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Please clear something up for me...

Discussion in 'Baldur's Gate (Classic)' started by Bowie, Apr 7, 2001.

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    [​IMG] I know the XP of the joining NPCs are determined by your character's XP. But is that based on the first time you enter the map with the NPC or the first time you actually talk to them?

    Example: If I first enter the Friendly Arm Inn while my character's still at level one, but don't talk to Jaheira and Khalid; then I return later when I've got more XP and ask them to join will I be getting level one NPCs or will they have XP based on my current level?
     
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    [​IMG] I think they are still level one, otherwise the game would be too easy

    Ok cool i didn't know that

    [This message has been edited by mortas (edited April 08, 2001).]
     
    mortas, Apr 7, 2001
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    [​IMG] On the contrary, I believe that the NPC's XP is based on the XP you have when they join your party. It's only fair that when they join they be at least somewhat close to your own level. There is always the chance that you could lose an NPC for ever because they were over-killed. Then you had to go back to a previously visted screen to get a new party member.
     
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    [​IMG] mojo is right. After you talk to them and have them join you, they adjust themselves to your character's experience. But if you just let them into your party and dump them in two minutes, they won't adjust next time you take them into your party... They will remain at what they were when you recruited them last.
     
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    Just a little thought on this, I have posted on a BG2 recent topic about NPC starting levels. Looking at the info in Infinity Explorer it looks like each of the NPCs has a maximum starting level. IN BG2 this seems to be about level 12. To put that in context, you start BG2 about level 8 and can go up to about level 20.
    http://www.sorcerers.net/ubb/Forum2/HTML/001882.html

    Now things might be different in BG1 but I doubt it. I am also fairly sure that when I had to recruit a new NPC to replace an unresurrectable one late in the game, the new NPC was nowhere near the level of the rest of the party.

    So be warned, if you pick up an NPC really late in the game they might not be at such a high level.

    If anyone can say for certain that this is not true, please do so. But be sure that you have recruited an NPC late in the game and that they were at a high level. Don't just repeat the commonly preceived wisdom.
     
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