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[Himself]

Hello Almateria and thanks for all your mods and hard work!

Dunno if you're still working on a new release (saw video in facebook page), but if yes, please consider to have the speech and dialogue to be random, between vanilla and your new/restored ones. This way everytime a cutscene or dialog plays theres the random element to it. IMHO its much better than being set to a fixed course which becomes well.. repetitive =]

Tnks again! ^^

[Almateria]

I know what you're thinking and I kinda like the idea, buuut... It kinda defeats the purpose. Also, prople would complain nothing got restored if they got unlucky

[Almateria]

i will look into it. I, uh, might've done something stupid, like not checking whether his death variable isn't called out anywhere which obviously might cause extra problems if you decide to kill him

OR he could be actually innocent and I'm a huge idiot who does stuff only by looking for numbers instead. Whichever might be worse. I'll check this out as soon as I get access to a working installation of BG2, since the GOG OS X version is still borked for anyone willing to browse the files

 

so just hold your horses or kill Metrich with console or maze Petr and run away or whatever for now. I'd give better advice if I had the game right now 

 

sorry for breaking your stuff, man

[Almateria]

Interesting. Wasselan never actually checks whether the squatters (PLFARM04-06) are harmed, but instead he runs the check for Lette, Lanka and Petr (PLFARM01-03), who are always unharmed if you go through the quest, due to the first two running away and the third not existing. Which, in turn, makes the quest impossible to fail.

Adding Petr made the quest always fai, unless you were willing to kill the farmers without asking questions, which I can't imagine lots of people doing. I'm working on a fix.

[Almateria]

And the v8.1.2 is up. It fixed the bug which was surfaced by me, but not caused by me.

 

Because I'm a fantastic modder.

[Ithildur]

So, I'd still like to give this mod a try, but I already have various components of D0 Quest Pack installed already.

 

I'm willing to risk that what Leonardo posted elsewhere ( http://www.shsforums...-bwpv14/page-10 ) is true and ignore the initial concerns about BG2Fixpack; however the potential conflict between Restored Random Encounters and QuestPack does concern me just slightly. Has anyone actually reported conflicts between Quest Pack and Restored Random Encounters if QP is installed first (which is what's likely to happen if someone follows the installation order BWP lays out)?

Edited by Ithildur, 06 March 2015 - 07:54 PM.

[Almateria]

No, not a single one, which is nice and made me feel good about myself.
From what I gathered (i didnt do many tests, hunying for REs is enough to make me want to kill myself) thr biggest problem would be a dialog RE spawning together with a battle RE from the QP

[Almateria]

1. Considering that there are like three lines I wrote myself I'd say it's Bioware-serious
So "a bit"

2. Well, there's this other chick that appears mid dialog. Except she doesn't appear, she's on the map already and moves. Actors in BG2 can't move, even by script, when the game's paused, so she'll yell half across the map
ARP normally prevents it by disabling timestop for this conversation but Tweaks bring it back so.

[The Imp]

ARP normally prevents it by disabling timestop for this conversation but Tweaks bring it back so.

You could request the Tweaks Packs mod to skip this one conversation if the mod is already installed.

[Almateria]

Ehhh, people will manage. I'm kinda iffy about asking other people to make stuff, in their mods, for my mods

[The Imp]

I still encourage you to make the request, as I believe this tweak is easy make, and if you keep the component numbering always the same, it's easy to use the existing structure to detect it, and thus ensure the compatibility.

[Almateria]

I liked the part in which you either lied about your "best efforts", since those were constituted of saying "Remove the encryption" without giving any sort of hint about what you're trying to say; or just admitted that those efforts of yours are pretty shitty.

 

Also, I don't support Oracle Solaris 7 either, if you want to warn some people about it.

[Almateria]

Oh, and you might want to gather more evidence about the supposed "not working", if you want to slander me in public, considering that you're the only person complaining about it in the last 1,5 years.

[Mike1072]

Just to warn Windows XP users: Despite my best efforts, Almateria doesn't want to remove encryption from mod's archive. Thus, she made impossible to extract this mod on Windows XP: http://prntscr.com/6qab1s

Does the same thing happen if you use 7zip or WinRAR to extract it?

[Tash]

Just to warn Windows XP users: Despite my best efforts, Almateria doesn't want to remove encryption from mod's archive. Thus, she made impossible to extract this mod on Windows XP: http://prntscr.com/6qab1s

Does the same thing happen if you use 7zip or WinRAR to extract it?

 

I've successfully unpacked the mod with 7zip and installed without issues on BG2 (GOG version) using WinXP Pro (custom post-SP3).

[Mad Mate]

I confirm that arpv8-1-2.zip is simple zip file and without any encryption. Installed multiple times without any problems.