would love to have it on 1.5, cool mod

1.5?

Do you know which VE mod that would have been? VE Framework?

I believe VE went through a massive update after my mod was released and they slightly tweaked with the logic. If anything seems to be working backwards, it might be because of that. Also, there might be other mods conflicting with it. In my own mod pack, everything was working fine. I mean I was using my own mods in my playthroughs after all :)

Am I crazy or is melee speed backwards? You get -0.0125 per melee level, but it claims to be a multiplier on melee attack speed. Instead of going faster at high Melee skills, you get slower.

This seems to be backed up by VPE where the Blade Focus psycast doubles this start (from 1 to 2 with no other modifiers) and says it makes you attack twice as fast. Likewise, the "Slow Melee Attack" and "Fast Melee Attack" genes give respectively -0.25 and +0.25 to this stat.

Yeah, the thought process was that higher intelligence often means better pattern recognition, abstract reasoning, problem solving, critical thinking and so on, so I thought making them learn faster made sense. The more intelligent they are, the better they will be at whatever they pursue.

Small bonus to most tasks with intelligence? In the sense of "Work smarter not harder" kinda thing.

Make pawns with high plants skill less food poison chance at a minor degree with pawns with high cooking skill greater food poison chance reduction

Should work in 1.5! I just don't have the time/files to update the game right now, it would take a lot of effort on my part for a game that I don't even play anymore. But it shouldn't have any issues in 1.5.

Any hope this gets pushed to 1.5? No pressure ofc, just curious.

I believe this mod is incompatible: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2007482587

yeah it does need VEF as they are the ones allowing me to purely use xml to edit the stats. Without VEF I'd need my own custom C# methods to change stats which might overlap with vanilla expanded if anyone is using it sooo

Does this really need vef?
I love the concept of your mod but don't want vfe's slow tick issue

Or maybe dumb labor speed, since mining is a very physically-intensive task, and there aren't as many other ways to make dumb labor faster other than increasing global work speed for your pawns somehow.

Mining skill increases melee damage or cooldown?

There needs to be a cap for certain stats like shooting range. It looks silly when someone hits shotgun pellets across the map.

Hey,

Thanks for letting me know about the problem. The issue is that for me to fix those I would have to patch Vanilla Expanded itself which is rather hard to do as I would have to understand the mods' code first.

I'm afraid I can't fix those.

Finally, if a pawn has any skill that you linked to a stat disabled, the stat gets disabled too, which means a pawn incapable of artistic will get a null filth rate, incapable of intellectual gets a 0% global learning rate, and so on. This must be the reason why you get those errors when generating pawns for a new map.

I also tested it with EndlessGrowth , no errors so far, but the results are, well, interesting: https://imgur.com/a/bAF9DZz
But I've noticed a few problems: Filth rate starts going up after the negative percentage gets too big (perhaps after lowering more than 100%?)

Oh I think there may be an issue with pawns that are incapable of violence, if you enter in their stats window an error pops up.

So I was testing this mod and immediately after entering a dev quicktest I got two errors related to VEF_VerbRangeFactor and MaxNutrition:

Attempted to calculate value for disabled stat VEF_VerbRangeFactor; this is meant as a consistency check, either set the stat to neverDisabled or ensure this pawn cannot accidentally use this stat (thing=Minty)

https://gist.github.com/HugsLibRecordKeeper/aded90ef0fe363ca791f0b2ef92a9e00

Damn, I've added caps on certain things like aim time multiplier and trade price improvement but didn't think of that one, I'll make sure to update it whenever I get back to modding again.

My pages might be a little stale for a while again as I have other projects than modding for rimworld right now and since those are actual real world commissions, they might take a while.

Thanks for letting me know though, I'll work on it as soon as possible.

Here's a fun one- when coupled with Dub's Mad Skillz, there comes a point (around level 80) where the melee speed multiplier becomes zero.

This entirely breaks combat behavior, causing pawns to stand frozen for several seconds after each kill as the game tries to figure out what just happened. The rest of the game runs normally, just that pawn. Not great in mid combat.

So... a cap on how far your stat multipliers can be pushed would not go amiss.

Is there a full list of changes anywhere?

No worries, it took a fair bit of testing for me to figure things out as well as none of these are explained in game.

Oh. Yeah, that's my bad. Thanks for the explanation!

the melee attack speed factor is the interval between attacks, meaning the lower the number is the "less time" between attacks. ranged attack speed factor and cooldown verb scale upwards.

I think it's a little confusing that "Melee attack speed factor" scales down, while "Ranged attack speed factor" scales up. I might just be a dumb, though.

That shouldn't be the case, attack speed works fine for me?

Hey, I think you've got melee cooldown scaling reversed. The higher the level, the slower the attacks, since the speed is being reduced.

Caps strikes again with another top tier mod!

This is great, is there anywhere to see a full list of changes/how it works?

Fair

its a flat+, pawns incapable of doing research would never learn things otherwise

Is the intelligence learning speed bonus just a flat +X% or is it a -X% before turning into a +X%?

Pawns with 0-2 learning would probably have problems with learning since that's like, below average intelligence probably.

Genuinely a very cool concept