Better Favor Jobs
v1.2

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Overview

In the vanilla game, you can mine ore, chop wood, and harvest crops for various foremen throughout Skyrim. But you are always better off with selling ore, wood, and crops through the trade interface than actually performing these "favor jobs." While the trade interface takes your Speech skill into account—and therefore varies the prices you can offer to merchants and allows you to gain Speech experience with each trade—the favor dialogue rewards you with only fixed septim rewards. With respect to ore and wood, the favor dialogue even ignores whether ore and wood have been priced differently by any of the mods you've installed.

Better Favor Jobs improves favor jobs in a number of ways:

• Rewards now scale to your Speech skill. Since v1.1, the reward formula matches the same formula used throughout Skyrim for all trades. As normal, any buffs or debuffs to your Speech skill by way of perks or magic effects will affect the rewards given.
• In addition, the values of ore and wood are no longer static. If you have a mod installed that changes the values of ore and wood, Better Favor Jobs will take those new values into account. For example, with Requiem Hard Times and Complete Crafting Overhaul Remade installed, ebony ore is worth 180 septims. Better Favor Jobs will use that value, instead of the default 60 septims, when calculating the reward total. Crops were never affected by the same issue, so their current values will continue to be used.
• Performing favor jobs now trains your Speech skill. Since v1.0, you'll gain 15 experience toward your Speech skill for each ore, wood, or crop that you trade. Although the vanilla game scales experience gain to the value of the item, Better Favor Jobs actually makes performing favor jobs more efficient than the trading interface because you can sell ore, wood, and crops in bulk and receive skill experience per unit.

Enjoy your life as a laborer!

Future Plans

I have a version that implements favor jobs for other items, including ingots, but I have to find time to create a generic "thank you" voice set from the existing voices.

Or someone can make that voice set for me!