Solved Character Has Gone AI

[Mere_Mortal]

I’m not kidding you, he’s walking around on his own!

I don’t know where he’s going or what he’s doing, but I’m thinking maybe he’s looking for the pub.

All I did was remove a block of code from the character transfer file, moved some officers around and it crapped out big time. I wound up with my own character in the passenger list, so I thought it would be a good idea to send him over to a companion. That was when I lost control of the character, I can do virtually nothing with him... except step sideways that is. I can sometimes talk to people if they are close enough in front of me. I might have to try this when I’m at sea.

Okay, he’s stopped walking around now. He went to the governor’s house, dunno why.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Have you pressed F12?
By default, that should execute the LAi_SetPlayerType function at the bottom of the console.
Hopefully that would work to give you your control back over the player character.

 

[Mere_Mortal]

Oh, that was easy. I take it this isn’t unheard of then?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Sometimes you end up stuck, unable to move.
Usually of quest code fails and you remain set as an "actor".

It used to be more frequent and I haven't heard of anyone reporting it again over the last year or so.

 

[Grey Roger]

Which storyline were you playing and what were you doing at the time?

 

[Mere_Mortal]

Which storyline were you playing and what were you doing at the time?

I was, erm... messing around with some files.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Not a problem that is likely to affect other players so much then, is it?

And satisfactorily solved as well?

 

[Mere_Mortal]

It shouldn’t do, no. I wasn’t sure if it could at first but given the circumstances it happened in then it’s incredibly unlikely.

Yeah, the reinit trick did the job nicely.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Yeah, the reinit trick did the job nicely.

CONSOLE trick (F12). Reinit (F11) is something else.

 

[Mere_Mortal]

CONSOLE trick (F12). Reinit (F11) is something else.

Ah yeah, well either way it worked.

Actually, this has given me an idea... do you suppose in such a scenario the character would control the player’s own ship?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I doubt it. Would you want that?

 

[Mere_Mortal]

I doubt it, too. I’ve been messing around and I guess the player would have to budge from the first companion slot, which looks very much like a CTD, BSOD and Davy Jones having a party.

Would you want that?

Depends on his skills I guess.