Improved Vanilla Leveling

Improved Vanilla Leveling

Leveling up happens as in vanilla, but with three significant changes:

• []Excess progress is not wasted. Any excess progress toward attribute multipliers at level up is not lost but carried forward to the next level. This includes progress in excess of what's needed to receive a 5x multiplier.

  []Non-max multipliers are not wasted. Choosing an attribute at level up that doesn't have a 5x multiplier (other than Luck, by default) allows for progression of the attribute via skill increases up to what it would have been if the multiplier had been 5x. If that attribute has already received sufficient increases at level up to reach 100 via additional skill increases, that additional potential is applied to other attributes instead.

  []Health is gained retroactively. Health is calculated as if the maximum possible endurance increase was applied as early as possible, up to the current endurance value. The eliminates the penalty for not getting 5x endurance increases each level as early as possible. This is optional, see below.

  Some implications of the the above:

  • []Luck will never increase unless it's selected at level up (or unless governing attributes have been changed, see below). It's the player's decision whether to increase Luck or not.

  • Characters with lower starting endurance and strength will still have a smaller total maximum health. This means there's still a small tradeoff between different races and classes, as in vanilla.

    Optional Retroactive Health Calculation:

    The retroactive health calculation can be disabled via the mod config menu, to allow the use of another that provides a different health calculation. Set to "Off" in the MCM and follow the instructions of whatever mod you'd like to use in its place. To go back to the included retroactive health calculation, simply change the setting and reload the character; health will be recalculated when the character is loaded.

    Enhanced Level Up Progress Tooltip:

    This mod adds the option to display an enhanced tooltip similar to the MCP tooltip (if the MCP tooltip is enabled, the new tooltip replaces it). To enable the enhanced tooltip, visit the Mod Config Menu; it is disabled by default. This new tooltip adds the following information for each attribute:

    Attribute (base/potential) level_ups

    base - the current base value of the attribute

    potential - how high the attribute can be raised via skill increases without gaining another character level

    level_ups - the number of related skill increases; this could be negative if an attribute has been increased without sufficient skill increases at character level up (based on 10 / iLevelUp10Mult), or it could be a fraction (rounded to nearest 0. 1), if iLevel