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Forgotten Realms CollectionPool of Radiance Curency nightmare(7 posts)(7 posts)
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Posted June 28, 2020
Spent hours to figure out how to take care of money and its impossible.

First you must Pool, then 1 character must take what he can carry from that Pool, buy 1 cheap thing and all that currency is Platinium (can carry more), continue with this untill Pool is Platinium only. This will be to heavy fast, so then you need to buy expensive stuff from the jewlery, you will loose some money when selling again but hey you need to store it somewhere right and there is no Bank here, not that i can see.

So that done for some time i have enough money for expensive composite bow, so i sold every jewlery i had to get the platinium, and ques what, even if i empty my Char with most STR i is not able to carry the Money for buying the Bow!! and the store Clerk will not take the money from the Pool!!

Omg SSI how could this currency system get through testing before release, its a nightmare!
Posted June 28, 2020
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simalarion: and the store Clerk will not take the money from the Pool!!
This is not how it's supposed to work. Once you (P)ool all the money at a shop, you can use that pool to make purchases. Each character does not have to carry the coins to make each purchase. (In addition, if a character takes some some of the coins from the pool and then makes a purchase the price will come out of the coins they are carrying, but if they are not carrying enough coins the cost will come out of the pool instead, assuming there is enough money to afford it).

Perhaps the character for whom you are trying to purchase the item has a full inventory (too many items), or is encumbered (items and coins carried are too heavy)? If you get the message "Overloaded" when you attempt to make a purchase, this is telling you that character's inventory is too full (either too many items, or too heavy). Before you type B at the shop (to view the list of items to buy), you need to select the character for whom you want to make the purchase using the 1 and 7 keys to scroll up and down the character roster. (Or I think you can also use the Home/End keys to scroll, but I can't confirm that because I don't have those keys on my keyboard).

(I just now loaded up my GOG version of Pool of Radiance to test it, and it works as I described above).
Post edited June 28, 2020 by 01kipper
Posted June 28, 2020
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simalarion: and the store Clerk will not take the money from the Pool!!
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01kipper: This is not how it's supposed to work. Once you (P)ool all the money at a shop, you can use that pool to make purchases. Each character does not have to carry the coins to make each purchase. (In addition, if a character takes some some of the coins from the pool and then makes a purchase the price will come out of the coins they are carrying, but if they are not carrying enough coins the cost will come out of the pool instead, assuming there is enough money to afford it).

Perhaps the character for whom you are trying to purchase the item has a full inventory (too many items), or is encumbered (items and coins carried are too heavy)? If you get the message "Overloaded" when you attempt to make a purchase, this is telling you that character's inventory is too full (either too many items, or too heavy). Before you type B at the shop (to view the list of items to buy), you need to select the character for whom you want to make the purchase using the 1 and 7 keys to scroll up and down the character roster. (Or I think you can also use the Home/End keys to scroll, but I can't confirm that because I don't have those keys on my keyboard).

(I just now loaded up my GOG version of Pool of Radiance to test it, and it works as I described above).
Thank you for clearing that up for me. I can now see that i can shop from the Pool money so then it makes sense. Not quite sure how i made that error actually…. but boy would i love to see a Bank in this game also :)

I think all these games with the manuals etc are great, i was not good enough in English to fully understand these SSI RPG D&D games when i was a young boy so its very fun to play them now (Already played through Secret Of The Silver Blades). Eye Of The Beholder 1-2-3 was easy to understand though so these where my favorite as a kid, i also played these games again but they where a walk in the park now :).

Thanks again for helping out…
Posted June 28, 2020
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01kipper: This is not how it's supposed to work. Once you (P)ool all the money at a shop, you can use that pool to make purchases. Each character does not have to carry the coins to make each purchase. (In addition, if a character takes some some of the coins from the pool and then makes a purchase the price will come out of the coins they are carrying, but if they are not carrying enough coins the cost will come out of the pool instead, assuming there is enough money to afford it).

Perhaps the character for whom you are trying to purchase the item has a full inventory (too many items), or is encumbered (items and coins carried are too heavy)? If you get the message "Overloaded" when you attempt to make a purchase, this is telling you that character's inventory is too full (either too many items, or too heavy). Before you type B at the shop (to view the list of items to buy), you need to select the character for whom you want to make the purchase using the 1 and 7 keys to scroll up and down the character roster. (Or I think you can also use the Home/End keys to scroll, but I can't confirm that because I don't have those keys on my keyboard).

(I just now loaded up my GOG version of Pool of Radiance to test it, and it works as I described above).
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simalarion: Thank you for clearing that up for me. I can now see that i can shop from the Pool money so then it makes sense. Not quite sure how i made that error actually…. but boy would i love to see a Bank in this game also :)

I think all these games with the manuals etc are great, i was not good enough in English to fully understand these SSI RPG D&D games when i was a young boy so its very fun to play them now (Already played through Secret Of The Silver Blades). Eye Of The Beholder 1-2-3 was easy to understand though so these where my favorite as a kid, i also played these games again but they where a walk in the park now :).

Thanks again for helping out…
Gold box games are awesome, but they're almost too true to the AD&D 1.0 rules system. Later D&D games have almost invariably done a much better job of handling currency for example. It's not hard for those of us who played the **** out of them as kids, but if you're just trying to pick the games up now then many aspects of gameplay are a bit unintuitive.
Posted June 29, 2020
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simalarion: Thanks again for helping out…
You are welcome. If any other issues or questions occur, feel free to ask. Once you get used to the clunky interface, Pool of Radiance is the best of all the SSI Gold Box games in my opinion!
Post edited June 29, 2020 by 01kipper
Posted June 29, 2020
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simalarion: Thanks again for helping out…
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01kipper: You are welcome. If any other issues or questions occur, feel free to ask. Once you get used to the clunky interface, Pool of Radiance is the best of all the SSI Gold Box games in my opinion!
Reason for starting with Silver Blade was that i thought that was the first game, i really liked that one. So i tried Pool of Darkness and that was a bit messy and felt a bit rushed or maybe they tried to push to much into it at once (it was hard to find a red thread in the game), but then i found out that Pool of Radiance came before Silver Blades so i started that game, and i must say that Pool of Radiance seems much more like a solid and well planed game with a much straighter story line and on top off that you get more the feeling that your in a town and are doing what you like to do, so i get much more the RPG feeling.. so far Pool of Radiance is a great game, yes.


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Oh, and i just picked up "Mad Man" man from the library because i felt like being nice to him (als felt like he could be usefull) but back in town he went bananas hehe. (i was actually a bit further in the game but i went straight past the library the first times because i did not see the road down there).
Post edited June 29, 2020 by simalarion
Posted July 05, 2020
MINOR SPOILERS BELOW:

You can also do this, but it's clunky:

1. Remove cash from one character.
2. Go to the training hall, remove that character.
3. Create a new character. We'll call him BANKY.
4. Give this character cash and items you don't want to drop but don't want to carry.
5. Remove him from your party and add the original character.
6. You do need to get to the training hall to reverse this process, which makes getting items back a chore.

Here are a few tips:

1. Almost every item you shouldn't throw out is either used close to where you find it (ex: brass key and has no other use, or
2. You are told when & where to use it, and once you have used it it has no other use (ex: efreet bottle).
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