i was just on a thread where it was mentioned for the millionth time that you should be able to write notes on a piece of paper with a quill and what not. then ig88 wrote:
*Proceeds to leave rude notes regarding the local guard captain's mother in the barracks*

then i thought to myself, wouldn't it be cool if you could write on paper, but instead of having custom notes to yourself you can make letters with options of messages that npcs can recognize?
then maybe most npcs can have a universal chest that most people have (edit: mailbox? :biggrin: ) and you can leave a letter there.

i was kind of thinking a system like demon's souls how you can leave messages, but you can't write so they had a bunch of things you could put that relate to the game (but much smaller for the sake of npcs being able to comprehend the letter).

so you can have options of things you can give to people such as:
-death threat
-love letter
-stay away from my farm at night
-control your dogs
-insult mother
-meet me at...
-go to...
-thank you

and so on

maybe it would be hard to do, but the list doesn't have to be huge, and i don't see why they can't add a little comment that an npc can reply to regarding a letter. you have to admit that it would be cool to know the reason that the guard captain is giving everyone such a hard time is because of an anonymous letter insulting his mother

this would also be much more immersive than merely writing a note to yourself (which maybe could be incorporated too but thats not what this is about).
so what do you guys think other than "it would be too difficult"?

Sounds like a pretty good mod idea.

i don't like that. we want the vanilla game to be so good that it won't even require mods. lets keep that mindset. :thumbsup:

when i first played oblivion i thought you could already write notes.
like you select the pen in ur inventory then a peice of paper and that screen would come up like when you choose ur name.
maybe we can even write our own book and share it with other players.

But the problem is whether the dev team should spend time on making that system. How much of an impact would the system have on gameplay? Would it be worth the effort? How many people would be likely to use it? These are the questions that game developers ask themselves to decide whether or not a system should be in a game. Like was said above, great idea for a mod, not really clear if it should be in a vanilla version of a game.

these are the minor details that make the difference between a great game, and an amazing game.

This^ Sounds neat, but I don't see the devs spending the time and resources to implement it.

Yeah, it's been said before, but it's definitely something that would be fun to do. Write notes, journal, novels, etc. The only thing I'll add is publishing your books to local book sellers and earning a profit once a month or something like that.

If this were implemented right, this sort of idea would actually be pretty awesome. I'd use it.

I'm realistic and I know very well that the game can't have everything so I don't bother building things up to a level that Skyrim will never live up to. Go right ahead and keep that mind set if you wish, you'll just be disappointed at release.