Why rescale the game to double the potential levels only to turn around and cap benefits of leveling?

Well you're right I guess , but a lot is connected to the perks , and let me explain why ...
You have crafting for example , you will be able to craft more varied and more powerful items by increasing your crafting skill and acquiring perks .
Now what I'm afraid might happen is that 50 perks are so not enough that eventually I will have to choose between gameplay features ... Do I want to see these powerful crafted items and what they have to offer ? or do I want to zoom in with my bow ? or do I want to bash and stagger enemies with my shield ?
well I want to try all of them , but I don't want to necessarily master them ... and I believe that the number of perk points is so limited that it will eventually lock features in the game that I could have enjoyed and experienced ....

You don't have the time to play Skyrim multiple times but you have the time to hang around Skyrim's forums prior to it's release. Ahuh.)

Yes I'm lying I have a lot of time to play games during work/school days and my activity in the Skyrim forums during the summer holiday is the BIGGEST proof ... right ? :facepalm:

Ah, so that explains it. It's summer time for the wittle boy. Gotcha.

What makes you think I'm a boy ? and that I'm little ?!
You keep on making false assumptions like that and the various ones before and you'll be the next George W bush ( I SWEAR THEY HAD WMDs ! ) :whistling:

Now I may be wrong, but it's how you communicate on these forums. You only strengthened my thoughts on that particular opinion I had of you when you mentioned "school" and "summer".

But anyhow, your reply, which ignored the rest of my post, didn't really warrant more than what you got. Just sayin'.

Your post was just a repeat of thing you said before ....
You are obviously not interested in anyones' opinion other than your own , so you just repeat your own opinion multiple times ...

the perks are all skill related so are you gona level your one-handed alot then just get perks for archery see what im getting at

in almost every tes game i used all skills (with the exception of conjuration, blunt and heavy armour) and i will play as one thing the first minute then change the next, also isnt there not a cap level? cant you still very slowly progress?

in almost every tes game i used all skills (with the exception of conjuration, blunt and heavy armour) and i will play as one thing the first minute then change the next, also isnt there not a cap level? cant you still very slowly progress?

16:12 Within the one-handed skill tree you've got these different perks for maces, and axes, and swords and so on. Within the magic system is it kind of similar, is it by school that you're perking up, or is it individually like I've got fire spells, and I'm going to perk fire spells?

"Well there's the school Destruction, so that covers like a category of spells, and then within Destruction there are perks for fire based spells. So people see we've removed Mysticism, but that's just a label right? Those spells go into other skills. And then it gets deeper within those skills. The easy thing for us is to just add more skills. That's actually easier. Because in the old games there was just a skill and a number, there wasn't really a progression. We really want you to feel that you're getting better in this particular skill. And perks are the main way we do that now. And I think the game right now has like 280 perks if you include the ranks. So even a character that raises all their skills to 100, and they're playing and they're level 50, they've only gotten to pick 50 perks. They're very different characters. And a lot of the power is in the perks as opposed to the raw number of the skill. There's still some power in the raw number of the skill, just not as much as there used to be. All that stuff has been moved into the perks."


49:14 Explain how the leveling system works, particularly in relation to the maximum level. What your philosophy is toward that, how long can you level in the game, when does it become basically impossible to level, etc.

"We don't code in a maximum level. There is a theoretical maximum depending on what your skills are. The one change we've made is that you level faster. We've sort of balanced Oblivion and Fallout 3 in some respects to like a 1 - 35, 1 - 30, so if people play for a long time that's the kind of high level with creatures and whatever. This one is balanced like 1 - 50, but it isn't longer in gameplay. You do level faster, a lot faster, especially in the beginning of the game. Because of the power in the perks, we wanted to be giving them out at a higher rate. The actual maximum depending on your particular character how it works out might be 75. I don't really know. I'm just saying we don't code in the maximum level. It will end up whatever it ends up."

"(Perks being more fun) It's the thing you're always shooting for. Even 1 - 50 it slows down a lot as you play. If you assume there's 200 hours of content, you can sort of figure out, 'how often do I get to level?' We think we can balance that with the perks. That's what happened. We did the perks, and we figured out quickly, 'oh, to make these work, we need to be leveling faster.' And it is more fun."

50 perk points is nowhere near enough to even roleplay, 50 perks are only enough to focus on 3-4 skills , and there are 18 of them , supposedly 6 for every archtype , you should at least be able to focus on 6 skills not 3 .
and even if 50 was enough which it could be , I think choosing one perk per level is not very rewarding .... increasing your 2 handed weapon damage 20% after an entire level and nothing else , doesn't feel rewarding ..

I am beginning to think the rumor about 50 max perks started with the February Game Informer Podcast:



Todd was talking about explaining the huge differences between two different level 50 characters, based on the 50 different perks they selected.

Nowhere in any video interview, podcast interview, print interview or any other source that I can find has there been any mention of perks stopping at level 51.

I see where your coming from, but I also recall Todd Howard specifically stating that you won't be able to get perks past level 50. This was in a video interview. Now I can't point you to that specific interview, but I do recall viewing said interview. *Shrugs*

I see where your coming from, but I also recall Todd Howard specifically stating that you won't be able to get perks past level 50. This was in a video interview. Now I can't point you to that specific interview, but I do recall viewing said interview. *Shrugs*

If you are saying this was in a video interview, and not in a print article, that would make it even less likely. Just to make sure, you believe it was an interview with Todd Howard and not Ashley Cheng, Craig Lafferty or Pete Hines, correct?

There are tons of print articles, but only a few Todd Howard video interviews about Skyrim. I've watched them all and since reading your post above, I went back and watched them all again.

This evening, I just watched every single Todd Howard intervew -- AGAIN.

None of them mention perks stopping at level 51.

If you are saying this was in a video interview, and not in a print article, that would make it even less likely. Just to make sure, you believe it was an interview with Todd Howard and not Ashley Cheng, Craig Lafferty or Pete Hines, correct?

There are tons of print articles, but only a few Todd Howard video interviews about Skyrim. I've watched them all and since reading your post above, I went back and watched them all again.

This evening, I just watched every single Todd Howard intervew -- AGAIN.

None of them mention perks stopping at level 51.