General - Item to gold drop ratios need adjusting

[Berginyan]

As per request :)

Yeah the gold numbers are too small. If no one has could someone post a bug in bug reports about the gold drop to item drop ratio being too small?

[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Mon Dec 04 11:17:00] Acquired 12GP
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Mon Dec 04 11:17:04] Acquired 13GP
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Mon Dec 04 11:17:11] Acquired Item: Minor Negative Trap Kit
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Mon Dec 04 11:17:22] Acquired Item: Ring of Divinity I

Next to that ring of Divinity those 12 and 13 GP grabs look really small...one item off of each corpse listed above...I have also been getting...

[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Mon Dec 04 11:10:07] Acquired Item: Arrow, Bronze Tipped Oak Owl Tail
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Mon Dec 04 11:10:11] Acquired 9GP
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Mon Dec 04 11:10:16] Acquired Item: Bronze Bullets

and also...

[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Mon Dec 04 11:01:17] Acquired 5GP
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Mon Dec 04 11:01:22] Acquired Item: Bronze Shuriken
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Mon Dec 04 11:01:27] Acquired Item: Ring of Endurance I


Subsiquent post...

The above examples are all grouped in encounters of four monster spawns in the Desert. There is a constant three out of four loot drops per encounter. With the odd four out of four I'd say approx once every five spawns.

Conversely, when you go to an area like the Wild Woods, the spiders I believe only have one lootable corpse, if I remember correctly the Cameleon Spiders, my personal favourites :) And I believe every Chameleon corpse that I looked into had something in it...I could go back in my logs and see exactly what if you need. BTW, I like the Chameleon spiders cause they'll run and hide and come back and bite ya :)

[Berginyan]

Spider Corpse Loots....never more than one thing in a corpse

[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Sat Dec 02 21:20:24] Acquired 19GP
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Sat Dec 02 21:29:39] Acquired 3GP
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Sat Dec 02 21:39:41] Acquired 12GP
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Sat Dec 02 21:46:45] Acquired 8GP
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Sun Dec 03 10:30:07] Acquired 9GP
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Sun Dec 03 10:30:08] Acquired Item: Potion of Ironguts
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Sun Dec 03 10:30:13] Acquired Item: Bronze Bastard Sword

[Talan Va'lash]

Berginyan - 12/5/2006 10:22 AM
BTW, I like the Chameleon spiders cause they'll run and hide and come back and bite ya :)

Yeah, thats a fun trick isn't it? *grins*

It's something we should do on the PW for all creatures with HiPS too, it makes it so they AI doesn't horridly abuse the ability and makes em real sneaky like.

Thanks for all the info above.

The spiders probably shouldn't drop anything in terms or realism, but in terms of game balance I think I'll keep them as they are (except for the change to fix the bug of this thread.)

[Talan Va'lash]

This is more difficult than it should be...

Bioware didn't exactly do this right, or even the way they wanted to (judging by their comments.)

In the first campaign they scale gold off of the PC's LEVEL! rather than the monster difficulty or anything.

In the expansion pack code they make reference to converting an item that would otherwise drop into gold and even define what % of the value should be converted to gold and created on the monster (it's set at 50%.)

Buuut, after setting all this up, in the function where gold is actually created on the monster I find the following lines:

// Just use the default generation scripts
CreateGold(oCont, oAdventurer, nTreasureType);

CreateGold is the first campaign function that scales off the PC's level.

Arrrrg!


I'll write something to do this properly... but not tonight.

[Berginyan]

Ok, well if it's hard to sort out I say skip it Although it 'looks' kinda weak getting 9 gold or so from a drop it's not that big a deal. I don't think anyone is really going to be hard up for money. Just my two coppers, heck if you could just multiply it by a factor of ten that'd solve it, to bad it's not as easy as putting in a X 10 though Although with both of my chars I played I haven't bought a single healing potion, only used what was dropped, and rested wherever I could.

[Talan Va'lash]

tweaked. Didn't fix what bioware didn't do (realized why they didn't... it would require making some sizable modifications to the entire loot system) but it should be good enough.

Fixed.