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Skill Books Loot Multipliers

This mod adds loot multipliers to skill books for each zone : bookstores, libraries, residential and more. The default values pretty much fix the skill book spawns of the b42 loot tables.

Also affects magazines, to a much lesser extent.

I think I've managed to set up the default sandbox settings (as shown in the image) so that the default skill books loot is much higher than in vanilla b42 , but still not not quite as much as in b41 in my opinion. I could easily see raising each of these default values and still considering it balanced.

Disclaimer : These loot multipliers don't necessarily directly multiply the loot chances, I've manipulated things behind the scenes, these are not strictly 'loot item multipliers' , but also 'loot table multipliers' , so that the table that spawns Skill Books is much more likely to be chosen than the countless other tables like Fictional Books, Sports Books, Fantasy Books, Crime Books, etc... Increasing the multipleirs for BookStores, Library, Schools, and University Library also has the inverse effect on the Other Books (Recreational books) loot tables , decreasing the weight chance of all their tables.

I was really baffled by how much the Skill Books table in Book Stores, Livraries and Schools were nerfed. They are easily 20 times rarer in b42 than in b41 ! Jesus Christ.

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B41 Bookstores shelves :

100 weight chance to spawn Skill Books, 20 weight chance to spawn magazines. That's it. That's an 83% chance to spawn the skill books table.

In B42 BookStores shelves :
20 weight chance to spawn Skill Books, 10 weight chance to spawn magazines, and all the other recreational books loot tables (33 of them !) add up to AN ABSURD 1930 Weight Chance ! That's a measly 1.02 % chance to spawn skill books !

Granted, these 33 tables can only spawn once per room, so the chance of skill books increases slightly for each shelve in a book store. But still ! What the hell, man.

Note : You don't need to set the multipliers to 80, I've taken care of things behind the scenes. Between 2 and 5 is gonna be balanced I think.

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Shouldn't be compatible with b41.

Workshop ID: 3391930394
Mod ID: SkillBooksLootMultipliers