There is no use for collected gold coins...

Zool

I finished the game with 250k gold and I had nothing to spend it for. I was looking forward to spend a lot of money for nice items, but after entering baldurs gate city, there was no magic shop with nice equip to buy. It is dissapointing, it is RPG game and big part of it is to gearing up your party. But there is no place where to buy some good items. Most of them you will loot in the game. I expected something like the two shopkeepers on the promenade (from IWD I think) like in previous BG....

To make long story short - you are collection gold, and selling items for nothing - there is no use for keeping money. You just have to kill a monster and step over its body and go on... Oh wait there is one use - you can give all your money to charity in temples:)

Corvino

Did you try Sorcerous Sundries near the Elfsong tavern in the city, Thalantyr at High Hedge or the Ulgoth's Beard Tavern? There's a few nice items there.

Not really much that'll eat through 250k, but some best-in-slot goodies all the same.

atcDave

There was definitely a tradition in early D&D that all the good treasure should be found not bought. BG follows that. But it does lead to the situation where after mid-game you will usually have more money than you know what to do with. In PNP that means its time to buy a castle...

AlexDeLarge

Stack up on the best ammo possible and buy all the potions.

Cener

If you manage to get like 250K gold it's that you have done a lot of exploring and side questing, and so it's normal that you are already fully geared.
Why money should be a problem for someone with your power ? someone who has killed hundred of monsters and mighty ennemies.

Money is only a problem early game when you are new born adventurer.

And it's pretty much the same in all RPG i've seen.

Wanderon

Donate it to your favorite Temple? Buy drinks for everyone in BG City? buy a bunch of stuff and then scatter it through the streets (since you can't drop gold)

I generally didn't convert all my pack-ratted items to gold for just that reason - nothing really to spend it all on by games end - instead typically I left a huge number of potions and other assorted loot of all types sitting in a barrel outside the Elfsong when I headed off for the final battle.

Why collect them in the first place? For the same reason I still have them at games end - saving them for when I really really need them - which of course turned out to be - never - but I collect them all the same - "just in case" ;-)

deltago

Give it all to a beggar one gold coin at a time.

But this was touched upon early in this post, the best gear, IMO, should be found not bought. Killing 5000 gibberlings for their pittance of 5 gp of droppings shouldn't give you a Haxxor Blade of Doom +5 from a merchant.

Also, did you do a minimal reload game? Temple costs can wreck your party when you constantly need to visit them for resurrection, healing and stone to flesh scrolls.

Freche

Many quests reward way too much gold and some stuff have quite strange prices.
It would require a serious Overhaul of the economy if the collected gold shouldn't skyrocket.

Wanderon

I don't think there's anything wrong with the loot system myself - it rewards those who like to packrat for playing as they like and doesn't punish those who choose to loot or hoard less - the fact that there's really no ultimate super items to spend your amassed fortunes on just means that the extra loot a packrat gets isn't going to make his game substantially easier or better than those who don't and thus doesn't effect the overall balance - seems like win win to me.

Gathering loot and gold is now and has always been a major option for rpgs that many people enjoy - if it ain't broke don't fix it!

atcDave

One time, just for kicks, I decided there was no way I was actually carrying that kind of money with me, so it must be on deposit somewhere. So when I escaped Irenicus dungeon at the start of BGII I "sent word" for my money. One week later, I Shadowkeepered my funds back to my character.
Now THAT broke game balance! But it was so much fun buying the Robe of Veccna and Shield of Baduran right at the start...

Edwin

You can buy the most expensive drinks at he best taverns...Don't let Volo know you are loaded.

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Deucetipher

be incredibly profligate with wands.
Xvart? Fireball
Diseased gibberling? Fireball
Wyvern? Summon monsters, Fireball, then summon monsters again...... Fireball.

Feel free to throw in paralysis/lightning/cold as you see fit. I prefer gouts of flame. So pretty.

Makes your wizards feel a lot more useful.

Riolathel

if you have an archer the magic arrows will eat a nice chunk of cash.

I do wish there was one item in BG.. (there are a few in beregost) that was really expensive and added something different from the other weapons. Most of the weapons in BG1 are just +1-3 to thac0 and damage. I would have liked to see a nice axe or cbow, Or another helmet.. there are only 2 useful magic helmets in the game

EnterHaerDalis

Well Overhaul added a bunch of items, thus increasing gold accumulation

Best way to utilize it is to buy tons of Ammo off the guy at Durlags Tower

DarkDogg

Adding the Mace+1 25% stun, Helm of opposite alignment and some other items to a merchant (in BG city) with a nice price 10k gp. Could solve the problem.

TJ_Hooker

DarkDogg said:

Adding the Mace+1 25% stun, Helm of opposite alignment and some other items to a merchant (in BG city) with a nice price 10k gp. Could solve the problem.

Yeah I wouldn't mind seeing the Helm of Opposite Alignment be added to the game in a non-easter egg kind of way. It's not like it's overpowered or anything, but has a neat function. But pretty much anyone who hasn't played the game before is unlikely to find it.

DarkDogg

Adn it would be reasonable if Overhaul brings into the game with an DLC or something some new rings and necklaces. The is a lack of them in the game.
And add them to some merchants too. This really could bring some challenge into the game, where you must earn some money for this items.

TJ_Hooker said:

DarkDogg said:

Adding the Mace+1 25% stun, Helm of opposite alignment and some other items to a merchant (in BG city) with a nice price 10k gp. Could solve the problem.

Yeah I wouldn't mind seeing the Helm of Opposite Alignment be added to the game in a non-easter egg kind of way. It's not like it's overpowered or anything, but has a neat function. But pretty much anyone who hasn't played the game before is unlikely to find it.

BTW I couldn't find the Helm of cahrm protection in BGEE.
Was it deleted or did I miss something?

HeroicSpur

Would be nice if a tome (or two) was purchasable (possibly from sorcerous sundries) for an exorbitant sum, in the region of 100,000 gold pieces (or marginally lower for plot reasons ) It would really give you something rewarding to aspire towards, and is sufficiently expensive that it's hard to abuse -it would be unlikely that a player would be able to afford more than one or two (those tomes wouldn't necessarily have to be the attribute variety either, they could for example add +1 to thaco, or to a saving throw, permanently).

ZanathKariashi

USe the gold digger, and use Neera often....that'll take care of your gold problem.

TJ_Hooker

DarkDogg said:

BTW I couldn't find the Helm of cahrm protection in BGEE.
Was it deleted or did I miss something?

At first I was thinking the same thing, but I looked at a couple of armour listings online and they didn't mention it. I think that the helm was only added through mods.

DarkDogg

TJ_Hooker said:

DarkDogg said:

BTW I couldn't find the Helm of cahrm protection in BGEE.
Was it deleted or did I miss something?

At first I was thinking the same thing, but I looked at a couple of armour listings online and they didn't mention it. I think that the helm was only added through mods.

No.
There's a thing about that helm.
Do you know the Ghost Knights in the Firewine bridge dungeons (with the ancient armor quest)?
They're all wearing this helmets + other nice things.
But there is no way too kill them, i think...

So the helm is in the game.

TJ_Hooker

DarkDogg said:

TJ_Hooker said:

DarkDogg said:

BTW I couldn't find the Helm of cahrm protection in BGEE.
Was it deleted or did I miss something?

At first I was thinking the same thing, but I looked at a couple of armour listings online and they didn't mention it. I think that the helm was only added through mods.

No.
There's a thing about that helm.
Do you know the Ghost Knights in the Firewine bridge dungeons (with the ancient armor quest)?
They're all wearing this helmets + other nice things.
But there is no way too kill them, i think...

So the helm is in the game.

Sorry, when I said that I thought it was added through mods, I meant that I thougth it was made attainable through mods.

DarkDogg

TJ_Hooker said:

Sorry, when I said that I thought it was added through mods, I meant that I thougth it was made attainable through mods.

I see.
Still it would be nice to have an opportunity to buy this helmet in the game IMO!

Debaser

SELL YOUR WANDS AND REBUY THEM WITH HUGE AMOUNTS OF CHARGES!!!! TOTALLY WORTH IT!!! BUY MAGI DARTS AND AMMO!!!! And...yes make sure your mages know all the spells they can.

Freche

They could add some more crafting to the game, where you have to use stuff you normally sell, buy material and maybe even pay miners, traveling merchants, etc. to find the correct material (would be expensive and take a couple of days for them to find it and bring it back) and also a crafting fee ofc.

bbear

Maybe allow players to buy land and houses. Or open shops or create a rival guild.

Tinter

The easiest thing to do to fix the economy is just to make the good items that are in stores more expensive. I believe BG2 tweaks already includes the option to remove the reputation discount, which avoids halfing all prices by late game for good parties right off the bat. And adding a couple of items to stores isn't a bad solution either- I agree with finding in general but Ashidena and Varscona would be harder, not easier, to get if they were expensive shop items.

There are many useful things you can spend this money on anyway- powerful wands, scrolls, potions and arrows are all available from shops and really can increase your power. But for those of us with the pack-rat tendency, we can barely bring ourself to use those we get for free, so...

HeroicSpur

@Tinter, that's a good alternative. In fact, it's something that was requested as an optional difficulty feature a while back, a reflection of the hard times mod on higher difficulties.

moopy

@DarkDogg

If memory serves @SpaceInvader killed the ghosts in firewine. I believe he did it with poison, dagger of venom. And unless I'm remembering this wrong I believe their helmets and armor do drop.

ankheg

Since I don't use items with limited charges/numbers I usually have millions of gold after finishing ToB. And that's alright to me.