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Post by Sniffles on Oct 25, 2015 4:04:35 GMT
I wait all day for Squishy to get home to ask her, "What happened to the other companion with Vilja?" She tells me there was no other companion. I tell her there had to be! Absolutely. NO OTHER COMPANION, BLOCKHEAD!! So I ask her, "Then how the hell do you explain how Vilja and PC are standing in the middle of Chorrol. Vilja is so overloaded she can't take a single piece of clothing more and the PC is loaded to the shear line with over 3 times her carry ability? There isn't a potion made that could have left them there."
She checks, perplexed. No evidence of an additional follower anywhere. No download. No mod. And all the heavyweight new gear the spoils from Brashers Nord dungeons mod which was the last thing played.
Anyone else ever have a magical mystical experience like this one?
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Post by jgf on Oct 25, 2015 8:54:20 GMT
Haven't experienced such in Oblivion. Yet.
But have had Constance disappear in Morrowind in three different games on two different computers; always when going through a door (portal type, not one which opens and you walk through). I contact her via the amulet and she responds but either never appears or tells me she is in the middle of a fight. Nothing I do gets her to return so I just continue my quests, eventually I can tell her to met me somewhere, go there and she will be waiting.
At the other extreme I had a companion cloned; this was a generic companion, no quests, little dialog, just a combination "meat shield" and pack mule. I exited a cave and she was no longer behind me, returned to the cave, she wasn't there; I never saw her again. Reloaded the save (just before exiting the cave), she was there, exited and she was gone. Reloaded an earlier save and found (over several evenings play) that no matter where we went or what we did, at the same point in time she would disappear when next we went through a portal door. On a whim I went to Balmora, left her in the street, and entered the Fighters Guild where we met ...and there she was! Told her to follow and returned to the street, where I now had two companions - one the "normal" one, with good armor and weapons, the other the original, as first met. Tried telling each to leave but that left the other with an odd mixture of old and new armor, and behaving strangely. Ultimately decided that game was somehow massively corrupted, dumped those saves and started over.
Have you tried checking your save with Bash? Or loading an earlier save and playing through that point again? Otherwise you may have an irredeemably corrupt game.
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Post by Sniffles on Oct 25, 2015 11:40:58 GMT
Checked everything. No follower exists! So how did the duet find themselves in the middle of Chorrol, by the tree, not just entered a gate, PC so overloaded she couldn't move and Vilja refusing to take anything more?
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Post by dogonporch on Oct 25, 2015 16:15:16 GMT
Open console (~ key)
type: tgm (then hit enter)
Close console
Move character/overload character
Open console...type: tgm (enter)
That's how I'd do it if I was messing around...
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Post by jgf on Oct 25, 2015 23:19:59 GMT
Lol, that is the cheat I use in the portals; much easier than a dozen monotonous trips to haul out loot one piece at a time. (Anything to relieve the tedium of those portals.)
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Post by Sniffles on Oct 26, 2015 0:41:18 GMT
Then Vilja comes along and wants some money to go shopping and poof, broke again.
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Post by thenryb on Oct 26, 2015 0:54:56 GMT
Then Vilja comes along and wants some money to go shopping and poof, broke again. Yes, Oblivion Vilja and her "personal expenses" are a nice money sink.
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Post by jgf on Oct 26, 2015 5:38:56 GMT
Well, she's only asked me for money three times (so far) and the most I can offer her is 10k which, since i typically have around 250k, is "chump change". (Could have more but am too cheap and too lazy to bother with loot worth less than 3 gold per lb.) Only expenses are buying another house occasionally and paying to repair our enchanted weapons/armor; I find, make, or steal anything else we need.
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Post by Seyheb on Oct 26, 2015 13:50:08 GMT
She asks me quite often. I have to remember to keep looting for her sake!
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Post by Sniffles on Oct 26, 2015 23:31:56 GMT
Between her shopping and repairing her sword, Vilja is keeping my PC stone cold broke.
I still haven't figured out how the duet arrived in that city.
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Post by Sniffles on Oct 26, 2015 23:58:19 GMT
Question! Does anyone else suffer from this brainfart?
Yesterday I was cleaning the HD. Move all the files to another drive and all that, doing some reinstallation and so on. Then I look things over. Bethseda>Skyrim>Skyrim>Skyrim>Skyrim installation folder.
What the frak is this??? 'Which folder do you want to put it in?' In the Skyrim folder, of course! No, Microsoft says; if you want it in the Skyrim folder you have to put it in the Bethseda folder.
That's like if I want to put my foot in my shoe I have to stuck my foot in the shoe keeper in the closet!
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Post by thenryb on Oct 27, 2015 3:12:49 GMT
That makes no sense at all. Oblivion would go in your Bethesda folder but Skyrim would be in your Steam Apps/Common folder.
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Post by Sniffles on Oct 27, 2015 5:12:09 GMT
That makes no sense at all. Oblivion would go in your Bethesda folder but Skyrim would be in your Steam Apps/Common folder. No no no no! Oblivion presently resides in .... Ewww. F:\Junkyard\ThingsOther\Gameses\Games\Bethseda\TES4\Oblivion\Oblivion\Oblivion I've got this little ugly program which runs when Windows starts and tells Windows other places to look than where it thinks they should be. As Techy explains more or less, forcing Windows to properly handle files structures ALA Linux. One of the benefits of this is disk drives only spin up when a program on one calls for it, and a whole mess more esoteric horseshit like turning on an additional fan to cool the HDs when more than 1 is running and turning off background programs and royally confusing the hell out of us. Steam lives in it's own little virtual world it thinks connects to the net but in reality only gets to chat with Alkaid, Mizar, Alioth, Megrez, Phecda, Merak and Dubhe. <-Yeay! I remembered all 7!!! It's a little off pissing to fire up a game only to have Steam block our ISP, common, our ISP block Steam, slightly less common, or the two to work spiffy perfect after waiting 20 minutes. As it is, I can install any Steam dependant program anywhere on our drives and it goes into Steam's little virtual world. I then have to leave the computer on overnight for the real Steam and it to have a chat at Steam's leisure without me having to wait for it. PS The master program is called Shadow and it's counterpart is LittleIronLady. What all this fluff is for is to lock out Windows and all net connections for when they remotely run a back up.
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Post by jgf on Oct 27, 2015 12:41:58 GMT
Question! Does anyone else suffer from this brainfart? Yesterday I was cleaning the HD. Move all the files to another drive and all that, doing some reinstallation and so on. Then I look things over. Bethseda>Skyrim>Skyrim>Skyrim>Skyrim installation folder.... I've had that on occasion when shuffling things in Program Files. Once had AppData/AppData/AppData/AppData/AppData/; everything still worked, in fact I didn't notice til I searched for something, saw this, and thought "what the...!". I dragged the last folder to where it should be then deleted the empty string and everything still worked. Apparently Windoze doesn't care how many subfolder levels there are as long as it finds its data eventually; but some utilities will only recurse to a certain level, so if the data is ten levels down and they only check to eight levels, they will assume that folder to be empty.
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