In morrowind dungeons were emptied after a single raid and in very short time we ran out of them.

Adding new monsters,raiders after some time would be a good change

Very short time?

Sounds like you have the time to start a new game.

Personally, I think they should stay emptied once you've killed everything in them. It adds to the realism of the world. There's over 100 in the game, so you're not going to run out of them in a very short time. Respawning dungeon enemies really isn't necessary in my opinion.

Like all the respawning bandit/marauder dungeons in Oblivion.

Well, except that the new "level locking" some people seem so fired up about will make going into a dungeon you entered at level 6 rather dull at level 50. :shrug:

Level Scaling = Teh Ebil!!

Once you clear a dungeon it should stay emptied.

It's much more realistic for them to fill back up. You're looking at it from a players perspective, in which case the functionality of dungeons is that of an obstacle. From a creatures perspective though they serve as a shelter. If a roaming goblin tribe finds an empty cave they'll likely occupy it.

At any case, I wont re enter a dungeon ive emptied because I role play. And I don't find the sense that every week another -nowhere from- bunch of thieves is popping in.

I concur. Though after playing Oblivion I'd hope it doesn't lead to more leveled encounters and loot. I quite like the idea of an early dungeon being repopulated with low level encounters so I can see just how far I've progressed.

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It'd be interesting to see a roving band of bandits take up residence in a cave after you've cleared it out of monsters, but I'm indifferent either way. If we just have hard respawns like in Oblivion, they shouldn't be for at least an ingame week or two.

what about if you kill all of the creatures except 1 then run out lvl up and come back to it, will the dungeon be locked to the lvl that you entered or will it reset?

I would like this to happen, but only if the 'respawn' rate of a dungeon is significantly slower than it was in Oblivion. Perhaps with only certain dungeons filling back up.

How many of them are fit for level 50 players? the majority will be lower levels, say they uses level 1-10-11-20 to 40-50, 140 dungeons gives 28 high level ones, now around half of them will be small 15 minutes ones, you would run through most of them getting up to level 50 and it will be few left.
The lack of high level content is actually my greatest fear for Skyrim, no spellmaking and just lame default spells, Morrowind magic was more broken and it was very good. Lack of high level content was a worse problem in Morrowind.

Yes make the respawn time longer, 7-14 days fixed (perhaps random?) and then 1-2 days without visiting the location. not the three days without visiting.

It doesn't bother me either way tbh. If this is the worst thing about the game then we're in for a great experience.

I almost never visit a dungeon more than once with a single character, and I never visited all the dungeons in either Morrowind or Oblivion, so "running out" isn't a problem I will encounter. It doesn't matter to me, as I will never notice if it's in the game either way. They might as well repopulate the dungeons for the people who want that.

I agree kinda, but would'nt in real life like spiders and other enemies find there way back into dungions and inhabit their? Also I think they said over 130 so i'm fine with them not respawning. I remember Oblivion had 250 and they would respawn every 3 days.

I think the most realistic thing would be that maybe in a week to a month the cave fills back up with a random group, sometimes maybe friendly people who need a shelter. (that you can kill and loot of course)

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I've pondered this one while playing Morrowind and Oblivion, and I tend to think that the best solution is a combination of respawning and non-respawning, depending on the dungeon and its occupants.

One of the ones I thought was most notably illogical in Oblivion was goblin dungeons. If you go through a goblin dungeon and clean it out, kill the shaman, kill the war chief, take the totem - that should be it for that tribe of goblins. They're gone.

On the other hand though, I can see something like a bandit dungeon respawning (though not in three days). If it's in a good location and set up well for bandits, then it would make sense that more would sooner or later move in.

It would require lots of balancing and figuring to get something like that to work right, and I'm not sure how it would be for gameplay, since it would mean that some dungeons respawn and others don't and the ones that do do it over different time-spans, but it does seem to make more sense to me that way.

I really hope theres alot of varity in monsters and creatures to kill in the dungions in skyrim becuase I remember in Oblivion I would always come across trolls, orgees, and minotuars with some bandits and it got really boring to explore in them if there was no real fear of what may be lying in the next hall if all I expect was the same generic creature that I fought 100's of times..... :banghead:

So, I'm guessing you haven't played Morrowind or Oblivion for more than an hour? It's almost impossible to not visit a dungeon and beat those games, unless you like used cheat codes.

Which is why I'm all far re-spawning dungeons, just don't have them stay the same every time I go back in. Change where monsters are, etc. I can understand the type and level being similar because of the area and what sorts of monsters would live there.

How can you guys say that a dungeon should stay emptied once you've gone through it?!? They did it that way with Fallout where all the caves/buildings stay empty after you clear them of enemies and loot. Where is my Fallout now? Collecting dust. Guess where my Oblivion is? I am STILL playing it... rerunning dungeons for combat and loot. I feel like Oblivion is a game that never ends for this reason alone... there is always some place to plunder. If you don't want to reenter a dungeon once its been cleared, then don't. But, don't decide for people like me that it should stay emptied for sakes of "realism." I continue to get my moneys worth each time a reenter a dungeon I've already cleared multiple times before. This is a game about dragons, magic, and an imaginary world, not a game trying to be a simulator.

Say that to all the people who want to have a family and babies in the game....

This argument (simulator) could be used against virtually every aspect of the game, and therefore is pretty worthless.

Ok, Ragamuffin, and the argument for wanting "realism" in this game is equally worthless, but not as worthless as your post in rebuttal of my argument about the benefits of repopulating dungeons. Why even waste space with an attempt at a "+1" comment? Out of the entire post about dungeons, you completely missed the point. Try reading slower.