[MOD] NPCs Gain XP

[oliverjanda]

Employees slowly gain experience.

Details:
Each hour all your employees have the chance to improve one random skill by 1 star.
The maximum reachable skill level is 4.
You have to earn the fifth star vanilla style (virtual seminar).

Steam link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/f ... earchtext=

Thanks to:
*w.evans
*UniTrader
*lubatomy
*YorrickVander
*wysiwyg

Version:
*0.9

Known issues:
*None.

Mod Incompatibilities:
*None.

X:RB Version
*working for 3.2, 3.5
*should work with all other versions of the game as well

Savegame compatible:
*Yes

Future work:
*Balancing.
*I might change the mod so that employees have to actually do something to imrpove their skills.
E.g. enigneers would have to repair a certain amount of components/hull points to gain the next level.


Feedback and bugreports are welcome.

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

Sounds great, and the 4* cap is a nice touch. Particularly for someone like me that doesn't fancy the 5* Mod.

Thanks!

[w.evans]

It's out! Cool! Thanks!

[w.evans]

Each hour all your employees have the chance to improve one random skill by 1 star.

Just to clarify: completely random? So a fighter pilot can, for example, gain a skill point in Science?

[Tamina]

When every employee starts with 0 stars, then it needs 28hours to max (4*) everything?
Can I lower this value somehow?

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

Each hour there is a chance of a level-up so duration will be scaled up by the chance.

[oliverjanda]

Each hour all your employees have the chance to improve one random skill by 1 star.

Just to clarify: completely random? So a fighter pilot can, for example, gain a skill point in Science?

Yes, I wanted to keep the first version as simple and generic as possible.

When every employee starts with 0 stars, then it needs 28hours to max (4*) everything?
Can I lower this value somehow?

It will actually take longer.
You can loger this value: checkinterval="1h"

Each hour there is a chance of a level-up so duration will be scaled up by the chance.

Indirectly, yes. As I choose the skill randomly, there is a chance I choose one that's already at 4 or 5 stars and then nothing happens. The more 4s and 5s a character has the higher the chance that nothing happens is.

[YorrickVander]

Good job mate

[w.evans]

Each hour all your employees have the chance to improve one random skill by 1 star.

Just to clarify: completely random? So a fighter pilot can, for example, gain a skill point in Science?

Yes, I wanted to keep the first version as simple and generic as possible.

Cool! Now that there's a way to increase non-primary skills, we can use them for stuff. Been wanting to play around with captains' and defence officers' combat skill.

[Sparky Sparkycorp]

Thanks for the duration clarification.

[werewolves?]

This is cool, it doesn't seem like a cheat either.

[D.O.S.]

This is cool, it doesn't seem like a cheat either.

Same here
Thanks oliverjanda for this mod

[oliverjanda]

This is cool, it doesn't seem like a cheat either.

Same here
Thanks oliverjanda for this mod

Thanks for testing my mod in 3.5b3

@all thanks

[Rubini]

Hi oliverjanda,

As a suggestion, some random addition to the code will make it yet better. Something like this:

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<set_value name="$chance" min="1" max="3"/>
<do_if value="$npc.skill.{$chosenSkill} lt 4 and $chance == 2">

This way each npc will have an individual chance of 33% per 1h cycle.
Cheers!

[oliverjanda]

Hi oliverjanda,

As a suggestion, some random addition to the code will make it yet better. Something like this:

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<set_value name="$chance" min="1" max="3"/>
<do_if value="$npc.skill.{$chosenSkill} lt 4 and $chance == 2">

This way each npc will have an individual chance of 33% per 1h cycle.
Cheers!

Hi,
thanks for your suggestion. I'm considering it when I have finished my other 2 mod ideas.
There is already some randomness in choosing the skill.
If the chosen skill is already at 4, there will be no improvement.
Thus, gaining the last star is much more difficult than the first one.
A character without 4 star abilities has a 100% chance of leveling up at the next cylce. A character that has only 5 star abilities but one 3 star ability has a chance of about 15%.

[wwdragon]

I like the idea of training my guys skills automatically.

I don't like that it's limited to 4 stars; maybe make it changable in your config?
I dislike the training non-primary skills; they'd really just be doing their jobs on my ship, not the rest of it.

[oliverjanda]

I like the idea of training my guys skills automatically.

I don't like that it's limited to 4 stars; maybe make it changable in your config?
I dislike the training non-primary skills; they'd really just be doing their jobs on my ship, not the rest of it.

Thanks for your feedback!
I did it this way because it was the easiest way to do it.
I may change it to gaining only the primary skills and/or to actually have to earn the skills someday.

I do not intend to let them increase to 5 stars as that would make things too easy. If you want your employees trained to 5 stars you can take a look a my virtual seminar craftig mod:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=378237

[wwdragon]

I like the idea of training my guys skills automatically.

I don't like that it's limited to 4 stars; maybe make it changable in your config?
I dislike the training non-primary skills; they'd really just be doing their jobs on my ship, not the rest of it.

Thanks for your feedback!
I did it this way because it was the easiest way to do it.
I may change it to gaining only the primary skills and/or to actually have to earn the skills someday.

I do not intend to let them increase to 5 stars as that would make things too easy. If you want your employees trained to 5 stars you can take a look a my virtual seminar craftig mod:
http://forum.egosoft.com/viewtopic.php?t=378237

Interesting. I'll have to remember that one for later.
Pitty I havn't been able to win a single skill book the entire time I've been playing though.

[Scoob]

Maybe have it so they earn appropriate, skills doing their jobs but the player has to pay to "promote" them - though an option for automatic promotions would be needed when you have 100's of staff like many of us have late-game

Also, Captains actively flying around, Defence Officers shooting stuff and Engineers repairing should, ideally, see them gain experience faster. Just sitting idly in a spare ship parked up somewhere should really contribute to their level - obviously a much more challenging coding task of course!

Great idea though, and I think something ES originally intended (or at least spoke about) in the dim and distant past before release.

Scoob.

[oliverjanda]

added a message how many npc gained skills