[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%.