After a bit of extensive testing, I've found a couple of issues with how the stuff in this mod gets distributed to followers. Namely, Valdimar has slowly been building up an enormous staff collection, and the Orcish armour I gave to Lydia ended up getting overwritten by her Follower Enrichment Project outfit, leaving me unable to access the stronger and more expensive Orcish set.
Have any of you been having similar problems? It could be that I'm using SPID for more than it was really supposed to accomplish.
With further testing, I don't think the staff duplication is related to SPID or my mod, since it's happened to characters from a different mod which doesn't use SPID. (Mihail's goblins, as a matter of fact. A shaman had three magic staves, which turned into one staff when I looted them/it.)
The armour stealing I have been able to confirm, with Adelaisa Vendicci eating rather a nice suit of Dwemer armour. It seems that outfits assigned with SPID are put onto their target NPC as soon as you load the game, every time you load the game, and can overwrite whatever the character was originally wearing.
So, if you're using Follower Enrichment Project, I recommend not giving any new armour to followers who get a custom outfit. The Readme file lists what's added to every character; refer to that when you decide how you're going to equip your followers.
Unslaad krosis, everyone. I seem to have slandered Adelaisa unjustly. She hasn't "stolen" the dwarven armour, she just takes off every piece of it except the helmet whenever I start the game or go through a load door. It's all still there in her inventory; I simply need to take the boots, then give them back to her, and she'll don the entire suit.
Lydia DID, as far as I know, make the orcish armour I gave her disappear. Thus, for now, I recommend a careful approach: make sure you can trust your follower by giving them, say, steel or leather armour, and keep an eye on how they treat it before you let them have an expensive suit of armour.
It turns out that Brelyna's two staves of Chain Lightning, which are the quantum superposition of one staff of Chain Lightning, are marked as stolen whenever I borrow it/them.
Don't get me wrong, this is a fairly small problem which can be ignored if you just "let her keep her staff and make use of it as she pleases, time and soul gems permitting". For the most part, I stand by the quality of this mod. It's worth letting people know about these little quirks, though.
Ordinator adds a lot of new perks, so Follower Enrichment Project will only hand out the ones which overwrite vanilla perks. I don't foresee anything going wrong with it, although your followers could end up with a strange, incomplete mix of Ordinator perks.
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Have any of you been having similar problems? It could be that I'm using SPID for more than it was really supposed to accomplish.
The armour stealing I have been able to confirm, with Adelaisa Vendicci eating rather a nice suit of Dwemer armour. It seems that outfits assigned with SPID are put onto their target NPC as soon as you load the game, every time you load the game, and can overwrite whatever the character was originally wearing.
So, if you're using Follower Enrichment Project, I recommend not giving any new armour to followers who get a custom outfit. The Readme file lists what's added to every character; refer to that when you decide how you're going to equip your followers.
Lydia DID, as far as I know, make the orcish armour I gave her disappear. Thus, for now, I recommend a careful approach: make sure you can trust your follower by giving them, say, steel or leather armour, and keep an eye on how they treat it before you let them have an expensive suit of armour.
Don't get me wrong, this is a fairly small problem which can be ignored if you just "let her keep her staff and make use of it as she pleases, time and soul gems permitting". For the most part, I stand by the quality of this mod. It's worth letting people know about these little quirks, though.