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About this mod
Fully configurable skill experience scaling based on relevant values.
- Gain XP based on damage dealt for weapons, spell cost for magic, damage taken for armor, lock difficulty for security, etc
- Tweak the modifiers to your heart's content
- Requirements
- Permissions and credits
Skill Uses Scaled
> Made possible by Kartoffel's generosity
-- Make your XP gains smoother than they've ever been .~
-- Make your leveling experience free from flatness
-- Make your training free from madness!
A grand total of 21 skills have been scaled based on various factors, the formulas are down below if you're interested.
All skills can be tweaked through various settings, but the defaults are fine if all you want is vanilla-like leveling, but fairer.
Generally the bigger and better you use your skill, the more XP you'll gain.
As for the more "exploitey" methods, they've mostly been brought down in line with normal gameplay: you can still level up just fine if that is your preferred gameplay style, but you're no longer coerced into them by the badness of standard leveling.
I do encourage you to give the readme below at least a skim, to get a rough idea of how this mod will affect your gameplay.
## REQUIRES THE LATEST OpenMW 0.49 release.
Install as any other OpenMW scripts mod, by adding the extracted folder to your launcher's file paths.
Put it wherever you want in your load order.
Now the actual readme, enjoy .~
GENERAL FACTORS
- Gains are usually balanced around some average early-midgame value.
Here's the factors I balanced around:
- - Making the spammage of ultracheap 'training' options an unoptimal choice.
- - Making the use of expensive options a rewarding choice.
- - Keeping overall skill progression around non-exploitey speeds
> Nerf small things too hard and you end up with neverleveling... or worse, with expensive things being the only option.
- - Skills that progress faster as they increase were weighted around midgame values to keep them both accessible and hard to max. The result should be a more balanced XP curve, more enjoyable and less exploitable from start to end, across all skills.
- Values in [brackets] indicate you can tweak them with a setting.
Magic
Magic XP scales positively with Spell Cost, and less positively with Max MP
XP Multiplier = Spellcost/[9] * 4.8 /(4 + <MP over 100>/100) - - Note that while large magicka pools will result in less XP per spell, they'll still result in more XP per full magicka bar.
> If you have trouble casting then use cheaper spells, it's what they're actually meant for.
Dynamic Spell Cost: it's an optional feature, disabled by default but highly recommended if you like Oblivion's and Skyrim's spell cost mechanics, where costs decrease at as you become proficcient and increase while wearing heavy gear.
The formula is way too convoluted to explain here, but here's the gist of it:
- - On default settings, you get up to ~28% of spell cost refunded at 100 magic skill
- - Refund keeps increasing after 100 (in case you have fortified your skill or use a skill uncapper): you'll get ~33% at 150, 40% at 300, 43% at 600, etc. You'll never go over 50%.
- - Half your total armor weight is deducted from your skill value when Dynamic Cost is calculated.
> If the resulting skill value is under zero (due to heavy armor and a low spellcasting skill), the spell's cost will be increased instead.
> Under normal gameplay, the resulting penalty shouldn't increase spell cost by more than 50%.
- - Bigger spells are less affected by Dynamic Cost, both for discounts and penalties, but still benefit/suffer from them
> Likewise, mages in heavy armor will want to use the largest spells they can, to pay a smaller premium in penalties.
Physical Attacks (Melee and Ranged weapons, as well as Hand to Hand)
Physical XP scales with your outgoing Physical damage
XP Multiplier = Damage/[15] * 80 /(40 + Skill) - - XP per combat enocunter will be mainly determined by enemy HP rather than by how a$ your weapon's minimal damage is.
- - Like with Armor, damage is counted before your difficulty slider takes effect
- - Any enchantments on your weapons do not contribute to your leveling progress.
- - Hand to Hand additionally has a setting to let you factor in Strength
> It does not affect Werewolves, as the game doesn't give any H2H experience when in werewolf form.
Armor (Light/Medium/Heavy) and Block
Armor and Block XP scale with pre-mitigation damage received.
XP Multiplier = Damage/[9] * 60 / (30 + Skill)
- - You benefit little from getting hit by rats and other vermin.
- - Your Armor Rating / Armor Quality does not meaningfully affect XP rates, but of course surviving more damage will result in more XP
Unarmored
Unarmored XP is frontloaded, and scales negatively with armor weight.
- [/list]
XP Multiplier = 100 / (35 + rating + skill + [armor weight]) * ([3 - 0.1] / (2 * <Hits taken in the last [30] seconds>) + [0.1])Due to mechanical limitations this skill, unlike Armor skills, does not scale with damage taken.
Instead, the amount of XP you get per hit starts very high and rapidly decays with subsequent hits within a 30 second window.
> This means unarmored is a viable defensive skill for mages and assassins that prefer to avoid damage rather than resist it.
> In vanilla, this kind of gameplay results in such low amounts of experience that, despite unarmored being a magic skill, you can never meaningfully progress without trainers.
> Now it will actually level at a decent rate if you don't get hit very often.
> On the reverse, armor is a better choice if you intend to be hit a lot.
- - Armor Weight slows down Unarmored progress.
> You should avoid combining unarmored with heavy armor.
> They're opposite sides of a spectrum, and aren't meant to be used together.
Acrobatics
Acrobatics XP scales with current encumbrance ratio and with long sessions of running
XP Multiplier = ([1.5] + [0.5 - 1.5] * Encumbrance%) * 2/ (1 + <Jumps in the last [5] seconds>/2) - - You get more XP while light on your feet.
- - You benefit more from calculated jumps, and less from spam jumping up hills
Athletics
Acrobatics XP scales with current encumbrance ratio and with long sessions of running
XP Multiplier = ([0.5] + [1.5 - 0.5] * Encumbrance%) * ([0.5] + [2 - 0.5] * <seconds running>/[300])
- - Running for extended periods of time rewards more experience. (<seconds running> caps at 300)
- - You gain more Athletics XP when heavily encumbered.
- - You no longer get experience while flying or jumping.
- - Your experience rate gets multiplied by [0.01] if you're not meaningfully movin
Security
Security scales with the difficulty of the target lock or trap.
XP Multiplier = Difficulty/[20] [list] - Difficulty is lock level when lockpicking, and trap spell cost while probing.[list] - Opening big locks and disarming dangerous traps rewards large amounts of XP > Likewise, opening 1pt locks is usually more trouble than it's worth. > You can still use lock spells to train security, but you're encouraged to use larger lock spells for it.Magic