Balance.txt and gold drops?

[350zspec 1]

Are balance.txt lines in anyway connected to gold drops? I'm in niob and tweaked balance.txt a bit and I now get gold drops in the region of 600k - 2 million gold a drop. Is this normal in niob?

[Silver_fox 397]

The game considers gold drops (blueprints 697-701) just the same as all other items. Gold pouches also have tiers and their drop is also regulated by ZRareExpectation values in balance.txt. The bigger the tier of gold pouch is, the more gold it contains. So yes, if you set the balance to drop uniques more frequently, you'd be getting more gold as well. By the values of what you're getting, it looks like you increased the probability of high-tier drops to the point where almost all gold pouches you get are of higher tiers. Even in Niob junk and normal gold bags never contain that much gold.

[350zspec 1]

Thanks again Silver_Fox