Mod request - cliff racers

[kennygnu]

I'm sure many of you are sick of hearing complaints about cliff racers, and there are so many mods out there that focus exclusively on eliminating this menace. I have noticed a few things however. The mods are always either extremely heavy-handed in their corrections, or barely noticeable.

As an example, some mods make all cliff racers non-hostile, or they simply remove cliff racers entirely.

Some other mods promise to reduce the chances that a cliff racer will attack the player, and these mostly work as described.

The last type of cliff racer mod, and the one that I am most interested in, promises to simply reduce the number of cliff racers one encounters.

Sadly none of the third category of mods have lived up to their expectations. At any point in the game (especially at high levels), I can look around and count at least a dozen visible cliff racers in all areas of the Ashlands, and whenever I happen to cross one of those sections of mountainous regions in the Acadian Isles region where cliff racers spawn, I sometimes see as many as thirty cliff racers all lumped together.

 

No other creature spawns like this in the game. If a rat spawns, you get just one rate, maybe three if you're unlucky. Same with Nyx Hounds, Kagaoutis and every other creature in the game. But for some reason, the only amount of cliff racers spawned is either a metric ton or none at all.

 

Can someone please make a mod that genuinely impacts the spawning algorithm for cliff racers so they only show up in ones and twos, like every other creature in Morrowind?

The only alternative seems to be erasing the from the game, or making them all passive, in which case there would still be literal armies of cliff racers polluting the landscape in all directions even if they don't attack.

 

It has always been the single most immersion breaking aspect of the entire game for me. Please give me a mod that makes cliff racers rare, but not extinct. I don't know if it's possible to put a limiter on how many cliff racers can spawn at any one time, but I would really just like it if they spawned in numbers similar to other vermin type creatures like rats and hounds.

 

Sorry in advance if I'm the millionth user to pose a request like this.

Edited February 13, 2021 by kennygnu

[Oblivionaddicted]

You can easily decrease the number of cliff racers and their likelihood to spawn by tweaking their leveled lists. All you need to do is increase the number of other creatures and decrease the number of cliff racers. For example you can tweak the ex_shore_cliffracer_lev leveled lists by letting 1 cliff racer and 3 netches inside.

[kennygnu]

Assuming I've never played around with the leveled lists and only dabbled in mods (which always come with readme.txt files full of handy explanations), how exactly would I go about doing this?

I'm using OpenMW in case that makes a difference.

Edited February 14, 2021 by kennygnu

[Dragon32]

This is a great resource for people making mods:

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind_Mod:Tutorials_and_Guides