Specialists of Skills - A Training Mod

Background

Let's face it: training in Skyrim is kinda silly. I mean, getting beyond the arbitrary nature of breaking proficiency in a skill type into discrete numbers, you talk to a given person, toss them some money, and regardless of what you already know relative to them (up to a certain threshold, anyway), they get you to the next "level." And then there's nothing to be gained with training with those lower trainers when you're past them - practice as a concept doesn't exist, they might as well not exist once you've surpassed them. Training with a Novice trainer or a Master trainer will gain you the same amount of experience, and to a certain degree that makes other types of trainers....meaningless. There's all these people out there, and the all fulfill the same purpose with little to no variation.

This mod doesn't necessarily fix it. It does, however go a long way towards it.

The simple summary of what this does:

• []Trainers no longer train you to the next level, they give "Skill XP" instead. So you can progress on past the cap (no more "waste" if you train towards the end of a skill level) and you can actually get multiple levels within a single training session. On the flip side, as you reach the limit/surpass given trainers, you might need to train with someone multiple times to gain a skill level.

  []Similarly, there is no longer a training cap, so you can train with trainers past the point where they should be useful (think of it as practicing with someone lower than you - you can skill hone your skills)

  []Master Trainers will always give more XP than Expert Trainers will always give more XP than Common Trainers. However, cost scales based off the usefulness of the trainer, with some other factors.

  []This has the end result of Common trainers being the "best" until skill level 55 (roughly), Expert until 78, and Master above that, in terms of "bang for your buck" - better trainers will (mostly) be more effective at training you, but they will be more expensive to where they don't want to bother with someone so novice - Master training is actually MORE expensive at skill level 10 than at skill level 20.

  Effectively, this mod makes all trainers useful. The idea for this was planted close to three years ago, but I always lacked the ability - I couldn't seem to figure out how to hijack the training menu to allow this process to take place, which is why the simple but silly Git Gud - Trainers Have Standards was released (it makes trainers not bother with you at all until you hit a minimum skill level. It's also completely incompatible with this mod :V). However, last year, with the release of Zim's Trainer's Expansion, my issue of how to hook into the training script was solved....by bypassing it altogether. Zim remade the training process from the ground up, and provided a framework I could hook into