Best level scaleing for Oblivion mod?

[Bug-eyed Earl]

I'm going to start playing Oblivion one of these days and I want to avoid the meaningless leveling system that oblivion is made with and replacing it with a leveling system more like Morrowind's. I've heard of these mods, but I want to get opinions of people to find the most balanced fixed leveled monsters, gear and what not mod.

People who play Oblivion will know what I'm talking about.

 

[Teta_Bonita]

AF Level mod works for me: http://www.fuzionmedia.com/oblivion/afleveling.html

It's not like Morrorwind's, but it's worlds better than default. I like it because it's pretty customizable, and it negates the need for stats micromanaging.


Francesco's leveled creatures/items mod makes things more interesting too: http://planetelderscrolls.gamespy.com/View.php?view=oblivionmods.detail&id=268#Files

 

[Vigilante]

I need to get back into this game now that I have a pc which can run it.

 

[CR0M]

Oscuro's Oblivion Overhaul is the most popular and fixes this along with many many other things that are crap in vanilla, making the game much more enjoyable.

Other additional gameplay improvements that I would recommend are:
BTMod - Improves inventory
Deadly Reflex - Improves combat AI and adds some new moves (and adds mounted combat if you want it, but only in 3rd person. I only use the mounted spellcasting as I prefer not to make things easy for myself).
Survival Suite - Eat, sleep and drink. Or collapse. And hallucinate. I recommend installing a Time mod to slow down the hours with this and a Realistic Fatigue mod.
Arrow fletching and Imbueing - Make your own arrows out of stuff you collect. And then magic them with other stuff you collect. Very well balanced and works great with Survival Suite if you do a lot of Ranging.
No Fast Travel - turning it off creates whole new gameplay that I wish I had discovered the first time around instead of being weak willed. Combined with Survival Suite, each trip out on a quest takes planning and thought, and when you are out you feel a lot more immersed in the world.

I have loads more mostly cosmetic mods, but these are the ones that have made my second time around much more playable.

 

[Saturos]

Survival Suite - Eat, sleep and drink. Or collapse. And hallucinate. I recommend installing a Time mod to slow down the hours with this and a Realistic Fatigue mod.

Is this compatible with the OOO mod? This one sounds great on paper. I wonder how well it works? I'm interested in the whole survival element, which I feel is missing from Oblivion. Without eating or drinking, the character already feels like some kind of immortal demi-god or something without a mod like this. BTW, is the mod null during vampiric infection? Vampires don't eat food. :|

 

[redruM]

This may be a bit off-topic, but can vampires be cured? That is, if I acquire the vampire diseaese or any other disease is there a way I can return to normal? Because up until now I always just loaded a game if I acquired a disease, in fear of being stuck that way the whole game. Oh, and if I get one of my stats like willpower or strength drained, can I pay someone to magic it back to its original value? I've tried herbs to restore my willpower but it doesn't seem to work.

 

[ríomhaire]

I think going to a church can cure you of vampirism.

 

[CR0M]

Saturos - It works fine with OOO, and every other mod i've got installed. It fills a huge gap in the gameworld, giving a meaning to all the food and wells around. It works on calorific need based on size of foodstuff, and water content such as tomatoes and melons can ease thirst too. Water is obtained from pretty much every well, and used to fill up a water flask which can be bought from Inns.

It's really a very well thought out, realistic and complex mod, but it's not complicated to the player as it all works behind the scenes; if you're hungry it tells you, if you don't eat you get hungrier until your health starts to suffer. Same with sleep and thirst. Thirst is the primary need so you have to make sure you're carrying something to drink at all times, which is tough for me as a Khajit, as that race consumes water faster than any other race. Yeah, there are indeed racial perks!

Just eat, sleep and drink as you would in the real world and you'll be fine. The only thing it doesn't do is require you to eat a balanced diet - i've been living off venison and wolf meat for weeks and I still have all my teeth
Oh yeah, you can buy portable bedrolls from merchants too.

Like I said before, I use these with it for more realism:
More Realistic Encumbrance v1.0 by Bayli & Mentalor (passing out from exhaustion the first time while running away from a bear made me lol)
No Fast Travel v1 by Aridale Noblebrook Belmont
TextureFreak's timemod v1.1 On the 1 realtime minute to 10 game minutes setting
and:
Osprey's grass & tree speed mod Essential for best performance of Timemod and Survival Suite

As for how it affects Vampires, i'm not sure as I haven't tried... might be worth checking out if that's your thing. Here's the original url I found in the readme file:

http://www.elderscrolls.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=344801&st=0



redruM - Vampirism CAN be cured, but I've heard it's a bitch to do when it's full on
Best thing is to get healing at the altar of a church whenever you suspect you are infected with anything asap.

 

[Tagaziel]

Out of curiosity, is there any mod that cuts the crappy storyline and introduces something that is in line with previous The Elder Scrolls?

 

[Raptor_Jesus]

Mikael I knew you were gonna say something like that XD


my uncle also hates Bethesda lol

 

[Cerpin]

Out of curiosity, is there any mod that cuts the crappy storyline and introduces something that is in line with previous The Elder Scrolls?

Mikael I knew you were gonna say something like that XD


my uncle also hates Bethesda lol

MIKAEL GRIZZLY IS YOUR UNCLE.

 

[Tagaziel]

MIKAEL GRIZZLY IS YOUR UNCLE.

Shhh, he's not supposed to know that.

Yet.