So... the luck of the Draw for DiD Competition XII Dawnguard

1. Restoration

2. 1h

3. Illusion

4. Block

5. Light Armor

6. Smithing

7. Destruction

8. Heavy Armor

Rules and goal's so far:

DiD Round XII Dawnguard....Hero or villain?

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Dawnguard_Quests

*multiplier

Unfortunately Sah I can't help with ENB outside what I gave you because I only use ENBoost for the memory patch.


You can ask on STEP forums in the ENB troubleshooting forum and I think ENB has a forum itself.


Skyrim is limited to 4GB of RAM so in a heavily modded build you need to use a memory patch and there's a few things you need to do to get it working right, as well as a utility that can let you know if your memory blocks are set up right.


http://imgur.com/E8btKVH


What my setup looks like after the mods.

http://youtu.be/RO5mHASc8us


Took a load of work and still no ENB.

its ok Sakiri ..............I realy dont care any more ...........something that is so widely used, you would recon some one would have written a good install program..............

this do it your self thing and all the settings in ini files drives you insane............every where you look there is the same problem CTD after installing ENB ..............where are all the wizards when you need them ..............not one good piece of advice on what to do, in plain English

I spent over $400 for a card that I cant stet up a ENB .................I am sooooooooooooooo..............sorry sister

Im so lost ....................love ya

Sah.....oh honey....so much hurt.....so much grey


Look.....um.....you are probably asking the wrong people here. You need a computer graphics specialist forum. Geek central! Our forums are gamers....you need the kind of people who are into computers in a more tech way....overclockers....that kind of thing.


I wish I knew more about computers! BUT I am HERE FOR YOU, ok.


Come into my PM space honey.....we will speak


Sah....you know

Always.....

I am sad.

Also I am the sad your avatar and pink are gone.

The reason there's no real installer is that ENB is a program you can tweak yourself, and all the presets you see there are just that... other people's settings.

I *think* people have tried installers for ENB before but I'd have to dig around a little bit. There's still file changes you need to do manually though. I change mine through the configurator tool in Mod Organizer.

CTD can be caused by a lot of things as well. I've gotten them occasionally in just about every single install of every Bethesda game ever, even Vanilla installs. Game just.. quits.

I am not the tech savvy person, I had to ask on STEP forums to fix all my stuff.

Sah, I really hope you get your game sorted out. It wouldn't feel right without you here with us. Please keep us posted!

I've a really simple question for you Sah, that may give a simple solution. Are you using Windows 10?

If so, have you downloaded and installed "Direct X End-User Runtimes"? It's not really intuitive exactly why this fixes CTD issues with ENB in Windows 10, but apparently it does. I know you said no links, but if you want to try it, I can provide links for you.

Today, tick, tick tick. Tomorrow, tick......tick.......tick. Almost time and it's slowing down to a crawl.......ahhhhhhhh! Can't stand the wait so... I'll be playing a Breton (who knew), Male, by the name of Tal.

He has no backstory, because he has a sudden case of CRS (can't remember sh!t) after waking up in a cart full of Nords. His story will unfold in the days to come and maybe he will regain his memory in the process. He seems to be good at using a mace and shield. Heavy armor just feels right to him and smithing along with it. On occasion when he's pressured he'll boil up with that Breton heritage and fire off a spell or two. Always seems to be fire or lightning, but once in a while his emotions run cold and the chill of frost finds a way.....out! He'll have to explore other avenues of magic and perhaps restoration and illusion will help him to heal and unlock those hidden memories. Time will tell.

Hmm, I need to come up with a name for dis one.

When can we make our entrants?

Hello everyone. It's been a while since i visit these competitions and i'm sorry i missed Dark Brotherhood round, but this round looks too good not to attend - the skills are perfect for a warrior with Restoration for healing instead of potions, just the way i like it.

The good news is that i finished recovering my sister's data from her laptop (got a nasty TeslaCrypt infection), so i'll have some time to spare. Probably not from the first day (Easter and stuff), but we'll see.

I understand how the penalty for skills work, but what about those that increase via books or Ogma. Do i have to look into the database before i read any book, just to be sure it won;t give me a wrong skill?

If you use Ogma, it doesn;t matter what you pick, it still gives you some bad skills (Two-handed and Archery for warrior, Pickpocket, Alchemy, Sneak for thief and Alteration, Conjuration, Enchanting for mage). This means at least 10 points are going to the wrong skills.

How many total points are for each side (those non radiant side quests).

How about other quests/questlines; is there any penalty?

I'm sorry to see you have problems with you new computer, Sah. Unfortunately my computer can't run Skyrim with ENB stuff installed, so i can;t give you any advice here.

Because I close tomorrow night...and the time differences around the world...etc... I'll put up the official DiD competition page tomorrow before I go to work. You can post your entry then. I may not get everyone on the 2nd post until after I get home...but I will get it done.

I will ask to please allow me the 1st 2 ( two) post's.....so as I get it up and the time tick's til it let's me post again... please wait for the 2nd one.

The 1st will have the rules, the 2nd will have everyone's entries... in this format please:

Your name: Aireal

Character name: http://i.imgur.com/i0Ac8uB.jpg << pictures are welcome but not needed

Race: Nord

Gender: Male

Difficulty: Adept

Their is a 2 point grace for each skill... I would look up the book's if you don't know which skill's they increase...as some ( sneak ) can be accidentally used...and probably where most of us will incur penalty points.. I would not use the Ogma...as that will incur a huge penalty....but that's just my opinion... the rules don't say you can't, you just get a penalty for the points.

Other quest-lines incur no points or penalties... if you have the time, do them... or not, your choice

DG main quest's is 500 points per quest done

Side quests is 100 points per quest

This is how I see the additional quest's that are added..

I'll add this part to the rules tomorrow morning. I gave "impatience" and "Lost" the 500 points because I think they are harder and deserve the extra points.

Eastern Orthodox?


I ask because you mentioned Easter, Pascha is this Sunday. :3

Yes, Orthodox Easter. I believe that's the official English translation.

+1


^.^


I'm not sure where we're going this year. His Grandma's or what.


I expect some stories from these guys when I get back.

Careful Sakiri.....it could all get reported by a certain 'someone' as off topic...like last time eh


Ske3Lz there is no penalty for doing other questlines, but not points either. So you can still get your shouts etc.


A skill book gives one point...you can have two points without penalty....so yeah....look em up....or dont risk book reading.


I am not going to get far in this round....I'll tell you that for nothing....I did good in my short practice.....but that was only the first area..... Dimhollow. Its the damn life drain that gets ya......in a few seconds you're dead.....and they are still doing it even in pursuit.

I just took my current test character through Dimhollow. Well, sort of. Took Lydia in, made it through to the point just after fighting the

with no death occurring. Difficulty was Legendary, and the char level was 28. However, now will not interact with my character. She stands there normally and not in combat stance, but I see her spells readied and glowing in her hands. She won't answer any activation except if I go into follower command mode, and then all she says is "I can't do everything for you". I had this issue once before, but I can't remember how I resolved it.

I sure hope I get it figured out before the competition, eh?

I was wondering if there are ever more than two skill books for a particular skill... I can't remember ever seeing more, but that doesn't mean much with my memory.

It became a habit to collect all the books i find. All my characters have the Library wing filled with books at Lakeview. I guess i'll have to print the database with all the skill books out there. There are 5 books for each skill.

I know those Master Vampires are a pain for Warrior characters. I'll have to come up with something before even trying Dimhollow.

Neil, judging by a quick glance through this link http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Skill_Books%C2%A0each skill has about 4/5 related skill books

edit: ninja'd haha

Thanks for the info... Both of you! I know quite a few of the books, but I'd guess there are a LOT of them I'm unfamiliar with. Some, like "thief" and "Begger" are easy to guess the skill based on the title, but others like "the Warrior's Charge" are more deceitful.

Skill books are always worth 50+ gold. You can have your follower pick them up for you if you don't feel like checking.

Upon death, is it over?

Or

Are we returning as zombie,,wraith, ghost etc with corresponding enforced level drops?


For the uninitiated...


We had a "retry system" in place (for longer more involved rounds to alleviate boredom for the early dead)

If you died you could restart (from Helgen, level 1)but were labelled a zombie and HAD to drop one difficulty level.

Die again, and you became a 'wraith' and dropped another difficulty level.


With the difficulty modifiers in place, this punished failure by making the deceased work through more quests to regain their previous scores, but by dropping a level it also made it easier to make progress.


It was a very fair way to ensure maximum scores for those willing to put the effort in.....but allowed those knocked out to get back in with a suitable penalty. Crucially...the score that counted for competition was the BEST score taken from ANY of your attempts.


So....well.....that's how it worked!


Are we doing it again....or going sudden death knockout?

Rick... a redo is fine...I think it's a long enough time period to try again if one get's dead early. With the lvl drops.

Rules... people we need to start a list of the rules for our DiD competitions... one's that can be copy/ pasted from round to round.. one's that make sense for the way we play.. not nessessarily the way other people play other games.

Here is a list so far... feel free to tear them apart and reword so that they are clearer to everyone.

1. No forbidden mods (That give players advantage) If you are new to this, post your mod list in a spoiler tag

2. No reloading previous saves even if character did not die (unless a glitch occurred).

3. No map based fast travel. Only carriages ar permited

4. Once in Helgen Keep, DiD rules apply (You must go through the cart cut-scene!).

5. No follower/trainer exploit.

6. Update at least once every 3 day

7. One follower and one dog .... ( quest followers must be taken strait to their objective)

* added as a note to this round ( Serana will not allow an additional follower "vanilla" after a certain point...so even though mod's allow for it, you must send your other followers home)

8. NO use of Exploit's... of any type... <<<~~~ this may need more clarification... if so... a list is good

9. No Fortify/ Restoration looping

Lookin' good hon....so is the list


Seriously.....ok....apart from a couple of typos. The whole human to whisp difficulty drop and points modifiers could be a "standard play" rule set, since we seem to like it....so included by default unless a specific round negates it.


Yes no8 should have examples in a spoiler box to be clear what is meant by an exploit.......but equally it needs clarifying that bugs and glitches are infact reloadable issues (or someone will ask). I would NOT go as far as the original DiD rules and give exemptions for domestic interferences...if you don't pause the game when the kids or partner start larking about that's a failure by the player....not a game fault!


Ummmmm........"must go through the cart cut scene" needs amending for the likes of a certain well to do personality who "simply can't be seen in the company of that disreputable Lokir fellow darling" (hear that like Liz Hurley and its spot on). I was also going to say also for sixy too, but I think she undergoes a fresh recreation for each round.