XP and Leveling Overhaul

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• []Ship Combat Rebalanced

  []Less Heinous Leveling

  Description

  XP and Leveling Overhaul, or XPALO, overhauls the XP and leveling system to try to fix the many issues in Vanilla.

  • []Flat leveling curve: 1000 XP for every level whether it's level 2 or level 200. No more extremely diminishing returns on your ability to continue leveling.

    []Rebalanced XP from all sources: Different sources should give worthwhile and meaningful XP, especially quests.

    []Level-dependent kill XP: Combat XP is retuned to give consistent returns and not break the flat leveling curve.

    Some sample XP values (not an exhaustive list):

    • []Medium Main Story Quest   –   600 XP

      []Medium Faction Quest   –   450 XP

      []Medium Side Quest   –   300 XP

      []Expert lock   –   60 XP

      []Persuasion   –   80 XP

      []Map marker   –   25 XP

      []Level-appropriate kill   –   ~25 XP

      []Level-appropriate ship kill   –   ~50+ XP

      Read on to learn more about the problems this mod attempts to solve, or skip ahead to the Installation section to get started.

      Background

      The vanilla leveling system is sadly pretty dysfunctional. Basically you have two different XP systems, and they do not work together at all.

      • []Flat XP sources: everything that's not a kill gives a flat amount of XP, but the XP you need per level continually goes up. This make every XP source other than kills (or cheese strats, such as massive industrial crafting) increasingly stingy. It all becomes basically worthless pretty fast.

      • Dynamic XP sources: Higher level enemies give more XP. Would work fine in a different game, but it makes it much harder to address the issues with point 1 here. If we try to go for a flat XP curve without doing something about this, you will level up faster and faster at higher levels.

        On top of this, the diminishing returns on your ability to level greatly outpace even the increased XP from kills. As early as level 50, it becomes very difficult to get a reasonable amount of levelups without using cheese strats. Past 100 or so, even the viability of cheese strats is going to fall off more and more.

        Finally, even aside from the mismatch between the two systems, XP sources are just not well balanced. Persuasion, for instance, gives 10 XP, which is inadequate even at level 1. Quest XP is disappointing a