Crowded Streets

Features

• []Dynamic NPC Generation: Automatically generates a variety of background NPCs every time you visit a city, town, or inn, such as; Peasants, Hunters, Mercenaries, Priests, Merchants, Beggars, Miners and Mages, with Peasants being the most common. These NPCs will wander around, interact with furniture, workbenches, idle markers, and so on.

  []Immersive Population: By default the mod generates 15-25 random NPCs in cities and 5-10 in towns and inns to make them feel denser and more busy, however you can use the MCM to increase these populations further, or decrease them if you run into performance issues.

  []Automatic Cleanup: Generated NPCs disappear at night and reappear in the morning, and you can customize the crowd time in the MCM if you want them to stay around longer or disappear earlier. These NPCs are deleted from the game automatically when you leave the location to prevent save bloat and peformance issues.

  []A Performative Alternative for Denser Towns and Cities: This mod makes no edits, making it compatible with mods that change or add new locations to the game. The NPCs it generates are meant to be as cheap on performance as possible. They have no custom dialogue, no complicated schedules; they just exist to add more life to a city.

  An MCM is included that allows you to customize all features added by this mod.

  Manual Installation

  • []Download the mod from the Files section.

    []Unzip the contents of the zip file to your Skyrim Special Edition Data folder: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim Special Edition\Data.

    []Confirm you have the following files in your Skyrim Special Edition Data folder:

    Crowded Streets.esp

    Crowded Streets.bsa

    Crowded Streets - Textures.bsa

    []Open %userprofile%\AppData\Local\Skyrim Special Edition\plugins.txt and add Crowded Streets.esp after your master files.

    []Save the file.

  • Launch Skyrim Special Edition.

    F. A. Q.

    Q. What patch level is required?

    Q. Do I need Dawnguard, Hearthfire or Dragonborn or additional plugins like SKSE?

    A. SKSE and SkyUI will be required if you want to change any settings via the MCM, but this mod will function perfectly fine without them and all settings can be changed with console commands as documented in this readme file.

    Q. Is this ESL flagged?

    Q. What version of the Creation Kit was this made with?

    A. 1. 6. 438. 0. It's compatible with both Special Edition and Anniversary Edition.

    Q. Aren't there already mods out there that do this kind of thing?

    A. Yes, and they usually place new NPCs by making cell edits