Charge cost depends on your current Enchant skill level, if it's too low then you will get a high charge cost.

Hrnchand, there's been a request on GHF to add the ability to wear more than two rings. Is this something you would be interested in looking into? Thanks.

I'm still working on MGE XE for the moment. Still, I could do something quickly.

My reply from GHF:

Now this I would be intrested in seeing

Here's to two years of MCP development!

:cake: :celebration:

Cheers :foodndrink:. Fantastic job!

Now that would be really nice. I have a ring of lock picking that I have to unequip, then reequip one of my CE ring whenever I use it.

...and superb it has been! Great work Hrnchamd. Deeply felt thanks from me!!

Well, I feel stupid now. I didn't know that at all.

Thank you. I am so sorry for a wall of text post.
Geez, this is embarrassing...

Thank you, Hrnchamd, for making Morrowind a cleaner, stabler, and far less annoying place to be! The MCP is one of the things that no Morrowind player should ever go without!

Hi Hrnchamd! Remember me? I'm the one that was helepd you with Polish MCP support (exes, keyboard support).

I have one minor request - language selection box/menu. Like, you open MCP and somewhere in the window you can select particular language, should be useful for those that do not speak English fluently. I can translate needed files, but it will take a while.

Send me a PM if you are eager to do this

I stumbled across this quote while surfing the internet.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_fFApDyki4

:lightbulb:

hello!

there is so,ething thst I'd like to know if it is possible.

Increasing your enchant skill, the cost of each enchanted item's charge, decrease. is it possible to stop this?

Er, doesn't it stop at 100 Enchant anyway?

Stopping it from decreasing means you'd have to somehow magically balance the charge costs yourself, and that's a lot of work. Like, months, okay, weeks. Not to mention your mod would be incompatible with any spell mods.
Literally, any changes to any spell in the game would wreck the charge cost changes.

After all, it's not balanced at 5 enchant, and it's probably not balanced at 100 enchant either.
I mean, I'd think you'd have to look at every single spell in the game, and change the charge cost for them all individually. And then you'd have to do a lot of testing to make sure it's fair and balanced.

Like the Morrowind Economy when you don't cheat. If resting 24 hours counts as cheating.

Plus, you'd ruin the only reason to have enchant at 100. Other than relatively fast charge regeneration.

I feel embarrassed for not knowing how enchant works though, see my post on the last page and the one above on this page.

Salve!

The enchant skill scaling is hard coded to:

charge use = base use * (110 - enchant skill) / 100

If I remove the scaling it is as if all characters had 10 enchant skill for this purpose. I could replace the scaling with a fixed multiplier, you may want to experiment with commonly used items to see what a useful enchant level is. The formula is hard coded in 6-7 places so it won't take too long to make a patch.

I don't know if this has already been addressed, but there's an issue with NPCs and CE items: it seems that whenever an NPC crosses a cell, any CE items they have turn negative. For example: a CE fortify strength of 10 points becomes a CE item of drain strength. The actual enchantment doesn't change, but the effect does. If this has already been addressed, feel free to ignore it. If it hasn't, would it be difficult to fix? As it stands, it's a pain because we can't outfit our companions with CE items less they turn negative. Thanks.

I have never heard of that bug, Jac.
That is weird.

Are you certain it happens all the time? Because...wow. That's pretty weird.

Also, Hrnchamd, at the rate of new features you're adding into Morrowind, Bethesda might have to pay you.

And I'm so glad you work on a patch basis, I.E. everything is modifiable.
I mean, some of your features you added, er, to be honest, you probably shouldn't have given into the pressure.

Emma did some research awhile back and came up with those conclusions. I think she suggested adding a CE spell shield to a companion and watch what it does: eventually the egg bubble around the NPC would disappear because the effect was no longer being applied. I can dig up her findings if anybody's interested, but that should be for another thread.

I did hear about that as well. I always avoid giving my companions anything with a CE on it.

in my MW adventures, spells are unused. I use only enchanted items. Spells may fail, and reduce my magicka. The enchanted items instead, never fail, do not require an animation (while I am casting a spell, I may be interrupted if attacked), and thanks to this scaling, with enchant 100 I can summon a Storm Atronach with 11 points.

I'd say, the enchant level, should be 50, so we'll have a fixed level for anyone, that is in the middle between the lowest and highest.
The real use of the enchant skill, should be to make enchanted items. But this may be made changing the "fMagicItemOnceMult". (in my game, I changed it from 3, to 250). Galbedir, the bosmer enchanter in the mages guild of Balmora, with her 40 something enchanting skill, can enchant everything if I pay her. Why can't I do the same?

There is something last, I'd like to know if possible . The price you pay to an enchanter to enchant a ring (that can be used multiple times) and a scroll, (that can be used only once), is the same.
I found a game setting that according to MSFD is unused, and it is the ""fMagicItemOnceMult"". I guess this is the value of what I am looking for. The cost to enchant a scroll, should be reduced to 1/20. Is it possible?

Some information on the CE issues with NPCs for those that are interested:

[edit]: Emma's old forums may disappear, so here's a more permanent link: http://emmates.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=morrowind&action=display&thread=6

From Emma's site:

this happens also for the costant restore health effect on enchanted items for Npcs. but it doesn't turn negative, just doesn't work after a cell change.

Many weird things can happen to companions on a cell change.

Already? Seriously? *eats days old cake*

Cheers... and... stuff!

I'm not good at these celebratory things.

So, did you miss my inquiry, or have you just been ignoring me all this time?

I am all for skipping the equipping of rings that aren't constant effect, by the way. That has always been terribly annoying. Would that apply to amulets, and other items as well?

Yeah, that's a little weird. I agree.
However, one spell being easy to put on a ring doesn't mean Enchant is totally broken.

After all, if he does change charge costs, he still has to make sure it's balanced for every single magic spell in the game.
Also, how many enchantment points is that Storm Atronarch, anyway?
How many seconds can you summon him for?

Because every time I've tried to make a constant effect summon anything beyond a dremora, they tend to be a bit expensive enchantment point wise. Like, can't even be put on a Daedric Tower Shield.