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Post by Aidan on Mar 12, 2019 10:48:22 GMT
Obviously anything of mine you find at the Nexus, but the one I used were mainly extra content: The Ayleid Steps - extra quests - I got it to test compatibility with mine, and kept it. One of my mods now has a step of its own. Shezrie's Towns and Villages - various packages of these, and some are "beyond borders", which leads to Valenwood Improved and Elsweyr Anequina - more land Open Cities Reborn - eliminate load screens going in/out. DarN UI with variants, and the coloured maps to improve the UI. I may have made my own maps for VI/EA expansion. Plus a bunch of outfits, hairstyles etc. If you are the DIY type, then also get the Construction Set Extender to make building mods a lot easier. When you hit mod incompatibilities, you can fix them, too. I also run on a triple monitor set-up giving an effective 6000x1080 screen, so there were a few needed to get there. Thanks for the tips, I'll check your work out! Once upon a time I was big into modding (Morrowind), but now I work full time and have but an hour or two each day to commit to games. So I am just looking for a few mods to iron out some of the creases in Oblivion.
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Post by Aidan on Mar 12, 2019 10:52:45 GMT
Ah ok, thanks! I'll check out TES Nexus though I'll have to register again, I'm sure I've forgotten my old account. The link you sent me unfortunately seemed to go somewhere with dubious ads or something, my computer started getting angry at it. TBH anything called the "lovers" system is probs not something I'm after though. I'm fine with a romance plot but I'd rather not have any grubby stuff. ^_^" OBSE and Pluggy sound like they might be a bit too complicated though, depends what needs them. All I really want is graphics improvements and a mod to fix the game balance since, IIRC, everything scaled really badly in "vanilla" Oblivion. LL was under DOS attack for the last few days. Should be improving now. If ads are the issue, perhaps a good spyware blocker is needed? Two good free ones are Spybot Search & Destroy and Spyware Blaster. That'll whack 99% of the baddies. The guide at LL has helped thousands and has allowed fejeena stay sane...re: install help. Lovers Lab is a fine website with many helpful people (one of them me ). Lovers is more than grubby stuff (lol)...it's a relationship system that is fully customizable. That is: don't want grubby stuff? You don't need to add it. Vilja works perfectly inside the system...who also comes with a built-in romance option of her own that dovetails into Lovers. Not sure if it was Emma's intention...but it all works great. However, as you allude, it isn't for everybody. But if you like more Sims in your Oblivion...there you go. OBSE and Pluggy are fairly essential...though you can try without. Many mods will be off-limits. OBSE is the Oblivion Script Extender and allows Oblivion to execute scripts that weren't part of the original install. This allows many things beyond what was in the original Oblivion to be possible. Pluggy assists OBSE and adds more functionality. None of which you need to worry about once installed properly. Both are available through Nexus...though OBSE has its own website. obse.silverlock.org/ Back when Oblivion was released, it faced getting branded with a Mature rating (nobody under 18 etc), so they jigged the executable and removed some scripting to prevent certain things from being possible....plus numerous in-game things (skooma and such). OBSE pretty much rectifies that. If the problem with Lover Lab was just hacking, then I'm happy to check it out. Yeah, I've looked through my old mods and I was running OBSE and Pluggy before so no issues doing so again. I'm fairly certain Vilja was not really intended as a romantic companion, but Emma eventually put the option in. I'm not really interested in that, though. Some of the mods I've looked at do seem to have complex installation, so any assistance I can find is appreciated. Thanks heaps! Aidan
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Post by Aidan on Mar 12, 2019 10:55:59 GMT
Thank you - I'm not really looking for extra places to explore this time around but I'll keep it in mind.
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Post by Aidan on Mar 12, 2019 11:04:16 GMT
The... THE problem with Oblivion, first and foremost. IRL time. Oblivious.Come out of the sewer, buck nekkid, mince your way up to north side above Bruma, quite do-able by a level 1 character, and make a dash to the 'You can't go that way' south of Leyawin. Takes 5-6 minutes and you can easily dodge all problems. Make the dash from Anvil up into the mountains east of Cheydinhole in around 12 minutes. Skyrim. Barring/dodging dragons, Solitude Lighthouse to Bloodlet Throne, 8-9 minutes. Map's edge East of Forgotten Vale to Stendarr's Beacon, less than 15 minutes. Morrowind. Seyda Neen to Dagon Fel, without reloading the game, ... has anyone ever been able to do that with a butt nekkid level 1 character? Then if you count DLCs, Azura to Mortrag Glacier... without using god mode that just isn't going to happen. In fact, the chances of a level 1 character surviving for a half hour are about kerzip unless you hide behind the local constabulary. You can die just trying to get on a silt strider! Or how about death by herbivore? Scope. Forget everything else. Morrowind had scope. A vast untamed wilderness just waiting to chew you to shreds. Compare. In serious explore mode, a level 1 character can visit all the major areas of Oblivion in an hour or less. Skyrim an hour and a half. Morrowind, chances are it's going to be 2 or 3 days of game play to find your way to Azura's coast. With luck, a week to discover the Sheogorad archipelago. This is why the beyond the borders mod expansions of both Oblivion and to a lesser extent Skyrim are so popular. I could spend a month before visiting more than three regions - I always dawdle. I make sure my characters meander about towns talking to randoms and drinking and eating food. I sleep 8 hours a night. So the possibility of running from one end of Oblivion to the other is irrelevant to me - I simply wouldn't try. To try would be to break the immersion! But I do agree, my experience so far has been that the scope of Morrowind (in spite of its small map, area-wise) was exceptional. It does hold a special place in my heart, always will.
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Post by dogonporch on Mar 12, 2019 13:56:52 GMT
I might give this one a try, thanks! Neccessities of Morrowind was always a standard for me... Yes...it's pretty good just by itself. Damage fatigue and drain fatigue effects suddenly work as intended...be aware. We run Oblivion at x10 speed which is about perfect for this particular mod. Stock game speed is x30 and you get hungry/thirsty too fast...
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Post by dogonporch on Mar 12, 2019 14:03:31 GMT
LL was under DOS attack for the last few days. Should be improving now. If ads are the issue, perhaps a good spyware blocker is needed? Two good free ones are Spybot Search & Destroy and Spyware Blaster. That'll whack 99% of the baddies. The guide at LL has helped thousands and has allowed fejeena stay sane...re: install help. Lovers Lab is a fine website with many helpful people (one of them me ). Lovers is more than grubby stuff (lol)...it's a relationship system that is fully customizable. That is: don't want grubby stuff? You don't need to add it. Vilja works perfectly inside the system...who also comes with a built-in romance option of her own that dovetails into Lovers. Not sure if it was Emma's intention...but it all works great. However, as you allude, it isn't for everybody. But if you like more Sims in your Oblivion...there you go. OBSE and Pluggy are fairly essential...though you can try without. Many mods will be off-limits. OBSE is the Oblivion Script Extender and allows Oblivion to execute scripts that weren't part of the original install. This allows many things beyond what was in the original Oblivion to be possible. Pluggy assists OBSE and adds more functionality. None of which you need to worry about once installed properly. Both are available through Nexus...though OBSE has its own website. obse.silverlock.org/ Back when Oblivion was released, it faced getting branded with a Mature rating (nobody under 18 etc), so they jigged the executable and removed some scripting to prevent certain things from being possible....plus numerous in-game things (skooma and such). OBSE pretty much rectifies that. If the problem with Lover Lab was just hacking, then I'm happy to check it out. Yeah, I've looked through my old mods and I was running OBSE and Pluggy before so no issues doing so again. I'm fairly certain Vilja was not really intended as a romantic companion, but Emma eventually put the option in. I'm not really interested in that, though. Some of the mods I've looked at do seem to have complex installation, so any assistance I can find is appreciated. Thanks heaps! Aidan OBSE makes everything better... Vilja's Romance option is a full quest to get to know Vilja...not just something Emma tacked-on. It's very well done. If you choose to not have it, you'll miss out on things like Vilja reading you naughty bedtime tales. Understandable if romance in games isn't your thing, though. But Vilja is meant to be loved...frankly. Especially after what that bastard Runar did to her.
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Post by dogonporch on Mar 12, 2019 14:26:52 GMT
As for mods being incompatible with each other... Just grab TES Edit...you can see where the incompatibilities are and fix them...click click click...easy. www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/11536Land Magic is another excellent tool for welding finicky mods together...no more gaps or missing cells due to conflicts. Say bye-bye to that collection of landscape patches you have in your load order. www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/30519RefScope: Wonder what mod put that 50 foot statue of Lynda Carter in your game? Wonder no more... www.nexusmods.com/oblivion/mods/21862
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Post by jgf on Mar 12, 2019 15:23:31 GMT
.... Oblivion was old when I first deigned to turn my attention to it. ... Same here; I didn't get Oblivion until about four years ago (used copy from a yard sale), and proceeded to pester everyone here with questions they'd probably heard a dozen times before. (I also migrated here from Emma's old site on Elric's servers.)
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Post by dogonporch on Mar 12, 2019 16:59:23 GMT
.... Oblivion was old when I first deigned to turn my attention to it. ... Same here; I didn't get Oblivion until about four years ago (used copy from a yard sale), and proceeded to pester everyone here with questions they'd probably heard a dozen times before. (I also migrated here from Emma's old site on Elric's servers.) Bit of a latecomer to Oblivion, myself. But unlike many games on this ol' rig, it still gets attention....years later. Before Oblivion I was heavy into IL2 Sturmovik which is quite a wild ride...but my online squadron had disbanded...no fun flying alone.
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Post by dogonporch on Mar 12, 2019 17:27:26 GMT
I could spend a month before visiting more than three regions - I always dawdle. I make sure my characters meander about towns talking to randoms and drinking and eating food. I sleep 8 hours a night. So the possibility of running from one end of Oblivion to the other is irrelevant to me - I simply wouldn't try. To try would be to break the immersion! But I do agree, my experience so far has been that the scope of Morrowind (in spite of its small map, area-wise) was exceptional. It does hold a special place in my heart, always will. With that Hungry Thirsty Tired mod, you'll need regular sleep or your stats will suffer. The better the (stock) bed, the better the rest. Modded beds don't work, of course. Water you can draw at wells once you buy a well key. Booze also gets rid of thirst. There are quite a few good immersion mods like that if you search. The Bathing Mod comes to mind...you get stinky. The Loo...a trip to the bathroom gives you bonuses....etc.
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Post by Aidan on Mar 13, 2019 11:03:50 GMT
.... Oblivion was old when I first deigned to turn my attention to it. ... Same here; I didn't get Oblivion until about four years ago (used copy from a yard sale), and proceeded to pester everyone here with questions they'd probably heard a dozen times before. (I also migrated here from Emma's old site on Elric's servers.) Yes, you might not remember me, but I believe I remember you! Did you go all the way back to the old Rethan Manor days? I've seen a few old faces still posting here, like Blockhead and (at least showing up to say a happy birthday a couple of weeks back) our designated bard, Seeker.
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Post by Aidan on Mar 13, 2019 11:09:15 GMT
Vilja's Romance option is a full quest to get to know Vilja...not just something Emma tacked-on. It's very well done. If you choose to not have it, you'll miss out on things like Vilja reading you naughty bedtime tales. Understandable if romance in games isn't your thing, though. But Vilja is meant to be loved...frankly. Especially after what that bastard Runar did to her. I'm sure it's well done, Emma is good at her craft - but Vilja certainly didn't have a romance option when I first ran with her all those years ago (nearly a decade actually). The mod history suggests that it was only added in the most recent version, after much fan insistence? I'm fine with intimate relationships in games, modded or otherwise, if its well written. However, being largely asexual, I don't need a sexual relationship to love a character, and I often find such things a bit cringe-y. I'll take your word for it that it is worth considering, though!
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Post by dogonporch on Mar 13, 2019 14:17:41 GMT
Vilja's Romance option is a full quest to get to know Vilja...not just something Emma tacked-on. It's very well done. If you choose to not have it, you'll miss out on things like Vilja reading you naughty bedtime tales. Understandable if romance in games isn't your thing, though. But Vilja is meant to be loved...frankly. Especially after what that bastard Runar did to her. I'm sure it's well done, Emma is good at her craft - but Vilja certainly didn't have a romance option when I first ran with her all those years ago (nearly a decade actually). The mod history suggests that it was only added in the most recent version, after much fan insistence? I'm fine with intimate relationships in games, modded or otherwise, if its well written. However, being largely asexual, I don't need a sexual relationship to love a character, and I often find such things a bit cringe-y. I'll take your word for it that it is worth considering, though! Runar is a guy that Vilja fell in love with but it turned out he was already married and was two-timing her. So her romance option is set around that. Asexual? Interesting. I guess that does rule-out romance. I'm married and the wife runs Vilja...so romance & sex isn't all that cringey to me or her. We call it Saturday night! Anyways...by newcomer to Oblivion I mean 2009 or so. I didn't like Skyrim as much....so while it has slipped off the playlist, a heavily modded Oblivion remains. However, I find my interests shifting to the Construction Set over the past few years more than playing Oblivion myself. So I build things for my wife and Vilja to explore...like my twin wilderness mods. I made sure there were lots of campsites for the girls to spend virtual evenings under the stars.
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Post by Sniffles on Mar 13, 2019 14:21:54 GMT
Immersive? Restarted Oblivion 6-9-2016. Presently am level 3. I'd like to run Windfall but I've got so many mods loaded I'm sure BSOD would be the least of my worries. Suggestions?
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Post by dogonporch on Mar 13, 2019 14:25:36 GMT
Immersive? Restarted Oblivion 6-9-2016. Presently am level 3. I'd like to run Windfall but I've got so many mods loaded I'm sure BSOD would be the least of my worries. Suggestions? BSOD? Not sure I follow, Sniffles.
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