» Tue May 17, 2011 7:48 am
sounds alright...I hate it when quests don't give you enough information to find where to go though!
I know some people have some good deduction skills and are able to figure such things out, but I lack that skill a little, and so I need either lots of hints, or detailed hints. (I can be fine without a questmarker in 95% of the scenarios)
However, as mentioned segvarion, some NPCs would stand out...though...even though I have put (in all gameplay across both platforms) atleast 500+ hours in playing around in Oblivion, I STILL do not know every existing NPC.
A good way to get around it is add new NPCs all across the board, so that way, even those who have photographic memory or have devoted ungodly amounts of gameplay time to this game to remember all the NPCs the new ones - whether part of the murder case or not - will delude them into easily deducing who might the perpetrator be.
and, even still on that topic, I doubt every killer would think the same: "Act natural, stay in town, no suspicion"...I mean, some might get scared as it was their first kill and run to a nearby cave, or perhaps, to help create their alibi, they don't live in town at all but operate in small forts/caves/villas outside of the city.
So, in that case, the player could not even use deduction skills by seeing who in town it may be, because the killer will not even be in town. Sure, there is a chance the player may come across a non-vanilla place...but honestly, once again, who has played this game enough to have every location memorized? I haven't, and combined with all my files from xbox - pc have not discovered every vanilla cave/fort ruin/camp/aylied ruin/villages/priorys and so forth!
And if you do not want the player to even beable to find the answer simply by finding a non-vanilla location, than use a vanilla cave/fort ruin/ect! there are plenty to go around and be shared by other mods, so it wouldn't hurt to use one for a small boss fight or whatever you plan on doing with the murders.
anyways...just some thoughts.
EDIT: while I was typing this wall of text you responded seg with what I had exactly in mind :goodjob: