I'm sure many of you have commit theft, murder, and trespassing in your TES careers. What other criminal activities would you like to pursue in TES5?

I think pimping is legal.

Bribery is definitely legal. In fact, it was encouraged in Morrowind.

pimping would be extreemly dumb. I mean, realy. Why would you want to run around the middle ages with a bunch of fancy dressed hokers. That would definatly get in the way of the game. Extorsion and smuggleing would be cool. They would give a great new aspect to thieves guild along with making it easyer and funner to be a thief outside the guild. Torture would make the game sort of wierd. Bribery was already in OB, but I would like to be aloud to do it more frequently. And if by levitasion you mean levitating people, then yes! definatly!

http://www.freewebs.com/anticlere/lawandcourts.htm

High Crimes ? Death by various means

Treason
Conspiracy to Commit Treason

Severe Crimes ? Public and private torture

Homicide
Attempted Homicide
Assault with a deadly weapon
Abduction
Robbery
Espionage

Felonies ? Public torture and humiliation

Harboring Exiles
advltery
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Bearing False Witness
Poisoning
Burglary
Burning houses
Blackmail
Identity Theft
Piracy
Grand Theft
Racketeering

Misdemeanors ? Public humiliation

Assault
Assault and Battery
Fighting on holy ground
Aiding criminals
Manslaughter
Incendiary speeches
Negligence
Theft
Forestalling
Purpresture
Using false balances
Vagrancy
Public Nuisance in construction
Squatting
Forgery
Smuggling
Tax Evasion
Trespassing
Vandalism
Disorderly Conduct

good ideas, but wouldn't a thief or pickpocket get his hand cut off?

hahahaha Tax Evasion! :rofl: Please explain to me how someone in TES can accomplish tax evasion!

not paying taxes to the local lord/lady

yes, but that asspect has never been introduced and that would make owning a home anoying if they did introduce it and you had to pay propperty tax. Would you realy want to deal with that?

yes i would

I think arson would be increadably fun, shooting fire balls at a house and having all the people getting buckets full of water to put it out, but you just keep shooting and shooting and shooting

Sigg'd.

On a more on topic note:
Levitation should be legal.

Arson - No. I'm not sure either the technology or the ability of the devs to create dynamic communities is quite ready for this.
Bribery - Don't we already have this?
Extortion - Once again, you'd need a much more dynamic system to account for this.
Levitation - BRING IT BACK! And make it legal, I'm thinking.
Pimping - I suppose if one can run businesses in the game (doubtful, as this isn't a business sim, it's an adventure RPG), one could run a brothel. It wouldn't even be outside the realm of possibility just about anywhere in Tamriel. However, it isn't important enough to me (read: I really don't care) to go up against the "Moral Guardians" that would inevitably pop out of the woodwork and denounce gamesas for introducing this possibility.
Smuggling - I believe I voted Yes on this. Having the game simulate this aspect more fully could be fun.
Torture - NO. :flame: Or if they did, have it NEVER WORK.
Treason - Yes, but against who? I'd love to see opportunities for betrayal figure into various parts of a questweb (let's do away with the isolated straight lines, okay?)
Vandalism - Much like Arson, it would either be pointless (other than for teh lols), or game breaking

YES! Yes! :chaos: But arson and vandalism would need destructible environments. I hopetose are implemented. It would be grea if one could set things to fire! (no, I'm not a pyroman nor pyrofil nor anything else)

Torture would be interresting. Either as a crime or as a punishment, but I hope they would be able to come up with something better than the SI "torture" system.

Why? Adn if ti never works, wouldn't it be usless then? Why to bother then?

They should have piracy and plagiarism as crimes... :rolleyes:

What I mean is, some people (indeed, some people in very high government offices) seem to have this idea that if you hurt people enough, they will tell you true things. This is not the case; they tell the torturer what the torturer wants to hear, because that is what makes the torture stop.

On the one hand, if it were in, it would potentially set off the moral guardians, like with prostitution. On the other hand, unlike prostitution, I, personally, find the inclusion of such a feature morally objectionable.

It would need a lot more complicated than that, really. We'd either need some major AI (if a lamp in your house falls over while you're away, are you accused of arson because the game connects it to items you possessed? How do we make sure the guards carrying torches at night don't accidentally ignite things as they walk around?) or a return to inactive Morrowind non-AI, to avoid simple mistakes or situations the AI isn't prepared for from destroying entire cities. We would also need not just destructible environments, but the likely more difficult rebuildable environments, or else the world would be in ruins by the time you finished the game.

That would be fricking hilarious! And it would result in guards killing each other, just like in good ol'oblivion..

only this time it'll be funnier 'cause they probable light each other on fire instead of accidentally shooting each other with arrows...

I voted for vandalism, I just love making a mess of things ( not in real life, 'cause it would give other people trouble and expenses unnescesarily)and blowing stuff up!

i checked em all, cept for the last one..that would be a bit weird..lol

Ooo, ooo, what about "indecent exposure"? :hehe:

The only reason that you never have to pay taxes is because your character never is involved in any buisnesses that fall under an Imperial Charter, such as mining, fishing, architecture, real estate, flin, and other such goods.

I'm hoping that could change in the next TES game, as that could open you up to a whole smuggling questline. Otherwise, you are constricted to the law. You should have both options.

Not if you want to RP a criminal who pimps out prosttutes. Why do you think the game has to be just about smashing baddies? If you think it'll get in the way of your game, don't do it. However, some people want to pursue criminal activities such as pimping (although prostitution was legal in Daggerfall. I guess it's not legal in Maryland Disneyland Cyrodiil.


Yes. If you own land, you have to pay taxes. Also, NPC's should be able to commit this crime if they feel they are above the law or if they can't afford the taxes


OH HAI, JOO KEEPZ YER MORALZ OUTTA MAI GAME PLZKTHX

I want to be able to light enemies houses on fire and have a smuggling business.

It looks to me like some of the posters in this thread are looking not for TES5, but for GTA: Tamriel.

what are you talking about? you can barely do any of those things in gta except in missions.