Larian Studios Forums Divine Divinity (English) General Phantom 1K gold pile

the last few times, I've played the game a couple of times and each time, I keep getting a seperate pile of gold of 1000 pieces. The problem with this pile is that I can't combine it with my regular pile, it doesn't show in a trade window, and it doesn't show as part of my gold total. I can seperate it and recombine them but that's it. Is this a bug?

Also, now that I'm posting, is the dusk and dawn effect suppose to return after a time? Cause when I got the 1.34 patch, went away but lately it's been occuring so what gives?

THanks for the help in advance. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Yes, that particular pile of gold is bugged - you can't use it for anything. (other than for decoration, I suppose)

Its not bugged, its made like that by the Larians. For more info, check here
money problem

its a illusion trick thingy

The dawn/dusk effect can sometimes be gained/lost by re-installing the game or by installing a patch.
Edit the '..\Divine Divinity\Run\config.lcl' file in notepad (or any other text editor), add the line "splotchproblem 0" to the end, hit enter (the game expects the last line to be blank) and save. When you start Divinity and load a save, the dawn/dusk effect should be restored.

is this confirmed?? we have the "Red Dawn" conundrum figured out then? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

or is it still hit-n-miss?

Tekmoor confirmed that it worked for him. So far that I know of, and remember, it has worked three times, with no posts that it failed to work.
Some DD problems and questions...

(Mwahahaha)

Quoting some Chez Geek® card,

Player: "I kill Gandalf!"
GM: "You do WHAT?"
Player: "I believe the time has come to mobilise the Shire."
- Chez Geek and Dork Tower

And to stay on topic, yay for the red dawn! I'm looking forward to that again.

that's not it i thought it was the 1K gold phony pile! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

See there we go again......off on a million different tangents! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/ouch.gif" alt="" />
that's what i mean when i say..... it's all here somewhere! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

Pft! You'd don't actually read the subject line. You just read the crap that everyone else writes... (Even the stuff that isn't crap.)

LOL. I like that game. Though the people I play against are borring <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />.

Sorry to bring up such an old subject. BUT, I think I found where the phantom pile of gold comes from. I just finished the Abbey. I gave 1.000 gold pieces to the phantom of the Abbey who removed the curse. And then in my invetory there was 1.000 gold coins. That is the exact amount of money I gave to the phantom in the Abbey and that money were not in my inventory when I entered the Abbey. So I suppose that I gave him the money, he removed the curse but because he is a phantom could not take the pile. It just stays in the inventory as a ghost pile which can not be used, because it belogs to the phantom. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wave.gif" alt="" />

iirc it has to do with a certain farmer... who's very interested in fashion. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
And who you help with a billing problem.
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Seth's right, it's Hugh the farmer. Besides, you have to pay the Engineer 10,000gp to rid the Abbey of the curse.

huh! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

Well prepaire yourselves for brainstorming darlings because I havent done anything for Huh yet!

The pile was not there before I entered the Abbey. It appeared after I removed the curse.... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/evilgrin1.gif" alt="" />

So.... Any sugestions?

Hugh stashes his money in the Abbey?

Well I dont know. But I have not done his quest yet. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />

I got the 1000 gold from hugh. I'm sure of that. I hadnt even done cursed abby yet.

btw HANDE: it is only 1000 gold for the engineer <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/winkwink.gif" alt="" />