Companion Package Selection

[purplebrad]

So, a while back I followed a great tutorial about creating a follower, essentially copying the scripts from an existing follower, in this case Star Paladin Cross. The switches in the dialog are simple, I say "Follow me", and it sets XREF.Following to 1 or whatever the case. I modified the "Wait" command to put my chick in Sandbox mode instead of guard, really not that big of a deal.

 

The problem is, all of a sudden recently (I'm not sure what caused it) My chick wont switch packages on her own. If she is following and I tell her to "chill", she continues following. If I Disable / Enable her she THEN switches to Sandbox and does her own thing. If I then tell her to follow me again, she stays in Sandbox until I again Disable / Enable her.

 

It's hard to say that the script ISN'T working, because the dialog options ARE changing her behavior "flags", I just need to reset her to get them applied. I'm also pretty sure this was working previously to.. something.. happening, but I'm really not sure what.

 

The question being, where should I look for the cause of this? checking the dialog scripts everything looks good so I really don't know where to look next. I even added a message box in the code area for the dialog to verify that code IS being run when I select the dialog option.

 

 

Oh, and since the dialog is really just setting the flags, I did also check the actual package script section and all of her "behaviors" are in the proper order as far as I can see. WAIT (sandbox) comes first, but only if Waiting flag is set. After that is FOLLOWLONG if she is hired and the long flag is set, followed by the DEFAULT which is the normal follow mode as long as she is hired, and then the base package for what to do if she is not hired.

 

These are working correctly apart from needing to Disable / Enable her to get them kickstarted. That is to say once she actually adopts the package, that package is working as intended.

[purplebrad]

shameful self-bump