Some new info on Companions, Party size and Followers

Since, unfortunately, there is no single thread gathering the news from today's interview with Sven, I think it may be useful to point out something that has still not being discussed, afaik, on party members and companions.

1. The party size is 4men, because they think it works better in terms of party dinamics in and out of combat. But Followers do not count to the 4 party limit, so they add up. How they are going to work, it's still unclear.

2. Sven acknowledged that a portion of the community may want 6men party because of the classic BG legacy, so they are already building the AI in a way that supports more than 4 party members: this way, if people want to make mods that expand the party limits, they will be able to.

3. As an addendum about modding, they want to have a modding scene, but since their resources are all focused on developing the game (which is incredibly big) it may take a little more time for the modding tools to be ready. But they will come.

4. The Companions they have introduced so far and that will be in Early Access are the Evil/Neutral aligned. There will be more, and they should be those leaning more towards Good alignments. In the meantime, the advice is to use the EA to explore more Evil oriented paths (that people tend not to choose for their main playthroughs.

Hopefully my understanding is as accurate as possible, but if I manage I will check the video when it comes online on YouTube.