Ha, I like this and your avatar pic. Iron fist of the cute puppy dog. His subjects cower in fear mixed with a desire to pat him on the head. When disaster strikes, they get nipped at the heels, but if they serve well - brake out the dog treats! The puppy exterior is just to conceal the fearsome tyrant who lives within.

Yeah, i want to build my own town, with blackjack and hoo... :spotted owl:

I don't know neccesarily about a full town, but it would be interesting to find a ruin and have the option to restore it to make it a home/small commune.

They could tie some of their "activities" into this to give it some dept like lumberjacking = getting wood and other materials for rebuilding floors and roofs etc, cooking to feed builders.
I suppose a bit like some weird cross between arkoola's the settler mod and restoring montengori in asasins creed 2..
I suppose you could recruit certain people to help out and eventually live there etc.

They wont implement such a feature though, however maybe a modder will when it comes out

Thank you! :goodjob:

yes but a little more than the what assasins creed 2 achieved where you can rebuild certain parts of the city.. I felt that was a waste of time, It could be much better to build a settlement with basic buildings/skins etc depending on theme/area. I would even buy it as DLC.

I feel Fighters stronghold was cool but it was too far way from everything.

I wonder if ps3 and xbox360 will have the creation kit.

Unfortunately, creation kit isn't ever gonna happen with current generation consoles... maybe POSSIBLY (most likely not though) something SIMILAR you can do on your own console, but you would never be able to share the content, so it'd be pretty lame.

or you can rise up, and take your families land and form the 3 kingdoms of skyrim

Excellent idea. And if you are making a slight reference to my username and Liu Bei's part in "The Three Kingdoms era" of china, then bravo.

however, realistically i don't think bethesda is gonna stray from their "uncertain parents" thing they have going on.

I think you are the only person on this forum who i've seen actually praising anything from fable.

I thought the real estate system from fable was boring, and it just gets you money too easily, but we're talking about building here. there were a couple instances in fable where you your choicesu had minor consequences on the future of a town or something, but it was never very interesting to me.

I just reminded myself of that game Dark Cloud for some reason, and that had pretty fun town creation while being an RPG. of course if TES did anything like this it would be COMPLETELY different.

Ummm... I don't like the idea of having to build or create a town. But I do like the idea of being the leader of a town and making choices that affect the town's prosperity -and thus its profitability of course. A lot of my http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1160987-skyrim-traders-guild/page__p__17038708__fromsearch__1#entry17038708 ideas could be tied into this concept.

Oh c'mon! Stalin was not so bad as everybody says

Comrade Trotsky might have something to say about that...

Stalin basically turned communism into the all-powerful dictatorship it's widely known as today, even though communism isn't inherently a dictatorship at all.

Really? I guess you haven't been playing them very long then. The Dev's have been dying to put something like this in their games but haven't gotten around to it for one reason or another. Take a look at the House strongholds you can make in Morrowind. Or the Fighter's Stronghold in Oblivion. Both are filled with potential but seem unfinished after you do the quests for them. You should also be able to run the guild that you reach the top of. It feels weird that you're now the Master Thief but the entire operations of your guild grind to a halt. You're not planning any major heists for your guild members to do. You're not giving anyone orders or sending them on random missions. If a game like Baldur's Gate 2 can do something like that I don't see why we can't get the same in 2011.

I voted no. This is not something within the Elder Scroll's scope, nor should it be.

I have to disagree, it's sort of an updated version of the Raven Rock questline, thats all, and everyone loved raven rock. All of the idea's in my OP are just what i wished you could do with raven rock, and maybe some of them are a bit over the top, but i think most of them are definitely implementable

Maybe not BUILD it but definatly ruling a town kingdom would be fun.

I think it would be great if it were done like the villa in assassians creed 2. The city is already there, long abandoned and wasting away. You come along and start spending money to repair the buildings one by one. Each time you repair a building the villa or in TES fashion the castle will be slightly upgraded. When you have rebuilt the whole city you would have a castle fortress with your own small kingdom. It would also be nice if you had the choice of either selecting people who you want to live in your town or be able to just appoint someone to do it for you, like how you had to get permission in each city of Oblivion.

This could work only if its done right.

how about the construction kit? use that

Thinking back to the use of building a "town" in Morrowind and the famous colony-building mod for Fallout 3, I could definitely see something being implemented. I'd certainly enjoy it.

I want to make my own city with my own throne and i would want interesting things to happen....like if they brought me prisoners and i could decide their fate >:) INTERESTING fates.....like set them free, put them in jail(I decide how long) hang them or whatever and i would want to not get in trouble for anything since it would be MY town but maybe the people wouldn't like me....if i did something bad that is......and also i would want to name my buildings. Im sure this will never happen though but it is my dream.

Reviving this thread. I thought of the idea again but i remembered i already made a thread about it a month ago, so i thought some new people might have something to say about it.

TES V: Dwarf Fortress?

YES to building, no to ruling

Raven rock was cool but it was not your town even if you helped creating it.
As for ruling it, no it will not fit unless it was your, some of the strongholds in Morrowind had a small village attached to them, that could work well, in the ruling just decided that services the town should offer, a farm who gave you cheap alchemy ingredients, a mine and smithy who gave you raw materials for smithing. Perhaps a trade house with a trader with a lot of money. This would basically be a Morrowind stronghold.