so-and-so's.

I don't think it's necessarily being cheated by not having the bonus merchants. It's one of the perks of either having the collector's edition, pre-ordering, or both. It's about time someone came up with a real reason for buying a collector's edition. Although you can download the bonus merchants now, so it's not that much of a perk anymore.

If you want cheated, you should have bought the collector's edition of Ultima 9. The big perk there was the soundtrack that was unavailable to anyone else. About 3 weeks after it came out, Origin began marketing a soundtrack for the game that had more songs than the one in the collector's edition.

I'm sorry but that really bites my crank.

I get DVD's and it p*sses me off when I buy the "ultimate special edition directors cut" only to find out that six weeks later there is an "platinum ultimate special edition directors cut" with 2 more deleted scenes in it. I'm not bothered about those extra scenes but I want the same thing everyone else gets for their money. Why should someone have a more 'definitive' version, indeed a lesser one (as with your U9 e.g.). Stupid marketting arseholes.

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Of course, if you don't have the collector's edition you miss out on these shiny little "trading cards" with some of the NPC's on them....(best Minsc impression): OooooOOOooooohhhh......

(and you also get a cloth map of Amn)