Salaber

If everyone endorsed the mods they download not every mod will have the same amount of endorsements because not everyone downloads every mod. That is a different situation though. Realistically people aren't going to endorse everything they download. Some are more lenient on endorsements while others are very strict on it. We have multiple ways to search for mods including "Most endorsed recently added files" to help filter out good newer mods from the already popular mods. There have been plenty of small mods that didn't take a long time to make that have received the Hot Files section of the front page, are we to say that these mods don't deserve that credit because it didn't take a lot of effort to make? Not everyone is going to think of these small tweaks themselves but a large portion of the community may like such mods. Having a single person release this tiny tweak and the community liking it should warrant recognition.

A potential way to incorporate it into gameplay could be to have a trigger that would remove a small portion of your maximum health until the surgery kit is used. I don't know how you'd want to do that though, maybe if your health drops to a certain point you also sustain that injury so just stimpacks alone won't bring you back to full health.

Would it be possible to set a float value for the perk for each rank (1% for Rank 1, 1.75% for Rank 2) then have the perk get the character level and multiple it for that value to calculate the damage boost? So say level 3 you grab the Commando perk you get a +3% damage boost (not that rewarding, I know.) But Level 9 comes around and you purchase Rank 2, instead of a 9% it would give you a 15.75% damage boost? Or round the answer up if it needs to be a whole integer. The numbers here need to be tweaked for balancing but would this be a better method than doing level brackets?

I feel like this could be fixed more easily by adjusting the bonuses of other items rather than changing the models dependent on sex. I think that if you really want more female NPCs wearing dresses you could change out the clothing in the level lists to where they'll spawn with the dresses instead of other items such as suits or the drifter outfit.

I haven't looked into the mod tools yet however the author for this mod might be able to point you in the direction you need to go: http://www.nexusmods.com/fallout4/mods/5192/? His mod works based on Strength, maybe the function would work in a similar manner? You'd have to figure out a good value on how much each rank would increase that percentage by. If it increases by a flat 1%/level each rank the earlier levels would be significantly weaker than the vanilla perk but the later levels would be overpowered.

I've been going through ideas on designing a mod similar to this. I haven't had the free time recently to start working on anything yet though. It may need to wait until the official mod tools are released, I don't know what the tools we currently have are capable of doing.

If only I didn't get my games re-installed only a couple days ago... I can't get enough creative genius and the hand to make something good enough in 8 days! Gahh! Ohh well! Best of lick to all the rest of you!