Can't seem to force it to be peasants-only, despite trying to mix and match various versions of the mod and playing from the beginning. I have the peasant class available, but the random starting roster is still random classes and the ones arriving on the stagecoach are normal variety classes too instead of just peasants =/ Would love to have the girls start from absolutely nothing and slowly evolve into real classes over time.
Tried to go to discord link to ask there, but it doesn't seem to be working either.
Hey, I didn't see a post on the discord. Did you start with a new game? The random adventurers from the start will always be real classes - no idea how to change that. But stagecoach should just be peasants unless you use a mod I haven't created a patch for (Magus, Shaman) - someone created a patch for those on discord though. There are a few mods that also touch the base classes that I haven't patched either - mainly collection of curiosities and the alchemist one. Easiest way to find out if the mod doesn't work in general or just with some classes: follow the instructions to check your "recruitable classes" in %appdata%. If it's just a few classes - it's probably a missing patch. If it's all of them you did something wrong installing the mod or didn't start a new game.
Oh sorry, didn't think the comment would go through after this long. I have by now have gone through every other mod I had installed one by one and figured it was just conflicting with them. I had written down which ones if you ever plan patching around them:
Bard Class, Royal Noble, Shiny Things, Stuffstuff, Beastmaster, Experimental Erotic Expedition Expansion / General Vanilla Rebalance (parts of the same mod but enabling either one of them allows rogues and rangers through)
But it still worked out, since I pushed it to even further restriction level for my own play. I would restart the game until it had a peasant in group, would immediately after tutorial send out the others to get kidnapped and abandoned, and treated non-peasant classes on stagecoach as just visitors and only the peasants as rare desperate adventurers that would be willing to join the village, especially after enabling cursed classes to dilute things even further. It was quite fun at the start having to carefully run through dungeons trying to fish gear upgrades while avoiding battles until another one or two would join. I even started generating AI art galleries to illustrate each character's journey/progression to really get attached to them and give them personality.
Would be cool to someday see the peasant tree expanded up to elite level without much power upgrade and with class change cost reductions pushed to the very end, since it eventually still becomes just an arbitrary roadblock to their real class and not much happening in between, since the whole tree can be cleared in a dungeon or two.
But thank you very much for making this mod. I would not have gotten into this game nearly as much as I had if not for it :)
Glad you found your way around the problem. For Bard, Beastmaster and StuffStuff I created a patch. In theory those patches are easy to create...you just need to duplicate the class txt and replace "basic" with "advanced" and then you need to create the class token as wearable and create the tavern event to make the class unlockable... but I guess that's a bit much. I know that the game now supports some kind of if statement to check for a mod file so I could just "include" all patches in the mod without all the patches...but I'd have to look through all the mods to find any new basic classes or changes to classes that resets them to basic... lots of work for a game I am currently not playing. :)