Two Questions

[Ironbar]

1. Is it possible to create an entire party from scratch (no NPC's)? For example, can you create 6 characters instead of having to use the computers ones?

2. Spoilers****************


Whilest in spellhold i rescued imoen, however as i already had a full party i needed to remove someone. I tried removing Nalia. Unfortunately when she initiated dialogue after being expelled i had two options 1- leave her in spellhold (not nice) or 2- Take her back. I did the latter but told Imoen to go to CC. She walked into a wall (as often happens when people leave an area). Therefore, the question is will she still be there (CC) when i leave spellhold or do i need to start a new game?


Thanks.

[ 09-02-2003, 10:15 AM: Message edited by: Ironbar ]

[Pyrenk]

1. Yes, create a multiplayer game, and you can make a full party of your own characters.

2. She should be there, yes. Did she disappear when she walked into the wall?

[ 09-02-2003, 10:28 AM: Message edited by: Pyrenk ]

[JrKASperov]

Originally posted by Ironbar: 2. Spoilers**************** Whilest in spellhold i rescued imoen, however as i already had a full party i needed to remove someone. I tried removing Nalia. Unfortunately when she initiated dialogue after being expelled i had two options 1- leave her in spellhold (not nice) Thanks.

When the st00pit bitsj won't leave, ditch 'em

[Borg]

Regarding 1, starting multi-player games can take a number of steps and so be a little painful over time. To make it easier, see the Multiplayer trick described in Six of Spade's site (about midway down this page: http://www.geocities.com/sixospades/bg/chap12.htm )

EDIT] corrected the link as Zuvio had pointed out

[ 09-02-2003, 03:09 PM: Message edited by: Borg ]

[Zuvio]

Originally posted by Six'O'Spades:

And now we come to the most popular form of file manipulation: The Multiplayer trick. If you've been playing any game in the BG series for a while, you've wished you didn't have to deal with the NPCs the game gives you, with their Alignment problems, emotional baggage, and stats that are lower than yours. You want to form a party of 6 people, all entirely created by you. Well, you can. Open up Multiplayer, start a new game, and assign control of all 6 characters to yourself. Roll 'em up and start that game. Now, Multiplayer games load somewhat slower than Single Player, and they also have an irritating text bar at the bottom (for chatting) that eats up some screen space. Well, save your game, and then Alt-Tab back out to Windows. Move the file you just saved from the 'mpsave' [Multiplayer] folder into the 'save' [Single Player] folder. Go back into the game, exit Multiplayer, start up Single player, and load that game. Shazam! You now have complete control over a party of 6 characters you rolled yourself, in a Single Player game that is otherwise completely normal. I firmly believe that far more people use Multiplayer to roll more than 1 character in the same game than they do to actually play over the Net. Now, the drawback to this is that you don't get the fun party interaction and conversations that arise in true Single Player games, but that's the tradeoff: Powergaming vs. Roleplaying. Now, in BG1, your Multiplayer NPCs will not care about Reputation and will never leave the party. If you kick them out, they will always stay right there to wait for you. In BG2, however, a Multiplayer NPC who gets booted from the party will always wander off and never come back. So don't expect a big Mix & Match party between you and the existing NPCs.

Here is the actual piece that Six wrote about the MP trick. The link in the previous post doesn't work because of the ')' at the end of the link...

[Ironbar]

Thanks for the help.

[Zuvio]

You're always welcome!