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Speech Redesigned

The latest version of this mod is now here[www.nexusmods.com] on Nexus. This remains as a completely functional legacy version.

=Short Description=
This mod aims to stay true to the vanilla perks but eliminate its design flaws. The tree has been completely restructured to offer choice, balance and a steady progression.
Haggling was removed because it didn't add anything to the game to compensate Allure is now at 15%, Master Trader additionaly gives 10% on prices and a new perk "Courtesy" was added which improves prices with Nords by 20%. Trading should now be a more interactive and interesting experience. For all the other changes check out the image or read on (!wall of text incoming!).


=In-depth Explanation=
Perks should be about getting a cool gameplay enhancing advantage and not about generic percentage increases. Allure is a good perk because it affects how the player interacts with the systems. My new perk Courtesy follows that same design philosophy it has the nice side effect that Investor and Merchant become more desireable as they make it easier for you to leave more gold at your favored trader.
Persuasion checks are very easy in Skyrim I never got this perk and won 90% of them. Persuasion is based on your Speech skill so it is only useful while the skill is low so it makes no sense to have a high requirement.
Intimidation is based on Speech Skill and Player Level, from what I understand this means it is best when your Speech skill is low and your Player Level high, in the vanilla game you are only able to get Intimidation when your skill is so high that you can already win EVERY persuasion check in the game. In my opinion it should be a roleplaying choice.
You now have the choice to pick either of the three perks to advance, the tree has no more perk requirements which might be useless to your class.
Investor now comes before Merchant because Merchant is the far better perk and to a degree lessens the usefulness of Investor.
Fence was lowered, it is a very powerful perk but 90 seemed too high I never reached 90 in my playthrough.
Finally Master Trader was a pretty useless skill because it is redundant with Merchant and Investor. Imo the final perk should make you feel like a badass for having it so i added 10% better prices but also reduced the requirement because Speech just levels so slowly I just can't imagine anyone reaching 100 without abusing trainers and I don't want to design around trainers they should be a wildcard for the player not a necessity.

=Compatibility=
This mod only changes the Speech tree, fbarter values remain unchanged. All spent perks will transfer over except for Haggling Rank 2-5, you could in that case use console commands to get new perks, PerkIDs are unchanged.

=Complementary Mods=
Alchemy Redesigned: I did the same thing for the alchemy tree.

=Changelog=
1.2.2 -Bugfix for Perk requirements for Investor
-Bribe prices increased to incentivize Persuasion/Intimidation
1.2.1 -Added 5% to Allure and Courtesy
1.2: -new Perk "Courtesy" which improves prices with Nords by 15%
-Master Trader now also gives 10% better prices
1.1: -added missing "Fence" to constellation and beautified them
-cleaned of useless CK edits