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[Brannin Vael]

Hello Horred,

I'm having some problems with this kit. My install is similar to Xcaliburs but sans NeJ and some other NPC's.

The problem is that as soon as I start out in Candlekeep, my character is maxed out in experience and will level all the way to Lvl 50. This isn't too big of a deal since I can CLUAConsole the experience away however.

The next problem, more serious, is that the characters THACO table does not advance, regardless of level, and I lose the ability to put any pips in Scimitar (there may be others...that's just what I notice for now). I can put it into scimitar in the character creation screen, but as soon as the game starts it goes away.

Is this happening to anyone else? Do I have a corrupt installation? If I do have a corrupt install, can I re-install the kit on top of BP? Thanks for any advice, since I am really curious about this kit and want to give it a try.

[amitlath]

Hi,

i am getting the following error while installing the kit with horred's fixes:

[DruidicSorcererKit/baf/drsorc.baf] PARSE ERROR at line 163 column 38-38
Near Text: )
[CheckStatLT] argument [MAXHITPOINTS] not found in [Stats.IDS]

fyi, i am getting the same error when installing the big picture weidu mod right after this one.

any ideas whats wrong?

thanks
Amit

[seanas]

Hi,

i am getting the following error while installing the kit with horred's fixes:

[DruidicSorcererKit/baf/drsorc.baf] PARSE ERROR at line 163 column 38-38
Near Text: )
[CheckStatLT] argument [MAXHITPOINTS] not found in [Stats.IDS]

fyi, i am getting the same error when installing the big picture weidu mod right after this one.

any ideas whats wrong?

yeah: what other mods have you got installed? there's a thread on G3 that indicates that some of the old NPCs - Kelsey i remember; there were some others too - install crap ids files during their install processes: the result is that they can generate these errors. the simplest solution at this stage is either: hunt thru the backup folders of the mods you've installed and restore any backed-up ids files you find; or (if you've biffed yr install at some point - ie, if you've installed BGT, TDD, TS, SoS, etc) simply remove all ids files you find in yr override folder (as the originals will be in the bifs).

[amitlath]

sorry for the late update on this. yes, the kelsey mod was removing the new line at the beginning of stats.ids and that was the source of all troubles. putting the new line character in the beginning of that file in the override folder removes the error. the other solutions is not installing kelsey . thanks for the info.

about removing all the ids files from the override folder, what kind of side effects can it have on the game? yes i have tdd-sos-ctb-ts installed.

[seanas]

about removing all the ids files from the override folder, what kind of side effects can it have on the game? yes i have tdd-sos-ctb-ts installed.

if you've got one or more of TDD, SoS, CtB, BGT installed, then removing ids files from yr override folder after installing these but before installing BP will have no effect on yr game whatsoever: the mods i listed all biff their files, including ids files, into archives 9which is what a bif is) in yr /data folder.

so if you remove something from the override folder, the game will look for the file in a bif, and if it finds it there, it will use that instead. so a good safety measure to protect yrself from the effects of olds mods is to just remove any ids files before you get to the BP install stage: all the newly weidu-ed mods bif their files, so any ids file in yr override folder prior to installing BP is going to be old crap anyway (or at best, a duplicate of a file in a bif).

[amitlath]

ok, got that. only one thing, i would assume that if a mod, eg. kelsey, installs stats.ids into override, it has made changes to the file and needs those changes for it to work. now if i delete the file, will the biffed version belonging to some other mod break the old mod?

that sounds confusing, basically will kelsey work with the biffed ids file instead of the override one? what about changes that kelsey mod would have made to the ids file?

[seanas]

that sounds confusing, basically will kelsey work with the biffed ids file instead of the override one? what about changes that kelsey mod would have made to the ids file?

the old mods that are installing ids files (K/Z and Oversight spring to mind) aren't patching or altering them in any way, so removing them won't harm an install using modern mods such as TDD-weidu, SOS-weidu, etc.

i can never remember the exact reason why those old mods are installing ids files: it was either cos the ones that came out of the bioware box were broken themselves, or to allow non-TOB users to play the mods. either way, given we now have modern mods such as the weidu'd big mods, until such time as these old mods get a renovation, all they acheive are error reports.

[hlidskialf]

i can never remember the exact reason why those old mods are installing ids files: it was either cos the ones that came out of the bioware box were broken themselves, or to allow non-TOB users to play the mods.

It was both.

[melkor_morgoth75]

Strange indeed .. i never had such problem (i had many others 'cause the kit is quite unplayable unfortunately for Thac0 issue for example) ... apart a complete re-install i don't really know what other help give to you (shapeshifting rebalancing could be the cause? But i don't think so ...).

mm75

Edited by melkor_morgoth75, 19 June 2007 - 06:06 AM.

[Caedwyr]

Out of curiousity, who is the current custodian/contact for this mod?

[melkor_morgoth75]

Out of curiousity, who is the current custodian/contact for this mod?

None as far as i know unfortunately (may be Duality has some clues) ... this is one of my favourite mod indeed but it has some bugs and it is quite unplayable with a heavy modded game.

mm75

Edited by melkor_morgoth75, 03 October 2007 - 11:07 PM.

[Jarno Mikkola]

and it is quite unplayable with a heavy modded game.

Yes, without Shadow Keeper, and a few thicks with it. I propose that no one installs the second part of the mod. The same thing can be done with SK, without interference with anything else.

[melkor_morgoth75]

The use of Shadowkeeper with mods is quite risky ... i remember weird things happening on my game using it. Divine Remix mod was useless after a save with SK if i'm not wrong. Moreover unfortuantely, DS is NOT compatible with Divine Remix for example ... that's also why i'm saying that it's unplayable on a (quite) heavy modded game.

mm75