I Suspect My "Active Effects" in Skyrim are Showing but not Working
I suspect that some of the "Active Effects" shown for my character in Skyrim (PC - Steam) are listed, but not actually applying their benefits.
How can I check with the console - or otherwise - that an effect such as the exp. boost from a guardian stone is in fact, working?
Best Answer
It used to be possible to directly query your experience progress with this command (you can replace smithing with any of these things):
player.getav SmithingSkillAdvance
In principle, you could save, do a bunch of smithing, check your skill advancement, load, deactivate the guardian stone, do the same amount of smithing as before, check your advancement again, and compare numbers.
As of patch 1.9, this no longer works, and a cursory examination of the available commands reveals no obvious alternatives. But if you still have an older version of Skyrim for some reason, this method ought to work for you. Otherwise, you'll have to eyeball it and/or smith enough to level up smithing. Instead of eyeballing, you might try taking screenshots of the Skills screen and overlaying them with your image editor of choice.
Having said all that, in my (limited) modding experience, the Active Effects page is rarely or never incorrect. If an effect does not get applied correctly, it's generally not visible in Active Effects, and I find that's the most reliable way of detecting these problems in the first place.
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Answer 2
If the active affects are there, then they're working.
I don't believe there is a console command for checking if they are working, but you can look it over!
Answer 3
How can I check with the console - or otherwise [...]
In the case of the experience-boosting stone you mentioned: perform an action that grants experience towards one of the boosted skills, and measure the amount of experience gained per action, or equivalently the number of actions required to gain one entire level in that skill by performing only that action. Then load your game at the same point at which you began the previous experiment, remove the stone's boosting effect, and repeat the experiment.
Compare the number of actions required in both cases. If fewer actions are required in the boosted experiment, then the stone had an effect.
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