Dog Cavalry

As above. Reached Spellhold at last, and now need to dump someone to take on Imoen. Just an aside. How massive a job would it be to allow the possibility of a seven party member? I've never seen this discussed, so presumably it's not at all straightforward, but I'm wondering, architecturally speaking, how this is limited.

Anyway, got to give someone the heave-ho, and Kachiko, now that TS is finished, is my first choice. Don't need her, since PC is a Fighter/Mage anyway. Unfortunately, Yoshima leaves with her, and I do need a thief. Amber would be my choice IIRC. Can I install her at this point without causing death by bunga-bunga to my game?



If so, how? Got the usual: TDD, TS, SoS, and BP to make them get along.

Thoughts, comments, casual insults all welcome. Though I guess the main question is an old one. Perhaps the 7th party member question will make this thread worth reading

from Hastur by the Shores of Hali

John

I have several strongholds, from BG2 Tweaks, but Ceeb Issom hasn't shown up in the Inn in Trademeet, and Selence still won't give me the time o' day. Is it due to Global Settings Tweaks that BG2 Tweaks makes to allow multiple strongholds? If so, what do I edit to untweak this?

Or do I have my own unique problem? That seems unlikely.

BTW, I have the latest everything installed.

An entire week of installing and uninstalling BP etc to no avail led to a total uninstall, reformating the HD it had been on, registry mechanic to make sure it was reeaaally gone. Then a fresh BG2 ToB install, Patch, and for the first time, everything installed flawlessly... or so it seemed.
But after starting a new game, saving and having lunch, I restarted to find my PC is in a purple circle, rather than green, and quite unselectable.
So I loaded a save game I'd kept from the previous crippled install, to find that the Cerebral Knight Paladin fellow who wants you to fight the Psions at the Hall of Wisdom, or whatever it's called, is now named Pestilent Dawn, he's a fallen Paladin (what would his mother say?) and his dialogue is all descriptions of magical items. While Kachiko is still Kachiko, her bio is now part of someone else's dialogue, and her interjections are from some other NPC I haven't met yet's introductory monologue.

What is going on here? Everything seemed to install smoothly, but clearly didn't. Are these classic bugs, or am I breaking new ground.

Oh yeah, it also freezes when loading saves, and I have to unplug the machine because it doesn't respond to anything else, and sometimes it just CTD's.

Any suggestions beyond "learn to like solitaire"?