Exactly, I rarely bathe in real life and if I have to wash in game that will merely increase my odour.

Edit: Changed my mind, I just thought of the concept of bathing mini games!

Way too much micro-management for very little gain in gameplay. I'm all for realism, but this just takes it too far. :thumbsdown:

I can already imagine my Dunmer maiden rising from the bathtub, water seeping down her big round - Apples. She was cleaning apples. :foodndrink:

Hold on...so, being "cleaner" should get you a bonus, but being "dirtier" shouldn't have any negative effect? What gives with that? If you're going to implement this, then in all seriousness "basic cleanliness" should get you your base speechcraft (or whatever Skyrim equivalent is implemented) rating, being very clean and well-dressed gets you a bonus, and being filthy should indeed have some sort of negative consequences.

Of course for this to work believably, it would somehow have to be modified based on who you're speaking to- a nobleman holding court would probably have less tolerance for someone who was "less than spotless" than a sweaty woodcutter halfway through his workday.

The Sims 3 anyone. This is Skyrim, everyone stinks. :sick:

Me! i have my $2.50 save up already

This is one of those things that if it made it into the game, cool, but if it weren't, I wouldn't cry or anything. If I want to have characters that need to bathe, I can always fire up Sims 3. :wink_smile:

Various books I've read about the Middle Ages & Renaissance tend to indicate that depending on the era, bathing was not always taken as seriously as it is now. Some peoples from our past would use perfumes & colognes to cover up body odor more often than they'd bathe. :yuck:



tree'd, lol.

Might as well go all the way
Bath time
Toilet time
Brushing teeth time
Beddie time

This would be awesome. You get dirtier and dirtier, unless you bath.
Of course, this allows me to be a true NORD. No baths for me. I'll scare the dragons with my epic BO.

Lol, i agree.

Love the pic btw, Robert Nesta is the King!

Only if it's necessary to wash away the blood of my enemies.

People in the Elder Scrolls smell good though, they smell like fresh apples.
Well except the Khajiit and Argonians. They smell like fish.

just go for a swim

the only way i can see the whole dirty/clean thing working is purely for visual. like after a battle, you take off your armor and where your skin was visable, you are noticably dirty versus your skin thats covered. and when you bathe it just gets rid of the dirt.
but thats all id really like honestly.

The only thing I'll be bathing in is the blood of my enemies.

Sorry, I couldn't help it.

It's irrelevant anyway, you are better off clean than dirty. Whether it's technically a bonus to clean or a detriment to dirty doesn't make a difference.

Unless your cleanliness affects the possibility of contracting a random disease.

go swimming, problem solved. but good idea

No thanks. There's realism and then there's realism.

Yes haha.
But im sure theres no H1N1 on Nirn.

Yeah, and we should get rickets if we don't eat enough bananas! Don't get enough vitamin C and you'll get scurvy! Go blind if you stare at the sun for too long! Drink from a lake without boiling the water and get dysentery!

I'm all for realistic things like eating, drinking, sleeping, and dealing with weather (dying from cold or extreme heat), but some things are just totally pointless, and would really not work within the 24 minute days that TES uses in-game. By the time you got done with your daily regiment of realism, the day would be over.

Y'all can smell if ya want. My characters are heading for the nearest usable stream, or well, or whatever, as soon as possible.

The result of living in the squalor and stink of where we were held captive is repulsive to my characters. Nothing like a good rinse, and a warm bath would be a dream come true. And a change into some clean clothing would not hurt, either, required or not.

That's how I role(play), lol

No, but I'm sure they have their crowd diseases. Be it some form of influenza, colds, poxes, hemorrhagic fevers, whatever.

H1N1 IS a form of Influenza..
Swine Flu...

But i was merely joking with you x]

Jah, Rastafari.