The NPC AI is dumb, but only slightly dumber than the ones in BG, IWD, BG2, IWD2, and NWN (I'd actually say it's just dumb in different ways than some of the others), so I turn it mostly off (it's not allowed to cast spells or use items, but it is allowed to engage in melee and protect me) and handle spellcasting and using items just like I did in BG[2] and IWD[2].
Wait until your 15th level Sorcerer starts wasting Dismissal spells (5th level? 6th level spell?) on FUCKING GOBLINS!! To which you might say, "But I don't let the AI cast spells," and which I respond, "Wait until you've got a party with a 15th level ranger, paladin, sorcerer, wizard and cleric, in it and there's very little to do for the first three rounds but cast spells."
Only an AS could come up with something that stupid. I'd have been happier wasting a Maximized Fireball becuase at least that would, y'know, do something.
And if there's a way to make the game advance one round and then poll me for activities, I've yet to find it. I boil with wrath at this game's interface and AS.
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Wait until your 15th level Sorcerer starts wasting Dismissal spells (5th level? 6th level spell?) on FUCKING GOBLINS!! To which you might say, "But I don't let the AI cast spells," and which I respond, "Wait until you've got a party with a 15th level ranger, paladin, sorcerer, wizard and cleric, in it and there's very little to do for the first three rounds but cast spells."
Only an AS could come up with something that stupid. I'd have been happier wasting a Maximized Fireball becuase at least that would, y'know, do something.
And if there's a way to make the game advance one round and then poll me for activities, I've yet to find it. I boil with wrath at this game's interface and AS.