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Why are most of the bags occupied?

NoloirNoloir Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 380
edited February 2019 in General Modding

Why are most of the bags of holding beyong bag31 occupied with various items from BG2EE? Most of which contain the same items!

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  • SkatanSkatan Member, Moderator Posts: 5,352
    I'm no expert so can't tell you which item codes they have, but many of the bags of holding share the container area. Thus if you access them they will show the same content. If ie add containers from eekeeper, the first one in the list have a huge space which is unique, but the ones further down share space.

    The good thing is that if different character have these bags, they can all access the same items which means less item swapping!
  • OrlonKronsteenOrlonKronsteen Member Posts: 905
    If you roll a character in TOB you start with a bag of holding that has a bunch of items in it. Maybe these are the bags - if the devs packaged them with different items based on character class, etc.. it would explain why there is more than one. Just a theory...
  • NoloirNoloir Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 380
    Skatan wrote: »
    I'm no expert so can't tell you which item codes they have, but many of the bags of holding share the container area. Thus if you access them they will show the same content. If ie add containers from eekeeper, the first one in the list have a huge space which is unique, but the ones further down share space.

    The good thing is that if different character have these bags, they can all access the same items which means less item swapping!

    Not so sure. In NI the bags each have their own respective .STO file with nearly identical content. For instance Bag19.itm has a Bag19.STO; Bag19A.itm has Bag19A.STO etc. Though 19 has mostly armour where as 19A has only projectiles and a few scrolls.
  • NoloirNoloir Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 380
    OrlonKronsteen wrote: »
    If you roll a character in TOB you start with a bag of holding that has a bunch of items in it. Maybe these are the bags - if the devs packaged them with different items based on character class, etc.. it would explain why there is more than one. Just a theory...

    Thinking the same but quite a few of them are nearly identical. Save a figurine here or a sword there. Seems like alot of wasted bag slots though making one is fairly easy and Bag31 along with Bag04 are completely vacant.
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  • NoloirNoloir Member, Mobile Tester Posts: 380
    subtledoctor wrote: »
    OrlonKronsteen wrote: »
    If you roll a character in TOB you start with a bag of holding that has a bunch of items in it. Maybe these are the bags - if the devs packaged them with different items based on character class, etc.. it would explain why there is more than one. Just a theory...

    I'm pretty sure this is the answer.
    Noloir wrote: »
    Thinking the same but quite a few of them are nearly identical. Save a figurine here or a sword there. Seems like alot of wasted bag slots though making one is fairly easy and Bag31 along with Bag04 are completely vacant.

    You're assuming that "wasted bag slots" is a meaningful concept. The devs had to create a bag of hold full of goodies to give to x different configurations of characters starting TOB... so they made a different bag for each configuration, and plugged them into the game-start scripts.

    So there's what, maybe a couple dozen bags in the game files? But there's nothing "wasted" when you can add a thousand more, as you see fit...

    Makes sense.
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