50% of your time with BG will be micromanamgent of your party.So I should have checked the manual to find out the default settings could be configured to drop the micromanagement all the way down to 50%? Gee, if I had know i could get it that low I would have bought it at full price rather than wait for a GOG D&D promo sale.
The combat in PS:T wasn't great, but it didn't require any micromanagement (only the occasional tough fight required characters being directed individually).
That doesn't even make sense, PS:T en BG2 are both AD&D games using the exact same game engine with a slightly different UI (PS:T has by far the worse UI of the two imnsho), I can only assume that BG2's combat actually requires more tactics than PS:T's (I'm still playing that game, not even near finished yet), there also supposedly is a lot more of it in BG2.
But it's clearly helpful if mages cast some spells on their own (like armour spells for themselves at the beginning of a fight) or priests can heal on their own.
While you can have them do that I think it tends to end up being counter productive, you don't want to use your shield spells on an easy fight only to find you're in an area where you can't safely rest...
