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turt1e
05-06-2021, 09:17 PM
I emptied my inventory but my weight allowance isn't changing much. Is this a bug or am I overlooking something? (the weight allowance is at 96/75)

edit: I fixed the problem. Turned out I had too much coin on me.

Videri
05-06-2021, 10:58 PM
Exactly, sounds like you figured it out. Coin has weight. Later on, when 1 platinum doesn't seem like an important factor, you'll prob delete copper by the thousands. For now, it might make sense to hoard it and hit the bank a lot. gl hf!

Jibartik
05-06-2021, 11:31 PM
you can buy gems at a decent exchange rate too, depending on the gem and merchant, yeah gl hf!

mcoy
05-06-2021, 11:36 PM
You can also "vendor bank" where you buy something that sells and resells for close to the same value (like a cracked staff) and you can convert smaller coin to larger this way. You lose some in the process, but a 10-15% hit is sometimes worth skipping the trip all the way to an actual banker:

[Sun Nov 03 11:36:44 2019] Loric Weaver tells you, 'That'll be 1 platinum 2 gold 5 silver 9 copper for the Cracked Staff.'
[Sun Nov 03 11:36:46 2019] You give 1 platinum 2 gold 5 silver 9 copper to Loric Weaver.
[Sun Nov 03 11:36:50 2019] Loric Weaver tells you, 'I'll give you 1 platinum 1 gold 4 silver for the Cracked Staff.'
[Sun Nov 03 11:36:53 2019] You receive 1 platinum 1 gold 4 silver from Loric Weaver for the Cracked Staff(s).

In the above example I was able to convert a large amount of small change into 1pp and it cost me ~ 1.2 gold to do so. This is due to the fact that you'll automatically spend your smaller denomination coins first - so if I had 1500 copper (and nothing else) after this exchange I'd have 1pp 1gp 4sp and 241cp and would have dropped a nice chunk of coin weight.

This is also another reason some weight-conscious players carry gems (a stack of 20 still weighs 0.1) as currency. A peridot is ~ 10pp so handing someone a couple for a port or a rez (clerics love them!) is a perfectly amicable exchange.

-Mcoy

mcoy
05-06-2021, 11:37 PM
Jibartik beat me to it. Yeah, what he said.

-Mcoy