PAPVAFS11 Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 I'm currently working on a big revamp of how common NPCs are equipped with weapons and armor. Right now, the bulk of my work is in making leveled lists that include new weapon templates to better characterize equipment sets, based on tier, loadout style, and character type. My biggest issue right now is in weighting the lists appropriately so that common weapons will occur more frequently than rare weapons. I already know how to do this, but I'm not sure what the best way of going about it is. I know you can make nested leveled lists, or add duplicate entries to puff up the likelihood that an item will be picked. I figure this might be an opinion topic, but I'd like to ask so I can be sure my head is on straight; which is better practice? "Deep" lists with a hierarchy of nested lists? Or "broad" lists with duplicates? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirdstorm Posted December 25, 2019 Share Posted December 25, 2019 Have a long (year) overdue project with allot of complicated leveled lists, so can feel the pain in the rear this is, but in my mindyou can have deep and broad lists at the same time... Example: (one I've modified)LLI_Raider_Weapons [LVLI:0005E8E5] -Change to Calc for all items and Calc players level. -Duplicate original list adding the Suffix "_Vanilla" -Duplicate Original List adding the Suffix "_ModXXXX" (whatever your mod name is. -Remove all but lets say 4 Entries in the original Leveled list (example was 0005E8E5) -Add the new Suffix'ed "_Vanilla" leveled list into 0005E8E5 [3] times -Add the new Suffix'ed "_ModXXXX" leveled list into 0005E8E5 [1] times -WIN! *note* You can of course add more to the original 0005E8E5, including additional sublists to broaden it further... Taking it to the next level...In your custom leveled list ("_ModXXXX") you can now broaden the list further if you want, making Common, Uncommon and Rare weapons by doing similar things, cloning your "_ModXXXX" and making the sub-lists, making it "broad" in the scope of sub lists it's choosing from and "deep" in the content in each sub list. Takes a while but makes for some amazing lists Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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