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Rasaad's boots - is the sale value bugged?

Oxford_GuyOxford_Guy Member Posts: 3,729
edited December 2012 in Archive (General Discussion)
If you try to sell Rasaad's boots you can get 12,500 gold for them - is this a joke? They should be character-specific like Xan's sword and not sellable (or sellable for a sensible price), otherwise this is totally unbalancing at low levels.

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  • MERLANCEMERLANCE Member Posts: 421
    You can find the Ring of Wizardry outside the Friendly Arm Inn even before you meet Rasaad. It sells for 9000gp. I dont think an extra 12500 is going to unbalance it at that point.
  • Oxford_GuyOxford_Guy Member Posts: 3,729
    MERLANCE said:

    You can find the Ring of Wizardry outside the Friendly Arm Inn even before you meet Rasaad. It sells for 9000gp. I dont think an extra 12500 is going to unbalance it at that point.

    Yes, but you'd be insane to sell that
  • IlphalarIlphalar Member Posts: 68
    The only thing that comes to my mind: "I hope this is not a sign of things to come - we must strive to maintain balance." And, yeah, I'm a true believer of the idea of the greater balance (as long as that's not the very same idea Jaheira seems to believe in) ;-)
  • deltagodeltago Member Posts: 7,811
    Oxford_Guy said:

    MERLANCE said:

    You can find the Ring of Wizardry outside the Friendly Arm Inn even before you meet Rasaad. It sells for 9000gp. I dont think an extra 12500 is going to unbalance it at that point.

    Yes, but you'd be insane to sell that
    Well my mage is chaotic neutral so I guess RP wise I need to now. Thanks.
  • EphantEphant Member Posts: 19
    don't forget to spend it all at the inn or at carnival wheel of fortune ;)
  • CaptRoryCaptRory Member Posts: 1,660
    Ilphalar said:

    The only thing that comes to my mind: "I hope this is not a sign of things to come - we must strive to maintain balance." And, yeah, I'm a true believer of the idea of the greater balance (as long as that's not the very same idea Jaheira seems to believe in) ;-)

    All of life revolves in a cycle of changes. From the most basic cycle of sleep and waking that almost every living thing adheres to, to the great cycles of climate change, revolving planets, and the reversal of our planet's magnetic field.

    One could see True Neutral as trying to maintain a balance while the cycles of all things go forth to change the world around them. Evils Rise. Good destroys Evil. Good decays. Evil Rises again. Cities grow. Cities die. The cycles of nature are represented in what it is to BE alive.

    Interesting, no?
  • DeucetipherDeucetipher Member Posts: 521
    I thought they dramatically reduced the price? Am I crazy? I'm going to go test, brb
  • DeucetipherDeucetipher Member Posts: 521
    edited December 2012
    yeah, they sell for 125 now. IIRC, they did this a couple of updates ago. I guess that if you've already met rasaad before the changes were pushed, you'd still have the high-value boots?
  • thedemoninsidethedemoninside Member Posts: 188
    I think its stupid to change it just because of some warped idea of balance. Im gonna give myself 12k now because i feel cheated.
  • DeucetipherDeucetipher Member Posts: 521
    It was probably an oversight, initially. I doubt it was originally intended to give that much gp. Anyway, feel free to cheat in gold if you like, no need for a justification
  • thedemoninsidethedemoninside Member Posts: 188
    I doubt it. They are awesome boots if you are capable of using them. 125gp is a slap in the face. I think they should at least net 4k or so. I also think all npc weapons should be sellable for a fair price. I am of the mindset to ditch "balance" especially when its only early game balance, to maintain realism and rp immersion. Selling nice boots for nothing and not even being able to sell others is just dumb to me.
  • KirkorKirkor Member Posts: 700
    thedemoninside said:

    I doubt it. They are awesome boots if you are capable of using them. 125gp is a slap in the face. I think they should at least net 4k or so. I also think all npc weapons should be sellable for a fair price. I am of the mindset to ditch "balance" especially when its only early game balance, to maintain realism and rp immersion. Selling nice boots for nothing and not even being able to sell others is just dumb to me.

    If those boots costed 4k, people would just strip Rasaad of them, kick him out and get free 4k.
    125 is good price.
  • MessiMessi Member Posts: 738
    thedemoninside said:

    I doubt it. They are awesome boots if you are capable of using them. 125gp is a slap in the face. I think they should at least net 4k or so. I also think all npc weapons should be sellable for a fair price. I am of the mindset to ditch "balance" especially when its only early game balance, to maintain realism and rp immersion. Selling nice boots for nothing and not even being able to sell others is just dumb to me.

    You might think that but others like some resemblence of balance. Besides as you just said yourself you can always use cheats to get as much gold as your heart desires.

  • BanexBanex Member Posts: 127
    Those boots were game breakers at 12500 gold.I felt i'd cheated myself when i robbed them and sold them for that price.Now if you want that Dagger of Venom or Shadow Armour,you earn them the hard way.Well we will once the spawn points are fixed :)
  • IlphalarIlphalar Member Posts: 68
    edited December 2012
    Hmm, quite interestingly it seems that issue has already been reported as a bug: http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/9880/money-bug-rasaad-yn-bashirs-boots

    BTW
    CaptRory said:

    Ilphalar said:

    The only thing that comes to my mind: "I hope this is not a sign of things to come - we must strive to maintain balance." And, yeah, I'm a true believer of the idea of the greater balance (as long as that's not the very same idea Jaheira seems to believe in) ;-)

    All of life revolves in a cycle of changes. From the most basic cycle of sleep and waking that almost every living thing adheres to, to the great cycles of climate change, revolving planets, and the reversal of our planet's magnetic field.

    One could see True Neutral as trying to maintain a balance while the cycles of all things go forth to change the world around them. Evils Rise. Good destroys Evil. Good decays. Evil Rises again. Cities grow. Cities die. The cycles of nature are represented in what it is to BE alive.
    Well, the first paragraph's kind of a truism (as long as we accept these changes to be ~generally~ cyclical), but the second one is exactly what I mean to be an ideal approach to creating a video game ;-D And then we can say:

    If the game reflects so called "cycles of nature" the players feel as if their characters WERE alive. And selling your old shoes for a several thousand gold coins isn't something natural as long as the buyer is naturally a balanced person. Other way somebody has a very unbalanced budget ;-)
  • ElendarElendar Member Posts: 831
    edited December 2012
    Kirkor said:



    If those boots costed 4k, people would just strip Rasaad of them, kick him out and get free 4k.
    125 is good price.

    If Rasaad isn't in my party, I kill him pretty quickly just to make him shut up anyways.....
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