Armor Rating too high bug

[Lotus97]

I was just checking my armor rating and it was really high so I removed all my armor and it was 196 without any armor. I'm not sure what's going. I tried disabling all my recent mods, but that didn't help. I then tried some of my older game saves. The older saves my character had 0 rating with no armor on (which is what it should be). I'm not sure what's going. And strangely I recently switched from expert back to adept after me and Lydia got beaten up by spiders so the extra armor rating wasn't really helping that much. I can't see how it could be a problem with mods since the older saved games were working fine. I thought maybe a mod corrupted the newer saved games, but I tried making a new save with the older save and it still wasn't bugged even with the mods. I did come across another thread from someone who didn't use mods, but had a bug with armor (not sure if it was the same one as mine though).

Edited November 9, 2013 by Lotus97

[Lotus97]

Ok, so maybe it is a mod. There's a mod where I have to take off all my armor type "initiatearmorformula to 1" in the console and then put it back on. When I tried typing this my armor went back to 0 when naked. Prior to trying this I tried disabling mod (that was the first thing I tried) and that didn't make a difference. So I guess I should just disable that mod? It kind of sucks because it fixes the damage reduction amount so it's more of a linear progression rather than increases exponentially towards the armor cap. This is the mod I'm referring to:

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/15860/?

I'd recommend taking a look if you want to better understand how the armor formula works in Skyrim.

Edit: Just tried disabling the mod and my armor was back to the inflated rate. I don't know what to do other than start a new game without this mod (assuming that it is this mod that's causing the problem).

Edited November 10, 2013 by Lotus97