annapropriate question?

[rollerpig]

I've posted on this site many times,and I think (or hope) that Emma and crew know that I am a huge fan of Vilja in Skyrim.

With that said, I am going to ask a question that may seem rather...umm,I don't know really..possibly insulting.It is not meant to be, but I feel I am missing out on some things with Vilja.

I don't want to drone on too long here,but I love Skyrim.Definitly my favorite all time single player game(wish I had known about the series prior too as well).

Mostly,I really enjoy the questing.It takes you around the world with sometimes,very interesting stories and actors.Some small or unexpected quests can sometimes lead to an entire unfolding of a sotryline outside the main quests where you see things and meet actors that you would otherwise never encounter.

Anyways thats what I love to do the most ingame.

This poses one problem with Vilja.As I do add some roleplay to my gamingm, it can take sometimes 1-2 days just in travel time(not including the actual quest)..and this is where my problem(my problem,not A problem) with Vilja comes in.The "lead the way" feature doesn't really work well with my playstyle.I have played with this mod ,since,I beleive the third day it was released and have had Vilja drag me around Skyrim.Often times it was a lot of fun and definitly added a lot to her as a companion.

SPOILER ALERT!!!!




I still enjoy playing with Vilja even after I have done her entire quest several times on different characters.my problem lies in my refusal to let Villja lead the way.She generally wants to lead about every 48 hours or so and this is just too invasive for my particular playstyle.In refusing Vilja I lose around 14-16 points of disposition for each time I refuse.

On my current character I am married and wanted to see how Vilja would react with a very high disposition even if we are just freinds,but I can't get her disposition above around 105 or so.On another character I remeber having her (without really even trying,her disposition around 170 or soduring her questline-and eventually romance).Currently I cannot get Vilja's story to progress(not her quest,her back story)beyond throwing meatballs(is that the end?).

So basically,I wanted to know if there is a way to circumvent losing disposition or a way to artificially inflate her disposition so that I can become her best freind(maybe even divorcing..I dunno).

I know this is trite and silly,but I love exploring regular NPC's dialogue ingame,..how that can change with ingame relationship status.....so when I found Vilja...man I loved it because as I progressed I got to learn more indepth things about her.

It is only this one issue I cannot seem to overcome.

Anyways,if I am totally out of line just ignore me.I mean no offence ,nor am I suggesting anyone make any changes to the way Vilja operates.It just has been dificult with my particular playstyle getting her disposition high while just being frinds.

Still playing and enjoying Dragonbourne with Vilja,and as always thanks for all the hard work.

[blockhead]

off topic but ...

Dude. The title of the thread gave me a scare! Don't do that.

[Emma]

Rollerpig, you are not the first one to point out this things with Vilja leading the way. and, as a result it is changed in ver 1.4, which will soon arrive. She will ask to lead the way less often, and you can also toggle in her dialog so you can tell her to not ask you to lead the way at all. As I said, this you can toggle, so you can ask her to not request to lead the way for a period, and then tell her that now it is OK again. You can do the same with many other features, too.

And in ver 1.4 I'm hoping to be able to clear out the confusion with her disposition, simply by adding the world PERCENTAGE...

You are not supposed to have her disposition at 170 %. I'd say already 105 % is too many percentage to exist. Therefore, it is auto-reset to 100 every third hour or so if you try to exceed it. Reason? Well, if you boost her disposition to 500 %, you obviously can totally stop thinking about how you are treating her, as she can never get really upset with you. The whole dialog-tree, everything, is based on a scale from 0-100% disposition.

Ver 1.4 should arrive within a few days I hope. We are doing the final playtesting now, and if nothing turns out to be seriously wrong, I can not see why it shouldn't be released during the weekend.

[azpop]

Emma, I - and very many others - really appreciate the time and effort it takes to read and respond to these threads. It is so refreshing to see an author care so much about their work.

Thanks so much for Vilja. She is far and away my most favorite character in the world of Skyrim.

[rollerpig]

Mar 6, 2013 15:16:53 GMT Emma said:

Rollerpig, you are not the first one to point out this things with Vilja leading the way. and, as a result it is changed in ver 1.4, which will soon arrive. She will ask to lead the way less often, and you can also toggle in her dialog so you can tell her to not ask you to lead the way at all. As I said, this you can toggle, so you can ask her to not request to lead the way for a period, and then tell her that now it is OK again. You can do the same with many other features, too.

And in ver 1.4 I'm hoping to be able to clear out the confusion with her disposition, simply by adding the world PERCENTAGE...

You are not supposed to have her disposition at 170 %. I'd say already 105 % is too many percentage to exist. Therefore, it is auto-reset to 100 every third hour or so if you try to exceed it. Reason? Well, if you boost her disposition to 500 %, you obviously can totally stop thinking about how you are treating her, as she can never get really upset with you. The whole dialog-tree, everything, is based on a scale from 0-100% disposition.

Ver 1.4 should arrive within a few days I hope. We are doing the final playtesting now, and if nothing turns out to be seriously wrong, I can not see why it shouldn't be released during the weekend.

ok Emma.Thanks for the responce.Looking forward to Vilja in Solsthiem.
The reason I was concerned about her disposition so much was because,it seemed she had more of her back ground story to tell,but whenever I would enquire,Vilja would tell me "not now,maybe later",as if we we're not close enough yet for her to reveal her entire back story.

Maybe this is only revealed upon a romantic relationship?My orc currently has around 190 hours logged with Vilja and she still won't finish her back story about growing up,meatball fights etc.ect.Or maybe it is finished and I have learned all there is to know?

I have found small ways to get a quick +20 disposition and when I do (even if I was already at 100 or so) her demeanor towards me does change.She will start telling me im very cute or the nicest person she has ever known or things along those lines.

Again,maybe I am wrong and have heard Vilja's entire story and just thought there was more to it.

PS

Just to be clear.....there are many,many times when I enjoy Vilja taking the lead.I like this option.It can just get very inconvienient when I am questing.

[Emma]

Rollerpig, just a quick question (am busy atm)...
Do you know what she last told you about her background story?
Has she told you about the diary he grandma gave you?

Does she still insist on telling her you background story and then she has nothing to tell?
Or is it you who ask her through dialog to tell more about herself.

She shouldn't insist on talking about her background once she hasn't got more to say. But the topic remains in her dialog-tree, as I am indeed planning to add more (let's just say that I waited for Dragonborn and now that Dragonborn is here I have things to rethink before I add anything further).

If she insists on talking about her background with ver 1.3 and she only say not now maybe later when you talk to her, then there must be something not right in my dialog filtering. But if it is you who ask about her background and she says not now maybe later, then that's how I left it for now.

Vilja's behaviour can not change depending on if her disposition is boosted higher than 100. You see, disposition doesn't exist in Skyrim, it is I who have added a disposition-counter, and I assure you that I have no dialog filtered for a disposition higher than 100.

[rollerpig]

Mar 7, 2013 9:31:05 GMT Emma said:

Rollerpig, just a quick question (am busy atm)...
Do you know what she last told you about her background story?
Has she told you about the diary he grandma gave you?

Does she still insist on telling her you background story and then she has nothing to tell?
Or is it you who ask her through dialog to tell more about herself.

She shouldn't insist on talking about her background once she hasn't got more to say. But the topic remains in her dialog-tree, as I am indeed planning to add more (let's just say that I waited for Dragonborn and now that Dragonborn is here I have things to rethink before I add anything further).

If she insists on talking about her background with ver 1.3 and she only say not now maybe later when you talk to her, then there must be something not right in my dialog filtering. But if it is you who ask about her background and she says not now maybe later, then that's how I left it for now.

Vilja's behaviour can not change depending on if her disposition is boosted higher than 100. You see, disposition doesn't exist in Skyrim, it is I who have added a disposition-counter, and I assure you that I have no dialog filtered for a disposition higher than 100.

Vilja no longer (for a pretty long time now)approaches me to tell me about her background story.

The last entry(ies)I remember were her speaking about her childhood freind,snowball fights....the next entry was about her mothers meatballs and how they used to use the meatballs in the snowball fights.I don't remeber anything about a diary.I have to say though,it has been quite a while since she has told me something about herself(so I do not remember everything she said).

As far as going above 100 disposition...I thnik I was more refering to the fluctuation,and I thought (I guess I was wrong)that above 100 seemed to make a difference.It is possible her disp. had just reset and I was not aware.

I will be a lot less worried now though ,that Vilja would be unhappy.

I also noticed that Vilja seems to have no awareness about dawngaurd and related quests.I try not to take her on any dawngaurd quests because somethimes I think she sees me as murdering innocent people,when say,I am tasked to kill a vampire in hiding.I not so sure.It's no big deal ...I Suppose I was just curious........ which is why I would tend to track her disposition so closely at times.