Actually ryaldin, the acronym is: CLDWTVBOOHS (Creepy looking dude with the veins bulging out of his skull).
Being the CLDWTVBOOHS does not preclude one from being a member of BYOB or KAK. :D

And Mr. Baggins, I learn something almost every day on this forum.

I do. I was just thinking, that the character whom i would want to lead (e.g. my mage) could still be in the 1 slot, leading the party, but instead of the 1 slot being in front, it could just be in the place where the six slot stands, not moving all the parameters for the one slot altogether. See what i'm saying?

The ideal solution would we to allow the player to choose both the shape of the formation, and ALSO the marching order of the characters within that formation. For instance, they may choose between six-pack, straight line, oval, pentagon, triange, etc., and there's also a button that lets them cycle the "Slot 1" position through each of the 6 spots in the formation. For instance, I like the pentagon formation--but in BG1, the party leader is always in front, so if I want to lead the party I have to be a good Tanking character. In BG2, however, the pentagon formation places the leader of the party in the very center of the formation--rather a stupid place to put your Tank. The solution described above would fix both problems.

brilliant six!!!...but how do we do it?

I'm not sure that it can be done. There's the suspicion that it's hard-coded into the game, and whilst you can fiddle around with a lot of things, this may not be one of them. Further investigation is required on the topic I think. :confused:

Essentially, at the very least, you would have to change the interface for the player, as how would the computer know which slot you'd like to have as "number one"?

[ 10-17-2002, 08:06 PM: Message edited by: Lord Brass ]