Umm, I could make a mod that does this in a few weeks. It's not that it is overly time consuming, it is whether or not they think it is worth the time allotted. Just some people seem to think that when you make a game that you there is only so much the game can have and getting one feature means you have to lose another. It's not there is only so much, it is time allotted and seeing as how they already have set a release date, they gave themselves plenty of time to polish their game. For all we know, BGS revealed the game and release date now to see what ideas the community has and see if anything is worth merit to add in at this point. Though I think the coroner was a bit much myself, but you should be able to hide the body and if the guards or some other npc finds it then they will start to piece together and investigation and you can work to foil it.

Wow. It was just a suggestion buddy. I didn't say it would be in the game. And if you took out the coroner thing, would it really be that hard to spawn some guards to appear around the murder site for a while and maybe ask npcs questions?

Maybe one mechanic would be casting fire spells on bodies, it burns and it disappears later... It is a healthy way to avoid plagues you know.

No, any bosmer living in Valenwood has to be a strict carnivore, and never even harm the plant-life. Because of this, they have a strict diet of only meat, and will wage war in order to eat. Also, one HAS to eat what they kill, even if they have to drag family members to help eat the entire thing.

Yeah, Hellmouth is right.

TES: Law and Order?

I don't think that the guards would be able to tell who did it.. Unless there was a witness of course. Their investigation would be more along the line of, "Okay.. so, we know he was killed by a sword.. Guys! How about this: Let's arrest everyone we see, that has a sword!" *all the other guards nod their head in approval of the genius idea* lul.

Well with the coroner is was more like CSI: Skyrim

I wouldn't mind if there was a "dispose of body" option, but it was usable with guards so they would dispose of the body so when we came back alas. they are gone, also a Shivering Isle-esque graveyard for every town would be nice, so we know where they have gone.... Also the smaller the settlement the more makeshift it looks.

Well if it isn't implemented in the core game, mods can take care of it. You can also use disable in the console.

I first thought this thread was about a stealth suggestion to hide bodies when you killed someone and enemies wouldn't be alerted.


But I usually just drag them off the road.

bs, the system he proposes could cause other problems. Particularly with AI, whenever you add a feature like this you could unbalance the game, leaving it open to exploitation or abuse. Game design is not the same as mod design, most mods I have played have grossly unbalanced my gameplay.

Yes it is time-consuming, there is a level of quality and consistency that must be maintained, adding features like "NPC murder investigation," would be a waste of time and effort and could end up breaking the game. What's to stop me from killing the guards, or wiping out an entire town so there are numerous investigations at once, does it spawn a new quest for every single killed NPC? Will the entire population of the game turn into guards investigating crimes? I think there are better, more interesting things I could be doing with my gametime than worrying about some plucky upstart guard trying to further his career by solving the murder of the decade.

Lets not forget the game is based during a civil war and dragons are all over the place ruining stuff.

Stupid idea, stupid reply. I'd like to see you mod that in a week.

I'd propose a simpler system that SIMULATES reality. If someone sees you do it, you will get a bounty and guards will be after you, but only if the witness is able to run and tell someone what happened. Otherwise, if a body is found the suspicion level increases, if another body is found, a bounty is placed on the player and guards in that area are after you. If you kill more people, you will become infamous and will have to be on the lookout no matter where you go. Maybe an Assassin's Creed-esque style system where you can bribe officials, or you do the time and lose some of your possessions.

Wow! This is deep stuff. Really cool, but very likely won't happen. This is like, the perfect crime system.

In cities bodys should disappear as soon a day pass, whisked away by the guards, out in the wilds they should go through a couple of stages of decay before desapearing in a few days, eaten by animals ect.

i want an "eat corpse" option



that works on EvERYTHING, including daedra and the ectoplasm from ghosts

Yeah, this will be in TES X


Edit: That said, they've already confirmed that NPCs will react to dead bodies... so it's not that big of leap to assume they'll have a system in place for you to handle your victim... hopefully something a bit more involved gameplay wise than simply having them disappear by a mere click of a button

"corpse has no effect on you"

Your right, I only went to college for game design... I obviously am not going to mod in the crazy coroner crap that he mentioned. I'm talking about modding in a system where if you drag a body and hide it and the guards can't see it then they won't react. I said it as a thing of how I could mod it for Skyrim because to mod it into Oblivion would meaning for me to change the way that guards react to objects and to murders and that would be firstly, against the law, and also would be painstaking for one person. As long as Skyrim doesn't have psychic guards, which in all likely-hood it won't, then I could make this mod in less than a week and that's one person, not over a 100 people. The main theme is a system where guards and citizens will react to a corpse and with negative consequences for the player such as the way they react in AC. So instead of ranting on about how I made a "stupid" answer, how about you stop making arguments about things you obviously have no knowledge of.

Yes please!

Hide bodies so guards don't see them? Yes. Magic option to make bodies instantly dissapear? No.

:hugs: My sentiments exactly.

I hardly care how they implement it, whether it's an option that just makes the body disappear or whatever. My point is I don't like when a dead body is stuck in an important place forever. It's really annoying and unrealistic for a dead body to just sit in the middle of a town for months. I don't care what they do, as long as they give some option to prevent dead bodies from just sitting out in the open forever like it's no big deal, with no reaction from nearby townspeople.

i dont want to have to wait for modders to fix a game i payed for.