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Asrial (228 posts) Click to EMail Asrial Click to send private message to Asrial Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Dec-27-04, 09:43 PM (Pacific)
"Vi Domina Missing!"
I've had Vi in my party since the beginning and I let her loose in Trynton so I could take Madras back to Arnika (I WAS under the impression that the NPC's would stay put in the area you release them) and now I can't find Vi.
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Llevram (5413 posts) Click to EMail Llevram Click to send private message to Llevram Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Dec-27-04, 11:29 PM (Pacific)
1. "Vi Domina drinking it up at He'li's ?"
Only RFS-81 tends to stay put, the rest of the RPCs tend to return to the spot they were recruited. There is also a bug, that I think happens (or can happen) when you release two RPCs in the same zone ...

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Asrial (228 posts) Click to EMail Asrial Click to send private message to Asrial Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Dec-28-04, 02:46 AM (Pacific)
2. "RE: Vi Domina drinking it up at He'li's ?"
She's not at He'li's or 'noticeable' inside/around Phoonzang's statue.

I ask the people in town where she's at, and they say 'here in Arnika'.

I should have realized this in the beginning when Myles left my party at the swamp and he went back to Arnika.

Myles gave me a shock when he didn't return to the entrance of Arnika. He spends his time wandering around the outside of the temple now, with RFS-81 moving only if he's in combat. Sparkle left me too. Damn NPC's make it annoying to get them when you want them for a little bit.

Anyone able to look at my savegame (or does the editor allow this?) and locate her?

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Dec-28-04, 08:32 AM (Pacific)
3. "RE: Vi Domina drinking it up at He'li's ?"
Sometimes she can be found around the ctash site but very rarely.
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Asrial (228 posts) Click to EMail Asrial Click to send private message to Asrial Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Dec-28-04, 06:41 PM (Pacific)
4. "RE: Vi Domina drinking it up at He'li's ?"
She wasn't there either.
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Marc (109 posts) Click to EMail Marc Click to send private message to Marc Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Dec-28-04, 07:32 PM (Pacific)
5. "How much time has passed?"
Just a shot.

Rest a couple of days and see if she shows up at the bar.

Marc

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Flamestryke (18 posts) Click to EMail Flamestryke Click to send private message to Flamestryke Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Dec-28-04, 09:53 PM (Pacific)
6. "RE: Vi Domina drinking it up at He'li's ?"
There is a known bug with Vi going missing. It revolves around dismissing other RPCs in her zone. So if you dismissed RPCs in Arnika most likely Vi is gone for the duration of this game.

Some folks make it a point to dismiss all RPCs in areas where no other RPCs exist, like the roads and such.

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Asrial (228 posts) Click to EMail Asrial Click to send private message to Asrial Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Dec-28-04, 11:28 PM (Pacific)
7. "RE: Vi Domina drinking it up at He'li's ?"
LAST EDITED ON Dec-28-04 AT 11:28 PM (Pacific)

>There is a known bug with Vi going missing. It revolves around dismissing other RPCs in her zone. So if you dismissed RPCs in Arnika most likely Vi is gone for the duration of this game.

Welp, this is what happened then. Does this bug affect Vi only? Is there any way to edit her back into the game?

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Asrial (228 posts) Click to EMail Asrial Click to send private message to Asrial Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Dec-28-04, 11:37 PM (Pacific)
8. "I have an idea..."
LAST EDITED ON Dec-29-04 AT 00:19 AM (Pacific)

LAST EDITED ON Dec-29-04 AT 00:12 AM (Pacific)

Currently, RSF-81 is stationed outside Anna's so I'm wondering if I take him and release him outside town if Vi will come back. Worth a shot.

EDIT: didn't work, on with the saved game editor! I'm still preferring one that can go in there and change the 'location' of Vi

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Asrial (228 posts) Click to EMail Asrial Click to send private message to Asrial Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Dec-28-04, 11:48 PM (Pacific)
9. "Found an editor..."
Actually, I found two very nice editors. The first is for portrait editing that I'm going to investigate further, and the second is a savegame editor.

I'm doing it a workaround way of exporting Vi from an earlier saved game, and then importing her back into my party. Any thoughts on the problems I'm going to cause?

Going to check the removal of RFS-81 first though...

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Asrial (228 posts) Click to EMail Asrial Click to send private message to Asrial Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Dec-29-04, 00:21 AM (Pacific)
10. "The Final Answer"
The savegame editor that allows you to import characters, imports them over the character already in that slot. Vi had Umpani tendencies and had a drastic 'makeover' when I tried this technique, and she still wouldn't show up at He'li's (probably went back to the Umpani base).

Sooooooo...

Any of you code guru's willing to take a look at my save game (properly set up with RFS-81 outside town) and re-enable Vi?

The game that has her is verrrrrry far back in time and I really really don't want to have to go back if I can avoid it.

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Flamestryke (18 posts) Click to EMail Flamestryke Click to send private message to Flamestryke Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Dec-29-04, 06:19 AM (Pacific)
11. "RE: The Final Answer"
I really don't know if any one can get her back for you. Way back when SirTech was still functional they would repair these save games but I don't know if any one really knows how. There may be some one out there who knows how but I have never heard of the person.

At this point I'd say just go on without her since she is not critical to finishing the game. Then try another game just be careful to release NPCs in Zones where this sort of thing won't happen.

You know, I have only heard of Arnika being a problem spot for this, but who knows, it may happen other places. In some cases I even heard Urq disappeared when Vi didn't go missing, but most commonly it is Vi.

If I remember correctly there was a bug in the earliest release of the game where Vi went missing quite often when she was dismissed because she was popping up inside the statue in Arnika or something like that. Perhaps SirTech just didn't get all the wrinkles ironed out of this original problem.

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Asrial (228 posts) Click to EMail Asrial Click to send private message to Asrial Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Dec-30-04, 01:21 AM (Pacific)
12. "RE: The Final Answer"
Does anyone have a functional e-mail address for Linda? Going to see if she can refer me to someone.
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Llevram (5413 posts) Click to EMail Llevram Click to send private message to Llevram Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Dec-30-04, 08:52 AM (Pacific)
13. "I think I do ...."
I will check when I get home ..

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Asrial (228 posts) Click to EMail Asrial Click to send private message to Asrial Click to view user profile Click to check IP address of the poster
Dec-30-04, 04:14 PM (Pacific)
14. "RE: I think I do ...."
Thanks Rick
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