SPAWN

SPAWN Simple Place-Centric Augmentative respaWNs version 0. 3

Requires Oblivion Script Extender

Description

One fine day, you decide you've had enough of women, crappy face textures and annoying fans, and make plans to do some honest dungeon crawling. A couple of days later, you find yourself at the entrance of Hame. On entering, you spot a battered journal on a step in the stairwell. You take a look at its entries – One particularly intrigues you. Day 174: Killed a behemoth of a Lich back at Hame. It was a tough fight but I got to kill the creature. Only wish I got something better than ectoplasm out of it! The damned thing didn't even yield its staff. The rest of the loot isn't better off either. Then again, I didn't expect anything more for most of the place was empty. The only saving grace was the sparse bandit population. I can only hope I get a good price for the loot. This place better be filled with vampires the next time I visit.You read on … Day 175: Blast! As empty as a hermit's address book. And I was told that Tamriel had enough vermin to fill every nook and cranny you may find. Day 176: I'm going to kill the scum that said it. Mouthing off like that …You flip through the following pages, for they have similar entries (with the swearing increasing progressively). Then you end up with the following entries: Day 212: Finally some progress ! I am starting to hear familiar noises from within the ruin. I believe it's time I gave that overrated ghost a visit. Day 213'ish: By Sithis' floppily doppilies ! It gave me a healing potion … Enough ! , you say. You swiftly exit Oblivion, start Wrye Bash and activate SPAWN.esp …

I sincerely hope you haven’t experienced such pain and suffering in your game.

In any case, Simple Place-centric Augmentative respaWNs ( or SPAWN ) aims to improve Oblivion’s respawn mechanism. As the name suggests, it allows place-centric respawn times for cells of different types. So, aylied ruins and forts can have different respawn times. And the best part is that the mod is completely independent of the global respawn time. SPAWN, therefore, ensures compatibility with mods that change it ( like Less Predictable Respawn ).

SPAWN tracks the cells the player visits and their corresponding “Last Visit Time”. After leaving a particular cell, SPAWN records the time and tags it with a respawn timestamp. The list of visited cells is evaluated in intervals; when time passed since the player’s last visit is calculated for each cell and compared with the cell’s respawn timestamp. If time passed exceeds the timestamp, the cell is reset. Respa