I've created a new worldspace which the player's horse doesn't travel to. When fast traveling around it, the message "Your horse is stabled outside the city gate." keeps coming up. What is the most elegant way to get rid of this?

Kill your horse.

Um.... it wouldn't be a very good mod if it killed the player's horse...

Yes, I thought of moving the player to a black room, make the player invisible, forcing the player to mount it, and then killing the said horse before moving the player to the new worldspace... it should work, but it's been known for the player character to get bugged if the horse dies while being ridden. Anything less clunky and buggy?

Find the game setting sFastTravelHorseatGate, and change the text there to a spacebar stroke.
You can also 'nullify' any other text game setting like this, like the messages which appear when picking flora, the 'loading area' one... Never remove completely the text in them, always leave at least a blank space, or else all messages will stop appearing.

Thanks! I got the same suggestion simultaneously from two different places.

Since I'm using OBSE, I ended up using the function con_SetGameSetting sFastTravelHorseatGate " " and con_SetGameSetting sFastTravelHorseatGate "Your horse is stabled outside the city gate." in order to turn it on and off upon entering and exiting the wordspace.

You might need to put the setting in a GetGameLoaded test. Some of these settings get reset when the player loads a saved game. Also the con version of those functions won't work from scripts. I think you want this http://cs.elderscrolls.com/index.php/SetStringGameSettingEX instead.

It was a joke.

I suppose it would have worked and would have been more elegant than forcing the player to mount an invisible horse.


con_SetGameSetting sFastTravelHorseatGate " " Actually did work quite well in a script though I think I'll use SetStringGameSettingEX as suggested instead since it seems to directly change the variable instead of using the console as a workaround. I'll run a quest script to keep the variable updated.

Yes, to be more accurate, the docs say that the console version doesn't work reliably from a script. I was too tired to type all that earlier Glad you got it sorted. Very good timing actually - I'll probably need to use the same function soon.