Can you change party members with EE/Console commands?

contown

I'm in the long arc in the middle where you can't get back to the map for a good 30 hours, and I didn't realize I'd be stuck with my current set up for so long when I headed for Spellhold.

Is there a way to rotate party members?

Tresset

I think you would have to do a C:MoveToArea("arxxxx") to move your party to the place you left them and pick them up again and then move back to the area you were at when you started.

contown

And would I put the party member's name in that XXXX bit?

I'm not the best at this...

jackjack

contown said:

And would I put the party member's name in that XXXX bit?

I'm not the best at this...

That's where the 4-digit area code goes. I'm not sure which one you need, but @Tresset‌ probably does.

Tresset

You would put in the area code for the area in which you left your party member. The trick is knowing the area code. You can find the area code for the area you are currently in by pressing the x key. Tell me where the people you want to pick up are and I will tell you the area code for that area. I will start by giving you the code for the Copper Coronet since there are a lot of NPCs in that area by default.

C:MoveToArea("ar0406")

Tresset

I would like to note that while you can use this to move to any area in the game; I would definitely recommend that you be very careful with which areas you go to so that you do not screw up the plot in your game. Your best bet would be to tell me who you want to get and where you left them and let me tell you whether or not it is safe to go to get them.

Alternatively you could upload your save game and I could possibly move the NPCs you want to your current area so you can get them.

contown

It's alright, I can do it myself. I'm trying to get Aerie, and she's off in the circus, her default return location, I think. And I'm in the mindflayer dungeon. How to I get Aerie over here? Also, thanks a lot for the help.

Tresset

To get aerie to move to your location rather than moving yourself to her location would require far more than a console code. You would need to use an editor of some sort, such as NearInfinity (I don't think you can swap party members with EEKeeper). An engine editor like NI is very hard to use without screwing up your game. You are better off letting someone more familiar with the process do it for you.

If Aerie is all you need then press the x key in your current area to find the code then C:MoveToArea("ar0607") to pick her up. Once you have her then C:MoveToArea("arxxxx") with xxxx being the code for your current area which you found earlier with the x key. You may need to use ctrl-j if you get stuck somewhere.

Tresset

Be warned that moving to back to the Mind flayer dungeon will put you in the final room for that area and trigger the final battle. That being the case you may just want to upload your save so that I can do it in a way that will not mess up your game.

contown

I'm trying to upload my save, but it keeps saying the file type isn't allowed...

contown

And if it's necessary info for party swapping, I'm trying to switch Viconia with Aerie. Looking for the well-rounded casting right now.

Tresset

To upload a save you need to zip the entire "00000000-Your Save Name" folder and attach that.

contown

I think I got it now! Thanks for the help.

Tresset

Ok here you go. Just so you know Aerie will be relatively low level compared to the rest of your party.

contown

Thanks a lot man! I might savescum to just bring her up to our level.

I really like this community, y'all are very helpful. =D

contown

Slightly confused... Opened up the save, no Aerie in the party or anything. I'm probably doing something wrong. No offense, @Tresset, serious question, what did you actually do?

EDIT: Also I just realized Aerie isn't disguised as a Drow because she wasn't around for that bit...

Tresset

I moved Aerie to your location but did not put her in the party for you... She should be right in the middle of your group...

I will check to make sure I did it right. I had a personal problem (see my profile wall for more details) come up when I was working on your save so I kinda rushed a bit. Sorry I couldn't get back to you earlier.

contown

Thanks for all the help @Tresset. If you could answer one more question, any way to fix the Aerie romance? I've tried shadowkeeper and console commands, but I'm not the best at it... And while you were away, I tried the harder method you mentioned, and the second Aerie joined me she snapped at me for sleeping with that drow. (It didn't even seem optional...) It was a little funny that Viconia couldn't care less.

Do you know how to "restart" it or anything? Sorry for all the questions... This is the last one.

Tresset

Ugh. Global variables... I will give it a shot...

contown

You're my hero, man.

Tresset

Ok. Try that one. I think I managed to reset her romance and make it so that you didn't sleep with Phaere. Let me know if she doesn't start romancing you again or if something else goes wrong.

contown

Thanks a lot, man. I'll give it a whirl. If not, ah well, that's what second playthroughs are for.

Tresset

AHHH!!! I forgot to edit the lovetalk local variable. Try this one instead.

contown

Hahaha, will do. Seriously, thanks for taking the time man.

contown

So @Tresset I've gotten out of the underdark, all set there. But Aerie's not talking. I checked the save, and her romance variable is a long string of numbers, not 1 2 or 3 like normal. Is that because we "haven't talked" yet?

I've tried the good ol' resting a lot, but that didn't seem to help. Console commands?

contown

I just tried a few.

SetGlobal("AerieRomance","GLOBAL",1)

I got an error saying "lua: call expression not a function". I also tried another person's advice and tried changing her value to 2 and then using

"AdvanceRealTime("99999")

For that, I got "lua: syntax error" and

>last token read: ""AdvanceRealTime("" at line 1 in file (dotstring) >> "AdvaneRealtime("99

Any ideas, man?

EDIT: And now I made a new game, and for some reason Aerie won't talk at all, even though I'm a human at 14 reputation, I've rested a lot in safe areas, and she's gained levels. Nothing. Did I break Aerie or something? I did minor save editing, mainly just getting me close to that 20k gold, but nothing that should've affected her.

Why

Tresset

I am pretty sure I screwed up resetting the romance somehow. I don't know as much about variables as I probably should. The good news is that I believe I managed to resume her romance from where you left off. The bad news is she doesn't seem to want to do a lovetalk in dungeon type areas (which most of the underdark is). I think she may start talking to you if you are in Ust'Natha or Adalon's lair but those are about the only places in the underdark where she would.

As for your console attempts; those are syntax errors which means that you typed your commands wrong. Almost all console commands have to begin with C:

As for why Aerie wont talk to you in a new game; I am not sure. It takes about an hour of real time for her to start so you probably didn't wait long enough. I seriously doubt that you could have broken Aerie as to do so you would need to edit the core game files which you can't do with console commands and EEKeeper.

Anyway, here is your save file. Hopefully I got it right this time...

contown

You're my hero, man. Hopefully this will work! If not, forget about me, you've already helped loads.

EDIT: @Tresset, gave it a whirl. Once I got out of the underdark, Aerie didn't say anything (granted not much real time had gone by since I sped through it) but when I did the advancerealtime thing, sure enough she did talk to me, hooray. I had that talk happen "artificially", but hopefully the rest will work normally, just have to wait and see!