I've looked through the Creation Kit, and I believe I've found where the skills scripts are located and they seem to have several values that can be defined for Use Multipliers, etc.

I've not been able to determine if these are the values that can be set for affecting how they affect leveling up a character from use. What I'd like to do, is reduce the impact of skill use on character leveling, i.e. speechcraft seems to increase frequently, and increases character level quickly at lower levels, just from selling items.

It appears that a mod/plug in could be made that adjusts the skills individually and how they affect experience for gaining levels.

Has anyone looked at this in the Creation Kit?

So basically you want to lower the level cap, but only because certain skills won't level you much? Or will you be applying a corresponding increase to certain other skills to keep the level cap where it is (Like halving Speech's effect on levelling, while doubling, say, Heavy Armor's effect? That's a really slow skill to raise up early on...)

Really I'd like to reduce the effects on leveling but not really increase any other skills effect on leveling.

I don't really like leveling due to increases in skills like smithing, speech craft (due to selling), enchanting, alchemy, lock picking, sneaking, etc. These types of skills don't really improve how affective you are against an enemy, but since they ause you to level up, you can end up against enemies that are too powerful if your combat skills are lagging because you leveled up too quickly due to non-combat activities.

Hope that makes sense.

In the ActorValueInfo drop down in CK, you find the skills listed. Each one has several values that can be set, Skill Use Mult, Skill Use Offset, Skill Improve Mult, Skill Improve Offset. These look like the values that can be set to affect the way that skills advance and how their advancement affects over all character leveling up. However, I've no idea which value does what, and how to adjust them to increase or decrease the affect they have on overal character leveling.

Anyone point to me to an explanation?

Thanks!