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I am new to Sacred 2,well been playing 2 months now.And have been reading up on the balance editing here.So I have edited the file and heres what happens.I am running the latest version online without any issues at all except for closed,which my changes do not take effect in.Silver mode.
List of changes....
extra extra extra gold
mostly green item sets
almost all gold or brown items
npc chrs are alot tougher than normal when fighting with you
massive amounts of rune drops
item drop levels can be 25 levels above your chrs,(really good ****,and still be used)
items droped stay on ground for 5 min
all items have slots
quest give extra experence
enimies can drop multiple items
traders get new items about every 90 seconds,(have to leave and come back)
Compleatlety stable.Still working on fixing set amount of slots.Doesn't change actual gameplay at all.

Lines changed................................

ChanceForAdditionalSlots = 1000,
ChanceForSlotToImprove = 1000,
ChanceIncForSlotImprovePerRareLevel = 1000,
ChanceToBecomeSlotItemForBlankItem = 0,
ChanceToBecomeSlotItemForMagicItem = 1000,
ChanceToBecomeSlotItemForNormalItem = 1000,
ChanceToBecomeSlotItemForUniqueItem = 1000,

MaxDistLevelXP = 25,

ZRareExpectation15 = 1000,
ZRareExpectation14 = 1000,
ZRareExpectation13 = 1000,
ZRareExpectation12 = 1000,
ZRareExpectation11 = 1000,
ZRareExpectation10 = 1000,
ZRareExpectation09 = 1000,
ZRareExpectation08 = 1000,
ZRareExpectation07 = 1000,
ZRareExpectation06 = 1000,
ZRareExpectation05 = 1000,
ZRareExpectation04 = 1000,
ZRareExpectation03 = 1000,
ZRareExpectation02 = 1000,
ZRareExpectation01 = 1000,
ZRareExpectation00 = 1000,

IsRuneForHero = 1000,

mgr.setBalanceValues(newBalanceValues);

local beValues = {
NORMAL_STANDARD = 1000,
NORMAL_RUNE = 1000,
CHAMP_STANDARD = 1000,
CHAMP_RUNE = 1000,
BOSS_STANDARD = 1000,
BOSS_RUNE = 1000,
EXTRAGOLD = 1000,
EXTRAPOTION = 1000,
EXTRARUNE = 1000,
Trader_Item = 2300,
Trader_Many = 10000,
Trader_SpecialOffer = 0,
Well_Potion = 1000,
QUEST_UNIQUE = 0,
SUBFAMDROP_LOWCHANCE = 10,
SUBFAMDROP_HIGHCHANCE = 100,

QuestExplow = {120,125,130,140,150},

QuestGoldlow = {125,130,135,140,150},

Nice! But if items are 25 levels above you, can they really be used? If so, that is pure win!

Does anyone rekon there is a way to change the amount of damage you do in the balance.txt or would it be in another file?

an update on higher level items. It seems the best items are way up north for some reason.However I can use items thats 20 levels above mine not 25.
But I have a qeustion,I haven't compleated the game at all yet,to busy exploreing,I am in Silver mode as a Shadow Warrior but my level is caped at 50.Does this sound right? Or could it be a problem in my balance file? Or is it becouse I haven't went far enough through the main quest?

I was playing around with this line..

TopLevelCalc = 200,

I changed it to 300 and WOW! The stats on every item went through the roof! I started a new chr to be sure and after 10 levels or so ended up with a level 15 Antimins or whatever its called,green armor with somewhere around 560 armor without using any mods.I have seen weapons that do over 1100 ponts of damage now.The enemies seem to be much stronger to.My level 50 chr has an armor rating just over 4200.
But beware,after changing the 300 back to 200,it did not seem to make any difference so I am guesing it would have with starting a new chr.

Does this increase the likelihood of having gold slots? I mean, would it make a set item with 1 silver, 1 gold slot have 2 gold slots?

Atten: AngelSkye
Well Im going to do this list in order, I edited:
C:\Documents and Settings\VampElf\My Documents\Ascaron Entertainment\Sacred 2
Most people dont know this but u can edit the hero##.sacred2stats files
They contain all the info about your charecters!!! (Yes I tryed to edit one of mine, I tryed to edit my survival bonus percentage and my gold to see if they would change ingame) I dont know if it worked or not though )
D:\Program Files\cdv Software Entertainment USA\Sacred 2 - Fallen Angel\scripts\server
balance.txt
Duhhhh...
D:\Program Files\cdv Software Entertainment USA\Sacred 2 - Fallen Angel\pak
The Grapics02.Zip
The original Size was: 2,050,198 KB 1.95 GB
The NEW Size is: 2,050,195 KB 1.95 GB
D:\Program Files\cdv Software Entertainment USA\Sacred 2 - Fallen Angel\scripts\shared
itemtype.txt
(all i did was copy and paste some lines from this to a new txt file so no editing, this is where i discoverd the new sera hairstyle!!)
creatureinfo.txt
I edited the seraphim lines of hairstyles then changed them back because i thought they were causing problems in loading up a new seraphim charecter...
C:\Documents and Settings\VampElf\Local Settings\Application Data\Ascaron Entertainment\Sacred 2
Created optionsCustom.txt




Thank you soo much for posting the locations for this ....I use #$@&!$@# Windows Vista Ultra 64 bit and my search returned NOTHING!! simple search was for balance.txt on my C drive
VISTA SUCKS.....

For Vista users go here to find the text files to amend.
C:\Program Files(x86)\Deep Silver\Sacred2 - Fallen Angel\Scripts\Server

By the way I also have the UK version.

[Edited by L-Kabong, 4/3/2009 10:39:40 PM]

Well late last night when I messed with this (as I was half awake, very tired) I wanted to be sure that I made a backup copy of the balance text file so I opened it up and saved it to my desktop. Next went and changed the values in the file then saved it and tried playing it. After a couple hours and grumbling to my self I gave up (because nothing seemed to change)
Well got up this morning and rechecked it and saw that the text file in the game remained unchanged,(Hummmsomething just ain't right here) ...I checked my backup copy on the desktop...Yeppers you guessed it, I changed that one....Duhhh!

I will say I get a Crap load of great armor drops, and runes, but not so much on the Rings and Amulets. ...
Do all the values need to match the amounts to balance things?
EXTRARUNE = 1000
NORMAL_RUNE = 1000
I'd like to lower them, but I wonder if it will screw up the others.
I noticed there was no specific listing for rings and amulets


[Edited by L-Kabong, 4/4/2009 5:18:30 AM]