Dragon Age: Origins

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If you have trouble getting Yuriah's third store upgrade (with the Paragon Dweomer/Silverite Rune tracings), you might be interested.

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This file is here to preserve it from doom, as BSN will be shut down in October 2016.

There is pretty much no support for this file.

Note that this "fix" may not be necessary at all if you know how you can trigger Yuriah's third upgrade through normal gameplay.

Original description (Modifications in italic):

For some reason, Yuriah never upgrades his store the third time, despite rescuing the "Terrified Merchant" at the beginning (Yuriah tells you: "The merchant you saved was happy to be alive--restocked me for a bargain! The savings are yours, of course."), choosing "Trade must flow. We need supplies to fight the darkspawn." during the "Defending the Land" quest (or "Let's do our best to protect them all."), recruiting both Armaas and Lilith, completing the Trading Troubles quest, and doing all the merchant board side quests.

If you have no trouble with Yuriah's third store upgrade, you obviously don't need this mod. I'd like to know how to properly get his third store upgrade, though. Details, please.

This mod has Yuriah apply his third store upgrade, the one containing the Paragon Dweomer Rune Tracing and the Paragon Silverite Rune Tracing, after some conditions are met.

The conditions for the third store upgrade with this mod are *roughly*:
- The "Terrified Merchant" during "Assault on Vigil's Keep" at the beginning must have been rescued
- Yuriah has already upgraded his store twice (I don't know exactly when this occurs and I don't care; I only know it works)
- Armaas and Lilith must have been recruited
- "Trade must flow" must have been completed
- Soldiers must patrol trade routes (both "Trade must flow. We need supplies to fight the darkspawn." and "Let's do our best to protect them all." do work I think during "Defending the Land")
- The Merchant Board side quests must have been completed

I have no idea whether the Trading Troubles main quest must have been completed and I don't know whether upgrading the Soldiers' equipment (via Herren's "Elemental Requirements" quest) is relevant at all for Yuriah's store upgrades.

Note that if you already have a rune tracing (e.g. by cheating), then it will probably not appear a second time in Yuriah's store.

You may have to exit and re-enter the Throne Room for this mod to work.

Installation:
Put Unpack into*
\BioWare\Dragon Age\packages\core\override

Uninstallation:
Delete the folder "Yuriah_New_Stock" from \BioWare\Dragon Age\packages\core\override (or where ever else you installed it).

* The rar-file you download is an archive file (like zip, 7z, cab etc...). You must extract it with an extractor application. You can, for example, use WinRAR (Shareware, displays a nag screen after a while, many people use it) or 7-Zip (Open Source, I use it and many other use it as well). Both programs support drag and drop which you'll want to use to make things easy.

Using this mod, if Yuriah's store just doesn't upgrade the third time, but you REALLY think it should, you could do the following to find out why:
- find the directory where Dragon Age is installed
- navigate to \Dragon Age\bin_ship
- open or create the file "ECLog.ini"
- that file should contain:
[LogTypes]
Script=1
- save the file, run Dragon Age Awakening, enter the Throne Room
- exit the game, navigate to \BioWare\Dragon Age\Logs\
- open the file DragonAge_1.log
- look for "********************HST MESSAGE********************" and/or "***** HST *****"
- there should either a reason be listed or some variables with values (like VGK_WOOLSEY_ARMAAS_GATHERED)
- values must all be 1; if any is 0 you either haven't progressed enough or you bungled it
- set Script=0 afterwards, no reason to keep logging without needing it