changing race/class sets all my spell costs to ABSURD amounts?

[jube25]

using the console, changing my race/class will set all my spell magicka costs to like 5x their original cost.

 

oh, and if you don't have an answer for this, is there a way to lower my skills via console/construction set/mod without it crashing my game?

[DrakeTheDragon]

I don't know what exactly is happening to your spell costs, but your race is not meant to be changed in the middle of a running game and doing so always messes up your stats.

 

There's a way around the mess-up though. If you changed your race and appearance via "showracemenu", never hit the final button to close the window! This is what messes up the stats.

Instead open the console again, now you can use the save function from the main menu (without console open it is greyed out), and save your game. If you load it, you will have your new appearance but your stats were never messed up.

 

However, this comes with a drawback. Racial abilities and powers are not exchanged, if you don't click the final button. This can be fixed by console-adding and -removing them though and like I said the whole system itself isn't meant to be used in mid-game, so we don't know if it'll work reliably at all even done the right way.