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About this mod
Changes the level up process so that Major skills have a larger influence on attribute gains and Misc skills have no influence. Also prevents Misc skills from leveling at all.
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This only worked with OpenMW in my testing. I was unable to make this work with the original game despite trying (and knowing it's possible). If you have any insight into what I did wrong I'd be happy to fix it.
Description
This mod changes the leveling system so that Major skills provide a 2x bonus toward their respective attribute when leveled. However, Misc skills no longer influence attributes at all and cannot be leveled through use, only via training or skill books.
Reasoning
The Morrowind leveling system encourages players to level their Misc skills via cheap training to receive optimal bonuses upon leveling. While it's possible to ignore this system, attempting to play by only utilizing your Major and Minor skills results in a less than satisfying experience with generally very low bonuses upon level up.
The changes in this mod should hopefully encourage the player to play more toward their class. Focusing on Major skills can award large attribute bonuses upon level up, with Minor skills supplementing them. Multiple +4 and +5 bonuses are now achievable through normal gameplay, albeit not guaranteed. And while Misc skills may not contribute to attribute bonuses they still confer other bonuses like better spell casting chances, meaning leveling them up through training can still have a small value, but they are more circumstantial. This also means your class will have a major influence on what attributes you can even raise, as a character with no Major or Minor skills governed by a particular attribute may have no means of increasing it beyond a basic +1 bonus.
Compatibility
All this does is edit three GMSTs and should work fine with anything that doesn't edit the same ones.
Recommendations
Skill Uses Scaled makes raising skills work like it always should have
If you don't care for the vanilla governing attributes there are several mods which alter which attributes govern which skills, which may make building your character more enjoyable.
This only worked with OpenMW in my testing. I was unable to make this work with the original game despite trying (and knowing it's possible). If you have any insight into what I did wrong I'd be happy to fix it.
Description
This mod changes the leveling system so that Major skills provide a 2x bonus toward their respective attribute when leveled. However, Misc skills no longer influence attributes at all and cannot be leveled through use, only via training or skill books.
Reasoning
The Morrowind leveling system encourages players to level their Misc skills via cheap training to receive optimal bonuses upon leveling. While it's possible to ignore this system, attempting to play by only utilizing your Major and Minor skills results in a less than satisfying experience with generally very low bonuses upon level up.
The changes in this mod should hopefully encourage the player to play more toward their class. Focusing on Major skills can award large attribute bonuses upon level up, with Minor skills supplementing them. Multiple +4 and +5 bonuses are now achievable through normal gameplay, albeit not guaranteed. And while Misc skills may not contribute to attribute bonuses they still confer other bonuses like better spell casting chances, meaning leveling them up through training can still have a small value, but they are more circumstantial. This also means your class will have a major influence on what attributes you can even raise, as a character with no Major or Minor skills governed by a particular attribute may have no means of increasing it beyond a basic +1 bonus.
Compatibility
All this does is edit three GMSTs and should work fine with anything that doesn't edit the same ones.
Recommendations
Skill Uses Scaled makes raising skills work like it always should have
If you don't care for the vanilla governing attributes there are several mods which alter which attributes govern which skills, which may make building your character more enjoyable.