I'm having trouble finding a mod that removes the slow countdown when you rest/wait. Is this because that countdown is essential to loading?

If it's possible, does anybody know of a mod that removes the countdown?

The countdown is essential, as the game spends this time running all the AI packets that make all the actors do their business while you wait, so I don't think there is such a mod. There are a couple of mods (my Automatic Timescale, and Dynamic Time) that lets you easily speed up the timescale while standing still in the gameworld, thus removing the countdown, but it doesn't make it faster to wait.

Just keep in mind that radically speeding up the timescale doesn't mean that AI will speed up along with it. Most of the time you just end up backlogging the system and the NPCs then have to catch up to what you've done. They may not be able to if you have a lot of other mods to keep track of.

It was highly amusing to set timescale to 1000 and watch days go by in seconds. Right up until the game crashed.

So it's the NPC schedules that make it slow...

Well, thanks for the answers.