I have technical questions regarding Relationship Dialogue Overhaul (SSE)

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WARNING: Lots of text.

 

So RDO for SSE works just fine and all, but there's an issue that, more than anything, I'm trying to understand.

 

You see, when I played it on Oldrim, there were several companions added to the game that you could recruit which had some of the newly supported voice types. They appeared in the game like normal and everything was dandy.

 

Now, I've been playing with RDO for SSE for a few months now and have just now finally noticed that they weren't appearing in my game at all. Confused, I opened up the CK and looked through the mod to discover that all of them were indeed still there, and that all of them were placed directly in The Winking Skeever.

 

After discovering this, my first thought was that the reason I wasn't seeing them was because, somehow, their AI data had them wandering out from their initial placement towards where they do their daily routines, perhaps getting lost in Skyrim along the way -- that is until I stopped to consider that one of those companions was supposed to be living in Solitude, and I had never once seen them in all the time I've played Special Edition.

 

Just to be sure, I started a new game, choosing to start at The Winking Skeever itself. Just as I suspected, they weren't there, and they weren't on their way out of the city.

 

My question is -- how the hell can they be placed in the game, but phase out of existence once you turn the game on? According to the CK, they are placed in the Winking Skeever, they each have their AI packages working, and nothing else in the mod is using their info or disabling them.

 

It's not a big deal -- I can just delete their placements in the Winking Skeever and place them where their AI packages say they should go, and they work just fine after that, but that's not point here.

 

I want to understand how this works for future reference. I opened up the patches that came with it in TESVEdit and couldn't see anything referencing those companions so I don't think they're at fault. But I need a second, expert opinion.