Heyo, I checked and as y'all mentioned it was in fact on 0. Most likely my incompetent ass saw it in the list, wondered why it was disabled, thought that more encounters is always nice and then enabled it. My bad. Didn't know there would be such consequences for doing that.
On a positive note...
Hello, I have an issue that I can't find any solution to anywhere and I'm not sure what caused it. It did start to happen right after I used the first aid skill on myself for the first time.
While playing through Fallout 1 with this mod I ended up in a situation on the world map where after...