I need some general knowledge about NEJ Options

[Ardanis]

I'm about to play a NEJ at last. I don't want to start game and find then a crowd of bugs and other vermins and I'm lazy to check 280 megabytes of NEJ by myself.
Can someone with knowledge enlighten me:
1) is there known incompatibilies with UB, D0questpack, D0Tweaks, Refinements (not with new NEJ kits and armors/weapons, maybe rules too, but something else), especially with two first ones;
2) is it necessary to install BGT (since I don't need it in the least);
3) does NEJ make undocumented (neither readme nor ingame descriptions) changes (I can understand bugfixes but not something else (I do know mods which do it)) of items/spells/kits;
4) how much XP will I get from NEJ in average - in other words, which value should I choose for DEFJAM xpmod in order to avoid overstepping of official ~18 millions XP for sixmembered party at the end of SoA?

This post has been edited by Ardanis: Nov 2 2006, 01:38 AM

[ClefairyTorii]

Part 2 has nothing to do with IWD and BG.

But it has a little to do w/ PS:T! (i think it uses the area u get Fall-From-Grace, and the Sensate room if im remembering everything correctly...huhu)

However, as for IWD, i wouldn't bother playing it. No offense to any IWD fans, but i thought it was complete crap. Reminded me of Diablo. All fighting, and no story. (On a side note, i loved Diablo 2, but only for its multiplayer/online experience) NeJ adds quite a bit of story and text. One of the best parts of NeJ imho, was Jaheira, Minsc, and Imoen banters. It really felt as if your party ported to IWD. I really enjoyed it.

As stated by Vlad earlier, he doesn't support anything other than TS/NeJ, and i personally think thats a good thing. This way he doesn't have to deal w/ conflictions or bugs created by mods he didn't work on, and can focus completely on making NeJ/TS as good as possible.

I've said it before, and ill say it again. I've played every single known mod to date. (or at least i think i have) So far, NeJ/TS has been the most enjoyable by far, AND its still in the works. I highly recommend playing it, even if it means u can't use your favorite fix,tweak,quest,etc.-packs. I used to install a ton of mods everytime i played BG2. (before NeJ, i always did BP installs...) I now play NeJ/TS exclusively. I just seems to me to be a more polished game. Sure there are the bugs, every mod has them, but so far any bug i've had has been remedied from help from this forum (highfive to Vlad, GT, and the rest of the people on this forum)



This post has been edited by ClefairyTorii: Nov 4 2006, 12:50 PM