» Wed Jul 28, 2010 10:39 pm When I was in grade 7 and a friend told me about this cool game called the elderscrolls and how you could do and be anything, I literally took his statement word for word. He said that I could be a merchant if I wanted to, however when Morrowind was released in 2002 or whenever, there was a bartering system, but I personally could not become a merchant, and I've always found that aspect interesting.
I'm going to use Oblivion as my example, as its current, and most people can identify with what i'm talking about.
Imagine buildings in bruma or Skingrad, similar to houses for purchase, but instead, are shops you can purchase. Each one having larger square footage, depending on the need for it and success of your business. The building sizes are comparable to features bigger homes have in Oblivion, for instance the waterfront home vs Battlehorn castle; you may be able to hire guards for one shop or you may have room for an apprentice smith, who in exchange for gold/silver/raw materials, will craft items which you can sell.
So you purchase a building, and behind the merchants desk there is a chest with everything you'd be selling in it.
Similar to Fallout New Vegas's quest where you have to wait around for customers to enter the silver rush, you'd wait for costumers to enter the cell. Radiant AI (or whats left of it) would define what a customer needs and wants. The challenge to the player is figuring out what the customer needs and then managing to supply it.
Unlike games in the past, when an NPC prompts you to purchase an item you set the price, and they slowly try to haggle it cheaper. Obviously your mercantile skill will help in order to minimize losses.
Throwing a barter system into the equation might add a little too much sophistication, as theres a lot of knick-knacks that NPC's carry around...adding virtually nothing to the transaction...the AI might even try to sell the NPC's clothes...so sticking to gold would be the intelligent route.
I'm going to use Oblivion as my example, as its current, and most people can identify with what i'm talking about.
Imagine buildings in bruma or Skingrad, similar to houses for purchase, but instead, are shops you can purchase. Each one having larger square footage, depending on the need for it and success of your business. The building sizes are comparable to features bigger homes have in Oblivion, for instance the waterfront home vs Battlehorn castle; you may be able to hire guards for one shop or you may have room for an apprentice smith, who in exchange for gold/silver/raw materials, will craft items which you can sell.
So you purchase a building, and behind the merchants desk there is a chest with everything you'd be selling in it.
Similar to Fallout New Vegas's quest where you have to wait around for customers to enter the silver rush, you'd wait for costumers to enter the cell. Radiant AI (or whats left of it) would define what a customer needs and wants. The challenge to the player is figuring out what the customer needs and then managing to supply it.
Unlike games in the past, when an NPC prompts you to purchase an item you set the price, and they slowly try to haggle it cheaper. Obviously your mercantile skill will help in order to minimize losses.
Throwing a barter system into the equation might add a little too much sophistication, as theres a lot of knick-knacks that NPC's carry around...adding virtually nothing to the transaction...the AI might even try to sell the NPC's clothes...so sticking to gold would be the intelligent route.
That would be a pretty cool addition. I think they could add a system where you either run the store, or at the very least supply the store with all it's weekly needs(As long as you aren't babied and they don't tell you where everything is -_-) And then if you supply them with everything you get full profit, if not then you get a percentage.
1) Why is no horses a better alternative than bad horses?
6) But it might be problematic if quest critical characters were killed by other NPC's (RAI) or by monsters while you look for 'em.
8) Daedric worship, Mythic Dawn, Nine Divines, Hackdirt... not enough for you?
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12) Why?
13) I think the designers pretty much got that message, lol, lesson learned
14) Cool, like Bioshock
15) Increased lethality? Would NPC's be able to sever your character's limbs as well? If not, prepare for the fanatical 'more immersion' crew
6) But it might be problematic if quest critical characters were killed by other NPC's (RAI) or by monsters while you look for 'em.
8) Daedric worship, Mythic Dawn, Nine Divines, Hackdirt... not enough for you?
10)
12) Why?
13) I think the designers pretty much got that message, lol, lesson learned
14) Cool, like Bioshock
15) Increased lethality? Would NPC's be able to sever your character's limbs as well? If not, prepare for the fanatical 'more immersion' crew
1) Yeah I don't remember hating Oblivion horses so if they can do it better than good for them, if not then I'm okay with that.
6)True. That's why I propose that the player can kill everyone, however other NPCs and monsters cannot. Not sure how that would be accomplished though. OR I would do it by only making certain quest characters essential, ones that face the danger of being killed by someone else besides the player, and that solves that problem. However, the game should definitely say that a quest was failed because it cannot be completed(like Fallout)
10)I'll be the first to flame, lol. Nah, I only want Fast travel to be implemented for major towns and major quest related locations. Instead of making everywhere fast travelable just do the major locations. Then also bring back Mark and Recall to help compensate.
13) If I was a designer for TES:V I would put at least one in just for the lols. They actually wouldn't be bad if they were included in Oblivion. The combat system wouldn't make them as annoying as in Morrowind.
15)Like Fallout, yes. They should have locational damage. They'd probably have to revamp the health potion and food system to go with the new damage system though.
