Theft *ahem* borrowing from Ease-of-use

[CamDawg]

Wes has graciously granted us permission (with proper credit, of course) to raid BG2 Ease-of-Use for components for Tutu Tweaks. I've had folks already express interest in the Remove 'You must gather...', Wear Magic Rings and Armor, Multi-Class Grand Mastery, True Grand Mastery, Un-Nerfed THAC0 (etc), and the Happy Patch. I've already gone ahead and coded these and they'll be included in the next release.

 

Is there any interest in the following being added as well: Multi-Player Kick Out Patch (send NPCs to FAI rather than CC, though), Shapeshifter Rebalancing, Low Rep Store Discount, and No Traps or Locks? If there is sufficient interest, I'll begin conversion and inclusion.

[icelus]

I'd say go for it. Someone, somewhere, will find at least one of those useful. I kinda like the Low Rep Store Discount.

 

And "hooray!" for "you must gather your party..."

[Meira]

Multi-Player Kick Out Patch (send NPCs to FAI rather than CC, though)

What does that do exactly?

[CamDawg]

Actually most of these converted without too many issues--I'll test them and poke the translators for a few new strings, but barring any catastrophes these will likely all make it into the next version.

 

Without the Multi-player kickout mod, NPCs created in a multiplayer game leave forever if they're kicked out. This component gives the PC the option to tell them to wait here or to wait at the FAI.

[Meira]

Sounds actually something I might find useful, so I'll vote for that. I would not want to use many of the ease-of-use components, but that's actually something that makes the game more realistic rather than the opposite.

[CamDawg]

These have been included in v6 of Tutu Tweaks. The following components were lifted more or less wholesale: Shut Up "You Must Gather Your Party ...", Wear Magical Armor AND Magic Rings, Un-Nerfed THAC0 Table, Saving Throws, Grand-Mastery, and Arcane, Divine Spell Progression, Shapeshifter Rebalancing, Low Reputation Store Discount, and No Traps or Locks. Multi-Class Grand Mastery, True Grand Mastery, and the Multi Player Kick-Out Patch needed a bit of recoding but are still the same idea as EoU. We also need to thank Sabre, Dorner, Blucher, and Richardson, who are the authors of some of the aforementioned components for Ease of Use.