I don't think Jed said anything about it. Your not suppose to be able to take followers to Zion and if you have a mod that allows you to have more than the default amount you won't even be forced to fire the extras. If you have a timescale mod I would have reverting the time scale to the game default 30. I've been able to make it without the crash but I'm still not completely sure what I'm doing different. I'm not sure what exactly is the problem to be honest. I mentioned disabling hardcoe mode but that doesn't work.