SSE Need Help With Creation Kit Merchant Edit

[skycreate]

i am trying to add specific gears for sale across Skyrim. can someone tell me how i can do that so that gears becomes available for sale?

 

thanks

[cumbrianlad]

In it's simplest form, you may want to create and add some new merchants into the game, to save you having to edit vanilla levelled items and vanilla merchant chests and merchants.

Darkfox127 does a neat little tutorial on how to go about that part of it.

 

I'm suggesting making your own merchants to avoid mod conflicts if any other mod edits vanilla lists and merchant chests.

 

After that, it comes down to how you want your items to be available for sale. Say, for example, you want to add 4 potions but don't want the player to be able to buy them at any level, you need to make a 'Levelled Item'. Add all 4 of your potions to this list and set the player levels you want them to be available at. Add this levelled item to the merchant chest, along with a quantity that you want the merchant to sell.

 

If you want it to be more likely that the merchant has more of the lower levelled stuff, just add the same potion a few times, so your list looks like below..

 

Level Count ID

1 1 Weakest Potion

1 1 Weakest Potion

1 1 Weakest Potion

1 1 Weakest Potion

5 1 Normal Potion

5 1 Normal Potion

5 1 Normal Potion

10 1 Strong Potion

10 1 Strong Potion

20 1 Strongest Potion

 

If you check 'Calculate for all levels <= PC level', the game will select the number in the merchants chest for anything on the list as long as it's not greater than the player level. Leave this unchecked and it finds the highest level match. In that example, if 'Calculate for all levels <= PC level' is checked, and the chest requires 3 potions, even if the player is level 30, the merchant is still 4 times as likely to sell the weakest potion as he is to have the strongest one available.

 

Just look at the way the vanilla levelled items are made.

 

You can add a few forms directly to the merchant's chest if you want him to always have that item for sale, but levelled items are the way to go. Also, ensure that he always has something to sell. If you fill in the 'Chance None' field in the levelled item and do this with every list, there is a real chance he'll have nothing for sale. 'Chance None' is good to provide variety, so that sometimes the player wants a potion but he doesn't have any!

 

If you just want him to sell your items any time, regardless of player level, you still might want to do the levelled item, but just set each of the items to level 1. This way he'll have a variety of your items to sell and not the exact same number of each, every time the player visits.