Hello,
I have been a long time fan of the BG series and have never, until now, tried a BGT-compilation. I was an avid user of BG2 mods and I never seemed to have much trouble getting it to work in the way I wanted it to, but now when I'm playing a BGT-version of the game, the game seems to have gotten ridiculously generous with weapons, gold, gems and the likes, compared to vanilla BG.
In my current playthrough, I have currently just cleared the Nashkel Mines and exited through the back entrance to the Tomb Valley Area.
I went the way by -> Friendly Arms Inn, did the Flamedance Ring Quest, went to Beregost and did some questing there, short trip to High Hedge to pick up Kivan, proceeded to Nashkel without diverging from the path, picked up Minsc and helped him free Dynaheir, whilst picking up the Gauntlets of Dex and the Tome, went back to clear the Nashkel Mines and found myself with quite a bit of magic items, main character with 21 dex(+2 from gauntlets of dex) and -6 AC with Splint Mail Armour, 11k gold, a ton of gems and extra magical weapons I will never use.
The weirdest part to me seemed to be all the increased spawns and such. Sure, more enemies might seem tougher, but if none of them can hit you, and level 1 Gnolls give you 30-40 gold per kill along with the occasional Masterwork Halberd, or even a +1 weapon from the Chieftans along with valuable(but useless) scrolls, something seems off.
Also, the "easter egg" spots in the game have sometimes contained level 7-8 scrolls for Wizards. Which kind of would make any fight easy as pie if I would just use a scroll to summon an invisible stalker.
I looked up on some mods to correct this, mainly the Hard Times Mod, but I never installed it because I really dislike when they do not put stuff in the info on what it actually alters.
I used BWS to install everything so I will include both my BWS-ini file which I used and the Weidu-log file, if anyone can shed some light on why I seem to be getting way too generous gold and weapon drops from random mobs.
I am not too worried about starting a new game as I would do it anyway, seeing as how I wanted to play with Xan but I installed the Xan to Sorcerer-addon which, frankly, sucked with the abysmal level 1 spell picks and seeming bug where he only had 2 spells per day at level 2.
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