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Two-Ton Kid 9 Nov, 2021 @ 8:36pm
Multiple Followers, where are you?
I know you hear it all the time: "My follower won't follow". But let me start with NO! I do not already have a follower trapped somewhere. In fact, I have a multiple player mod that once worked beautifully, but the limit has mysteriously gone back to one follower only. Can anybody offer advice? The trouble seemed to start when I downloaded a mod that offered paid mercenaries. But they wouldn't follow me at all and I've since abandoned that mod but the problem continues.
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Ilja 9 Nov, 2021 @ 9:47pm 
Did you remove the mod from ongoing game?
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Two-Ton Kid 10 Nov, 2021 @ 2:18pm 
Yes, I certainly tried and seemed to succeed, thanks, which makes me wonder if I've been careless and let my mods get ahead of me. In other words, it may be another one. I'll re-check the mercenaries one, nevertheless, to see if I totally banished it. Thanks!
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Ilja 10 Nov, 2021 @ 2:33pm 
Ah... there was a misunderstanding. I was looking for a reason why the game might struggle.

Skyrim "bakes" (so to speak) script data to save files. Removing scripted mod from ongoing game does not cause game to clean up script residue from the save file.

At the top of data in your game world, Papyrus VM keeps checking after the removed script. It creates and error each time it tries and fails. The more active the script was the more it works. Some residue may sleep for months and other data keeps pushing on and on on, until Papyrus is fried and save is toast.

This is why we do not recommend removing scripted mods from ongoing game. Follower mods have plenty of them.
Last edited by Ilja; 10 Nov, 2021 @ 2:33pm
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