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[XND] Skill Overhead
   
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18 Nov, 2017 @ 7:00am
15 Feb, 2018 @ 6:56am
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[XND] Skill Overhead

Description
Direct download from GitHub[github.com].

Compatibility
Skill Overhead should be safely addable to existing savegames, as well as safely removable from existing savegames.

This mod should work with any other mod, since this mod is the first of its kind.

Overview
Tired of inconsequential injuries like tiny eye scars making your legendary constructors fail three constructions in a row, or tiny digit loss crippling your growers and animal handlers? This mod's for you, folks!

In vanilla RimWorld, the following success chance stats stop developing past level 8:
  • Animal Product Yield
  • Construction
  • Harvest Yield
As a result, a level 15 with an eye injury will still only have the same success rate as a level 8 with the same injury. This doesn't make sense since the level 15 has had significantly more experience, so the tiny injury shouldn't really affect their chances at all, or only minimally.

This mod addresses that.

Now past level 8, the above stats will actually continue to develop, albeit very slowly. This means that minor injuries will no longer effectively cripple the well-functioning of your master constructors, and so on!

Credits
Marnador for their great RimWorld font.

License
As is standard with my mods: you may include this mod in a mod pack, and you may derive from this, but please inform me if you're doing so either through here or Ludeon Forums, and give credit where credit's due.
23 Comments
apadilla124us 29 Aug, 2018 @ 11:01am 
@xeo Thanks for making the mod! looks like the dev really saw your mod as a must have too!
XeoNovaDan  [author] 29 Aug, 2018 @ 9:07am 
@apadilla124us - This mod is part of the base game now and won't be updated.
apadilla124us 29 Aug, 2018 @ 8:46am 
do you have a .19 version?
Comrade Corwin 6 Aug, 2018 @ 6:52am 
I'm confused as to how this works, or maybe more importantly, how it work in vanilla. I knew that minor injuries could seriously hinder a pawn's work, but how does the game handle that?
XeoNovaDan  [author] 20 Jan, 2018 @ 2:31pm 
@AmbiguousMonk It should be, yeah.
AmbiguousMonk 20 Jan, 2018 @ 1:17pm 
Is this mod prexisting save friendly?
JOЯDΛИ 16 Jan, 2018 @ 12:39am 
Ok, cool. Thanks for the quick response.
XeoNovaDan  [author] 16 Jan, 2018 @ 12:35am 
@Jord68 It could be argued that pawns will realy need a lot of hindrances to start getting hits to success chances if they're level 20, but level 20's very difficult to get and certainly a challenge to sustain. While Mad Skills mitigates the skill degradation, I didn't balance this around Mad Skills; just vanilla.

Other than that, it just allows for high-skilled colonists to be able to suffer a few minor capacity hindrances and not lose too much in the way of success chances - hence the title 'Skill Overhead'. IMO it just makes the game handle skills and success chances in a more sensible way; it won't actually do stuff such as increase yields.
JOЯDΛИ 15 Jan, 2018 @ 8:52pm 
Question, does this potentially make you pawns OP/game easier? Just wondering, thanks
phillosopherp 2 Dec, 2017 @ 3:09pm 
got it, didn't know if you could manipulate that impact...