The Idea I love the Supreme Magicka mod, but often there is no reason to use (de)buffs in the game. When you encounter an enemy, it's way smarter to just quickly cast some destructive spells at it than to cast debuffs or start buffing yourself. This mod/addon attempts to fix that, by making buffs (and some debuffs) maintained. It does this by removing the timer from the (de)buff spells and instead making it a constant effect. The price you pay for this, is a (significant) decrease of your total Magicka for as long as the effect is active. When the enemy is killed, or when you remove/dispell the (de)buff, your total Magicka goes back to normal again. The decrease of the total Magicka should be a percentage to make sure the system doesn't get overpowered. Example For example, a character skilled in Alteration magic, can cast a constant effect "Shield for 15%" spell at him/herself, at the cost of (made up number) 20% of his/her total Magicka. This way it's actually doable to play a pure Mage character dressed in clothes only. List of included Magic Effects There are several ways to calculate the cost of the effect: 1. About the same as normal spells. School skill level, magnitude, area and range are taken into account. (Duration not included, that's the point of this mod) 2. The same as the first, except a much higher increase of cost as magnitude increases. This is for balancing reasons. 3. There is no magnitude involved. School skill level, area, range AND opponent values (level, total magicka, or attribute) are taken into account. Restoration Fortify Fatigue Fortify Health Fortify Skill Resist Fire Resist Frost Resist Shock Resist Magic Resist Paralysis Resist Poison Destruction Damage Attribute Damage Fatigue Damage Health Damage Magicka Drain Attribute Drain Fatigue Drain Health Drain Magicka Drain Skill Weakness to Fire Weakness to Frost Weakness to Shock Weakness to Magic Weakness to Poison Alteration Burden Feather Fire Shield Frost Shield Shock Shield Shield Water Breathing Water Walking Illusion Chameleon Command Creature Command Humanoid Calm Frenzy Light Night-Eye Silence Mysticism Detect Life Reflect Damage Reflect Spell Soul Trap Spell Absorption Conjuration None Constant summon spells would be overpowered and lorebreaking Statements, goals, questions to myself * The goal is to make this system work for all magic users in the game, not just the player * There must be a system to dispell these effects. The easiest way would be to give 2 Lesser Powers, onSelf and onTarget, that just removes all these constant effects. A better way for selfbuffs would be to make the effects in the "Active Effects" sheet in the player menu clickable to cancel them. * These effects must be dispellable by the Mysticism "Dispell" effect. * A choice must be made whether a spell should be converted to an ability at the moment it hits the target, or that the spell should recycle itself. * What do we do with the current spells in the game that have a duration? * How does this affect Spellmaking * How does this affect Enchantments on weapons. This can be tricky. Detailed rambling Concerning Command Creature, Command Humanoid, Calm and Frenzy These spells originally involve Magnitude as the maximum level the target is allowed to have in order for the spell effect to work. In this mod, the spell will work on any target as long as you have enough Magicka. Instead of "Command Creature up to level 20 for 30 seconds on target", the spell will now say "Command Creature on target". At the moment the spell hits the target, the level of the creature is read, and based on that value the decrease of your total Magicka is calculated. If this exceeds your current total Magicka, the spell fails and will decrease your current magicka by 50% of the cost. Concerning Silence Works the same as above, but the Silence effect stops when the target's current Magicka is higher than the caster's current Magicka. This makes it so that you are unable to Silence a strong mage at the start of a fight when (s)he still has a full Magicka pool, but after (s)he casts some spells you will be able to do so. Casting spells yourself will drain your Magicka pool, which enables the target to escape from the Silence effect. This system makes the cost of these spells unpredictable and thus dangerous. If your current and total Magicka is 200, and you cast "Command Creature" and the cost turns out to be 180 Magicka, you only have 20 total Magicka left, which cripples your ability to cast other spells. In this case it's often smart to be quick to cancel/dispell the effect. If the "Command Creature" spell turns out to cost 240 Magicka the spell cost exceeds your current Magicka by 40 points. The spell will fail, and your current Magicka will be decreased by 50% of the spell cost, which is 240/2=120. You had 200 current Magicka so, 200-120=80. The spell failure leaves you with 80 Magicka points. Note that your Total Magicka is not affected by spell failure. Last words This is just a concept, quickly written down without considering the full impact this mod has on the gameplay. The idea isn't nearly finished, so feel free to contribute your thoughts. I cannot make this mod myself, at least not in the coming months. I am very busy with my study, and have very limited experience with the CS. Because of that, I really hope someone else will start making this mod/addon. I will offer a lot of help with ideas, testing and balancing though.
