I have been testing this out on other npc's and I am able to add perks to Muria Siarkiewick with no issues. She has none to begin with because she is not a recruitable npc without using console commands to do it.
I have been able to remove and add perks to Major Sanon
However, Andreja does seem to be hard coded and I can neither remove or add perks. The console shows that it does add the perks, but they do not appear in the crew ui, expected, but when I dismiss her as a follower, removefromavailablecrew and addtoavailablecrew, then interact with her, the perks are her defaults and nothing else.
I have performed the commands manually and duplicated and modified your script for each npc.
Playing around with it, it seems like not every companion perk has bonuses to each rank.
Giving Vasco payloads is only adding 10% to cargo capacity no matter how many ranks he has in it. Also, companion perks don't appear to stack with each other. Sam has payloads 2, but if you assign both of them to the ship you still only get a 10% bonus.
However you can give Vasco the player version of payloads instead, 143B6B. 4 ranks of that does give you a 50% cargo bonus and it does still stack with the player having the skill (but still doesn't stack with another companion having the companion version).
I tried this out recently, it seems like while on the ship itself, the player version of the perk on Vasco was taken into account for my cargo size, but while off the ship, neither the player or crew versions of the perk impacted the cargo size.
For instance, while on the ship it said my cargo hold was 2000+, but at a mission terminal trying to take a cargo delivery mission it was listed as only 870.
Just messing around with some of this, and it's actually the same case with Sam Coe according to a lot of analysis on reddit. When you are on the ship, his bonus applies, but when you are off the ship, it's not. Seems to be some sort of bug there.
Also companion bonuses don't stack with each other - whoever has highest level takes precedence. But they should stack with your own skill bonuses.
Because that's basically cheating. In every single past Bethesda game there has been at least one mod created that can let you respect your character in game naturally. For example in Skyrim, a vial you can drink or pill you can take or something. Using console commands is inelegant, too confusing for people, and does definitely feel like cheating
until the mod scene improves you could impose your own cost upon respec with the console. like using the console to remove X amount of credits maybe. but if that is complex, which it would be for me lol... then i can't think of any other temporary solutions pre mod tools release.
most mods like that still just run commands but its disguised as an in game item, for an easy time, just make a txt file and copy paste all perks and then ad a line to show the looksmenu, that will allow you to change backround and traits, save the bat file how you'd like, then go in game and open the console, type in bat <whatevernameugaveit>. We need to wait a year for them to release the engine tools, till we can make a real mod for this , but it will be almost just as easy.
I am having issues removing perks from crew members (still... maybe im dumb). Does anybody know how to specifically pull up the perk id on an NPC? I'm looking to make a crew member specifically have the best perks for the ship. Like your Vasco mod but for weapons. Or if i just add the perks do they get a bonus from more than just 4 perks that show up on the ship stats. I know when i give an npc perks after i hire them and talk before assigning them the perks I added to them do show up there.
I have a request, can you share how to find the Perk IDs for the crew members ? Since they are different from the player, I was not able to figure out how to find them. If you have a list of all perks also would be helpful.
You can run the help command (quotation marks required if there's multiple words you're searching, such as "weapon systems") to get results matching the descriptor, including perks help "words go here" For an example, "help aneutr" (word fragments work) brings up two Aneutronic Fusion Perks; 222F83 & 2C2C5A - with the one starting with numbers rather than 2C usually being the crew skill. However, this doesn't work for all skills - you may have to try different keywords to get the particular items you want.
The companion perks are a different perk than the ones in the player skill tree. Is there a complete list of these as i have tried using the <refId>.removeperk <perk ID> on my other companions to make them more useful... say particle weapons it ads a second perk different from the one they have currently. the biggest I want to edit is removing things like geology etc...
p.s. if someone could educate me on how to search things in console and learn this myself would be sweeet!
The thing you'll run in to is that some (but not all) of the companions seem to have their perks hardcoded to specific ranks. They can't be removed or upgraded via console commands.
You can add more than 4 skills to a companion, they just won't show up in the UI in the crew screen. When you talk to them in conversation the full list is displayed on the right hand side.
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I have been able to remove and add perks to Major Sanon
However, Andreja does seem to be hard coded and I can neither remove or add perks. The console shows that it does add the perks, but they do not appear in the crew ui, expected, but when I dismiss her as a follower, removefromavailablecrew and addtoavailablecrew, then interact with her, the perks are her defaults and nothing else.
I have performed the commands manually and duplicated and modified your script for each npc.
Have you had any further success with this?
Please give Vasco the same Leadership 4 perk as Sarah. Because I don't think that Vasco should take up a crew slot. He can't even sit in a chair.
Giving Vasco payloads is only adding 10% to cargo capacity no matter how many ranks he has in it. Also, companion perks don't appear to stack with each other. Sam has payloads 2, but if you assign both of them to the ship you still only get a 10% bonus.
However you can give Vasco the player version of payloads instead, 143B6B. 4 ranks of that does give you a 50% cargo bonus and it does still stack with the player having the skill (but still doesn't stack with another companion having the companion version).
For instance, while on the ship it said my cargo hold was 2000+, but at a mission terminal trying to take a cargo delivery mission it was listed as only 870.
Also companion bonuses don't stack with each other - whoever has highest level takes precedence.
But they should stack with your own skill bonuses.
and then ad a line to show the looksmenu, that will allow you to change backround and traits, save the bat file how you'd like, then go in game and open the console, type in bat <whatevernameugaveit>. We need to wait a year for them to release the engine tools, till we can make a real mod for this , but it will be almost just as easy.
First of all thanks for the mod!
I have a request, can you share how to find the Perk IDs for the crew members ? Since they are different from the player, I was not able to figure out how to find them. If you have a list of all perks also would be helpful.
Thank you!
help "words go here"
For an example, "help aneutr" (word fragments work) brings up two Aneutronic Fusion Perks; 222F83 & 2C2C5A - with the one starting with numbers rather than 2C usually being the crew skill. However, this doesn't work for all skills - you may have to try different keywords to get the particular items you want.21b8da - Stealth (4 ranks)
21b8d9 - Weight Lifting (3 ranks)
21b8d5 - Wellness (3 ranks)
21b8d3 - Energy Weapon Dissipation (3 ranks)
21b8d2 - Pain Tolerance (3 ranks)
21b8d4 - Concealment (1 rank)
21b8c5 - Gastronomy (4 ranks)
21b8c7 - Scavenging (1 rank)
21b8c6 - Theft (4 ranks)
20e35b - Leadership (4 ranks)
21b8c3 - Outpost Management (3 ranks)
21b8c4 - Xenosociology (1 rank)
21b8e6 - Ballistics (4 ranks)
21b8e4 - Lasers (4 ranks)
27df98 - Pistol Certification (3 ranks)
21b8df - Shotgun Certification (3 ranks)
21b8e3 - Demolitions (3 ranks)
21b8e2 - Incapacitation (3 ranks)
21b8e0 - Particle Beams (4 ranks)
21b8e1 - Rifle Certification (4 ranks)
21b8dd - Marksmanship (3 ranks)
21b8de - Sniper Certification (3 rank)
f2e36 - Crippling (1 rank)
21b8dc - Sharpshooting (1 rank)
1bf38 - Astrodynamics (4 ranks)
21b8cc - Geology (4 ranks)
21b8cb - Medicine (1 rank)
21b8ca - Botany (4 ranks)
21b8c9 - Chemistry (1 rank)
21b8c8 - Outpost Engineering (3 ranks)
222f83 - Aneutronic Fusion (1 rank)
220bb6 - Ballistic Weapon Systems (3 ranks)
2ce1a0 - Piloting (4 ranks)
222f87 - Energy Weapon Systems (4 ranks)
222f84 - Payloads (4 ranks)
1c06c- Shield Systems (4 ranks)
222f86 - Missile Weapon Systems (3 ranks)
222f85 - Particle Beam Weapon Systems (4 rank)
21b8cd - Robotics (4 ranks)
222f88 - Starship Engineering (4 ranks)
22274 - EM Weapon Systems (3 ranks)
I believe these are all accurate, haven't done much testing to try and work out what some of them actually do though.
can u tell me the command code so i can add add these perks to them, or my self?
p.s. if someone could educate me on how to search things in console and learn this myself would be sweeet!
for instance: help "Missile Weapon Systems" 4 PERK
in my game at least, the ID starting with 2C is the player version
Geology for instance is 21b8cc
The thing you'll run in to is that some (but not all) of the companions seem to have their perks hardcoded to specific ranks. They can't be removed or upgraded via console commands.
You can add more than 4 skills to a companion, they just won't show up in the UI in the crew screen. When you talk to them in conversation the full list is displayed on the right hand side.