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Seven-character party

Discussion in 'BG2: Throne of Bhaal (Classic)' started by MrMermaid, Dec 18, 2011.

  1. MrMermaid

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    Is it possible? How might one write such a mod? I'm asking because I really want to keep Minsc in my team, but have just installed Sola and want to try him out (it's a choice between those two; everybody else is a firm choice).
     
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    never heard of such, would be awesome

    seems to be game engine limitation, closest you will get i think...

    "I have played the party of eight subquest in "check the bodies", where you can control eight additional characers for the duration of the quest...(green circle) and really, going with eight plus your regular party of six seriously is annoying...you really only kinda control them, you can't access their inventory, only their quick bar...and the ai is kinda goofy with that many friendlies...not to mention they scatter all over the place, and generally are a royal pain... "

    from ;http://www.shsforums.net/topic/16087-any-bg2-mods-that-increase-the-size-of-your-party/

    I know your pain, atm im constantly switching party members in BGT...
    imoen coran kivan jaheira khalid minsc dynaheir branwen yeslick xan
    that would be a party where i didn't have to make choices :p would be perfect
     
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  3. 8people

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    [​IMG] Short answer is no, people have been trying the past ten years, they'd probably have an inkling by now if it was feasible.

    You'd have to remake the GUI, then would have to rewrite certain core aspects of the engine (which are hardcoded). Then you'd have to remake the scripts in the game, redefine abilities which affect the party, remake multiplayer, update many, many mods. Then face a hell of a lot of bugs trying to play it and face a lot of crashes that messing that much into the core of the engine would have as it only has defined parameters for Player1 up to Player6
     
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    Well that sucks. Thanks for answering though. For some reason I thought that, in the development of BGII, they were planning to allow 6 NPCs to join the party, instead of just 5. There's even a gap at the bottom of the character edge of the interface, just enough space for one more portrait! :)
     
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    [​IMG] Depends on what resolution you're playing the game on as well how big that gap is :p It's designed that it can shrink down to 800*600 and the image sizes for the portraits are fixed so they can't stretch to fit the space
     
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    Ascension64 says it's doable, but he wont do it. Try to convince him at SHS.
     
    Shaitan, Dec 27, 2011
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