POI Cooldown - Fewer repeated POIs
By paulbrock
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This mod addresses one of the biggest issues players have with Starfield - seeing the same Point of Interest (POI) again and again, or in quick succession. As well as not offering variety, this can be immersion-breaking especially for those POIs with notes or named NPCs in them.
It works by putting POIs on 'cooldown', preventing them from showing up again for a set period of time after you already visited them. This applies to locations generated in mission boards, scanning from space, and what appears when you land on a planet. So no more repeated cryo lab! It also means you're more likely to come across some of the rare POIs.
32 POIs are supported by it, there is also scope for modders to add cooldowns to their own POI mods now as well. I've also added support for the 34 different caves in Starfield - no more going into the exact same cave.
There is a game setting which controls how long the cooldown is, you can tweak it to your game style. I recommend and play on the default of 10 ingame days, that usually gives enough time to have a break from some of them, without it being so long that all 32 POIs end up on cooldown; the perfect situation is a balance so that by the time you're down to only a few different POIs, the first ones start showing up again. There's also a LOOTERS setting of 50 ingame days, which is good if you find that you are waiting to reset vendors or making lots of trips to Venus to wait there. Finally there's an EXTREME setting - use it with caution as it sets the cooldown to 999 days - once per playthrough. I'm not sure about removing all the POIs from the mission pool entirely, but if thats what you want to do, I'd love to hear how you get on!
Compatible with most other mods, except Grindfield which offers a differing solution to the same problem. Search on here for a patch to work with POI Variations.
For more details and to leave feedback see the nexus version: https://www.nexusmods.com/starfield/mods/9532
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- Published
- Jan 31, 2025
- Last Updated
- Jan 31, 2025
- Platforms
- WINDOWS, XBOXONE, XBOXSERIESX
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