The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim Catch-All

muttonchop wrote:

I'm enjoying Dawnguard so far but I really dislike having a mandatory companion forced on me. Especially one who won't shut up, constantly blocks my line of sight, and keeps raising my kills before I can loot them. I really wish I could just kill her and steal her Elder Scroll.

You and me both. Even taking the DG's side doesn't relieve you of her constant chattering.

Which reminds me of two things:

First, regarding my choice of spouse, Camilla Valerius, a choice made months ago:

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She will not shut up about the golden claw. Mara help me, I would steal that golden claw right back and shove it down her gob, if the game would let me re-marry.

Second, if quest items are undroppable, and if this game series is now going to load me with the erstwhile exceedingly rare Elder Scrolls like they're cheap merchandise being fired from Big Bella, the fully-automatic t-shirt cannon, how about not making them weight twenty pounds each? I had to take the +100 carrying capacity perk just to keep lugging the things, priceless missives from outside time and now tantamount to junk, around.

Gravey wrote:

Second, if quest items are undroppable, and if this game series is now going to load me with the erstwhile exceedingly rare Elder Scrolls like they're cheap merchandise being fired from Big Bella, the fully-automatic t-shirt cannon, how about not making them weight twenty pounds each? I had to take the +100 carrying capacity perk just to keep lugging the things, priceless missives from outside time and now tantamount to junk, around.

This is the #1 reason why I have no qualms about modding in weight altering mods. Oblivion and Morrowind had these problems too, you can sometimes get stuck with quest items that weigh 50+ lbs, and even when you complete the quest they don't go away! I'm currently only stuck with a dragon claw from some dungeon, and the Jagged Crown, but I fully expect to have far more when I get into Dawnguard.

I tried to find the mod that improves faces last night and couldn't track it down on steam. I think it was something like "better faces". I might have been using the filters incorrectly though as they didn't seem to have much effect.

I'm sick of the the way Ysolda's face looks and I did marry her... sooo... any suggestions? I'm lazy so I prefer steam workshop mods.

Also is there a way to view the workshop mods by # installed or favorited? I would love to see the most common ones of all time. Especially since the DLC has been going for a little while now.

I didn't think that quest items counted as part of your carrying weight.

Demosthenes wrote:

I didn't think that quest items counted as part of your carrying weight.

Oh they very much do. My main source of weight is all my potions though. I'm carrying around... probably about 500 potions, it accounts for about 80lbs of my 180lbs of encumbrance. I'd sell them but no merchant can afford to buy my stuff, I really need the perk that gives all merchants an extra 1000 gold.

ahrezmendi wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:

I didn't think that quest items counted as part of your carrying weight.

Oh they very much do. My main source of weight is all my potions though. I'm carrying around... probably about 500 potions, it accounts for about 80lbs of my 180lbs of encumbrance. I'd sell them but no merchant can afford to buy my stuff, I really need the perk that gives all merchants an extra 1000 gold.

Maybe it's a conditional thing to what kind of quest it is that needs it. I know Amren's family sword did, but the Dragonstone from Bleak Falls Barrow didn't.

Huh, turns out I was wrong, quest items have no weight even if the inventory claims they do: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Ques...

ahrezmendi wrote:

Huh, turns out I was wrong, quest items have no weight even if the inventory claims they do: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Ques...

That's counter-intuitive, but appreciated. And I'm not even annoyed that I seemingly didn't have to take that carrying capacity perk, since I blew my entire 50k+ on building all my Hearthfire homes and now have to schlep dragon bones all over the province to build my cash back up.

(But seriously though, the game is really starting to devalue the actual Elder Scrolls.)

Gravey wrote:
ahrezmendi wrote:

Huh, turns out I was wrong, quest items have no weight even if the inventory claims they do: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Ques...

That's counter-intuitive, but appreciated. And I'm not even annoyed that I seemingly didn't have to take that carrying capacity perk, since I blew my entire 50k+ on building all my Hearthfire homes and now have to schlep dragon bones all over the province to build my cash back up. :D

Man, forget those bones, mix up some potions. That's where the real money is. I guarantee you, by the time you hit 75 Alchemy you'll be wishing you had the "sell anything to any merchant" perk.

Gravey wrote:

She will not shut up about the golden claw. Mara help me, I would steal that golden claw right back and shove it down her gob, if the game would let me re-marry.

Could be worse mate, I married Aela the Huntress, built a lovely 3 towered mansion with a greenhouse and fast cart travel to all the major shopping centres, then all she does is moan about why we moved out here when all she has to do is fight things. It doesn't help that she keeps howling and I have to take her out for walkies of an evening.

ahrezmendi wrote:
Gravey wrote:
ahrezmendi wrote:

Huh, turns out I was wrong, quest items have no weight even if the inventory claims they do: http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Ques...

That's counter-intuitive, but appreciated. And I'm not even annoyed that I seemingly didn't have to take that carrying capacity perk, since I blew my entire 50k+ on building all my Hearthfire homes and now have to schlep dragon bones all over the province to build my cash back up. :D

Man, forget those bones, mix up some potions. That's where the real money is. I guarantee you, by the time you hit 75 Alchemy you'll be wishing you had the "sell anything to any merchant" perk.

Oh I'm just waiting for my Nightshade, Deathbell, and Blue Mountain Flowers to bloom. Kids! Stay the hell out of the garden! And get me some salt piles.

davet010 wrote:
Gravey wrote:

She will not shut up about the golden claw. Mara help me, I would steal that golden claw right back and shove it down her gob, if the game would let me re-marry.

Could be worse mate, I married Aela the Huntress, built a lovely 3 towered mansion with a greenhouse and fast cart travel to all the major shopping centres, then all she does is moan about why we moved out here when all she has to do is fight things. It doesn't help that she keeps howling and I have to take her out for walkies of an evening.

I should have married Aela then, she'd've loved it at my Lakeview Manor. I can't step off the porch without being attacked by a dragon, and more than twice I've had to drag property-devaluing bandit bodies into the water.

manta173 wrote:

I tried to find the mod that improves faces last night and couldn't track it down on steam. I think it was something like "better faces". I might have been using the filters incorrectly though as they didn't seem to have much effect.

I'm sick of the the way Ysolda's face looks and I did marry her... sooo... any suggestions? I'm lazy so I prefer steam workshop mods.

Also is there a way to view the workshop mods by # installed or favorited? I would love to see the most common ones of all time. Especially since the DLC has been going for a little while now.

I use Bella better faces,
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/2812

I really wish people who post screenshots listed the mods they use, my skyrim looks good/runs great but i think adding a ENB to get that final photogenic look would hurt my machine (560ti, 2500k)

This is climates of Tamariel Cot and WATER
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/17802
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/13268

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edit- oops, my first attemt at adding an image failed, could someone give me some pointers, , there is no way to simply add from your pc? I used the address of the image page from my nexus profile, no joy

Your image tag needs the url to the image file, not the url to a page. If you right-click the image you can copy its url. If you want to add an image from your pc your best bet is to upload it to an image-hosting service like imgur.

Brownypoints wrote:

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edit- oops, my first attemt at adding an image failed, could someone give me some pointers, , there is no way to simply add from your pc? I used the address of the image page from my nexus profile, no joy

FTFY.

Thanks Hbi2k

Most of the mods I'm using are listed here. I'll have to post a screenshot next time I play.

I went through the list used on some of the deadendthrills.com screenshots and used many of those mods. That yielded pretty good results. I got sidetracked with other games, though, and never got around to taking any good screenshots. You won't get as good results as the screenshots because he runs it at double the resolution or so downsampled, but it definitely looks pretty awesome.

I'm finding Hearthfire to be way more enjoyable than I would have thought it warranted. Scenic Lakeview Manor, with its bedroom, library, storage, and cellar, is almost fully furnished (I'm letting my steward, Rayya, slowly take care of that), and I just moved in my wife and two daughters. Lucia now has a pet fox, in addition to our cow, three chickens, two horses, and Grunjar and his horse—it's a busy little place. The Nightshade and Deathbloom are coming in nicely in the garden. And I've finished moving all my stuff out of Breezehome and started decorating.

All I'm missing is a bard to sing some Black-Briar Peas in Simlish.

Wait, you can have you Steward handle upgrading the house for you?!?

ahrezmendi wrote:

Wait, you can have you Steward handle upgrading the house for you?!?

Furnishing it, yes, but not constructing the wings. Once a wing is done, talk to your steward about furnishing a room, and furniture etc will automatically start appearing, piece by piece, over many many many days, until every item is there. It costs more and takes longer (in-game) than building all the pieces yourself, but doesn't involve fast-traveling all over looking for straw and glass, or wasting an evening building fifty hojillion wall sconces.

Based on what Lydia did for me (..in the way of building upgrades, in case Aela is reading this) was to fill rooms with tat as far as I could see - the building of beds, shelves etc was left to me. The steward is useful for raw materials that aren't near home, but I don't think they do much more. I might be mistaken though, but I do remember being disappointed with what 2000g bought me - having said that, an enchanting table did appear that I didn't remember building.

davet010 wrote:

Based on what Lydia did for me (..in the way of building upgrades, in case Aela is reading this) was to fill rooms with tat as far as I could see - the building of beds, shelves etc was left to me. The steward is useful for raw materials that aren't near home, but I don't think they do much more. I might be mistaken though, but I do remember being disappointed with what 2000g bought me - having said that, an enchanting table did appear that I didn't remember building.

It's a slow process, and yeah it seems like the useless stuff appears first—heck, my patio furniture started appearing before the bedroom was done. But eventually everything that can be built in a room will be built by the steward. My arcane enchanter has yet to appear in the main hall, but my library is completely finished.

I manually built the child's chests so I could get my family moved in ASAP, but have left everything else to Rayya.

davet010 wrote:

Based on what Lydia did for me (..in the way of building upgrades, in case Aela is reading this) was to fill rooms with tat as far as I could see - the building of beds, shelves etc was left to me. The steward is useful for raw materials that aren't near home, but I don't think they do much more. I might be mistaken though, but I do remember being disappointed with what 2000g bought me - having said that, an enchanting table did appear that I didn't remember building.

Hey, just having someone to get me raw materials would be a huge help. I never know what I'm going to need, and having to run back to town just to buy iron ingots is annoying. I'm doing a no-fast-travel game, so even running to Falkreath every time I need something takes quite a while.

Not iron - steward just buys in stone, logs, clay and straw, from memory.

Gravey, I never thought of that, just silently berated Lydia and built everything myself. Does that mean that the steward build stuff that needs intermediate parts, like things that need nails or hinges ?

davet010 wrote:

Gravey, I never thought of that, just silently berated Lydia and built everything myself. Does that mean that the steward build stuff that needs intermediate parts, like things that need nails or hinges ?

The steward builds everything, Dave, everything is built by the steward.

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No wonder Lydia was pissing herself laughing when I gave her 1500g and proceeded to build all the furniture myself.

I finished adding in a few more things from STEP. It's looking pretty good, but I'm not so sure I like the ENB I chose, might have to try a few others:

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manta173 wrote:

I tried to find the mod that improves faces last night and couldn't track it down on steam. I think it was something like "better faces". I might have been using the filters incorrectly though as they didn't seem to have much effect.

I'm sick of the the way Ysolda's face looks and I did marry her... sooo... any suggestions? I'm lazy so I prefer steam workshop mods.

Also is there a way to view the workshop mods by # installed or favorited? I would love to see the most common ones of all time. Especially since the DLC has been going for a little while now.

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/mods/2812 Better Females.

To be honest i dont like the ENB "look".
I do like the Realistic Lighting with Customization mod and the Climates of Tamariel mod but i always thought most of the ENBs looks a bit .....bright/sharp.
But i know that there are lots of different ENB settings out there so maybe i just haven't seen one that appeals to me

Do you think a 560 ti/2500k can handle a ENB ?

I would say so. I'm not running anywhere near that and I can manage some of the more subtle ones. It's not game-altering, just post-processing, so you should be safe to at least try it, and if it doesn't work, then back it out again.

I just got back to Skyrim for my second playthrough after a 6 month break. It's. Freaking. Awesome. alloveragain.

Hopefully the DLC will be on the sales soon enough, but I'm very much enjoying my new character. Rolling into alchemy/enchanting/smithing as I was more of a collector than a creator in my first play through.

Oh, and Lydia died on our first mission together.. somewhere. She did her usual disappearing act and got lost, then the dreaded courier package arrived. Ah well, no loss, really.