I don't see why you people are putting the OP on blast like this, this sounds like a cool idea. A hub you could go to where you could see everyones favorite screenshots, and characters, without them posting it. That'd be fun. An ES "armory" of sorts. (The Armory is a world of warcraft website where you can look at peoples characters, achievements, raid kills, pvp kills, etc)

Also, this would be cool for the console users, as consoles users can't just take pictures without a capture card and not everyone has those to upload. Unless you play halo games where you can take screens in game and send it through Xbox Live. I'd love a feature like that for Skyrim.

Yeh I dont see what the issue is with this either. Biowares done this and theyre all single player games(minus SWTOR). All it does is upload screens of your choices for plot points, or achievements(for PC as well), and characters. Even Fable 3 does this a little bit, where itll post what your friends have done compared to you on loading screens(gold earned, bats killed, even how many STDs you have LOL).

And its all entirely optional. Its kind of like telling the story of how your character progressed.

Not that I care, I turned all that crap off with Dragon Age myself.

you have the Forums... we aren't bringing the torch and pitch forks, its just annoying that these "cool" features are being brought up because they exist elsewhere.

like others said, its pointless almost as much a putting a like/dislike function on the Forums

Yes Tulio, I'm down with it. I want to show off my character, and download other people's characters so I can stomp them in the arena.

I had similar thoughts when I posted this (unpopular) thread:

http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1159575-spore-like-multiverse-system-to-contribute-to-npc-diversity/page__p__17005906__hl__spore__fromsearch__1#entry17005906

hahaha not so epic for me xD



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haha people is so square around here, if they dont want changes and they hate all the new systems and changes and the water and the UI well then that people can just replay oblivion

"OMG DUDES CHECK OUT MY STATS!!! OMG OMG OMG!!! My spell cast accuracy is 22.98% and I've killed 1299 bandits with leather armor! I'm beating your stats lolololololol!"

... Really now? That sounds like a good idea to you?

We got the forums so...

But if you meant the sort of stuff BioWare did with Mass Effect 2 by adding that Cerberus network thing, then no. Don't want it.

No, personally I dont think that it would be worth it. There is no need for such a system. It is a single player game, no one else needs to know/care whats going on.

I like the idea...but I don't see it working out like bungie.net because of the mods and it's strictly a singleplayer game. Tulio, could you give out some examples of what you could show off? Are you simply uploading your character where you can display all of it's ingame stats for the world to see?

I think this would be an excellent additional feature idea since all new games need to connect to the internet somehow so that people can't pirate it as easily. and if people don't wanna use this nobody will make them. (but anti-pirating measures are worthless. all games will be uploaded online and cracked and anyone who wants it can just go ahead and take it. it doesn't matter if you make the game not require a disc or a cd-key or if you make it require a disc, cd-key, and everything else you can think of. the game will be there for the taking for anyone 2 days (at most) after its release. the best thing you can do is to make people have a reason to buy it so they can use online features like this. or dead space's online only store items, etc.)

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My idea for how this could work would be an automatically generated portrait of your character which is made while you create your character and embedded into your save file so people wont have to go through the trouble of taking 1 themselves, stats which are updated every time they save a character (taken from the most recent save along with the portrait) autosave will only be uploaded if it is on a char which you already have a savegame for (so people can test out mods like they want. etc.) and 2 downloadable files, 1 for the most recent savegame and 1 for the character's face which can be set to public or private by the user. this feature would be for say if the player wants to be able to download his most recent save or the face or if others want to download the face. (of course savefiles which use mods would just be your own problem but because of that, also an automatically generated list of all plugin files in use during that save, settable to public or private and you could specify which mods are private or public)

Thats it for basic auto stuff

next would be if the game engine could be used to automatically generate a biography for the character and automatically record the storyline the player is following from the journal and his behaviour, each monster he's slain, etc.

then the user could upload screenshots and videos, edit the game engine generated story and biography (what happened before he went to jail for example) and anything the player would edit in the biography or storyline would not be overwritten by the game engine (to do that the game engine would have to only add new parts to the storyline each time the player loads, and record things like "day1-day2 etc"

also the user should be able to choose which chars to keep updated online and which chars to keep offline or unofficial. this thing would be something asked for when u press new game.

sounds cool, wonder if its possible.

info like http://ui02.gamespot.com/705/snapshot3_2.jpg

did you remember that oblivion menu? 32 oblivi0ns doors closed, x ninroots founds, bounty 0, days as a vampire 111, etc etc that kind of info

also some extra info like the most powerfull creature killed

I guess...I suppose it would be neat to upload info like that to this site, and our avatar could be our current player. I don't know if it will actually go anywhere after that.

I voted hells yea because it's a neat idea. I'm not sure if I will actually become anything of much importance. I know people have made Dragon Age profiles on the net.

You do know that PC users get console and mods. They could just cheat their stats.

well it would be nice to see your wizard character's face instead of the linux penguin with wizard robes xD



well and whats the risk?, this isn't a contest of "the best status win x award!" if they uses cheats then we will see their cheated characters, i dont see a problem whit that

And then PC players with mods dominate the rankings for obvious reasons.

We would see a lot of daedric helms...or gray cowls.

Issue with character screenshot: Mods.

The votes are pretty even for yes and no.

Personally I think it's a neat idea, and would be nice to see something like that. Considering it's single player, it provides that online avenue to compare with your friends.

i repeat: This isn't a contest,



no, it isn't, the system can manage that, actually as a screenshot, so that we will be able of see the mooded equipment.

and also as bungie, just your friends can see your characters, only those who recive your gamer tag or the email invitation, those who dont want the idea o just want to be the only ones with acces to their characters then just keep private your acounts.

I am an Xbox player, and while I could care less if what the OP mentioned was implemented, I see no harm if it were.

Not really an issue if the screenshot was taken at the PC, it'd be just another still image. Of course then there's the angle of how cruel it might be considered, dangling hundreds/thousands of screenies of modded-in features in front of all the console players. I'd expect a significant rise in "We want mods on consoles" threads since this would basically be advertising the lack in the most noticeable, in-your-face way possible.



Aye. But you'd stir up a lot of noise comparing mod-a-thon PC screenshots with pure-vanilla console screenshots. Not like there isn't plenty of that anyway, to be sure, but- why encourage it? :shrug:

Wow, there's lot of heat on the OP in this thread.

Then I looked at the poll results and saw it was close to 50/50 :confused: So there's obviously more support for the idea than you'd get from reading the thread. Perhaps some of the people in favour are getting scared off by the haters?

For me, its a cool idea. And anyone who doesn't want to use it....well.... DON'T :tongue:

If you spend money on a console and buy a game for it instead of investing on a decent pc then I suppose it would svck to not be able to modify via consoles, but I think there is a simple solution to this: Uploading your console file on a flash drive and transfer it to a pc so you can modify the game all you want, and then return it to the console, wereas the mods will then update the console game. Or, using some cable designed to go from said console to a pc to transfer any data. I'm not saying that it can be done with previous games, but it's something to think about for future consoles.

I don't really see it being a problem. I simply thought the idea of sharing and comparing with friends, not stirring anything up. And if it's already happening anyway, that shouldn't be the reason to avoid it.

If it is voluntary, then I would not necessarily be against it.

Being a PC player, I can capture images of my characters and post them in a thread when I choose to do so.

And if this would help some of the other type platform users socialize, go for it, just don't force it. Some people like this sort of idea.

Edit to add: As far as posting achievements, I am not into that for myself, and as I may role-play a different style, I am not into any sort of competition with other players.