Morrowind XP

                                    Morrowind XP                                  

Regarding mod stability: With latest version (v. 1. 4. 6) when I completed 100% playthrough, no major bugs were encountered. During that playthrough game crashed three times. When using this mod there is one inconvenience: you need to save manually, don't quicksave.

Introduction

Inspired by SirFrederik’s wondrous Oblivion XP mod, I decided to create Morrowind’s XP mod. Due to the limitations of Morrowind’s scripting language, this wasn’t as easy task as I had suspected. In any case I started to plan things out, and before I had noticed my inner perfectionist forced me to implement many features, which required lots of work, but didn’t really serve as major improvement on their own. Now, after almost two years of work (I could have probably finished this in a week or two, but unfortunately my mind apparently isn’t capable of focusing to only one project extended periods of time) it is finally finished. Okay, at least almost finished. The most notable imperfection of this mod is the fact that it lacks any kind of balance. Amounts of XP aren’t really well-thought. Best way to fix this flaw is to let players tell their experiences -so feedback is important.

Why I created this mod?

When it comes to RPGs, Morrowind could be seen as a true masterpiece. However, it isn’t without it’s own flaws. For me personally, game’s leveling system is the worst offender. To put it bluntly, when it comes to raising your skills the game rewards player for quantity and ignores quality. This is due to the fact that skills will increase based on how many times spesific action has been performed, not how efficient action itself was. Hitting a bandit ten times with your sword yields ten times more skill adcvancement than OHKOing bandit with one powerfull swing. Game basically encourages players to play unefficiently! The problem is, it isn’t really fun to cast mediocre spells when playing as a mage or whack dozens of powerless swings as a warrior just to raise your skills. Combat can easily start to feel like a chore, tiresome grinding which you are forced to endure to strenghten your character (without exploiting various game mechanics, that is). Another problem all together is Morrowind’s way to punish players for leveling wrong skills at the wrong time -due to the fact that (specific) skills influence (specific) attribute growth rates, player is basically forced to carefully plan which skills to raise (this planning usually leads to grinding) before level up if he doesn’t want to seriously hinder his character.

Goal of this mod is to remove this kind of