LE Two ideas from a modding noob: Vampire mode for iNeed, and readable promissory notes for Bank of Skyrim

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I have some education and experience with programming (C++ and Ruby), though not a huge amount, but no experience modding Skyrim. Basically everything I've wanted to change about the game, someone else has already done. :D Well, except these two things.

 

First off, I've yet to find a needs mod that works for vampires the way I like, which is requiring blood and sleep but nothing else. iNeed would be my favorite such mod except for it not handling this particular use case to my satisfaction. (I'm currently using RND with hunger and thirst rates at 0 so I need just to sleep occasionally.) What I'd like is a patch for iNeed that adds an optional "vampire mode": You progress through the stages normally, but once you hit stage 4, you start building up hunger at whatever rate you set. A single feeding would reduce hunger like a filling meal (or an entire day's worth of food), and once you're back to full you return to stage 1. Compatibility with Better Vampires and its blood point system would be great, too, and maybe something like RND's gluttony debuff if you overfeed at stage 1 (with BV's rank system, there's reason to bite every exposed neck you see, even if full; something like that could help put the brakes on it).

 

The other idea I had is much more minor: My only disappointment with Bank of Skyrim is that the promissory notes aren't actually readable notes. I'd love to find them under my 'books' tab and be able to read them, and see fancy parchment with neatly-written legalese spelling out the purpose of the note and its value. I just think it would be a really nice, immersive touch to add to the mod. :smile:

 

So I guess what I'm asking is, a) does anyone else like these ideas, and b) how hard would they be for a complete noob to Skyrim modding (but not to basic programming concepts) to implement on their own?