Less encounters on OLM

[Shon'jin]

Is there anyway to reduce or stop OLM encounters? Every time I get on the OLM I have between 10-20 encounters without being able to rest or move my party. I know they are good for xp and loot, but I'm trying to play the story, not just have battles on the OLM. I spent 4 hours today outside the lumber camp doing nothing but having OLM encounters. I would like to advance the story, not just my characters.

[Fletchman1313]

It might be game mechanics.

Does your OLM leader have good "stealth" skills and all that? I see a lot of units on the OLM, but they rarely see me because the OLM leader (Ranger/Rogue) has Move Silently/Hide in Shadows maxed out. So I can pick and choose what I want to attack.

On another note, there was one area where I kept getting blitzed by bandits. It was a "mission" in one of the cities that involved finding a bandit camp and using a glowing item to determine where it is. Before I completed the mission, I pretty much encountered party after party of bandits, and they always saw me. Not sure if it's a bug or not, but I know it's related to the mission because once it was completed the blitzing stopped.

I ended up leveling up nearly all of the cohorts to respectable levels, and also stocked up on magic projectiles (arrows, bolts, darts, shuriken, etc).

[JadeHand]

yes,
A "party leader" with a high Hide/Move Silently is key to avoiding unwanted encounters. having a ranger/druid with "animal empathy" and a character with high "Intimidate/Diplomacy" can also help to avoid many encounters. (switching between characters in the dialog box may be required)

****spoilers about the bandits*****

The city NE of crossroad keep will have a quest where you uncover a bandit intimidation scheme. the bandit groups will ogg you. killing them should give you a serpent statue (or something like that) which will cause a glowing orb, to glow more brightly as you approach their hideout, to appear over your head. You will find it south of the town, on the south side of a mountain ridge. Once that hideout is cleared, no more ogging from bandits.

[rob_tomcat]

There are a few scripts on the Vault to reduce the frequency of OLM encounters by a percentage of your choice:

http://nwvault.ign.com/View.php?view....Detail&id=250

Rob