Automatic Attributes - Simplified Leveling

Automatic Attributes

Requirements:

Oblivion Script Extender

Description

Automatic Attributes is yet another attempt at alleviating Oblivion's annoying efficient leveling problem, but by changing as little about the vanilla leveling concepts as possible.

With this mod installed, your attributes will increase naturally as you increase the skills they govern, with each attribute increase being accompanied by a vanilla-friendly message during gameplay, such as "Your Strength attribute has increased". This removes the vanilla mechanic of building up level-up bonuses for when you sleep, but the 'sleep to level up' feature is still completely maintained to allow you to control under/over-leveling to your liking, just as in vanilla. This means you can stay at any level you want and train your attributes as high as you wish by increasing your skills (possibly to catch back up with those Ogres that now infest the countryside).

Leveling up will still grant you the option to select three attributes to increase, but these increases are always locked at +1. These are essentially 'bonus' attribute increases of your choosing—the main process for increasing attributes is now to increase the skills they govern. However, Luck can only be increased at level-up, as it governs no skills.

The formula for attribute increases can be customised to your liking in this mod's ini file. By default, it takes 4 'points' to increase an attribute, increasing a governed skill grants 1 point, and you get an extra 0. 2 points if it is a major skill. Additionally, there's an extra bonus that can be configured for specialisation skills, which by default is set to 0. The points formula is shown below.

points = base + (majorBonus isMajor) + (specBonus isSpec)

This mod will run its initial setup scripts when:

• []Your character has a class (e.g. not in the tutorial);

  []You are in an exterior cell (this is a way of detecting you have left the Sewers or other alternative start interior).

  Aside from the setup, the mod will work silently in the background of your game and doesn't require anything extra. For a new character, the setup will simply use our current skill levels to recalculate all your attributes to what they should be according to this mod's current settings. For an existing character, your attributes will also be recalculated, but you will also be reset to level 1, whilst preserving all your skill increases and refunding all your level-ups. This allows you to find a bed and re-level back to whe