Honest Merchant (TSLRCM)

A couple questions.

1. How badly Monty Haul'd is his store in TSLRCM?

2. Does this require a save before first visit to Entertainment Module 081, or just before talking to him?

1 hour ago, ZeldaTheSwordsman said:

A couple questions.

1. How badly Monty Haul'd is his store in TSLRCM?

2. Does this require a save before first visit to Entertainment Module 081, or just before talking to him?

Answered through testing.
1. Very badly - stuff like Zheison Sha Advisor Armor, advanced Exchange toolbelts, Dashade's Sonic Blaster one time, a chance of a Lightsaber Crystal...

2. Just before talking to him.

Yes, it was about when I caught Aleema Keto's robes on sale that I decided to do something about it. Also a save is required before first talking to Dendis, you might add.

While I like this mod and that it revert him back to what it should be, I wish they made the character inherit some of the products from his brothers shop and add it to his inventory so then we'd be somewhat more willing to help him.

In my opinion, this is a very good idea, and I would advise the author, when updating this modification, to add in addition to the honest brother-trader Duros, also a fix for the assortment of the main collector of Jedi artifacts on Dantooine (dressed in durustal armor), since with TSLRCM her assortment includes all the unique crystals and stones that, in a normal game, we can not find at all-only after passing a huge part of the game (for example, the room of Queen Onderon in her palace, where the container requires a great hacking skill). In addition, there are also robes of knights and Jedi masters in the assortment, which are extremely rare in a normal game and finding such a robe in the first half of the game is a great success. At one time, I was content with only the mantle of the gray Jedi, because I could not find anything else.
I want to add to what has been said that in TSLRCM, the generator for finding random things in boxes and containers works more cheat-like, where we can find valuable things early enough. For example, the mantle of a Jedi master in a normal game could only be found by removing the bodies of the slain Sith lords (during the war on Onderon and its moon). While in TSLRCM, it was quite possible to find it in the sublevel of the Jedi enclave, passing Dantooine by the first planet. Of course, this would be rare, but such a practice exists. A more obvious example is Nar Shaddaa.
There was a time when my hero killed the master of Vrook only because of his mantle, which, in fact, could only be removed without problems from him. Nothing drops out from other masters (not to mention the elements of the lightsaber or the lightsabers themselves, if the elements have already been found and the zabrak has collected us a lightsaber). By the way, there are a lot of cases in TSLRCM when we get a lightsaber, which discredits this Jedi weapon, because in the first half of the game we can play without a lightsaber at all. And what is our surprise and incredible feelings when we get the first lightsaber. The emotions are similar to those when Revan collected a lightsaber in kotor. In TSLRCM, the fate of the lightsaber is not enviable - it is devalued and turns into junk. I fully support the idea of limiting things in TSLRCM!

On 7/5/2021 at 1:25 AM, Pope_Duwang_I said:

While I like this mod and that it revert him back to what it should be, I wish they made the character inherit some of the products from his brothers shop and add it to his inventory so then we'd be somewhat more willing to help him.

He runs his brother's shop if you arrest him

@todevuch Can't say I'm qualified enough to tinker with the random loot system, but I could be able to do something about the salvager trader. Don't remember her selling any unique crystals though, the only ones that come to mind are the Hurrikaine and Qixoni.

On 8/9/2021 at 7:17 PM, TK-664 said:

@todevuch Can't say I'm qualified enough to tinker with the random loot system, but I could be able to do something about the salvager trader. Don't remember her selling any unique crystals though, the only ones that come to mind are the Hurrikaine and Qixoni.

For me personally, if the restored content is installed on the game, its assortment is very rich. I, too, literally cannot reproduce the names of the crystals, but there were very powerful crystals (spherical red, ore, blue crystal and many others), as well as the mantles of knights and Jedi masters. Check it out next time, it really is.