Just curious if you ran this mod with OOO? Did you think the changes to magicka costs caused any imbalance with the spells available for purchase in OOO. Specific I was thinking of the Drain Life spells which are unavailable to create in OOO, but that you can buy and they are appropriately rare/costly on magicka. I reasoned if magicka was increased by a lot and it didn't also appropriately scale the cost of those drain spells that the RRP might unbalance OOO a tiny bit.

I also use a Bosmer character with the Atronach birthsign. You get a very slow magicka regen with that combination which is nice.

Remember if you choose to use armors, your magicka is severely stunted (can't remember if this is RBP or LAME, it's been a while since I referred to the readme's) so I believe it works out quite nicely in terms of balance. I still get my behind handed to me on a regular basis

*scratches head* ... Man, I've never been able to cast destruction spells like that. I run out of magicka regularly. Maybe though it's because I've never used a character as a strict mage or played with Altmer or Breton?

Anyway, as I remembered it I basically didn't have to think about the magicka pool as it regenerated so fast - it basically made it possible to cast destruction spells continuously forever. Nothing against RBP/LAME per se, but their vision of how the game should be differ vastly from OOO's. Nothing wrong to use both with OOO of course, but it's basically not OOO anymore IMO - so it seems to me to be a moot point to wonder about some microbalancing considering a particular spell.

Another question I have (and I wonder if some of the same OOO knowledgeable people will reply back in this post),,,, is whether the lost spire mod would fit in well with the OOO experience. I mean would the lost spire content feel like you had walked into an entire new world? Secondly, would the locations of the lost spire content erase some locations which were vital to OOO. If nobody answers I'll make a separate question, but I wondered if the previous poster, Arkngt, would happen to notice this thread again this week.

I wonder... do you know of any magic overhaul(s) that would be more suitable for use with OOO (FCOM, in fact)? Particularly something that might include the option of different starting spells and different Conjuration options/paths?* Those are the two features I most appreciate about LAME.

I almost always play Breton/Mage so I guess that was it with RBP as well. Combined with OOO's Willpower based magicka regen it made for an insane regen rate IIRC. It was the major reason I stopped using it - lots of cool stuff in it otherwise.

I'm using Supreme Magicka this time around and it's so customizable via the ini that I find it very close to OOO if using OOO settings - and not overdoing Conjuration (it has several tweakable options regarding that) etc. Not sure if you can have different starting spells with it, though - don't think so.

bg2408 (the time when it was arround the forum) explained his choices and made comparison between his magicka system and vanilla system.

Q: Are you really, really serious about your changes to Magicka?
A: I've got a lot of question concerning the Magicka pool ("Are you serious!?"). Now of course I'm always pointing then to all optional files to make it like in Vanilla. Nevertheless today I'd like to say a few words about that. Warning - this will be a bit of boring math now!
Magicka is a currency. You're buying spells with Magicka. Now when comparing Oblivion to Morrowind, you'll see that you get for the same amount of Magicka in Morrowind much stronger spells. So Morrowind Magicka has a higher value than Oblivion Magicka. What I'm doing is to change many aspects of Oblivion's Magicka currency - to put it bluntly, you can't easily compare them, because the currency has also another value.
Let me give you an example. And let's use an armored Altmer with Mage birthsign for it. When everything is maxed out, his Magicka is 350 in Vanilla and 1000 in RBP. Now let's say he wants to cast spells doing 100 fire damage, and his destruction level is master.
- Vanilla: One spell costs 87 Magicka. He has enough Magicka to cast 4 of them.
- RBP: One spell costs 217 Magicka. He has enough Magicka to cast 4 of them.
As you see from this example, because of many changes to how much Magicka is worth as a currency, it's not a single spell more possible. But wait, what if the Altmer goes unarmored?
- Vanilla: One spell costs 82 Magicka. He has enough Magicka to cast 4 of them.
- RBP: One spell costs 163 Magicka. He has enough Magicka to cast 6 of them.
Now there's a reason to go unarmored . This time he's got 50% more Magicka - which is still much less than 200%.
So why all these hassle when everything is only altered slightly, just with higher values? The thing is, it's not. While I did find magic due to Magicka pools in very high levels playable (like the examples given - as you see, the difference is not that high), I found magic due to Magicka pool in lower levels next to unplayable. Now let's take a look at the same Altmer, when all his stats are at 60 (which means a Magicka of 270 in Vanilla and 520 in RBP). This time he wants to deal only 35 points of fire damage. Armored, as ever:
- Vanilla: One spell costs 77 Magicka. He has enough Magicka to cast 3 of them.
- RBP: One spell costs 99 Magicka. He has enough Magicka to cast 5 of them.
Now it looks a bit different, suddenly he has nearly 70% more Magicka. And now let's take a look at him when he's unarmored!
- Vanilla: One spell costs 72 Magicka. He has enough Magicka to cast 3 of them.
- RBP: One spell costs 74 Magicka. He has enough Magicka to cast 7 of them.
And now he finally has around 135% more Magicka. Now considering that at this skill levels for most enemies he usually needs five to ten spells, he atleast has enough for one of them. The rest? Well, there's regeneration. Which also plays a major role, but isn't the topic now . I think my changes are making magic depending characters playable in medium levels (where I think they're seriously lacking Magicka in Vanilla), while not overpowering them in higher levels - where they were playable imho.

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Funny images:

Quote from the FAQ:Great to have everything already written .

And yes, the amount of magicka is too high if another mod for magicka regeneration is used, which (now what a surprise is this?) give a lot higher values of magicka regeneration. If I would have updated the image above, you'd find mods on there with an effective regeneration of 10% and more if willpower is maxed out.