I'm actually really looking forward to seeing how the jail system works in Skyrim. Even though you start off in prison in OB, one of the first things I actually did was get arrested so I could break out undetected. I guess I'm just hoping that lock-picking has been made more difficult so that the 'one lock-pick, stored god-knows-where', scenario when you DO go to jail, becomes a bit more of a challenge. For me anyway. I know some people would have found it harder.

I'm also very interested to see how this turns out with the whole crime system and whatnot

I'm hoping the Imperial infrastructure in Skyrim is really weak, including the "law". After the whole debacle going on in Cyrodiil and the loose grip on Skyrim from the Empire, you would need some heavy suspension of disbelief to see guard phalanxes everywhere and such.

yeah im very excited to find out how lock picking and the crime system/going to jail system will work out. also i would like to see what the negative effect(s) are for going to jail

I hope we get the red dead time lapse when we serve our sentence. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHoNUfnBm3k&feature=related

I half expected this thread to be about someone getting lock up soon and being unable to play Skyrim. :teehee:

Yeah, I want a fleshed out jail break mechanic.

I hope there's no jail and they lock in stocks at the edge of town wearing only your loin cloth (and other necessary under garments).

That would be kind of cool, as long as you can skip it. I don't want to have to sit through 10000 different crimes every time I go to jail. I like how all he did in the video was swing a rope and he was shot and arrested for it.

I completely agree. The Empire has lost it's grip on Skyrim and it is in a state of civil war, I don't think guards are going to be patrolling the streets everywhere. I would like for more of a locally-based punishment system. i.e. if you go on a crime spree in a village, the villagers will be the ones to confront you and judge your punishment, not the all-knowing guards from previous entries. With the government falling apart, smaller settlements will have to govern themselves, and the larger cities would likely be held by one of the major contending forces in the civil war, and I think the punishment for your crimes should vary at least slightly based on whoever is controlling the area where you committed your crime(s).

Not sure how it will actually work, but this was my thought on it.

Just hope they make it similar to the mod if i have no witnesses i won't be charged.

The game will enter an entirely new area, where you must spend, in real time, all of your jail sentence. There is no fast forwarding, even while sleeping. A year sentence is a whole year you must live in the jail. Shank people, get shanked, smuggle goods in your naughty place, harass the guards, and all sorts of criminal fun in Skyrim's devilish dungeons!

Yay, the new minigame for Skyrim is Oz.

Sounds like the blurb on the back of the box. XD I like it.

I would actually like a prison break sort of quest. Like, bribing guards, prisoners, getting items, breaking out, etc.

This

I am actually more interested to see how the crime system has been updated overall not just for players but for npc's too. Like in oblivion, if some npc gets caught stealing even if he's stealing a bread guards would just kill him. I don't want to see that again, hopefully guards would arrest/fine npc's too this time.

Nope. Nobody ever found that the least bit difficult. Maybe while drunk, or after a major concussion. But other than that, that mini game was a joke.

I wish that they could have a word-puzzle type mini game for one of the skills, but that would make even LESS sense than it did for Fallout.

Agreed, I'd like the law to be extremely weak and not unrealistic where there's a infinitude of guards or whatever. But it'd be nice to see everything completely get so weakened that law ceased to exist. And then a new culture forms in Skyrim where there's no laws because everyone is hela content, aha. A utopia arises.

I smell like poop

'0 LAWS=UTOPIA'

That is unequivocally the stupidest thing I've heard in my entire life.

You sir, have just recreated Chronicles of Riddike: Escape from Butcher Bay, and that game rocked! Clearly Skyrim probably couldn't be this extreme, but having a much more in-depth jail experience would add a lot to the game in my opinion (for those who frequently break the law).

Ever take a criminology class? Crime is necessary for society, because crime allows for laws to be created - laws that define behavior as "social" vs behavior that is "anti-social" - IE crimes.

In you're "perfect" world, it would be just as socially acceptable to cut your uncles head off, as going to the store to buy a loaf of bread. Yep. Utopia.

I like this idea, but on a much smaller and shorter scale. I wouldnt mind going to jail for a certain period of time in game. Not only is it a new area to explore and there are lots of things you could do with it, its also a lot better of a punishment than the screen just loading to the end of your sentence.

There could be a few things you do there....

Play prison games.
Barter contraband.
Do prison work.
Learn (books, classes)
Fight.
ESCAPE!

As long as it wasnt too long then it would be fun. And as long as the option to escape was always there, albeit hard to do.

You forgot shanking.

No I didnt.