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Well, I'm glad so many people chimed in, but not one person actually even attempted to answer the question I asked. I'm just going to take that to mean that nobody of note has mentioned an intention to remove this "feature" and I'm going to wait for the GOTY edition so there has been time for someone new to fix it. There will probably be lots of other game enhancing mods by that point anyway, and I won't get raped by DLC.

Ugh, trust me, on my fully leveled up character in fallout 3 with good weapons it took multiple magazines of hits on reavers(or whatever) to kill them. It was unfun. Thats it. New vegas wasn't bad about it and it had no scaled anything, but the DLC ramped the life up on the enemies and was annoying with that as well. I didn't get Old World blues because I hated the first two, so I have no idea about special robot weapons in that DLC. My fear with Skyrim is that I'll be constantly harassed by enemies just above my level throughout the game. Which is not a game I want to play. I want to take the time to be stronger than everything I face, and when some bandit attempts to waylay me I want to crush his head in with one blow. Clearly Bethesda doesn't want people playing their games the way I like to play them, so I'm hoping that there is some modder with experience doing rebalance stuff who intends to work on this. If there is no such person then I know to wait for a GOTY on Skyrim so there has been enough time for someone new to develop this stuff.

I said realizing you could 1shot them and not have to fight them anymore was rewarding, not that they were a good design idea in the first place. If you didn't smile the first time you realized that you don't have to fight cliff racers anymore, well, you clearly don't enjoy games the same way I do. And I'm talking about those nearly invincible ghouls that started showing up late in FO3. They took a ton of head-shots to kill from any weapon I ever found. If there was one super-gun that could deal with them, well, that's poor too. Here is a video someone posted of just how many hits it takes to kill stuff late in NV. Fallout's balance issues were mostly related to them thinking a challenging enemy should require multiple full magazines, the scaling issue comes in when you get to the random encounters with those horrible endgame enemies. Regardless, that's not what I started the topic to talk about. I just wanted to know if any of the people who have fixed balance issues in the past are still around, and if they have said anything about modding for Skyrim.

I'm talking about the random encounters mainly. When traveling around at level 30 there were constantly those... reavers? I forget the name, but the endgame enemies were just incredibly unfun to fight. I never actually finished the DLC because of this. I felt that the New Vegas DLC had the same issue actually, the enemies just had way too much life. Its not entirely a scaling issue with FO3(and definitely not with NV, but thats Obsidian, so whatever), since those were the endgame enemies either way, but once they started showing up randomly all over the world, well, pretty much everything was unfun at that point. I want to wtfpwn the random encounters when I'm level 30. Thats one of the best parts of being level 30. For example, do you remember in Morrowind when you first found that you could one-shot cliff racers? It was awesome. Yea, they never stop pestering you, but once you level enough it was just a single swing of Umbra in passing. It just made you feel powerful.

I hated Fallout 3 more because the late game enemies were so annoying. Shooting something 45 times in the face totally ruins suspension of disbelief for me, and also means you need thousands and thousands of rounds of ammo to do anything. Yea, the bandits in glass armor with perfect stats were pretty bad in Oblivion, but the only times I played through it I either glitched the game by staying level 1, or used that overhaul which fixed the leveling. It just boils down to the way I play RPGs, if something is hard I like to go level up more then come back to it, but when things scale it just stays hard. Totally removes the rewards of leveling up. Generally in Fallout 3 and Oblivion I either had to use the console commands "TGM" or "kill" if I couldn't handle something because leveling up wouldn't do any good anyway. Pretty much any form of scaled content has to be fixed in my book. The only changes I want in the world are story related or the result of my actions. And I'm not talking about anything in production obviously, I'm just wondering if any of the predominant people in the mod community who have made this sort of thing in the past have made any indication that they would be doing the same for Skyrim.

I personally feel that scaled content completely ruins a RPG. I hated it in Oblivion, and I hated it even more in Fallout 3, so I've decided that I'll play Skyrim when the first mod that fixes this horrible design decision is released. Is anyone aware of any upcoming projects which will fix the scaled leveling in Skyrim? Obviously not much can be done until the game is released, I'm just hoping to get an idea as to when I can play the game and not feel gimped the whole time.