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That sounds reasonable. How do I apply this changes myself?

Went into SPERG's MCM menu and reseted my perks and when it successfully did so, I had 74 (!) perks to spend. Uh.. WHAT?! I'm level 45. Can you help me out, dread? You use SPERG, don't you? I've no idea what the heck to do. Could you, perhaps, talk about your setup using SPERG? Like having permanent buffs from eating and that sort of thing just seems a too generous, you know. Which options do you think are too overpowering?

@Garfink: You have no idea how excited I am to continue this playthrough using SPERG. This has by far been my favorite playthrough ever, no less because of all the new learning experiences I've gained since I've arrived here at the forums with guys like yourself, Ess, CJ, Kulde and everyone else here. It's been a 720° turn from other playthroughs. SPERG is the next chapter! @dread: Ah, I see now. Well, looking at the ini I am not sold tbh, will have to tweaked it quite a bit methinks.. For starters, I've changed the SkillCaps and SkillFormulaCaps, to what I currently have them. Obviously, these are meant to be edited, I mean, skill caps on all trees at 300 is just lame, imho. But I'm also very suspicious of the SkillExpGainMults and PCLevelSkillExpMults, I'll tweak them as I get a feeling for SPERG. PerksAtLevelUp is set to 2=2, 3=0.625, which resulted in me having 19 perk points to spend when I first loaded the game! And perks on trees I haven't put a single perk on before. Dunno.. should I edit that to 2=1, 46=0.625? Going to try that. EDIT: Nope, still got 19 perks to spend.. Must I rerun ASIS, Wrye Bash, etc?

Just added many mods from the pack that I was missing, most notably, SPERG. I really hope I've done everything right cause I literally just spent quite a number of hours downloading and reading and patching as well as merging little mods such as Ash/Sulfur Rocks, Beards/Brows, DSAMG WEBSExtended and the like to reduce load order. My head is spinning a little, I'm on my fourth cup of coffee I've uninstalled Better Magic but kept Smithing Perks Overhaul and Stealth Skills Rebalanced because I really do like krypto's take on it. Had to chew that one up for awhile cause the SPERG's Smithing tree also looks quite appealing. One thing, on SPERG's mod page it says to only drag the SKSE folder to the (virtual) Data folder? Do I leave the Source folder where it is? I would've thought this also should be inside the Data folder? Also, if I'm not mistaken, there's a typo in the guide where it says to Bash tag mjhReducedGoldRewards.esp (Delev) I think you mean kuerteeGoldAdjustment.esp? In the previous section it says to deactivate mjhReducedGoldRewards.esp, so.. Anyway, I'm in for quite a change here! Hopefully I did everything right,. For now, I need a break.

The Core patch has Diverse Priests listed as a master iirc so you'll have to install it if you want to use the patch. Also, Skyrim Sunglare is just a texture replacer so no, this won't avoid your crashes. Have you installed TES5Edit? If not, do so and run it through MO, load all your mods, if it gives you an error when loading this means you're missing a master, which is why you CTD on startup.

Discussion thread: White Phial Replacer by Saerileth Wiki Link Here you go, z. A worthy candidate for STEP, this is a mesh/texture replacer for the White Phial, no altered rewards or anything. From the mod's page: This replacer features a brand new, unique shape for both the broken and repaired bottles. As I was brainstorming ideas Madcat211 pointed out that Curalmil is an elven name, not nordic, so even though he is entombed in a draugr crypt he may actually be of Snow Elf origin. My take on the White Phial is strongly inspired by the ancient falmer designs and incorporates (heavily modified) elements of Auriel's bow & shield. Legend has it that the White Phial contains the essence of the first snow ever to fall on the Throat of the World. The vanilla object doesn't really give any visual indication of this fact, but I decided to expand on that theme. There is frost creeping up on the handle, ice gathering in the corners and the bottle glitters as if it was made from snow. Testing: Comparision shots between Vanilla, STEP (unless same as vanilla), and this mod needed. No ENB should be used. Accepted for 2.2.9 Core, 50% no handles. Larger (either 80% or full size) with handle is acceptable for Extended.

Where is this option of Reduced Interior Spawns? I don't see it. Btw, have the inis been changed? I just checked and somehow HLE was tagged with Relev, Delev on my Bashed Patch, maybe this has something to with the uber difficulty? And I've installed the Dodge Mod, I really thought I'd already done that hmm.. I'm not currently using the Revenge of the Enemies, I'll try this setup first before I give enemies any more power, if you don't mind. ::

White Phial Replacer Candidate? Very nice retext methinks. It doesn't change the effects, just the bottle.

Well, of course. That much is clear but my point is, nothing happens. It just shows the description from the first option.

Garf, tbh even though the whole perk thing has improved since installing your improved ASIS ini files (using HLE Hardcore + Duel), it is still VERY imbalanced. A bandit plunderer (lvl 25) with a longbow one shooting you every single time when you are 20 levels higher than her and with an armor rating of nearly 700 is just nonsensical to me. It is also next to impossible to kill enemies of your same level like bandit chiefs if you don't Fuz Ro Dah the hell out him/her before they hit you cause it simply does not matter if you have a raised shield with mostly a completed perk tree. What can I do to make this more balanced and fair? I get the rush of the much more exciting battles with this setup but with this kinds of odds against you it can quickly get tiring and really just takes the fun away imho.

I'm probably being really thick but by now my head is spinning.. I don't get any of the UNPB BBP TBBP and all of that. I'm just confused by the massive amount of options. I've always used UNP but I want some of the cool armors and clothing. I very briefly installed SevenB but the idles are just too much for me to take, couldn't stand girls turning to face another direction every 3 seconds in a "sexy" way. Aela, Mjoll, etc are tough girls and they just look completely silly imho doing that. So let's see, I install UNPB Redux by xp32 (opted for Vanilla Natural BBP 360, though I don't really get what TenderBBP means tbh, nor what SFW stands for but I gather these are underwear, right?), then UNP armors (already use them), then for TroubleMakers Clothing I only install the main TM Clothing Craftable, correct? I don't need any of the Updates or Optionals or Miscellaneous files, do I? I see he also has various UNPB body replacers, do I use his or do I use xp32's? EDIT: I was completely unfocused and confused by the time I posted this and I didn't realize the instructions are to only install the Clothing Replacers for Troublemaker's mod. Doh.

XP32 overrides UNPB the way it's listed now, including first person skeleton.nif. I'm guessing this should be ok if you're playing a male character, like I am, but the character assets female nif and hkx files should remain UNPB, right?

Actually... you missed the link again.

Cleared Bleak Falls and Embershard Mine and only level 3?! Guess I'll have to take a look at this Better Leveling thing.. Does modding ever end? lol (I know the answer)

I quite like them, vfx. Good work.

I'm using the beta 1.2.1. When installing mods that use fomods like SMIM, ETaC, RBB, etc, I only get the description on the left side panel from the first option no matter how many options there are. Sometimes the options are self explanatory and there's no need for a description but other times, there is.

Sorry

Oh, I know :) I've already markfordelete'd it a while ago. Just curious about others opinions in here.

Kulde, how do you feel about Windhelm having two Ysgramor statues? Don't you think it's pushing it a lil bit?

You could try Dawn of Whiterun yourself, for me it hasn't caused any issues, other that one of the cows likes getting impaled by the fence around her, everything is fine. Dawn of Riften on the other hand.. is a ***** for me and makes my fps drop to 0.9 damn it.. Solitude is pretty lively already and with ETaC I think it looks quite good. You could try a texture overhaul, I think Osmundus has released one just a few days ago (obviously with parallax all over), which I've installed but haven't been to Solitude since.

Turns out that file you mention is in UDGP.bsa and the problem is not there if UGDP isn't loaded, just like that guy over at the UDGP thread had reported. I'll chime in there and mention I have the same problem and that it might be this file which is causing it. Thanks, Sparrow!

Yep, deleted two lines from the IncreasedSpawns.ini and it worked fine. What's weird is that when I ran ASIS using the improved ini files from EggOver it warned me of several factions (including WTFallenAventurerFaction) that couldn't be resolved but it didn't list Wyrmstooth as a master. Then I ran ASIS with your ini files and it only warns me about that WTFallenAventurerFaction and makes Wyrmstooth a master. Weird.. Got it to work now so no biggie.

So far there really haven't been lots of incompatibility reports, a guy about some shrines or something but not much else. Added some images to the first post. Tbh, aside from the fixes, like getting rid of the Aspen leaves on the Guardian Stones, I don't think I'd really notice the additions..