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[Roxanne]

Expanded Thief Stronghold for EET
 
 
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I have made the Expanded Thief Stronghold mod (originally by Gebhard Blucher) available for EET.

The mod adds some further quests to the thief stronghold in BG2 and imports Narlen and Black Lilly from the BG1 Shadow Thieves to Amn.

The conversion includes
- All fixes from BWFixpack for the mod
- Updated portraits
- An option to select the improved Mae'Var component directly during install
- An option to make the stronghold available for any PC.
(Note - the two options existed in the mod but where not selectable in the install - you had to extract and overwrite files instead, I adjusted this to up-to-date practice as optional components.)
 
 

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    Reminds me that I should probably make a note somewhere prominent on that site to let people know that they have permission to do whatever they want with any of the old BG mods that I have.

    Regards,
    GB

[Roxanne]

Simeon, on 09 Jun 2017 - 14:15, said:

Doesn't work with latest: BiG World Setup (https://bitbucket.or...p/bigworldsetup)

Archive name (EET_Expanded_Thief_Stronghold-master.zip), installer name (GBThfKp -> EETGBThfKp)  and compatibility issues during installation:

##### Expanded Thief Stronghold #####
The mod was not found.
After the mod is present, the install may be started another time.
Enter [r]etry, [c]ontinue or [e]xit.
[r]


##### Expanded Thief Stronghold #####
### 0000: Expanded Thief Stronghold: v2.21EE (+ BWP Fix) ###
Ready for installation
### 0001: Improved Mae'Var: v2.21EE (+ BWP Fix) ###
Ready for installation
### 0002: Thief Stronghold for All: v2.21EE (+ BWP Fix) ###
Ready for installation
Setup-EETGBThfKp.exe --no-exit-pause --noautoupdate --language 0 --skip-at-view  --force-install-list 0 1 2 --logapp
[Setup-EETGBThfKp.exe] WeiDU version 24000
Using Language [English]

Using .\lang\en_us\dialog.tlk
ERROR: No translation provided for @2
Continuing despite error.

Installing [UNDEFINED STRING:   @2] [v2.21EE (+ BWP Fix)]
Compiling 1 script ...
Compiling 27 scripts ...
ERROR: No translation provided for @1034

[EETGBThfKp/Scripts/TSGBase.baf]  ERROR at line 8 column 1-34
Near Text: @1034
	Not_found
ERROR: parsing [EETGBThfKp/Scripts/TSGBase.baf]: Not_found
ERROR: error compiling [EETGBThfKp/Scripts/TSGBase.baf]: Not_found
ERROR: compiling [EETGBThfKp/Scripts/TSGBase.baf]!
Stopping installation because of error.

ERROR Installing [UNDEFINED STRING:   @2], rolling back to previous state
Will uninstall   5 files for [EETGBTHFKP/EETGBTHFKP.TP2] component 0.
Uninstalled      5 files for [EETGBTHFKP/EETGBTHFKP.TP2] component 0.
ERROR: Not_found
PLEASE email the file SETUP-EETGBTHFKP.DEBUG to g_blucher@yahoo.com
Automatically Skipping [UNDEFINED STRING:   @2] because of error.
Using Language [English]

SKIPPING: [Improved Mae'Var]
	Main component required.

SKIPPING: [Thief Stronghold for All]
	Main component required.

NOT INSTALLED DUE TO ERRORS UNDEFINED STRING:   @2

F:\Games\Installed\baldurs gate ii - enhanced edition>
ERROR: No translation provided for @1034
ERROR: parsing [EETGBThfKp/Scripts/TSGBase.baf]: Not_found
ERROR: error compiling [EETGBThfKp/Scripts/TSGBase.baf]: Not_found
ERROR: compiling [EETGBThfKp/Scripts/TSGBase.baf]!
ERROR: Not_found
Expanded Thief Stronghold: v2.21EE (+ BWP Fix) (Expanded Thief Stronghold) was not installed due to errors.

Sorry, this was my first attempt to add a mod to the BWS (Maybe you are aware that the tool lost its *professional* maintainers). I think that all the errors are related to the same source, i.e.misnaming the Archive name (EET_Expanded_Thief_Stronghold-master.zip) in a BWS entry, Even though Alien helped me with it, we may not have caught all. I will revise it.

Meanwhile, if you skip the mod in BWS, pause the BWS, extract the mod manually and run the setup exe, does it give you an error then? If it installs manually you can just continue the BWS.

[Roxanne]

ALIEN, on 10 Jun 2017 - 05:56, said:

I investigate this issue and I'm afraid that there a multiple problems with how things was done regarding the update and integration of this mod. I will post more at http://gibberlings3....showtopic=28740

I have completely revised the resource naming to make it unambiguous with the old mod.

New pull request to BWS submitted.

Edited by Roxanne, 10 June 2017 - 11:10 PM.

[The Imp]

Hmm, does this have option to guild the BG1 thief stronghold with the BG2 one and unionize the thieves in both regions ?

[Roxanne]

ALIEN, on 18 Jun 2017 - 11:38, said:

Two mod related questions:

 

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- An option to make the stronghold available for any PC.

I assume that this component is a lot poorer version of Tweaks Anthology "Multiple Strongholds" - is there a reason for such component in the first place? Why reinvent the wheel again?

Poorer in the way that it affects only one stronghold. This is part of the original mod and dates back long before Tweaks Anthology, which by itself took it from older sources. Historians know who invented it or who re-used it. Anyway, there should be no problem with several mods doing the same here, as they all use the same globals and produce the same results. For the player this is transparent.

 

ALIEN, on 18 Jun 2017 - 11:38, said:

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- An option to select the improved Mae'Var component directly during install

I have serious doubts about the quality of the 'improved'. Does this components have any comparison between Tactics and SCS version of the same component? Does it overwrite files? Does it interfere/overlap (adding saving throws/resistance twice) with them?

There is an (original) author's warning that other mods may do a similar thing. The best solution would be to exclude this component in BWS if Tactics or SCS is selected, giving those components priority over this lesser effort.

Edited by Roxanne, 18 June 2017 - 04:01 AM.

[Fouinto]

Hi,

I've used "Expanded Thief Stronghold" in my current run and everything was perfect during my run but may be this :

When a Thief get caught, I go break in the prison to free him.
The problem (?) : sometimes there are lot of guards outside and inside the prison (to prevent me from freeing him) and others there are nobody outside and only few guards inside...

I can't say if this is a bug or not (may be it's intended... or maybe it was also the case in the original "Expanded Thief Stronghold"). It is not really a problem... I wanted you to know

 

Edit : thank you for having translated it to EE T:)

Edited by Fouinto, 24 August 2017 - 09:37 AM.

[Roxanne]

Fouinto, on 24 Aug 2017 - 17:36, said:

Hi,

I've used "Expanded Thief Stronghold" in my current run and everything was perfect during my run but may be this :

When a Thief get caught, I go break in the prison to free him.
The problem (?) : sometimes there are lot of guards outside and inside the prison (to prevent me from freeing him) and others there are nobody outside and only few guards inside...

I can't say if this is a bug or not (may be it's intended... or maybe it was also the case in the original "Expanded Thief Stronghold"). It is not really a problem... I wanted you to know

 

Edit : thank you for having translated it to EE T:)

Nothing was changed here from the original mod.

Nevertheless, I will take a look into it, there is no reason why we cannot improve the mod.

Thank you for the info.

[Fouinto]

Roxanne, on 24 Aug 2017 - 17:46, said:

Nothing was changed here from the original mod.

Nevertheless, I will take a look into it, there is no reason why we cannot improve the mod.

I forgot to say that it was SOOOOOOO LONG I had not played this mod

I will probably add it to all my futures installs