CONTENT

1> INTRO

2> WHAT DOES IT DO? AND WHAT NOT?

3> CONFIGURATION BASICS

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INTRO
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Perkus Maximus (PerMa) relies on the SkyProc patcher Patchus Maximus (PaMa) to create and modify a lot of records on the fly. It both creates content and modifies content across your entire load order.

Running PaMa is _not_ optional. I built PerMa with PaMa in mind. If you don't have a PaMa-created patch (PatchusMaximus.esp) in your load order, large parts of PerMa will not work at all.

Using PaMa makes PerMa more compatible with everything that is not a perk mod, it allows me to automatize mundane tasks, and it makes your game run faster - since I can use it for things I'd otherwise need scripts for.

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WHAT DOES IT DO?
AND WHAT NOT?
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Here is a list of tasks PaMa does. It does a lot, so this list might be incomplete.

- Modify armor stats
- Create armor variants needed for perks ('Armorer', 'Gatherer')
- Reclassify armor ('heavy gauntlets' etc)
- Modifiy weapon stats
- Create weapon variants needed for perks ('Aspiring Engineer', 'Weaponsmith' ...)
- Reclassify weapons, both class (blunt/blade/piercing) and type (nodachi, claw ...)
- Makes NPCs use ammunition with ranged weapons
- Creates enchanted variants of armor and weapons, including new enchantments and new gear, and...
- ... distributes it to leveled lists
- Create crafting and tempering recipes for all variants of everything
- Create meltdown recipes for everything
- Alter existing tempering recipes to play by PerMa rules
- Distribute all mod-added weapons across leveled lists
- Modify projectile stats
- Create projectile variants for perks ('Advanced Missilecraft' etc)
- Create recipes for all new projectiles

- Create a scroll for every spell learned by a book
- Create a staff for every spell learned by a book
- Create recipes for all the scrolls and staves created
- Add all mod-added spell books to relevant leveled lists
- Remove spell school assignments from Alchemy and Enchanting effects (exploit fix)
- Remove spell school assignments from constant abiities (exploit fix)
- Remove generic starting spells from the player

- Make alchemy effects work over time
- Tweak existing potion stats

- Add a lot of essential abilities and perks to the player, NPCs and races

Here's a list of things PaMa doesn't do

- ASIS, Automatic Variants and WTF stuff

If you want their effects, you still need to run them.

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CONFIGURATION BASICS
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PaMa uses a bunch of thematically organized XML files for its configuration. You should definitely read up on how XML works before attempting anything fancy.

Hint: It's really just a text file. I decided to stick to XML without attributes for simplicity.

Done? Get a decent text editor (I prefer Notepad++) and get started! All configuration files are found in the "PMxml" folder. The one file you definitely should take a look at is GeneralSettings.xml.

Refer to the specific documentation files from this folder to find out what every file does exactly.