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VR Skill Evaluation

Allows the player to directly purchase knowledge of NPC skills. This mod tries to balance the intended cost of discovering an NPC's skills, without the tedium of the vanilla approach.

Basically, I got tired of either doing the chat mini-game, or sitting in the landing bay playing the remote hire-replace game until finding an employee I wanted. The idea that a VR job simulation could be used for interview and placement testing makes a lot of sense, so I went with it.

I may eventually turn this mod into some sort of software option on the Skunk, but for now I'm happy.

1. The 'Show me your skills/profile' option is replaced by 'Evaluate skills/profile (XXXXX Cr)' unless the player knows that NPC's skills.
Cost = 15%~40% (bell-curve) * Hire cost + 7000~9000 (bell-curve)

2. New hires will automatically be flagged to have visible skills. NPCs hired before this mod was installed and that still have unknown skills will have the 'Evaluate' option but it will cost 0 Cr.

--Possible Issues--

This should work fine with vanilla, but may run into problems with any mod that modifies employee:

1. Conversation scripting.
2. Skill view/unlock behavior.

I haven't run into any issues with adding/removing this mod, but YMMV.