About

Better Magical Progression adds a more realistic progression system to all the schools of magic.

• Simply using a spell is enough for your magic to get stronger.  You do not have to have a target.
• The more magicka a spell costs, the more progression your character gets from casting it.
• No matter which school of magic you use, your total Magicka will increase.
• As you use magic, your spells will become stronger and cost less magicka to use.
• Each school of magic has its own progression progress.  Using Restoration magic will only make Restoration magic stronger.
• There is no hard-coded cap in this mod.  Grow far stronger than what vanilla Skyrim would allow.
• Because this mod can quickly unbalance the game with the need to add to magicka
  upon character level-up no long necessary, starting spell stats have
  been changed.  You will start as a realistic novice in spell-casting. 
  Your spells will do next to nothing.
• Has a configuration menu that can be accessed at any time by casting the
  Better Magical Progression Config spell.  It should be under the
  Alteration category in your Magic menu

Mod Compatibility

There should be no outright conflicts with other mods, though if you install multiple mods that affect spell damage and magicka
cost, the results may be odd.

For the No Requirements version, spells added by other mods will feel the effects of this mod.  In other
words, they should get stronger and the magicka required to cast them
should decrease, but spells added by other mods will have no effect on
any progression this mod adds.  With this version, only vanilla spells
work with the progression.

For the SKSE version, all mod-added spells should work with this mod.

Naturally, no guarantees can be made.

Bugs/Undesired Features
Spells that can be constantly cast, like Flames and Sparks, only give exp
towards progression once, no matter how long it is cast.

Installing

This mod has two versions: the No Requirements version and the SKSE version.

The No Requirements version will run as is.  It does not need other mods to function.

The SKSE version requires the Skyrim Script Extender (SKSE) mod.

Both versions work with Nexus Mod Manager.

To install either manually, sinply download the latest version of the mod
in the Files section.  Extract the downloaded .zip and place the
contents of the resulting folder into your Data folder located in your
Skyrim installation folder.

Uninstalling

(For version 1.1 + users)

While in-game, launch the Better Magical Progression configuration menu by
casting the Better Magical Progression Config spell.  This spell should
be located in your Alteration spell category.

Select the Disable option, then confirm your choice.

Afterwards, save your game.  Then you can use NMM to uninstall the mod, or if it
was installed manually, simply delete the BetterMagicalProgression.esp
file in your Skyrim/Data folder and the BetterMagicks.pex file in
Skyrim/Data/scripts.

Upgrading

Follow the Uninstalling instructions above.

When you have finished uninstalling the previous version, launch your game
and load up your save file.  Simply save and quit the game.

Now you are ready to install the latest version.