Hi all,

What I would like to do if possible is to add some kind of sleeping accommodations to player homes that would be owned by a faction made up of potential followers (who would be added to the faction in the CK, so it wouldn't be an in-game add/remove kinda thing) who could then sleep in those beds if I have them following me but in relax mode and sandboxing around one of my homes. I use UFO so it's possible to have a follower chillin' in a residence for indefinite periods, but since all the vanilla beds there are owned by me or by the housecarl faction my other followers are pretty much left out in the cold where sleeping is concerned.

I tried to do this by making a duplicate of one of the existing follower factions (PotentialFollower IIRC) and just putting the selected followers in it, then modding in some beds and marking them as owned by the new faction. If I looked at them they showed as Owned and I couldn't sleep in them, neither did the housecarls who I had excluded from the new faction.

However the first time I took one of the followers home for a bit he would not sleep in the bed when in sandbox mode, or if I told him to do so when he was actively following me and taking orders. I don't know if this was because the faction ownership set-up didn't work, or because that follower (Erik) simply doesn't have the AI package (?) necessary to let him sleep anywhere, anytime. And I don't know what to look for in his individual data to see if the latter is the problem.

I did take the ownership off the modded beds, leaving them accessible to anyone, and had one follower who would sleep in them but another who never seemed to do so. Again I'm not sure if this is something to do with the followers themselves or how to check on that.

Basically I just want to know if I'm setting the faction up correctly - is there some additional scripting involved that's necessary to add the desired NPCs to it while the game is in play, or is just setting it up and adding NPCs to it in the CK enough - and also where to look for the data on specific followers to see if they would be able to use the beds even if they were in the faction that owns them.

Any and all help appreciated, TY in advance!

Lyn