Hi, I'm New to these Forums, I've Basically been playing since Morrowind

My Question is, and this will make reference to Fallout 3, When a dragon renders a city/town devastated, is the damage and devastation permanent or will the game fix it. Todd Howard has said that it is possible for a dragon to come across a town and attack it. If you don't understand, I'll try to explain what I'm saying. Ok, In Fallout 3, there are the 4 wandering merchants that regulate through the entire map, this of course makes it quite possible for them to run into mutants and raiders etc. Now if they die, they're gone for good, without the use of hacks or mods, they are gone. Now with Skyrim, if a dragon destroys a town and the inhabitants, are they also gone for good? In Fallout 3, the merchants (and sometime quest NPCs) dying were an inconvenience and didn't really affect my game play much, I can however, see myself raging if I wander into a town in Skyrim and find everything destroyed and half the populace dead. Todd Howard has also made mentions of a working economy in Skyrim that reacts to your intervention (And I assume other, in-game intervention), which would make the effect of a devastated town much more troublesome for the rest of the game. I would imagine such an event would increase prices and cause some economic breakdown. Yeah, I know I'm thinking about this too seriously, But hey, this is what happens after coming off one of the most awesome damn trailers I have ever seen.

- Sabbo

I'd imagine and hope the majority of damage done to towns by dragons will only be temporary and hopefully guided via scripting. Hopefully we won't have a Bruma Mages Guild situation on a larger scale.

Only a few buildings are destructable, so you most likely wont see dragons demolishing buildings. More likely what he means is that dragons swoop into town and kill people. So far, we dont know how important NPC deaths are handled, but there should be less of them seeing as dead NPCs can bequeath their questlines to a new bearer. I dont know what to expect as far as dragons attacking the 5 large cities, since they are sequestered from the world.

Are you the one that keeps tweeting Pete about that

I have this feeling that the devs have some pretty awesome scripted stuff lined up in the main quest (and maybe even some of the larger side quests). I know the world is supposed to be what you make it, but I'm sure there's gonna be some pretty serious stuff that's programmed to happen, and that can't be so directly affected by the player like most of the rest of the game. For example, perhaps there will be a town that will be completely destroyed by a dragon attack during the main quest, and once you pass that point, that's the end of that town until you start a new game. Or maybe after you finish the main quest as the devs have said you can play past that. Which is awesome. Creates such a strong reason to really invest in a character.

Sorry, you have the wrong person

On the economy subject, do you think there will be a finite amount of gold in the game?

I'm hoping yes, so that I can steal it all and watch the people of Skyrim live through a depression,

and then dump it all back into circulation when it looks like their getting back on their feet to cause a major amount of inflation.

Economic ruin for Skyrim! :flame:

I would imagine that most quest-givers are "protected" that way they can only be killed by you, and no one else. It wouldn't be that "unrealistic" since the only chance of them being killed (excluding dragons) is you.

Lol, So you're going to Economically Troll all the people of Skyrim?