If people who find talking and walking cats killing midgits who are naturally short and adept with bows common place and normal, and then they say that your idea is unrealistic, i think thats a good indication your idea may be slightly flawed.

exactly, crouching through the underbrush, waiting for that deer to show up, bow at the ready..i may have had everything scale to my level, but atleast at lvl 42, my charecter felt stronger against deer than he did at lvl 1!

That sounds extremely boring to me. This is a game and I want to have fun and be immersed when I play it. If hunting deer actually produced something useful in game like valuable items then I might have done it. It didn't in Oblivon, so I'd see a deer and shoot an arrow at it to scare it away.

Yah you missed the deer bc you are bad at aiming you said that earlier...

Yah npc pathing has to be improved obviously... but I really dont see how increasing projectile speed is going to make enemies harder to hit? How exactly would that make it hard mode? (You stated that we are easy mode types)

I figure no matter what they do for the AI, hitting the AI will be easy. Unless AIs have vastly improved in the last year and I did not notice it, we will all figure out how to shoot them with ease. The question is since it will be easy to hit at the end of the day, should it also be absurdly easy to avoid being hit. That is what makes the current system so easy. Once you figure out how to hit a target, mostly just back peddle and fire you are going to hit 90% of the time. Hey that is fine, melee hits most of the time as well. But due to the slow speeds it is absurdly easy to dodge ranged attacks as well. Knowing I am going to hit them and they will never hit me does not really offer much of a challenge. Making the speed of the projectiles fast enough that it is hard to dodge, puts us on closer to even footing and it will require more skill to win. I am not some invulnerable guy pelting the opposition with spells. I take the same hits I dish out, so I have to be more careful.

You do know melee can dodge too right? They can even block if they are feeling lazy, you cant block a fireball, you only have dodge to rely on. Does that mean melee should be changed so you auto-hit everything within 10 feet?
Kinda sounds like, you know, dumbing the game down... :thumbsdown:

Weather or not its easy to do, you should be able to dodge projectiles in TES. If the AI is too stupid to trace shots then fix the AI rather than break the projectiles.

I hardly ever used magic projectiles in Oblivion. Being a console player (for the most part) it's very difficult to hit a moving target with a slow moving projectile. I think magic projectiles should be replaced with a sort of magic which is like a bullet(I know a bullet is a projectile). Or even just add an alternative that takes more magicka to use. When a bullet is shot over a short range it hits near instantly after it is shot. This spell would act similarly where you point at your target, cast, and it instantly hits your target. Of course the enemies will have the same ability, so avoiding an incoming magic attack will become impossible(Unless the AI has a percent possibility it will miss). I think this would make silence and resist magic more important. Overall, I think it would make the magic system more useful. Do you agree?

P.S. Before anyone starts with the anti-console talk. I have played through Oblivion on PC and the projectiles where relatively hard to use(to me, I don't play on the PC often). oh and bow & arrow is almost useless as well because of how many arrows it takes to kill an enemy. I would like crossbows which would act similar to the spell I mentioned above and are more powerful than a bow. If they're crossbows in skyrim which shoot bolts quickly(It would be to a bow like a sniper rifle is to a rifle in single shot mode)(powerful but shoots very slowly) I'd be very happy. I just want a ranged weapon/magic that can be effective as a primary weapon, but is still fun. I found it boring to just run backwards firing 10 times with a bow/magic missile to kill an enemy. I know making the projectile faster won't help with that. I don't know how they will fix the AI so the player can't just backpedal. Maybe, a warp spell or enemies will stun you with magic or blind you with dirt for a short time.

No making it absurdly easy to dodge dumbs the game down. And I appreciate that you like that set up. Making it more difficult to dodge does not make it dumbed down. I am not asking for it to be impossible to dodge, but more difficult. To quote me "Making the speed of the projectiles fast enough that it is hard to dodge, "(note not impossible) Maybe have to use a non ugly version of the acrobatic dodge to dodge with a good success rate, so you have to have skilled things up a bit. And while melee can both block and dodge it is harder to dodge since there is effectively less flight time. Ranged you get to see the same type of melee wind up but you have a heck of a lot more time to dodge. I'd like melee strikes to go faster as well, so people would have to rely upon the block skill more but that might be asking for too much. Heck just have the AI not almost constantly do power strikes and it would be harder to dodge.

I want slow, and fast (but not too fast-bulletlike) spells.

Best if you could change their speed when you make them.