Party NPC level progression

In Co8 you have to do yourself the NPC level progression despite you don't see directly their stats nor know their class(es) levels? At this point I don't understand why make humble mod as an option. Or did I met a bug? (CMF .4)

 

In Co8 you have to do yourself the NPC level progression despite you don't see directly their stats nor know their class(es) levels?
* You will see the stats of NPC characters joined with your party when they train and get the attribute score bonus.

At this point I don't understand why make humble mod as an option.
* The Humble PC option prevents NPC characters from looting, makes NPC characters allow other members of their party to give and take any item from their inventory, and prevents NPC characters from automatically selling items from their inventory.

 

Thanks for the detail, I'd prefer that there's an option that fix the errors in the auto level progression. That would have respect a bit more the original conception. Ha well ok my own 2 cents.

Ok I'll put humble npc mod on, I don't see the point of money sharing it just makes looting boring by forcing you to click two time and I don't mention the equipment management that has no sense as they don't look items. <Tiger smiley here>

How I know current classes levels of a NPC?

 

Sorcerers Place,(the icon is at the upper-left of the page) has a listing of all the npc's and their stats and location. The current stats are on the inventory page. Do you have a game manual? If not, there is a printable copy in the main root directory.

 

Lol, yes I have the game manual and it says I don't have to do the level progression of NPC, since I installed Co8 that doesn't work any more, so that's a nasty Co8 bug!

 

Original ToEE:

1) NPCs looted, overburdening themselves with useless junk to the point where they suffered movement penalties.

2) NPCs did not allow you to move items in their inventory to the inventory of a PC, and did not drop items. This made inventory management a serious pain.

3) NPCs automatically sold any item not equipped when you spoke to a merchant. That includes any backup weapons, potions, scrolls, or magic items you might have given them.

4) NPC level up choices were out of your control, buggy, and often made no sense.

ToEE with correctly installed Co8 and Humble NPCs:

1) NPCs don't loot.

2) You have complete control of their inventory.

3) NPCs don't sell off the contents of their inventories, allowing you to equip them the same way you would a PC.

4) You control NPC level up choices, just as you do with PCs.

I can't imagine not using Co8 with the Humble NPCs option. The original ToEE implementation made NPCs worthless.

 

Amen. Humble-npc and 3.0.4 saved this game for me. I wouldn't be playing now if it wasn't for them. I know Liv didn't like it, but it sure works good for me.

 

I agree. Before Co8 and Humble NPC's I had quit picking up the npc's because of them getting over-burdened with too much $h!t.

For all you Co8 modders out there: This game, with whatever bug(s) you happen to find, is Still Better Than It Ever Was!

And I'll tell you, that for every problem I've had with it recently (except the 4th level trap opening like a chest) the "delete pyc files" thing seems to work for me.

 

Agreed on that. It was a major improvement over the old system. It also had its own set of bugs that convinced me to use humble NPCs (dialogs not changing behavior is one I recall).

Might be worth tackling. Personally, I'd rather control it myself in game; my choices about what a good feat path for NPC X would be might not match someone else's. I'm sure a lot of players feel that way.

Easiest way to handle that is probably to use the same running away script the chicken has. When NPC X takes too much damage, he/she flees the battle.

 

Hm. So much for easy fixes.