this.........if you are bleeding or poisoned you should continue to get worse until either you die or fix it up. as for healing i dont mind of its very very slow and not in combat. i hope they put cooldown timers on things like healing potions and spells as well so that you cant spam heal like you could in oblivion.

Add a first aid kit or the low tech version of it. Sure it takes up an inventory slot, but not every path has to be equal in all regards. Let the kit regen your wounds at a slow rate when applied, but have it be a unlimited use item.

I don't think waiting should heal you at all, though resting should (even then, perhaps only to a point). It doesn't make sense that you can get over an arrow to the gut by standing about for a bit.

To be honest, I enjoyed Daggerfall's system of needing to rest to restore fatigue.

I think that just like in Oblivion, you should regenerate health quickly. Emphasis on quickly.
It makes perfect sense that waiting one hour using the wait function put your health to full, but just standing there for a minute does nothing.

When I'm standing around, I'm standing and not resting. When I use the Wait command, (in my mind, as I RP it) I am actually sitting down, resting, so... yeah, it works for me and I really hope it doesn't change. What you suggest is something better implemented in a "hardcoe" mode that is optional. Emphasis on optional.

Bump!

The regeneration should be slow, but fast enough so that you regain at least 5-10% between two encounters with some distance apart. And yes, I agree that the regeneration should be off during combat. OR be on, but then the overall regen would be even slower to make up for it.

As long as it's not 0 hp/s. That's just a bit too player-hostile IMO.

No terrible idea. Why doesn't Bethesda then just make skyrim a top down 3D/2D Diablo clone. If you want regeneration enchant a ring with a powerful soul. ES games should have difficulty like the early gothic games not diablo games. It is much more rewarding and fun this way.

Well it kind of depends on how you define health and loss of it. If you see it as you actually being hit in the face with a battleaxe 20 times and you are walking around because you are just that damn tough maybe it doesn't fit. But then again if you are walking around after that maybe you are so tough you regen. On the other hand if you define health in more nebulous terms regen can fit. I'm to lazy to pull out my 1e D&D stuff so I wont quote the Gygax on hit points.

every one is making it sound as if using the wait function to heal is to easy to exploit. you cant use it if enemies are near so its not actually too easy a way to heal since you can't really use it until after a clearing a dungeon area or making sure nothing wild isn't creeping near in the woods.

what the above says makes absolutly no sense, how can you tell some one that keeping heal by waiting is an action game mechanic and regenerative health is not, what topsie turvey world do we live in where we have to use the wait function in Halo and COD and take cover and wait for health to regenerate before charging maruaders again. btw I am against health regeneration, it existed in MW (via enchanting, which wasn't easy to do either) and once you had 1hp restored per second the game became so unchallenging that I never died again. regenerating health should not be available unless its achieved by hardcoe enchantments other wise... guess what, its cheating.

This is why you invest in alchemy and make your own potions, i made alot of my money in oblivion mastering alchemy. and the healing potions turned out better than regular ones.

No.

this is another reason there should not be regenerated health, it would devalue restoration and alchemy skills and they would just get cut from the next TES game because too many people whined that they were useless (mostly due to them being to unimaginative to find a use for them)

I'm against the idea in general but here are a few of my ideas for sake of argument:

If they did this it should be similar to games like Just Cause 2. You get hurt, your health goes down, but it can only regenerate a certain amount, say 50%. Which means if you had 100 hp and you lost 50 hp your health is at 50 hp, with the potential to regen to 75 hp. That way you still need to use other game mechanics like Alchemy or magic to heal but you get some regen.

On the flipside (this is the idea that I fully support and endorse), I think you should not regen health, and whats more waiting shouldn't restore health either. What is waiting? Standing around, doing nothing. Why is it that if I wait around and do nothing in the game my health doesn't restore but as soon as I press "T" (or "Select") I get all my hp back? You should only get Magicka and Fatigue while waiting, but you should be able to buy an item that enables HP restoration while waiting like a bedroll or something.

No, what you're saying makes no sense. That's not what I said. I am against wait healing and regenerative healing.

of course what I say makes no sense if you cut out the whole paragraph in which I compare action games that have health regeneration and apply to how they would be in TES. not wanting health regeneration is not the same as asking for an action game... which TES is but the context of action game in this case is a modern shooter architype.

Edit: I wasn't personally attacking you KonijN, I was just pointing out that it makes no sense for you, or other people to tell some one who doesn't want a non rpg feature that they are just wanting to turn the game into an action game. they don't want to change the health at all.

Perhaps a perk/talent you can choose if you restoration skill reaches 75 or something?

I see no reason for it to not be a high level perk, at least that way the player's earned it. But by default? Just, ugh, no.

Not even a perk.

this, regen health is okay if it is optional (and the last perk in a perk tree, so that I don't have to pick it to get a more useful perk) any thing is okay as long as its optional, so that I can choose to not use it.

Yeah they should add this into the lowest difficulty labeled "downie mode"

no regeneration
no health restore on wait/sleep
healing spells/potions could be more effective

no. imagine having to select hardcoe mode in NV because there was health regeneration. I don't want to up the all around diffulculty just to avoid something that makes the game so easy. if it exists as a mechanic it should be specificly toggleable.

that's one of those ideas that look good on paper, but svck once in game

I think while we're at it we should add guns, class customization, multilayer, perks, and a short, terrible single player campaign

I believe there should be no healing over time, but rather, a perk similar to the Fallout games where you can heal over time if you meet certain criteria. For example, being in sunlight.

Perks my friends, PERKS!!!!

They definitely should get rid of healing during resting. It would put so much more importance on actually being prepared for confrontation, whether that means having the appropriate spells, or enough potions.

Precisely what I was sayin earlier in the thread. this is a role playing game, not action to action game. You're supposed to save money up for things or train your restoration. Not sit around inbetween fights so you can go again.