About this mod
Suddenly, the wasteland seems even less forgiving... as all those precious skill books that were lying
around before aren't there no more - there's a lot less of them, and getting to them won't be easy.
- Permissions and credits
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Version: 1.0
Date: June 24th, 2011
Author: ShoujinZeraf
Catergory: Cheats & God Items
Description
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Suddenly, the wasteland seems even less forgiving... as all those precious skillbooks that were lying
around before aren't there no more - there's a lot less of them, and getting to them won't be easy.
Details - Standard Edition
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- Reduced each skillbooks total count to 1! (That's 1 Big Book of Science in the entire wasteland)
- Skillbooks now give 25 skillpoints, Comprehension doubles those points.
- Each book is in a tough spot to get for newer Wasters, for those wanting a challenge:
Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor - Super Duper Mart
U.S. Army: 30 Handy Flamethrower Recipes - National Guard Depot
Nikola Tesla and You - Robot Repair Center (The Forge)
Duck and Cover! - Fort Constantine
Tumblers Today - Germantown Police HQ
D.C. Journal Of Internal Medicine - Our Lady of Hope Hospital 2nd Floor
Grognak the Barbarian - Hubris Comics
Dean Electronics - Vernon Square Sewer
Big Book of Science - Vault-Tec Headquarters
Guns and Bullets - Fort Bannister
Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual - L.O.B Enterprises Archives
Lying, Congressional Style - Capitol Building Conference Hall
Pugilism Illustrated - Roosevelt Academy
- "More Than Scrap" container now has 300 caps instead of books - sorry.
Details - Collector's Edition
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- Two sets of books available to players: Wasteland and "More Than Scrap" Sets
- Skillbooks now give 25 skill points, Comprehension doubles those points.
- Each "Wasteland" book is in a tough spot to get for newer Wasters, for those wanting a challenge:
Tales of a Junktown Jerky Vendor - Super Duper Mart
U.S. Army: 30 Handy Flamethrower Recipes - National Guard Depot
Nikola Tesla and You - Robot Repair Center (The Forge)
Duck and Cover! - Fort Constantine
Tumblers Today - Germantown Police HQ
D.C. Journal Of Internal Medicine - Our Lady of Hope Hospital 2nd Floor
Grognak the Barbarian - Hubris Comics
Dean Electronics - Vernon Square Sewer
Big Book of Science - Vault-Tec Headquarters
Guns and Bullets - Fort Bannister
Chinese Army: Special Ops Training Manual - L.O.B Enterprises Archives
Lying, Congressional Style - Capitol Building Conference Hall
Pugilism Illustrated - Roosevelt Academy
- "More Than Scrap" box has been modified to provide a complete set of books for those who want to
get the books early or need a copy of the book for mods that allow books to be displayed.
Future Developments
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- Planning a time-advancing version of both regular and Collector's edition
Installation
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- Copy the "Skillbook Scarcity.esp"/"Skillbook Scarcity - Collector Edition.esp" file into the "Fallout 3\Data Folder"
Fallout Launcher installation
- Start Fallout normally, enter the "Data Files" and activate the "Skillbook Scarcity.esp"/"Skillbook Scarcity - Collector Edition.esp" file
FOMM (Fallout Mod Manager) installation
- Start FOMM and place the "Skillbook Scarcity.esp"/"Skillbook Scarcity - Collector Edition.esp" file within the group of your weapons files
- Activate the file and launch FOSE
Removal
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- Removal of the "Skillbook Scarcity.esp"/"Skillbook Scarcity - Collector Edition.esp" file will uninstall it - no textures or meshes to delete.
Incompatibilities
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- Skillbook mods that alter book locations and/or behaviour
- Doesn't affect any books added by DLCs (if any)
Contact
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Nexus: ShoujinZeraf
Credits
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Bethesda Studios for making Fallout 3 - Post-apocalyptia never played so much fun :P
exoromeo - for his original mod that helped me create my own version of skillbooks
http://www.fallout3nexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=3387
Nexus Site Members & Admins - for letting me be a kid in a candy store with all the mods there are
Additional Notes
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This mod was made with the intention of making the game a bit harder, but also reducing the amount of
skillbooks within the game altogether, hence its classification as a "cheat" mod.
Feel free to mod/improve, just give credit where it's due, please.
Thank you for downloading!