MAKE SKYRIM HAVE MORE MUCHNESS - MOD

[Sniffles]

Around the end of May. Squishy started SkyrimJob and played it for a couple of minutes then "This is bullshit." She set the keyboard aside and walked off, leaving the game running and hasn't played since. I stopped playing Skyrim a couple of weeks later.
Squishy and I talked about Skyrim a couple of times since then. Consensus: tries to pander to the tastes of as wide a demographic of players as possible, sacrificing MOST of what could make the rim job THE EPIC SKYRIM!
By level 40. Done deal. Go play with the toys. Add the mods. Squeeze out tidbits and nuances. The real Skyrim, THE EPIC ADVENTURE, is soggy garbage.

Squishy demonstrated. Took the Dragonburp out for a wander. Along came a dragon. Dragon dies in  about 45 seconds. Angi's bow and iron arrows. I stopped her from throwing the keyboard. She got frustrated. She's not a good enough modder. Just doesn't have the time to learn. But the mod could be easily done. Just makes changes to what is already there for the most part.


THE REAL SKYRIM. The way it should be. Would be if it wasn't pandering to the ultra wide demographic.

* ALL weapons. Three types. Amateur, Average, Premium/Professional. Why? BECAUSE THAT"S ALL THERE IS!!!!!!!  Amateur is a toy warmed over. You might take a deer with it if you're lucky. Average: Go get that deer. Go get trampled if you aim your sights on a mammoth. Professional: Affects accuracy, not damage. Arrows. Which hurts more; an iron arrow through your head or one made from the bones of a dragon? Which bangs harder; an old trusty farm axe or one made of Ebony? Go ask that tree you chopped down.
If you want infinite tweaking your toys, go play some take off from Diablows.

* ALL enemies. Horseshitte Skyrim offers 5 capabilities. Call them level 1-50. REAL SKYRIM offers a problem, a teeny weeny little variety. Challenge even. 1 through 300. Game mechanics wise, the same 1 to 5 with about a 25% chance of ANY enemy being a ringer, ready, willing and able to chase your dumb butt from Markarth through Riften. Just whack your sword or stick an arrow in your average 100lb bear's hiney and you have chance of an insane berserker up in your face that refuses to die.
Consider: Average guard with a year of experience in the city or a 30 year veteran itching to lay somebody to rat poop? Yearling lion that's never faced off with a human before acting a little frisky or a 5 year old mom with mange, fleas, sore teats and cubs nearby?

* TRAVEL. When you first started playing the game Skyrim was vast, beautiful dangerous world. At level 50 a player can easily do the entire main quest and a dozen major side quests in 3 or 4 hours covering the entire map.
-Running-Walking-Sprinting. Sprinting drains stamina. News flash! So does running, at about 1/2 the drain speed. GAME NEEDS JOGGING. The starting out PC can jog, marathon run, from Whiterun to Riverwood. You aren't worth a cow flop for several hours after though. A level 50 PC, Epic near inhuman, can jog from Whiterun to Windhelm. STAMINA should recover at the percentage used. 10% used, recovery speed is 90%. The run to Windhelm is 90% used, 10% recovery speed. 'Give me an hour to catch my breath and get my feces back together'
-Fast Travel is MAGIC. From city to city there will always be some spell caster to help you out. From Wilderness to city the PC can work out the spell by level 5 to 10. Wilderness to wilderness, you better have yer shitte together.
There will always be a random chance of a screw up. Level 5 PC: Falkreath, renowned far and wide for it's dearth of expert spell casters, to Winterhold may land your butt in the ocean. Outside a city same level 5 PC on her own may end up at Stendarr's Beacon, surrounded by total bad arse bandits. Thems the breaks. Suck it up.

* Dungeons. You never know. Probably just Falmer in there. Fifty Falmer? Per room? The game limited the number of enemies to keep the wussiest computer from crashing. It's been six years. We don't need to keep kissing AMD Sempron CPU butts.

* Dragons always have a good chance of ruining your day. Toe to toe tanking=Toast to Tummy Tidbit much of the time. What the H do you think the Sprint key is for?

* Magic. Augmenting your martial prowess is all you got going if you want to make it through. Any spell is available to any level PC. But don't expect it to work right. Think Vilja behind you dual wielding staffs of fireballs. Yes, you managed to cast flames... or something like it. Did a real good job. Too good. Your bounty in Whiterun exceeds the Thalmor annual budget.

* Bounties. You are screwed. Aren't you glad you saved up all that junk? You're going to need it, if you can ever get past the guards to your house then on up the road to the shop and sell the crap. Being a Thain doesn't mean beans to the guard captain whose brother took one of your ice spikes in the head. Bounties can also trash your chances of Fast Travel assistance.

* Weather. Or not. Blizzard. White out. Climate and location. Freezing to death as your stamina refuses to budge above 3. Makes you really appreciate the warmer climes to the south. Crossing that river has left you thinking you may never pee again.

* Night. News flash: it's dark. Ambient light is for Diablowers.

[ghastley]

This appears to be Rincewind's Skyrim. Can't fight, can't cast any useful spells, but has high enough athletics to RUN AWAY!! Only gets involved in adventures that happen to his competent (or very lucky) companions.

I've tried playing him that way. I created a Conina the Hairdresser as a companion and gave her high weapon skills so he wouldn't have to fight for himself. It didn't work. The game mechanics put him in the lead (not his natural place) and force him to defend himself, so he's advanced skills out of character.

The same happened when I did Nijel the Destroyer with the same Conina. He was supposed to develop only Block, and be a general wimp, but he ended up getting kill-cams with his unimproved iron greatsword.

On the other hand, if you're going for the realism you suggest, maybe the wild animals would only hunt you when they're hungry, rather than attack out of pure spite. Bandits might demand tribute instead of assuming they'll take it from your corpse. And all the undead wouldn't be.

[Sniffles]

Sept 25, 2017 14:29:36 GMT ghastley said:

This appears to be Rincewind's Skyrim. Can't fight, can't cast any useful spells, but has high enough athletics to RUN AWAY!! Only gets involved in adventures that happen to his competent (or very lucky) companions.

I've tried playing him that way. I created a Conina the Hairdresser as a companion and gave her high weapon skills so he wouldn't have to fight for himself. It didn't work. The game mechanics put him in the lead (not his natural place) and force him to defend himself, so he's advanced skills out of character.

The same happened when I did Nijel the Destroyer with the same Conina. He was supposed to develop only Block, and be a general wimp, but he ended up getting kill-cams with his unimproved iron greatsword.

On the other hand, if you're going for the realism you suggest, maybe the wild animals would only hunt you when they're hungry, rather than attack out of pure spite. Bandits might demand tribute instead of assuming they'll take it from your corpse. And all the undead wouldn't be.

CONGRATULATE ME! I manged to be completely misunderstood. It's not about realism. Using some realism, yes, to give the mod plausibility.

NOVICE ADEPT MASTER LEGENDARY. What do these do? Better yet, what do these don't?

You have done the main quest. You have explored every niche and cranny in Skyrim. You have added tweaks and mods. Your mods have become far more your focus than the quests. Than exploring Skyrim. SSE. And more tweaks. And more and more. Until you realize you just aren't going to get any more milk out of that bull. You are no longer playing Skyrim. The entire game is a platform for your tweaks and mods. Sound about right?

NOVICE ADEPT MASTER LEGENDARY -> INSANE -> RIDICULOUS -> BLAH -> BLAH -> until you plug this mod in. Let's call it something really mucho macho moofy. Wuss. WUSS.

Now go take your Legendary character in all it's Legendary armor with all it's Legendary bonuses and add ons and take a few last glimpses of Skyrim. Take a few screen shots. It's going to be a long time before you see those sights again.
Even worse-better, start a new game. Maybe in SSE. By the time you hobble your maimed butt into Riverwood for the first time you will be asking yourself how did Skyrim become so big all of a sudden. It should be occurring to you it's time to unload the Deadly Dragons and Badder Bandits mods if you want to reach Whiterun before the next ice age. A week of playing later you stand at the gates of Windhelm, amazed you made it. At least you think it's Windhelm, it's hard to tell in that blizzard and 3 feet visibility. Might just be a nice idea to head south into Riften and wait for midsummer. If you can sneak past those giants. (Modder, a sign on the road near Steamcrag if you would be so kind:
BEWARE OF GIANTS
FREE FLYING LESSONS.)
(How in the name of Mehrunes Dagon was that giant still standing after 15 whacks from a Legendary Daedric Wang Wapper? Did I ever get up on the wrong side of Skyrim back there.)
Weather's clear! Let's make a break for it! It's only going to take 3 or 4 more renditions of the Dragonborne's Dumbs In Candlefarts Hall before you consider passing that sword through your own head.


The point is replay-ability of the main and side quests. Renewing the challenges. The cleaning of your shorts (and hosing out your armor). The realization taking Alduin down is going to be the least of your worries for the next RL year of game play.
You still beef and buff and have all that gruesomeness. And you still royally kick ass about half the time. But your assurance you will make it from Dawnstar to Solitude in the next session of game play is gone. Sitting there on the banks of the river you renamed HoShit and stare longingly at Solitude towering in the distance as you bind your wounds and try to think of the right combination of weapons and spells to deal with that damned chaurus.

[rhyls]

So,Sniffles. Somewhat disillusioned or have run out of steam? I hope not, I would miss your input on here.

[Sniffles]

On our to-do shopping list for next the year which involves trivials like Squishy getting her masters, me enrolling in college, us finding more time to spend together, starting work on building our cabin, shooting and burying our neighbor (the guy that lives on paint thinner laced moonshine and canned dog food), making living and logistics arrangements for Squishy stateside in two different locations several hundred miles apart, establishing two homes of living amenities, buying Squishy's rifle of her dreams (and scope), getting another computer..... and the list goes on until at the top of the third page where Play Skyrim, Maybe Installing SSE will be found, along with starting Daggerfall and continuing Oblivion and Morrowind.
Skyrim could inch slightly up the list with the above mentioned mod.

[rhyls]

Well, Ok but please don't just disappear! I would miss you(being selfish) As long as your both well, happy and healthy!