portable tent / camp out : V

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 9:43 am

do you guys and girls think that it would be cool to camp out in the forests, say if buying a house was too expensive or boring you could purchase a tent which you can "deploy" anywhere you want in the map and light a campfire, eg: you have picked a side quest to explore a fort you can camp near the area rather than walking or fast traveling all the way back to a town to pick up an item and travel all the way back. leave a comment :thumbsup:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 2:46 am

nah , it doesnt seem like a good idea to me. lol it doesnt fit this game

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:20 pm

No tent, but bedrolls should definitely be an item you can carry, perhaps on the back of your horse?

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 10:47 am

I want a deployable tent for the purpose of not having to find a random bedroll. Anything else would merely be icing on the cake in my opinion.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 12:13 pm

I don't see why not. There was a very decent camping kit mod in Morrowind, and it worked fine.

TheElderScrolls, how would a tent not fit in this game?

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:39 am

Any portable bed really, instead of "wait" maybe..just an idea.....

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:12 am

nah , it doesnt seem like a good idea to me. lol it doesnt fit this game

How does a tent not fit the game?

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 11:53 pm

Yes. the Portable Campsite mod for Oblivion was awesome. (Tent, bedroll, campfire, sack, stool) could be purchased seperately, and set up how you like.
So yes, something like this for vanilla Skyrim for sure.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:46 am

I always hated being half way through a dungeon, or just plain far away from a bed and then getting the "You should rest and meditate on what you've learned" message, a bed roll at the very least would be an improvement to me. Of course there should be a chance of waking up in the middle of your sleep by an enemy trying to kill you.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 5:57 am

nah , it doesnt seem like a good idea to me. lol it doesnt fit this game

Morrowind and Oblivion were both full of tents...how do they suddenly not fit the game now?

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/File:MW-place-Yakaridan_Camp.jpg

http://www.uesp.net/wiki/File:OB-place-Garnet_Camp.jpg

Guess someone forgot to tell the devs that those tents don't fit the game. :rolleyes:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:47 am

It makes sense.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:02 am

Fine with a bedroll, personally hope theres a backpack type thing but not getting my hopes up.

Putting an entire tent up isn't really needed though

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:04 am

I want a portable bedroll. An adventurer isn't an adventurer without a bedroll.

Of course you shouldn't be able to sleep everywhere as it's so cold in Skyrim. Maybe in a cave for example.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:37 am

yea the customizable tent idea sounds good you could have bedrolls for indoor and outdoor and a tent and campfire for outdoors, be funny if you caught some one stealing your things :toughninja:

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 8:06 am

Buddha would choose to "Rest" for 24 hours under a tree... the rest of us camp.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 3:34 am

Gimme portable bedrolls.

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 4:05 am

Of course you shouldn't be able to sleep everywhere as it's so cold in Skyrim. Maybe in a cave for example.

Or anywhere you can set up your thick, well-insulated bearskin tent.

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 10:42 pm

Yes to a tent. The question is would the character actually pitch a tent real-time? and would the player be involved with pitching the tent? or would you press a button and a tent appears there?

Anyway, I would like to have tents of varying size too. anything from one of those little triangle tents, to something like one of those larger yurts in Morrowind, (which are very similar to the http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/9b/Gurvger.jpg actually, and as nomads of a northern region, I feel these kinds of yurts would work in Skyrim).

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:29 am

I always hated being half way through a dungeon, or just plain far away from a bed and then getting the "You should rest and meditate on what you've learned" message, a bed roll at the very least would be an improvement to me. Of course there should be a chance of waking up in the middle of your sleep by an enemy trying to kill you.

THIS,... I agree it was nice in Morrowind to be attacked while resting and in Daggerfall while fast traveling it would be interrupted by an attack adds to realism

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 1:31 am

Fine with a bedroll, personally hope theres a backpack type thing but not getting my hopes up.

Putting an entire tent up isn't really needed though

I disagree with the weather in skyrim you would need more then a bedroll in many areas so it wouldnt be out of character to need the added benefits of a shelter of some kind

» Tue Mar 29, 2011 8:10 pm

Of course you shouldn't be able to sleep everywhere as it's so cold in Skyrim. Maybe in a cave for example.

The "so cold in Skyrim"-part is hardly accurate. I don't know if you've noticed, but a lot of the areas we've seen so far seem to be rather temperate. Just like Scandinavia, which Skyrim is based on (which certain people will be happy to remind you). Therefore, a cave should not be necessary, except for in the colder areas that is.

I'm not sure I like the idea of putting up an actual tent though. Well, I kind of do, it just seems silly to carry around a frickin' tent, when a bedroll would suffice. Although, a tent could probably protect against Skyrim's weather...

» Wed Mar 30, 2011 7:50 am

I like the idea of pitching a tent and setting up a bedroll, but I think there should be some risk or sacrifice associated with them. I mean, if you're carrying an entire tent and bedroll on your back, that's probably gonna be a bit weighty, right? So it should encumber you quite a bit. Also, I agree with the random attacks while sleeping in the wild.