I can re-equip NPCs only once?

This game is trying my patience, even with the patches from Atari and the valiant Circle. Little bug after little bug. Now there's a big bug.

Zert and Zaxis were willing to sell me their starting gear and take better gear, but now they won't allow me to upgrade them a second time. They won't drop the equipment I want to replace, and when I talk to them my only option is, "Hey man, make sure you don't drop any of that gear you're already refusing to drop."

Any help would be appreciated.

 

I also noticed that the Cleric Hireking (forget his name) that you can get in the church does not even have the option to buy his starting gear. I'm almost at the point to just use 8 PC's (adjusting the PC options in options of coarse.

 

Once you buy their equipment you can usually change it with out asking.
They won't drop items they loot.
Ronald dosen't trust you at first.
If they are killed you can empty their backpacks also.

 

Are you using the "Humble NPC's" option from the FE tool bar?

Go to that menu, (before starting/restarting a game) click "Humble NPC's" and you'll be able to swap/change/steal their gear with no problem.

Without "Humble NPC's" checked, they'll act like you described which is their default behaviour. This was a Co8 modification for the NPC's.

 

Hugh,

The gear I am trying to remove is gear that I gave them, not that they looted.

Emirkol,

That "humble NPCs" thing is more than I'm looking for. I'm not trying to rob the NPCs, just get them to accept upgrades. It sounds like it should fix my problem, though. Thanks.

I just find it hard to believe that the original game allowed you to change NPCs' gear once, but then never again. That's amazingly stupid.

 

Wait, where do I find this "Humble NPCs" option? I don't see anything like that on the Front End screen.

 

Top left toolbar "options". Check the humble_npc box and your good to go. Maybe try max hp also. Works good.

 

I checked "Humble NPCs," and I am still having the same problem. Zert refuses to drop the armor I gave him last time.

 

Did the die after you gave them the gear because I think when they get resurected they think that all the stuff on them is now theirs and won't give it up.

 

I don't think he's died. At least, not in this game save. I resurrected him once and found that he had become invisible, and I couldn't do anything with him, so I went back to a previous save and refought the battle.

 

With humble you should be able to transfer anything in an npc's inventory to a pc and have them use/sell it. Npc's can buy their own stuff and it goes against the main pc pot. I use Fruella as a "mule" just to carry loot. You can do most anything with humble_npc. It's great.

 

So Zert and Zaxis are just stuck with their current gear, huh. That's going to be a problem.

 

You should be able to move Zert and Zaxis stuff by selecting the item and dragging it to a pc with openings in their inventory. If that doesn't work then there is a problem. Quit your game and come back up to tfe-x and check that humble is checked. Quit and restart your computer. If it still wont transfer items, I guess you're stuck with it.