Less Crowd Characters

Made for Patch 7 - Hotfix 27, working with Patch 8

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Hi! I don't know about you, but I find Act 3 pretty overwhelming, and so I'm trying to fix that a bit—starting with this mod!

This reduces the maximum amount of generic crowd characters allowed to spawn in Act 3.

There are so many of them, and they have pretty much infinite draw distance (I am going to see if I can fix that as well), and even if your game can process so many of them at once, it can still make Act 3 pretty overwhelming and difficult to navigate. And the amount of them allowed to spawn is actually kinda massive!!! Unreasonably massive, to be quite honest!!! Several crowd character spawners I saw had 30 crowd characters allowed to spawn from it, and that is just one of genuinely hundreds of other crowd character spawners. (To be fair, most other spawners had significantly less characters allowed to spawn from them, but still. 30 is...already a lot, and then theres so, so so many more spawners in general... Good lird.)

So! This mod aims to fix the just, general sense of overwhelm I and other people I know personally feel in Act 3, by reducing the amount of crowd characters in each area. It affects all areas of Act 3, and not just Baldur's Gate proper, so you should see the changes in Rivington, the Circus of Last Days, Wyrm's Rock Fortress, and so on.

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This mod comes in two versions:

• []Less Crowd Characters - Half: reduces the amount of crowd characters to roughly half of the vanilla game.

  []Less Crowd Characters - None: removes all generic crowd characters entirely.

  Only install ONE version at a time!

  I will say that removing all crowd characters does make some areas of Act 3 feel pretty empty, especially the Circus of Last Days. But in most areas there's still plenty of other characters around! And if you still want Baldur's Gate to feel like a busy, bustling city (and the rest of Act 3 to feel the same), the version of the mod that halves the amount of crowd characters does nicely, but is still less overwhelming than vanilla imo.

  The mod also has the added bonus of making videos in Act 3 easier to record, for anyone who'd like to do so 😅 (For this video in particular, I literally had to put something in the way behind my characters to get the crowd characters to stop walking directly through everyone... Which was especially unfortunate for the shorter characters. They uh...they're at a pretty...um. Not Ideal height. On body type 3. So, uh... That is also partially why I made this mod. Please stop walking straight through my guy's crotch, I beg...)

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