real time jail time?

In Daggerfall, when you got sent to prison.. say you got 500 days in prison.. you had to wait for a counter to run down until you served your sentence.. wheras in oblivion, doing a hefty jail sentence was simply a matter of sleeping for one hour.

do you want some kind of real time jail sentence? ie daggerfall counter or maybe even doing some hard labour in a mine, shackles round the ankles etc.. of course make it optional.. I think roleplaying a prisoner would be pretty cool, read some books in your cell.. walk around the yard talking to other convicts, eating a meal of gruel 3 times a day.. PRISON RIOTS!

How about real time sleep too?

It'd be awsome if it was optional, other wise it'd be an annoying waste of time after the first time you got sent to jail. I do hope they have more realistic jail sentences though. I murderd 30+ people in Oblivion and got sent to jail for barely a year...

Maybe, but i wouldn't want to stay there 500 days.

But if this gave you time to find ways to break out of jail and stuff it would be great.

Jail should be a punishment.

Jail should be a punishment for the character, not the player.

Yeah, realtime jail sentences and the timescale changes to 1:1 until your sentence is served and you have to play the "eat jail food and keep it down" minigame thrice a day and...

Aw, hell no!

Are you serious? This is a horrible, horrible idea. Why would you want to spend any period of time locked in a small room?

This.

Nah, That would svck. :dry:

Yay i lost some skill points now I can level my character higher! Thats sort of how it works.

note that I mentioned 'optional' in my OP... so once you got bored, you could just serve your time in an hour long nap.

would be a cool option to RP a prisoner.

Now a permanent, not curable by magic, small hit to health, stamina or magicka would be a proper punishment. I can imagine the effect of a month eating something like the slop you had to deliver to the Skingrad jail being pretty nasty.

I see your point.

Jail time should not be real time, ugh that would be boring. BUT, I would indeed want some things happening while in jail.
Like, when you sleep, you can be woken up by a rat or something...
Or a guard can come and beat you up... and then you can steal the guard's key if you're good at stealing.
Or you can plan an escape with other prisoners...
Or etc...
You should therefore not be able to click on the bed and sleep all the time. Some cool things should happen or interrupt you while you sleep.

Still, there should be a punishment for the character by going to jail. I think just a skill decrease is a pretty lame and boring punishment alone. I think that jail should damage your reputation much more.
So the punishment should be, I think, a big damage of your reputation, as well as some skill decreases or something else that Betheda can come up with.

Ok so suppose you're sent to jail for a year. A year should pass in the game regardless of whether the player decides to skip the duration of their sentence, right? ...Then how do you get around the issue of the effect this should have on quests / the storyline? Should the world just wait for you and not change at all?

Also, I think if you had the option of serving your sentence in real time, the novelty would wear off very quickly. Would it even be worth the dev time?

The only thing I care about concerning jails in Skyrim is having the ability to become a slop drudge again... that was so awesome

I just hope their are things to do when your locked up like getting an hour in the yard, meal, and the library. Also a good deal of prison quests should be available. Also since their are three prison types I hope they keep one like in Shivering Isles.

Prison quests FTW...

"retrieve your quest log from the prisoner safe storage room'

and lets not forget the "avoid prison molestation" minigame.

We got near real time sleep already. I′m just as aware of my surroundings after I fall asleep in TES as in real life. The only problem is that I′m aware that I′m sleeping longer in TES, in real life it feels like an instant, in TES it′s a loading time so to get actual real time sleep we need to make the loading bar go instantly from 0 to 100.

I hope they have harmonicas in Skyrim.

Maybe if you got a companion and hes not in jail he may help you to get out. Or maybe get some of his friends and do a Prison break and when you are out, you need to cut down anyone in you path and run away to a place so they maybe forget you or something...

is this a joke topic? no one want to stare on the tv doing nothing.

What about you lose some levels too? (or a perk option for each week, nobody wants that.)

I certainly want the option to spend 500 days in a heart beat.

But I want the option to live prison life too. So many possibilities. The Chronicles of Riddike: Escape from Butcher Bay is a game entirely around prison life and escaping from there. In TES universe every prison can have its own escape puzzle. :hubbahubba:

Not nothing. If you′ve played Fable 1 then you can know how awesome jail can be. In fable one you get taunted by the guards, tormented, you listen to your cellmates and more and more. It′s a little rough but if you can have jail time where you actually do some jail time that is not just watching the screen but following the rules of the jail getting less time for good behavior and more for bad behavior and such, then it could be really really nice.