NPC Greeting Distance Tweak
Ever get tired of NPCs talking to you when you’re just running past them? This mod aims to fix that.
If you’re starting to get annoyed by NPCs saying things to you just as you run past them even if you’re pretty far away from them, this mod is for you.
This mod is a very simple tweak that makes it so that NPCs will only say something if you either bump into them or initiate a conversation with them directly.
It doesn’t affect NPCs trying to start a quest or script-triggered conversations, or NPCs talking to each other to tell you about a potential sidequest. Just those annoying remarks about “what do you want, I’m busy?” or whatever else NPCs say to you when you aren’t even talking to them.
Instructions:
While the Creation Kit (or whatever they’ll call the modding tool) is not yet out, we’ll have to use bat files.
1. Download the main file and open it with 7-zip or any other compatible archive extractor.
2. Extract the MinGreetingDistance file into your Starfield main directory. It should be in the same folder where Starfield.exe is.
(For example: C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Starfield\)
3a. If you don’t have a StarfieldCustom.ini file yet, download the optional StarfieldCustom.ini and put that in your My Games\Starfield\ folder.
3b. If you already have a StarfieldCustom.ini file, add or edit these lines:
[General]
sStartingConsoleCommand\=bat MinGreetingDistance
(Remove the \ before the = sign; Nexusmods doesn’t seem to display that properly.)
* If you already have something in sStartingConsoleCommand, you can write it like this:
[General]
sStartingConsoleCommand\=bat otherfile; bat MinGreetingDistance
(Remove the \ before the = sign; Nexusmods doesn’t seem to display that properly.)
* If you know what you’re doing, you can combine all your bat file tweaks into a single file and call it “startup” for example, and just input sStartingCjavascript-event-strippedbat startup
Future Plans:
As soon as the Creation Kit or whatever they call the modding tool comes out I plan to release this mod as a proper plugin (.esp) file. Hopefully it has the same .esp FE system that we had from Skyrim Special Edition and onwards. Until then, we’ll need to make do with bat files like this.
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