How to increase the number of points each book you read gives you?

[NewGuy]

Hey guys, I used to mod this game heavily in the xml's to suit my tastes but haven't played for a couple years and have just come back to try the new Alpha. I'm liking it so far, but I personally think the progression by reading books is way too slow, so I looked through the xml's to try and find a way to double this progression rate by giving perk books 2 points per read instead of 1. I've found some values in progression.xml that may or may not affect this, but I'm being a bit lazy and just asking the community to save myself some time. So if I wanted each book I read to increase my Perk/Skill Level by 2 instead of 1, what value should I change? Thanks in advance.

[BFT2020]

7 hours ago, NewGuy said:

Hey guys, I used to mod this game heavily in the xml's to suit my tastes but haven't played for a couple years and have just come back to try the new Alpha. I'm liking it so far, but I personally think the progression by reading books is way too slow, so I looked through the xml's to try and find a way to double this progression rate by giving perk books 2 points per read instead of 1. I've found some values in progression.xml that may or may not affect this, but I'm being a bit lazy and just asking the community to save myself some time. So if I wanted each book I read to increase my Perk/Skill Level by 2 instead of 1, what value should I change? Thanks in advance.

 

Try this

 

<set xpath="//item[contains(@name,'Magazine')]/effect_group/triggered_effect[@action='AddProgressionLevel']/@value">2</set>

 

If I did it right, that should change all magazines to increase the level by 2 every time you read it.

 

 

[NewGuy]

Thanks for the suggestion. I've never done any xpath modding, only editing xml's. But I searched for that "AddProgressionLevel" in  my config files and found a bunch of them in items.xml. There were like 23 different perk magazines coded here and they use the following code.

<triggered_effect trigger="onSelfPrimaryActionEnd" action="AddProgressionLevel" progression_name="craftingFood" level="1"/>

 

I changed them all to "level="2"/>" and that had the intended effect, doubling the points you get for reading each magazine.

Edited November 5 by NewGuy (see edit history)