Economy Adjuster Adjustments

Economy Adjuster Adjustments

 Summary

This archive contains edited versions of the Merchant Skills and Crime modules of HotFusion's Economy Adjuster. These edited versions are based on the "BTB Edit" version by BTB, with additional changes.

My version of the Merchant Skills module adds a number of service providers that were missed by HotFusion and BTB, changes the formula that determines the NPCs' new mercantile and speechcraft skills, and makes a few additional tweaks to the scripts. Also included is a version of the plugin that edits the relevant NPCs directly rather than via script.

My version of the Crime module increases the bounty for theft, increases the death sentence threshold, and increases the bounty-to-jail-time ratio (decreasing time spent in jail for a given bounty).

See below, and especially the included readme, for more detailed explanations.

Merchant Skills

HotFusion's original Merchant Skills plugin aims to increase the mercantile and speechcraft skills of Morrowind's service providers, in order to balance the game's economy and make it more difficult for the player to exploit merchants. This is done via scripts added in dialogue, to avoid editing the NPCs themselves (for compatibility reasons). There are two scripts, one for trainers and one for non-trainers. BTB's version of the plugin optimizes the method of insertion of the scripts, and adds a few NPCs that were missed by HotFusion.

My version of this module basically makes two types of changes from BTB's version: (1) adding service providers that were still missed in BTB's version and fixing those who got the wrong script, and (2) adjusting the scripts themselves to change the formula and make a few other tweaks.

NPCs Added or Fixed

Regarding the first set of changes, a number of service providers (quite a lot, actually) were either given the wrong script or were erroneously not affected at all. Hopefully all such cases have been fixed now.

The spreadsheet service_providers.ods included with this archive lists all service providers in the vanilla game affected by this plugin, separated into two sheets, one for trainers and one for non-trainers. Each sheet has columns for the NPCs' vanilla and new mercantile and speechcraft skills.

Regular Script Changes

The second change made in my version of the plugin is to adjust the formulas in the scripts themselves, and make a few additional optimizations. To the "regular" script (the one given to non-trainers), the following changes have been made:

1. If statements have been added to ensure that mercantile and speechcraft skills will never be lowered by the script.

2. Another if statement has been added setting a floor of 30 for the new skill values. This minimizes (but