[Request] Formations tweak
O_Bruce
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This is just a minor change that I came up with. I suggest that, while being in formation selection menu, right-clicking on certain formation will give us an opportunity to choose where party's "leader" should be in the selected formation.
I think that would be helpfull for player characters, who are not fond of standing in the front lines (thieves, priests, mages...), but still, who want to feel like actual leader of the party. I must say that I disliked the idea of, example, Kagain or Khalid leading the party, just because the're good "tanks" (they lacks charisma, and NPC "reaction" is based on "party leader" character valute, and earlier mentioned "tanks" lack of it). I think it would also prevent from switching "leader" just in order to interact with some NPCs and in order to buy/sell some loot.
(Thought BG2 has some formations where leader is not in the front line, it is not good enough for me).
I think that would be helpfull for player characters, who are not fond of standing in the front lines (thieves, priests, mages...), but still, who want to feel like actual leader of the party. I must say that I disliked the idea of, example, Kagain or Khalid leading the party, just because the're good "tanks" (they lacks charisma, and NPC "reaction" is based on "party leader" character valute, and earlier mentioned "tanks" lack of it). I think it would also prevent from switching "leader" just in order to interact with some NPCs and in order to buy/sell some loot.
(Thought BG2 has some formations where leader is not in the front line, it is not good enough for me).
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Basically instead of just adding more of a certain type of formation, it's a thread about allowing us to customize existing formations.
Arguably, yours is most likely an easier fix, since the devs could just hard-code the changes into the program, rather than create an entire new piece of the interface allowing us to create our own formations.
I suppose it all depends on how much time they want to put into reworking the formations (if any), but I do think they deserve some attention from the devs.