Wergild Depreciation - Crime Bounty Reduction over Time

Wergild Depreciation - Crime Bounty Reduction over Time

(Originally created for SSE, now also converted for Classic Skyrim)

With this mod crime bounties can gradually decrease over time. Eventually your bounty becomes zero. You can choose how much it decreases each night, and whether it decreases by percent or by a set amount of coin, or both. You can choose whether being in the hold will prevent reduction (Requires Exile), or whether reduction is only prevented if you are inside or near the capital city of that hold. You can choose whether gaining a new bounty will restore all bounty removed since your bounty was last zero, or whether only offenses worse than a certain a threshold lead to such a restoration. And you can choose whether to use a single default set of values for all Holds or to customize each Hold to treat their bounties differently. Finally, you can choose whether breaking exile in a hold allied with a hold where you have a bounty will prevent the bounty from being reduced in that hold (or will only have a chance of being reduced, or will be reduced to a lesser degree).

Since the only thing this mod touches is the the current bounties of each hold - which it checks every night at midnight, re-determining it if necessary - it should hopefully be compatible with all other mods. I have tried using it with Open Cities, and it is compatible. I have also built in compatibility for Falskaar and Bruma.

Origin of this Mod

This mod started as a personal port of Crime Bounty Decay to SSE, but when I looked into the mod's scripts I found it did not support Dragonborn's Solstheim / Raven Rock, and its Exile system was not as well implemented as it could have been - often failing if you were not in a named location. Finally, most of its features were hard-coded in the script and could not be changed (such as by console commands or an MCM), and I also wanted some features that it did not have. So I decided to re-write the scripts from scratch, making as many variables as possible into globals that could be altered via xEdit or console commands. So while this is a new mod, it was inspired by Crime Bounty Decay.

Features

Configuration

You can set whether or not you will receive messages when the bounties are reduced each night: A) whether any bounty has reached zero, B) whether a bounty has been restored (due to gaining more of a bounty than the Forgiveness Threshold), and C) the reduction of each bounty. The Alerts tab also contains an option to disable this mod. After disabling it, please wait at least 24 in-game hours to be sure all updating scripts are no longer running. While it should be okay after the next daily update was to occur, I generally suggest the better safe than sorry approach.

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