How to Disable Companions leaving in ACOK

On my youtube playthrough, I began to be more and more annoyed with my companions trying to leave my party. You can only threaten death so many times before it becomes tedious, and I was looking for a way to completely block the "I am so over you" dialog entirely, so that relations between myself and my companions wouldn't take a hit.

I do not think it will work for an old save necessarily. Also I want to emphasize that I know nearly nothing about computers or coding, so it's entirely possible that I made the wrong edits in the scripts.txt file, or too many of them. As always, please make a backup before you edit anything.

Okay! Disabling companion requests to leave your party entirely:

1. go into your ACOK module folder and open scripts.txt Search for every instance of the string "2133 2 144115188075856758 0" and change the final 0 to a 1 so that the string is "2133 2 144115188075856758 1"

2. in the same module folder, open simple_triggers.txt and search for 216172782113786837 1025 (there should only be one instance of this string) and change the 1025 to 31. So, that line now reads " 216172782113786837 31"

I tested this by gathering all companions with the UI button on character creation with some edited gold in my characters pocket. So, with 20+ companions, I preceded to throw the rest of my money away and not have any food, as well as go up to every lord I came across and accept then return his quest. I waited for 2 months of ingame time without ever feeding my troops or paying them. A few of my companions (Arratos Entarion and Alexos Sand) show up as Miserable with a morale of 0, but have not given me a dialogue about leaving. I think this fix is one that works!

I didn't think it would work for a pre-existing save, but I didn't get any messages from Ser Felton Flowers bothering me in the last 30 minutes of play.

I hope this helps anyone who has been bothered by the same things that I have, and I hope I don't accidentally break your game. It appears to work and not have any deleterious effects other than the objective.