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Balances Morrowind by tweaking 40+ Game Settings (GMSTs) and integrating mods that aim to make it more immersive and rewarding. Tweaks movement and fatigue usage, overall economy, vanilla leveling, fixes pickpocketing, enhances projectile and spell speed and more in a highly compatible way.

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Balanced Fixed Game Settings

After realizing I was using a lot of separate mods to balance the game only by tweaking Game Settings (GMSTs), I decided to create a new addon with the aim of rebalancing Morrowind based on fixes and changes introduced by many different authors over time with the same compelling view of making it a more immersive, rewarding experience, albeit a tad harder and unforgiving. In short, BFGS enhances the game in a highly compatible way by editing values for calculations related to movement and fatigue usage (walking, running, attacking, blocking, swimming, jumping), economy (alchemy, bribing, repairing, enchanting, recharging, spell learning, training, traveling), crime (bounty, trespassing, stealing, killing, pickpocket mechanics fix), leveling (no misc. skill attribute increase), and immersion (removing those annoying messages from enchanted weapons depleted of charges and halving the distance for greeting NPCs).

Note that BFGS integrates both Economy Settings Tweaked and Movement and Fatigue Settings Tweaked. Overall, it's pretty easy to customize the settings' values by yourself using Bethesda's or OpenMW's Construction Set. If you'd prefer only the changes related to those aspects of the game, please refer to their mod pages. Also check out the original mods below for more details and endorse the OGs if you like their work, and have fun!

❓ What is included?
  • Just one plug-in: Balanced Fixed Game Settings.esp (2.64 KB) and its alternative versions.
  • Choose the No Levelup Fix alternative if you use another leveling mod or if you want to still increase attribute gain from leveling miscellaneous skills.
  • Choose the No Pickpocket Fix alternative if you prefer the Pickpocket overhaul game mechanic patch from MCP (thanks, tyrthyllanos!).
    ⚠️ DON'T USE BOTH the main plug-in version and the Pickpocket overhaul patch from MCP or you will break the pickpocket mechanics again! ⚠️

⚙️ How?
  • By changing a grand total of 43 GMSTs (Game Settings). That's it!

✅ List of GMSTs changed:
  • fBargainOfferBase: decreased bargain offer base chance (50 -> 40) [OG: abot]
  • fBargainOfferMulti: decreased bargain offer chance multiplier (-4 -> -5) [OG: abot]
  • fCrimeGoldDiscountMult: decreased bounty discount for Thieves Guild members (0.5 -> 0.7)
  • fCrimeStealing: increased bounty when caught stealing (1 -> 1.5)
  • fEnchantmentValueMult: increased enchantment costs charged by NPCs (1000 -> 2000)
  • fEncumberedMoveEffect: increased weight effect in speed of movement (0.3 -> 0.35)
  • fFatigueJumpBase: increased Fatigue costs by jumping (5 -> 12)
  • fFatigueRunBase: decreased Fatigue costs by running (5 -> 1.9)
  • fFatigueRunMult: increased Fatigue costs per encumbrance point by running (2 -> 2.6)
  • fFatigueSwimRunBase: decreased Fatigue costs by swimming (7 -> 5)
  • fJumpMoveBase: decreased forward jumping distance (0.5 -> 0.3) [OG: LundmaN23]
  • fJumpMoveMult: decreased forward jumping distance multiplier (0.5 -> 0) [OG: LundmaN23]
  • fMagesGuildTravelMult: increased travel costs charged by Mages Guild NPCs (10 -> 120)
  • fMagicItemRechargePerSecond: decreased enchanted equipments' recharge rate (0.05 -> 0.02)
  • fMaxWalkSpeed: increased maximum walking speed (200 -> 250)
  • fMaxWalkSpeedCreature: increased maximum walking speed for creatures (300 -> 350)
  • fMinWalkSpeed: increased minimum walking speed (100 -> 120)
  • fMinWalkSpeedCreature: increased minimum walking speed for creatures (5 -> 6)
  • fPickPocketMod: fixes broken pickpocket mechanics based on sneak (0.3 -> -3) [OG: TheOne&Only] (except in "No Pickpocket Fix" alternative version)
  • fProjectileMaxSpeed: greater speed for marksman and spell projectiles (3000 -> 7200) [OG: Mr.Magic]
  • fProjectileMinSpeed: greater speed for marksman and spell projectiles (400 -> 960) [OG: Mr.Magic]
  • fRepairMult: increased repair equipment costs charged by NPCs (1 -> 3)
  • fSpellMakingValueMult: increased spell making costs charged by NPCs (7 -> 15)
  • fSpellPriceMult: increased spell costs charged by NPCs (2 -> 4)
  • fSpellValueMult: same as above, implemented by OpenMW (10 -> 20)
  • fTargetSpellMaxSpeed: increased projectile speed for spells (1000 -> 1200) [OG: Mr.Magic]
  • fThrownWeaponMaxSpeed: increased projectile speed for arrows/bolts/throwing weapons (1000 -> 1200) [OG: Mr.Magic]
  • fThrownWeaponMinSpeed: increased projectile speed for arrows/bolts/throwing weapons (300 -> 360) [OG: Mr.Magic]
  • fTravelMult: increased travel costs charged by Silt Strider and Gondolier NPCs (4000 -> 1200)
  • fWeaponFatigueBlockMult: slightly increased fatigue drain from blocking (1 -> 1.15)
  • fWeaponFatigueMult: slightly increased fatigue drain from attacking (0.25 -> 0.35)
  • iAlchemyMod: decreased player-made potion prices (2 -> 1)
  • iBarterFailDisposition: temporary disposition decrease when (failed) bartering (-1 -> -2)
  • iBarterSuccessDisposition: temporary disposition increase when (successfully) bartering (1 -> 0)
  • iCrimeAttack: increased bounty when caught assaulting (40 -> 100)
  • iCrimeKilling: increased bounty when caught murdering (1000 -> 3000) [OG: Danjb]
  • iCrimePickPocket: increased bounty when caught pickpocketing (25 -> 60)
  • iCrimeTresspass: increased bounty when caught trespassing (5 -> 80)
  • iGreetDistanceMultiplier: decreased distance for greeting NPCs (6 -> 3) [OG: LadyDeadlock]
  • iLevelupMiscMultAttriubte (sic): decreased misc. skills attribute increase (1 -> 0) [OG: PsychoThruster] (except in "No Levelup Fix" alternative version)
  • iTrainingMod: increased training costs charged by NPCs (10 -> 20)
  • sMagicInsufficientCharge: removed 'Item does not have enough charge' message [OG: Gwilym]

📙 Some details:
  • As long as economy goes, I tried to raise all prices equally (by around 2x), with the exception of traveling.
  • Silt Strider rides from Seyda Neen to Balmora are still "fast, cheap and safe", as advised by Sellus Gravius.
  • Traveling instantaneously through Mages Guild guides is a bit more expensive than by Caravaners or Gondoliers.
  • The base success chance for bargaining has been decreased, though it's still very accessible overall.
  • Killing a citizen still does not issue a death warrant (default: 5000g), which could be troubling for some quests.
  • The Mudcrab Merchant and Creeper NPCs are left untouched - only game settings are altered.
  • Speed of movement has been raised equivalently for the player, as well as for NPCs and creatures.
  • You will still lose fatigue when running near your encumbrance limit with lower levels of Endurance.
  • While jumping height hasn't changed, the distance traveled from jumping has been rebalanced.
  • Acrobatics and Athletics are still useful and there's reason to use enchanted items and spells to explore.

✨ Any other recommendations?

❤️ Original modders:

📝 Additional notes:
  • Should be compatible with any other mod, just load it before/after to override settings.
  • Safe to install (activate) and uninstall (deactivate) during any existing save game.
  • Cleaned and inspected with TESAME.
  • Made in OpenMW's Construction Set!

All thanks and credits go to the original modders and the Morrowind community! <3