Missing people

I have noticed what appears to be some kind of a bug and was wondering if anyone knew anything about that.

In my latest game in BG2, I noticed at first that some characters were missing from Trademeet - two merchants at least, I think, and the philosophers who should have been there by that time. It didn't make any particular sense that they would not be present at that time of the day, and I think I even detected some of them with a Detect Evil. Some time later they really were there as they should have been.

Another place where I noticed this was the Graveyard Disctrict. I had several saves there as I went around checking the place, and I noticed that in one of them the orphan and her caretaker were there, but not in a slightly later one. I loaded the earlier one, and found that if I spent a little time there they were gone again. I couldn't see any reason to this. I can't remember exactly how it all worked, but Kamir the paladin also was not there for all the time. When he was and I told him to go to the two others, they weren't there anymore, so he just vanished without the dialogue that was supposed to happen.

It doesn't make any sense to me, I mean, it was not even night or anything when some of them disappeared.

The people in the graveyard are only there during the daytime. Some merchants have shop hours rather than being around 24/7 like Ribald.

That might explain it, if I had a sufficiently odd timing.

Well, now the same thing happened with the two genies in North Forest. I knew where they were supposed to be, and Detect Evil detected them, but only after I had waited several hours did one of them appear, while the other one was apparently still missing.

Crazy.

Maybe your game is wierded.. o.O Perhaps you should reinstall...