Equipping Characters?

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGG!

I spent all day yesterday altering starting locations for the vignette maps and making a new trader with (get this) 198 mundane Item's for sale, I try to start a new game to test CTD wouldn't you believe it!

 

Hey it's all done, built from Shiningted's mod but can be used from any patch setup after co8 3.0.4. (at least I don't think it will cause any problems with other patches) as long as this is added last.

Get version 1 here...
Just open the zip, and copy the files into your ToEE directory.
And clean the map cache.

I didn't include a read.me so i'll post it here.

* Changed start locations on a few vignette maps (to out of combat locations)
* Added a trader near each starting location (has 198 mundane items for sale)
* Removed starting equipment (players now get random starting gold for each pc type as per the PHB)
* Added a little dialogue for the trader.
* Stopped the elven noble (from the chaotic good vignette) from talking at you as soon as you enter the area.
* Added a little bonus starting gold - as requested by Shiningted.

Thanks for help with this little mod goes to Agetian, everyone who helped develop ToEEWB, And everyone who contributed with suggestions in this tread.

That's it folk's

 

@ Allyx: the trader doesn't talk, apparently because the script is missing in the installation package. Also, there's an issue with the Lawful Good startup: when you finish buying stuff and attack the bandits (where the caravan is) the trader becomes "evil" (with a red circle), so the party can attack him. Maybe it's a good idea to add a "End Shopping" option to the dialog so that whenever the buying process is finished, the shopper will destroy itself or something?...
Maybe you should try fiddling with the NPC faction parameter for the trader so that he's friendly (but in that case he may attack the monsters).

EDIT: Just tried it again - the trader didn't become "evil" this time (maybe I clicked on him during combat with one of my players?...) Anyway, removing him after the trading is finished is a good idea.

- Agetian

 

A new (complete) version is up, please re-download.

 

Good job, Allyx! :doublethu

Just wanted to throw a random idea: I think there's a command to take gold from party somewhere... I'm not sure if you get rid of the original 500gp in your mod (I don't think you do btw, correct me if I am wrong), but it would be nice if you could strip the party off the original gold and give the gold per PHB only. Correct me if you already did this.

- Agetian

 

For the record I think this is silly.

BUT i am behind it 100% and will hold off my next patch until this is done to everyone's satisfaction, then build my stuff on top of this.

Yay Allyx! :clap:

 

I just added Max starting gold to each class. Didn't know there was a way to get rid of the extra 500 gold.

So what do you guy's think? D'you like my shop map? Gimme feedback.

 

Yeah, there is a way: use the following function in the dialog to remove 500 gp from the party:

pc.money_adj(-50000)

On second thought I even think that it'd be better to remove all money from the party at game startup, and then calculate the money according to the PHB and give it to players.

Hope this helps.
- Agetian

 

Just tried that Agetian, added that to the first line of dialogue, adjusted the script to auto talk san_heartbeat style, and protos.tab to trigger it, but it seems the start_equip.mes is only giving gold to the highest paid PC, I tried a 5 man party 1 fighter / 1 cleric / 1 wizard / 1 bard / 1 druid, but only got 200 gold at the traders shop. So I left the 500gp "gift" in - to make up from being screwed out of some cash.