LE Mod to gain gold on kills

[Primeval23]

Hey all,

I am having an existential crisis of skyrim modding. I am installing mods to make dark souls in skyrim and using all of distar66's fantastic SkySA and SGC mods. In particular the "dark souls - experience" mod https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/26576?tab=description&BH=3 is almost perfect. However, that mod only eliminates skill gains from using skills and you level by spending gold that you find or acquire from selling/questing. What that mod DOES NOT do is give you gold (or souls in dark souls terms) for killing enemies.

 

The "XP is gold" mod https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/20084?tab=description is great and my impression is that I gain gold as I would in skyrim normally i.e. completing quests, looting chests, looting bodies that happen to have some right? Unfortunately this is very similar to what the dark souls experience mod does. What I am wanting to do is to have an "XP is gold" system instead of a "gold is XP" system where actions including killing enemies and clearing dungeons award gold and you can still find gold in the world (ie exactly how dark souls world works). Does that make sense? Is there any way to accomplish this?

 

I am definitely not a mod creator or coder and any help or direction you guys could provide would be amazing

[xWilburCobbx]

The funny part about all this, is my last project was a Dark Souls mod that did almost exactly this. Except it would use actual Souls that had its own calculation system that would allow you to spend it directly on levels. It was functioning, but I started taking it too many directions and ultimately scrapped it. I still have all of it's code, I may return to it some day.

 

Right now I am making another mod to be my first release. When I am done I might turn around and my DS mod again. This time I will just keep it simple and elegant lol.

[Primeval23]

So I realized after I posted this that I am asking for skyrim SE, which I posted this request there. The ironic thing is that I basically already have all of the other framework like using gold (souls) to level. The only thing I need is the ability to gain gold on kill. The best case is some kind of sprite animation of absorbing souls haha but that would just be icing. Do you think that your code could be simplified and/or cut down to just serve as a giving gold on kills and I could try and fit it into the framework I already have?

[xWilburCobbx]

It absolutely could be simplified. All I would have to do is replace modding a global with actual gold, and it will give you gold based on leveled factors of a killed actor.

 

I would imagine it being pretty easy to do, but I still got to rap up other things and I work most of the week. Perhaps I can make it a small release and shoot you line when its out, just don't expect it to be anytime soon.

[xWilburCobbx]

In the mean time, you could link me to the other mods and tell me about balancing, so I can adjust the algorithm to not hand over way too much money.

 

Things like: how much do levels cost and such are crucial, but the more details about the economy of "souls gold" you provide, the more balanced I can make it.

[Primeval23]

I sent you a PM with some information. I of course am not rushing you at all and whatever you can work out for me is amazing!! If you need any more information from me please don't hesitate to ask.