Building in skyrim

Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:00 pm

Hate reading? Skip to the question. (type ctrl + f) then type in short hand.

Before everyone yells and screams about it not being possible you should know I am tailoring the suggestion from pc to console and blah blah. This is not a suggestion for a geck on consoles. Say that three times to yourself and take a deep breath. I know how riled up y'all can get about that. This is just to see if any kind of building has any support, to show if anyone else likes it. I realize console users (I play on both) will get the short end of the stick no matter what suggestion we make. With that disclaimer out of the way down to business. As usual with my suggestions I give a short question and then a section solely dedicated to the details of the suggestion.

-=Short Hand Question=-
Would you like to make your own home or limited other structures depending on what you play skyrim on. Even if it would just be a DLC, patch, or whatever means they used to put it in?

If you said yes, would you like to build it yourself or hire NPC's to build for you and you pick out from the typical menu they would give you?
If you hire an NPC to build assume that over a realistic period of time they would make the device and every week or whatever the timeframe may be you can look at there progress and see them working on it during work hours.
-=Expanded Information=-

This is only possible features of a proposed building segment to skyrim.

-Collect wood, ore, gold, and other building resources to develop your own infrastructure such as a player home, signs, portable bed rolls, candles, NPC homes, several miscellaneous items, ammunition, manna wells, mammoth transport, gondolier stations, shops, and whatever else they could come up with that could fit within the game without causing too much fps drop or what ever possible negative effect like too much fun?

-Govern the town you built around your player home. (limit the number of buildings by water/food source, and access to natural resources to make it more game friendly and as a bonus realistic and drawing an role play aspect for experienced players.)

- Recruit NPC's, Guards, Shop keepers, farmers, transporters, fishermen, miners, loggers, and citizens to live with you near your player home village.

-Collect tax/rent, help town's folk with random generated quest like killing jobs, courier work, maintenance, loaning money, debt collector, ect.

- Receive discount from in town shop keepers if they like you.

More after we get some feedback.


-=Inspiration=-

Well I played Morrowind for one. After you complete so many of the main house quest you get a player home with guards and shops and it's a nice little outpost with several small little quest that are pretty fun. There were several mods for them that went WAY beyond what was intended. One made the telveani (sp?) tower a huge city sprawling that hill, it was beautiful.

Besides that my own thread gave me the idea. The one about should we rebuild destroyed cities.

Pros
Look at all those features.
-could draw in new players which is more money for beth which means better games for us Bethesda fans.
-Could bring back players who quit Bethesda games after the oblivion disappointment.
-Brings an emotional reach toward the player and drags him into the plight of these villages. he walks through there shoes in other words.
-Greatly improves upon the crafting system in the game and sets it on top of all other RPG's like two worlds two, and Dragon age, ect.

name more?

Con's
-Possible drag on FPS.
-Slower loading unless you download the game and clear your cache every week like your supposed to.
-(too fun? might cause you to play too much elder scrolls and completely stop eating and die of starvation.)

more cons?
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m Gardner
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:38 am

No, thank you.


This is Skyrim, not SkySims or SkyCraft.
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Hayley Bristow
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 5:32 am

No, thank you.


This is Skyrim, not SkySims or SkyCraft.

You must be relatively new here. Morrowind had this. But all that's in the expanded section... it was even Mods for all three of the newest games.
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Angel Torres
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:53 am

Biased poll is biased.
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Danny Blight
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:07 am

Biased poll is biased.

Please reframe from spaming. The poll clearly represents everyone. Unless you have a suggestion im reporting that post tomorrow when I get back on my computer. *in the nicest possible way*
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Jordyn Youngman
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:05 pm

Yeah, everyone wants building houses or wants a crafting system like New Vegas.Undoubtedly.
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Teghan Harris
 
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Post » Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:34 pm

Well good this thread will highlight that. Dosent mean its biased lol
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Jinx Sykes
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:04 am

oh yea.any type of crafting would be great.although smithing was also confirmed for Skyrim :)
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Mizz.Jayy
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:23 am

Something akin to our personal houses for completing the great house quest lines in Morrowind would be neat.
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Harinder Ghag
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:40 am

Yes please! Something like a Morrowind stronghold or Oblivion DLC house would be marvelous. There's nothing like having your Own House in-game.
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Sharra Llenos
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:44 am

Perhaps in a quest to rebuild a town after a dragon attack lol.

This reminds of another thing also, I once wished I could have a quest about a personal mead hall in Skyrim. Building, recruiting and setting up may apply here also.
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Veronica Flores
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:24 am

Yes as much free building and customization of player housing as possible. Would be extremely fun.
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Elina
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 12:08 pm

RTS :D
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Cathrin Hummel
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:05 am

For the 2nd question I would love to say Yes it would be nice but it is just not possible unless it is really un polished(Like "Get 5 wood" "Press A to make Wardrobe" then you have a wardrobe)
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Charlotte Lloyd-Jones
 
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Post » Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:43 pm

I'd love it if I could build a village or some such like the east empire company quests in the Bloodmoon expansion. I would however, like more control over placement of absolutely everything from building locations/looks/design to the spoons and forks inside said buildings. I'd also be picky about who lives there. (No squeaky Bosmer cannibals plzkthx)

Since we have smithing/woodcutting/etc there could be two ways to do this. Harvest and gather all the resources yourself, or just pay for them. Would certainly give rich players something to spend their money on. This sort of thing would also be a nice rewarding time sink imo.
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Joie Perez
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:33 am

For the 2nd question I would love to say Yes it would be nice but it is just not possible unless it is really un polished(Like "Get 5 wood" "Press A to make Wardrobe" then you have a wardrobe)

Maybe on consoles... jobs are already in the game though so maybe not. I can't really tell you how it would go. Its only been done in morrowind and Mods.
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Post » Fri Feb 18, 2011 11:41 pm

No NONE of us want more Depth in Skyrim and more features thats not the question the question is "Can Bethesda actually you know put it in the game".
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Shannon Lockwood
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:18 am

I wouldn't mind having my own house. :)

I didn't like the way Morrowind did it though, as the house wasn't yours. Especially when going through House Hlaalu, ugh. House Telvanni was best in my opinion. :)
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:51 am

No NONE of us want more Depth in Skyrim and more features thats not the question the question is "Can Bethesda actually you know put it in the game".

You must be one of those three people up there. Read the rest of the thread and stop spaming.
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Charleigh Anderson
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:30 am

If Morrowind had it then i believe Skyrim should. Oblivion had something like that where you just remodeled lairs and a castle whice was cool but i'd like to be able to pick a spot and a type of house or even a castle if you have enough gold for that.
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Madeleine Rose Walsh
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:23 am

Definitely the would rock I can see myself now as the ruler of a secluded town that fights for skyrims freedom mainly just raids. But I can imagine how happy the freedom fighters would be when I ride into camp to join them for the final fight with maby 60 experienced raiders all with horses.
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:40 am

Building with or without NPC help would be cool, but it's not why I play these games so I wouldn't be disappointed if it's not in the game.

+Petrose
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Post » Fri Feb 18, 2011 10:48 pm

Building with or without NPC help would be cool, but it's not why I play these games so I wouldn't be disappointed if it's not in the game.

+Petrose

Of course same could be said with a variety of features already in the game or suggested.
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Robert Jr
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:36 am

wouldn't that be just an in-game creation kit? but limited to only buildings.
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Brittany Abner
 
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Post » Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:34 am

wouldn't that be just an in-game creation kit? but limited to only buildings.

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