Armian soldier ambush??

[Ponypony]

When I go to nashkel(first time) i am ambushed by a group of armian soldiers. if i kill them my reputation goes down and some of my party members leave. also its impossible to kill them without some of my party members dying. I'm not sure if this is a bug or what is going on....

my reputation is not low enough for the good party members to have left yet. I have no idea what is causing this.

edit: tried to go around and enter nashkel from another side. A bounty hunter comes up and attacks me after asking for 8000 gold in payment. when i kill him, my reputation goes down(defending myself lowers my reputation apparently), and the 'good' characters leave the party. How do i avoid this i guess ill have to edit a file...

[Schnittertm]

You know, in your other post you said, that you were new to Baldur's Gate and that might be part of the problem.

Firstly, combat in this game follows the rules of the pen and paper RPG AD&D 2nd edition very closely. If you want to be more sucessful at combat, you need to understand the basic concepts. In the BGEE folder under your Steam folder you'll also find a folder called Manuals, which has two .pdf files in it, one mainly detailing the game and combat mechanics and spell details, called BGEE: Mastering Melee and Magic and another one, which has a lot of background information on the part of the world Faerun that BGEE is set, called BGEE: Sword Coast Survival Guide.

I suggest that you at least try to read up on a few things that are detailed in the first. There you will, for example, learn that from a reputation of 5 or less on the chance that you'll encounter Flaming Fist (effectively the local law enforcement mercenaries) will increase with each reputation decrease until at 1 you'll have to fight them on every map change.

There is also a table that shows at what reputation level characters of good, neutral or evil alignment will leave (2 for good and 19 for evil and 1 for neutral).

Additionally, you'll get negative modifiers on your encounter reaction adjustment if you are behaving villainous and positive modifiers while being heroic.

Secondly, I think that for the first playthrough as a new player you might want to tone down the difficulty level, select a warrior class (Fighter, Ranger or Paladin), play the good guy and roll with that until you get a grasp of the game mechanics. After that you can always start a new game and choose a different class and play a villain and at a higher difficulty. Since there are many quests that are either mutually exclusive to one path or the other and because of many other things the replay value is there. But it does require a little effort on your part.

If, however, you wish to make life easier for yourself right now, you can use this link to obtain information on how to activate the console and use it to - effectively - cheat:

http://forum.baldursgate.com/discussion/12992/working-cheats-for-bg-ee

Baldur's Gate is, after all, mainly a single player game and who am I to tell you how you should play it and I even freely admit that I used the console back in the day when Baldur's Gate was new and I have it active even now, but only because Imoen decided to get stuck on the other side of a small river with no way away from it and I didn't feel like redoing another half an hour of gameplay. Actually, I think it was even Baldur's Gate that killed my 2.5 GB 5 1/4" HD back in the day with all the data it saved. Quite spectacular and all data on the drive was lost.

But yes, my single player cheating days are long gone and past, as nowadays I actually try to rise to the challenge and if I can't defeat it on the first try then maybe on the second or third or fourth or until either the wall or my head caves in.

Well, I hope I could help you with this.

[Hopper]

It could just be a random bug... But it sounds like your rep is below 5?

The Nashkel guards should only attack if your reputation is below 5.
Bounty hunters come when your reputation is below 4.
Most good characters will hang around at 4-5 rep, but will start leaving if it drops any lower.

You can improve your reputation by donating gold to temples, but it's very pricey.

[Dustpuppy]

Bg has a console you can probably google for a command to raise your reputation. I mostly use the console to give myself a stack of 99999 arrows or something like that (I forget what the max is).

eta: I seem to recall a savegame editor "Gatekeeper" for bg1 and "shadowkeeper" for bg2, I think you can change your reputation with those.

[Dax]

Covered in your other post as well, but killing someone who's not evil will lower your reputation, just as it would in reality. it's a /Roleplaying/ game, you're meant to treat it like the world you're in, and the world responds acordingly.

From the sounds of things you're an evil mass murderer or something (or have an equivolent reputation), so most towns will be on alert incase you show up, and the law has evidently put a bounty on your head and is launching a manhunt on you.

Again, a 'good' alignmewnt is generaly the best for noobies, as it's simpler and easier -namely the law will probably not try and hunt you down.

lastly, the correct denomination is Amnish *pedant*

[Ubica_Padonkoff]

Same here. Did you find the solution?

[red255]

2013. sounds like he was murdering people for various reasons and taking massive rep hits. he was at 4 or below and took a further hit to lose his good members.

how he got that low is anyones guess. perhaps robbing stores. its just how the game works, either get your rep up (visit a temple and make the proper donations)

https://baldursgate.fandom.com/wiki/Reputation#Ways_to_change_reputation

murder hoboing has consequences, stop being a murder hobo.

but yeah just pay the fine. like 2000 gold to get it to 10 again at a temple. check the wiki.

[Ubica_Padonkoff]

Its probably doesnt help. I raised reputation to 12 but soldiers still attacking me then enter to Naskel

[Melusca]

Originally posted by Ubica_Padonkoff:

Its probably doesnt help. I raised reputation to 12 but soldiers still attacking me then enter to Naskel

Once they aggro you they will keep attacking you for as long as they're alive no matter your reputation. You will usually either have to kill them (which will probably reduce your reputation to 1) or sneak past them while invisible (which is kinda hard to do if you intend to explore Nashkel since they like to patrol the main street).

There's a little trick you can do to get rid of them without losing your reputation though. In Feldepost's Inn in Beregost, there's a fat guy named Algernon in one of the rooms. He has a cloak which can charm enemies (IMO it's the most OP item in the game, even though it was nerfed in the EE). Get that cloak (either by pickpocketing or killing him), go to Nashkel, charm a soldier and let the other soldiers kill him - since they did the killing, not you, you won't lose any reputation when he dies. Leave the map, rest to recharge the cloak, return to Nashkel and continue charming soldiers one by one until there is only one left. Park that guy behind the inn and he should leave you alone as long as you don't come back where he is.

[red255]

I felt the wands of fireball or hold person with so many charges were the most broken items in the game.

in this case I'd just cast horror on the guards, and let them scatter and bother me no more.

[Melusca]

Originally posted by red255:

I felt the wands of fireball or hold person with so many charges were the most broken items in the game.

Wands are indeed very strong, but that cloak is both powerful and hilarious. You can turn Davaeorn into a sitting duck with the Wand of Paralysis, but having him die to one of his own Battle Horrors because you commanded him to whack them with his stick is more fun.

[red255]

powerful vs fun is a different animal.