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Originally Posted by Skybird
Your mod reliably supresses default gear respawning?
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I've been using it on the last several playthroughs with many different followers, and yes. I have taken default armor and weapons away from them and given them better, and the default gear never respawns. From that point on they will only have what you have given them (or allowed them to keep) even if you dismiss them as followers.
All my housecarls are currently walking around my various homes dressed in fine clothes and boots, with a sword or axe hanging from their belts, as befits the devoted servant of an up and coming young noble.
Their "default" armor was removed by me, improved, and stored away in their rooms along with whatever bow and arrows and other traveling supplies I want them to have should I decide to take them along on an adventure someday.
From what I understand, when you invoke the "dress better" command their default inventory is removed completely, by which I mean they are no longer coded to have a default inventory at all. Everything is switched over to the inventory that you can see and trade with them. They still have the stuff they started out with, but you have access to it just like everything else and once you take it away it's gone unless you give it back.
That's why the mod has a special "in-game" uninstallation procedure - before you disable it, the default inventory for your followers has to be reset and returned to normal otherwise if you leave the game and take the mod out and reload you find your former followers walking around naked because they no longer have any default gear at all. The mod has to tell the game to start spawning/respawning it again before you remove the files that made it stop doing that.