Ok, if you kill a crap load of bears, to make it realistic, if you kill all of the bears then their wont be anymore bears? And that goes with all animals? Also should animals be able to breed to prevent their kind from being wiped out? Also what do you think of animals hibernating? Like in winter, all the bears will be in their caves asleep and all of the squirrels will be in their trees and such. Tell me what you guys think about this. Just picture it in your mind...............

I want the game to be realistic and all but....animal breeding?...........I'll just assume the animals breed that way I won't stumble upon two bears bumping uglys....or two ogres.......

Hibernating won't work seeing as their is no alternating seasons within the game, as well, I dont wanna come out of a city to find a bunch load of animals pro-creatin'

they should do this, except I dont like the idea of you wiping them out forever

I think this crosses the boundary between realism and too much realism.

yeah, you got a point, and also how do we know there isnt different seasons?

im laughing at the terms 'pro-creating' and bumping uglies. its funny and kind of inapropriate but still funny.

Well oblivion more spawn (be born) but if you mean seing bears and wolves going at it... lol :rofl:

Maybe if you could have pets or tame certain animals breeding to make a more superior pet wouldn't be too bad, and have different aged animals like bear cubs would be pretty cool maybe even an over population but definitely not extinction let PETA deal with that

how about no

I'm cool with prostitution but this is a little too much

todd howard said there are not going to be different seasons

Waaaaa :nope:

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Well the khajiit are beasts to so.........Khajiit wolf babies anyone?

I think we got enough Khajiit breeding in The Real Barenziah (?).

You and i have two completely different definitions of enough

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I think some realistic aspects of a game can actually break immersion. Like that example >.> Something about walking in on trolls, ogres, bears, and well... nords, just seems like something Id like to avoid unless there were a deliberate patch for it :\

I don't want to see animals doing it...

I think it would be cool to see baby animals following around mothers, just as like a variant of an enemy.

But then I might feel guilty for wiping out a family of bears.

Are children going to be in Skyrim? If so, can you kill them? Im sure that whatever rules are applied to humanoid children in Skyrim (or Fallout ) can be applied to baby cubs ^^
itd just be nice to see I think

There will be children, no we can't kill them (Just a warning though talking about that is a no no on the forums) as far as animal babies go though I think they shouldn't be governed by the same rules, PETA doesn't exist in Skyrim lol.
Anyway I'm alright with baby animals now and then but breeding? I don't think it's necessary in the least to see animals do the dirty lol.

Well, you're the farmer here so answer this: How long does breeding up a new generation of animals take? Now along with that, consider that many players complete the game and are done with that character in less than an in-game-calendar year. The longest-running character I ever managed, back in Morrowind, has about 650 in-game days and he was something of a freak. So at about one generation per year, how much effort would it be worthwhile to divert from other possible features to add something few players would play long enough to see, and fewer still would even notice it anyway?

Short version: Yeah, I'll pass on the animal breeding thank you very much.

For some reason I thought this was going to be a thread about Khajiit mating habits.

*Uses his Argonian voice* What did the male Khajiit say to the female Khajiit?...

or you can just assume this all happens in the background. they should not have to waste script (much less precious time) on pointlessly making the game more realistic. how does this contribute to game play. all this does is visually prove to you that enemies repopulate rather than spawn, which is what they do; they spawn. every one in TES is immaculatly concieved, so can we skip on children in SK while we are at it?