» Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:55 am The foundation of The Elder scrolls is freedom and spell creation represents freedom. To remove spell creation is taking away a part of our freedom in this next installment and not just for mages. Warriors and thieves will also suffer under its removal should it be axed. The spell creation system should have been improved and not entirely removed. They will not only be taking away the option to customize spells to you're specific taste, they also take away a piece of you're freedom.
What would you think if Beth decided to take a way the option of traveling on foot and replaced everything by traveling on horse back? It may sound like a silly comparison but I think it applies. We will most likely be stuck to a number of spells with only being able to buy or use tomes to learn the more powerfull versions but not being able to create what we want and need for our tastes. Taking traveling on foot away would take a way the freedom of how we decide to travel just like removing spell creation takes a way the freedom of how we can create our own magic, our own way of magic, just like our own way of traveling.
I sincerely hope Beth will somehow implement spell creation for the final product. Although my hopes are diminishing, I have huge faith in Bethesda and will still be proud of the game they create for us.
Just needed this out of my system folkes :mohawk: Hope you can appreciate my ramblings! :tongue:
Edit: Because of the constant miss used arguments about the old system let me be extra clear on that subject...I DO NOT WANT THE OLD SYSTEM, I WANT AN IMPROVED SYSTEM. :deal:
Solutions presented so far:
Thadeus suggestion:
The Winterhold Collective has a warded circle where you stand with your character - using magic begins the process. In this warded circle if you have a rare crystal (rare so you truly value it) you can combine spell effects in real-time by switching between different spells and charging them in certain ways. Without a magical crystal you will not be able to retain the spell you are creating so it would be an exercise of futility (a taste of what is to come). While using a spell you can use other buttons to lengthen or narrow its area of effect or size etc for the current spell effect your are modifying. You can add up to perhaps 3 or more compatible spell effects to one spell. When you are ready (your character will be holding a mass of magic that's twisting and reforming in different ways to represent the weaving of a new magical spell and roughly how it will look in the game when cast. The spell is stored in the crystal. The details of the spell are stored, when you're happy with them, in the crystal. The details of the spell while making it are represented by floating data in the bottom right of the screen. All exploitative use of magic (1 sec of paralysis and fireball on target for example), unrealistic combinations (like incompatible fire and ice magic), and game breaking combinations (100% chameleon) are not achievable in the warded circle because "The strain to weave this magic would be too great." You can only create a spell as powerful as your total current magicka pool. You would only have a set number of crystals you can find in the game, those crystals each create a slot in your magic menu under their own heading and not that of a School of Magic or under the heading of "All MAGIC". So, you can select and equip them from the menu the same way as you can select spell effects and assign them to a mapped button (which is how you would add and remove different spell effects in the warded circle). You should be able to rename each crystal which would be represented by the spell name thereafter. This eliminates the spell list convolution and the immersion breaking aspect (except naming your spell which takes you to the name generation screen which could be excluded). Problem solved. Dump it into an expansion and you have your solution.
Xarnac The Conqueror suggestion
Give us an altar, have created spells require two hands to wield, dont allow weakness and magicka fortification stacking, balance magicka costs, there its fine and works for everybody.
The game will still rock you're world. :celebration: 
