Using NPC mules

GaNoN

Its safe to use npc chars as mules? i mean put tons of stuff in them and kick them out from party when ur in the inn or something.

Its safe? because i read somewhere that in BG-1 there were bugs about this, NPC's reseting their inventory when u didnt visit the zone for big intervals of time.

PeteAtoms

I always just leave stuff in containers (like the chest next to Dorn at the FAI).

GaNoN

PeteAtoms said:

I always just leave stuff in containers (like the chest next to Dorn at the FAI).

They never Reset O_O?

and someone tried using NPC's as mules?

scriver

The point of mules is that they can move with you.

TJ_Hooker

GaNoN said:

PeteAtoms said:

I always just leave stuff in containers (like the chest next to Dorn at the FAI).

They never Reset O_O?

Nope, they shouldn't

GaNoN said:

and someone tried using NPC's as mules?

If you mean simply using your party members to help you lug stuff around, then yes, it's been done. But if you're just going to leave them in a building somewhere, there's no advantage to giving them a bunch of stuff to hold on to rather than just putting it in a chest or something.

Madhax

As long as the zone itself isn't altered in some way, containers never reset. And I'm pretty sure no zone alters in BG1, it's more of a BG2 concern.

It might be possible to have an NPC hold onto junk and kick them out to claim the junk later, but I don't see the point of it. Why are you carrying around so much stuff that you're even considering that? Since your new, I might add: Feel free to ditch or pawn the bounty notices you doubtlessly have been collecting. They serve no purpose other than to add flavor to the game.

PeteAtoms

Madhax said:

As long as the zone itself isn't altered in some way, containers never reset. And I'm pretty sure no zone alters in BG1, it's more of a BG2 concern.

It might be possible to have an NPC hold onto junk and kick them out to claim the junk later, but I don't see the point of it. Why are you carrying around so much stuff that you're even considering that? Since your new, I might add: Feel free to ditch or pawn the bounty notices you doubtlessly have been collecting. They serve no purpose other than to add flavor to the game.

Or invest in the scroll case (along with the other containers in BGEE).

Lemernis

For storing items that you're not yet sure what to do with (i.e., possibly might want to use later, and/or don't desperately need cash for right away) there's two ways that I do it.

One is to choose an inn in Beregost as my home base, go to the second floor, and place the items in a container such as a drawer. They won't disappear--whatever you place in a container remains there. If I do it this way I basically imagine that I'm renting that room for the party, ignoring the fact that there's no locked door and anyone can come and go into the room.

The other approach involves an Easter egg feature (from the original game) so I'll wrap it in a spoiler tag:

In Beregost directly across from the Red Sheaf Inn (Silke stands in front of the entrance) there is a home owned by a man named Borland. If you speak with Borland he'll open his home to you and let you stay there. You can rest there for free and store items in his dressers or locked chests. You can unlock the chests without any repercussions from the Flaming Fist. Apparently now you can steal Borland's items and he won't mind. (Back in the day if you stole from him you'd no longer be welcome in his home.) Evil parties can kill him and will still be able to sleep there. Anyway, this is home base for me in BG1 and now EE.

Darkcloud

Madhax said:

As long as the zone itself isn't altered in some way, containers never reset. And I'm pretty sure no zone alters in BG1, it's more of a BG2 concern.

It might be possible to have an NPC hold onto junk and kick them out to claim the junk later, but I don't see the point of it. Why are you carrying around so much stuff that you're even considering that? Since your new, I might add: Feel free to ditch or pawn the bounty notices you doubtlessly have been collecting. They serve no purpose other than to add flavor to the game.

Uhm well candlekeep but well you can't really store stuff there anyway and I'm not sure about the areas in Baldurs Gate. Also you shouldn't have to much stuff but thats coming from someone that almost never feels the need for item storing places in any game.

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