Leveling up waaaayyyy too quickly. : IV

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:48 am

So I'm starting a new playthrough and I'm trying to get the pacing/leveling just right. Unfortunately, I noticed something odd. I'm using Francesco's mod to create a more static world, with leveled quests and trying to reduce the 'Bandits in Daedra Armor' problem vanilla has. I also have a couple mods that deal with the PC leveling specifically, such as nGCD, progress, and legendary mastery. I played the first 30 minutes of the game, going through the sewers and the Vilverin dungeon and I'm already at level 6! Is this normal? Also, when sneaking, I get a message saying 'sneaking skill has increased' almost every 10 seconds while sneaking. This seems wrong... O.o

EDIT: My mod list:

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Active Mod Files:00  Oblivion.esm01  Francesco's Leveled Creatures-Items Mod.esm02  Francesco's Optional New Items Add-On.esm03  Francesco's Optional New Creatures Add-On.esm04  Cobl Main.esm  [Version 1.72]05  Progress.esm  [Version 2.2]06  Unofficial Oblivion Patch.esp  [Version 3.2.6]07  UOP Vampire Aging & Face Fix.esp  [Version 1.0.0]08  Oblivion Citadel Door Fix.esp09  DLCShiveringIsles.esp0A  Unofficial Shivering Isles Patch.esp  [Version 1.4.0]0B  Natural_Weather_by_Max_Tael.esp0C  Natural_Weather_HDR_by_Max_Tael.esp0D  Natural_Habitat_by_Max_Tael.esp0E  Enhanced Water v2.0 HD.esp0F  Natural_Water_by_Max_Tael.esp10  IWR-Lights.esp11  IWR-Windows.esp12  IWR-Shutters.esp13  AliveWaters.esp14  AliveWaters - Koi Addon.esp15  AliveWaters - Slaughterfish Addon.esp16  aaaBorsBedrolls.esp17  ClocksOfCyrodiil.esp18  ImprovedSigns.esp19  DLCHorseArmor.esp1A  DLCHorseArmor - Unofficial Patch.esp  [Version 1.0.5]1B  DLCOrrery.esp1C  DLCOrrery - Unofficial Patch.esp  [Version 1.0.3]1D  DLCVileLair.esp1E  DLCVileLair - Unofficial Patch.esp  [Version 1.0.5]1F  DLCMehrunesRazor.esp20  DLCMehrunesRazor - Unofficial Patch.esp  [Version 1.0.4]21  DLCSpellTomes.esp++  DLCSpellTomes - Unofficial Patch.esp  [Version 1.0.1]22  DLCThievesDen.esp23  DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch.esp  [Version 1.0.5]24  DLCThievesDen - Unofficial Patch - SSSB.esp  [Version 1.0.4]25  Francesco's Optional Files.esp26  Cobl Glue.esp  [Version 1.72]27  Cobl Si.esp  [Version 1.63]28  BHC_Expanded.esp  [Version 1.2]29  FenrirTheWolf.esp2A  LetThePeopleDrink.esp  [Version 2.5]2B  Side's Sailing Ships.esp2C  za_bankmod.esp2D  DLCBattlehornCastle.esp2E  DLCBattlehornCastle - Unofficial Patch.esp  [Version 1.0.4]2F  DLCFrostcrag.esp30  DLCFrostcrag - Unofficial Patch.esp  [Version 1.0.4]31  Knights.esp32  Knights - Unofficial Patch.esp  [Version 1.0.9]33  Natural_Vegetation_by_Max_Tael.esp34  RealisticFlora.esp  [Version 2.7.0]35  RealisticFlora - DLCFrostcrag.esp  [Version 2.7.0]36  Cliff_BetterLetters.esp  [Version 1.1]37  gardening.esp38  Salmo the Baker, Cobl.esp  [Version 3.08]39  Toggleable Quantity Prompt.esp  [Version 3.1.1]3A  ATakesAll.esp++  Borderless_Cyrodiil-3578.esp3B  Quest Award Leveller.esp  [Version 2.0.1]3C  Quest Award Leveller - Vile Lair.esp  [Version 2.1.0]3D  Quest Award Leveller - Knights of the Nine.esp  [Version 2.1.0]3E  Alternate Start Revamped.esp3F  MerchantsAlwaysBuyStolen.esp40  SM Combat Hide.esp  [Version 1.2]41  No psychic guards v1.2.esp42  TRN One of the Gang.esp43  Enhanced Grabbing.esp  [Version 0.5]44  Goranga restaurant job.esp45  MM_StolenHorseOwnership.esp46  nGCD.esp47  nGCD Oghma Infinium.esp48  ProgressGSD.esp  [Version 2.0]49  ProgressMBSP.esp  [Version 2.0]4A  ProgressSBSP.esp  [Version 1.0]4B  ProgressRBSP.esp  [Version 1.0]4C  ProgressRacial.esp4D  ProgressArmorer.esp  [Version 1.0]4E  Toaster's Legendary Skills & Stats.esp  [Version 3.44]4F  Toaster's Legendary Mastery.esp  [Version 3.44]50  Francesco's level up mini mod - Slower skills x1.5.esp51  Cobl Races.esp  [Version 1.52]52  Cobl Races TNR.esp  [Version 1.53]53  Cobl Races TNR SI.esp  [Version 1.53]54  Francesco's 10 days respawn time - 1-20 day lenght rescale.esp55  Cobl Silent Equip Misc.esp  [Version 01]56  Streamline 3.1.esp57  Bashed Patch, 0.esp

One other thing: When in combat, NPC's sometimes repeatedly sheath/un-sheath their weapon saying 'where'd he go', and then move in little stutter steps....

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:02 pm

Yeah that's definitely not right, but I'm not sure what to tell you. Running more than one leveling mod is most likely going to cause a conflict, so my advice would be to disable them one at a time and just see which combination of those mods work best for you. Or maybe try to find a different leveling mod that addresses your problems better.

Re-ordering them in your load order may help too. I'm sure there's someone around here that'll be able to tell you exactly what order they need to be in, but until then it couldn't hurt to play around with it a bit and see what happens.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:03 am

Running more than one leveling mod is most likely going to cause a conflict...

nGCD, Progress and Legendary Master work just fine together.

My suggestion would be to use the "Progress (OOO).ini" if you aren't already.

» Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:34 pm

By its nature, Progress overrides (and makes unnecessary) the level rates mod included with Francesco's. It sounds like you may have copied in the Vanilla version Progress.ini. It's 100% vanilla, stupidly-fast leveling and all!

You can edit the Progress.ini you have to set the leveling rate you prefer; it's right at the top of the file, with full instructions. Alternately, you can replace it with "Progress (Default).ini" or "Progress (OOO).ini" (just delete it and copy/rename one of those) which both default to a 3x slowdown. If you're using the ProgressMBSP module, I recommend using Default; the magic settings in that version take MBSP into account. It's otherwise identical to Progress (OOO).