Faction Fixes SE

Picture it: you're coming up to a bandit fort with your weapon drawn, the bandits stream out, you close for the fight... and suddenly the lead bandit decides that deer on a faraway hill must die. Right now. Off he runs, yelling threats at a deer. Sometimes the rest of the bandits join in and we form a merry Benny Hill conga line on the tundra. It's funny/annoying and I got tired of it. It takes an epic moment and turns it into a farce.

These things happen because Bethesda set the aggro slider to "very aggressive" on generic bandits and other enemies instead of bothering with the faction system the game has. This makes a NPC want to murder anything not directly allied to its faction, and from there it's a crapshoot as to what the AI actually decides to target. That's my theory anyway.

Now if you set the aggro slider to something less murderous, the result will be that the enemy NPCs just stand around, since their AI has no idea who their enemies are. They need factions for that. This mod fixes both issues.

MOD GOAL:

The different factions in Skyrim fight each other in much the same way as they do in Vanilla (minimal change), minus a lot of random animal slaughter.

WHAT THIS MOD DOES:

[]makes 14 edits to factions, here they are in a nutshell:

Bandits: hate all other major factions, and are hated by all.

Vampires: hate all other major factions, and are hated by all, except some animals.

Warlocks + Necromancers: allied to each other, and to not much else.

Forsworn + Hagraven: allied to each other, and to not much else. Hate spriggans, love goats.

Guard faction: a bit more expressly aggressive versus monsters and predators while defending the civilians.

Dawnguard: mainly busy fighting vampires but not above a little monster hunt.

Cultists: nearly unchanged from vanilla, hate you and any guard faction member.

Civil War (Sons + Empire): will kill bad guys but generally really busy with that war thing.

Companions: will take on any monster and defend the citizens.

Vigilants: mainly interested in snuffing out Daedra and Dremora but will stamp out evil wherever.

Thalmor: hate the bandits etc, are friends with the empire.

[]resets the baseline for aggro on NPC records for all generic vanilla bandit, vampire, warlocks, necromancers, forsworn, hagraven and cultist encounter NPCs to "aggressive". This will cause those factions to attack enemy factions and ignore neutral factions (which is the default faction-faction state).

[*]since the NPCs are no longer blinded by homicidal rage their "confidence" setting comes into play (think of it as "courage"). The majority of bad guys in the above factions are still th