Of course, how else would I get around the nasty bugs?

I only use console commands to tweak things, check game data or test something out.

Like changing the timescale to 1:10(default is too fast considering time won't stop when talking to NPCs) and setting the FOV.

And check stuff like followers' carry weight, level, skill levels, and NPC aggression, confidence, relation to me, etc.

Sometimes when I want to test something I may use tmm to reveal all locations so I can fast travel, or spawn some alchemy ingredients and see which ingredients give the highest magnitude/duration sometime like that. But I always revert to original save file after testing.

The only cheat I use is a bat file that gives all perks. When playing RPGs, I don't mind leveling but I hate to choose which skill/perk to get and which to forfeit. I also used console commands to get all perks and skills in Fallout 3, I really hate the choosing part.
I then will play on the highest difficulty. But of course I won't complain about the difficulty given that I somehow have cheated a bit anyway.

I've tried that on Jenessa, but it doesn't seem to affect her health or skills, and her level is always the same as mine :shrug: Last i checked her sneak skill was around 20 despite being level 35, no wonder she always gives me away.

It's a little finicky. You have to dismiss the follower, wait for them to start walking away, disable them, let a second of gametime pass, then enable them again. If you've done it right, they'll have destroyed most of the equipment they were carrying so make sure you take all the stuff they're carrying off of them first. At this point you can re-recruit them and give them their armor and weaponry back.

TGM for me. Although I just discovered TIM too so I'm gonna start using that one. I've been stuck several times but I have not gotten TCL to world at all so I tend to save a lot.

player.modav BypassVendorKeywordCheck 1
player.modav BypassVendorStolenCheck 1

allow you to sell any kind of item, and stolen items, to any shopkeeper. and tcl to get over mountains if I don't feel like exploring.

I always do:
set timescale to 5 (1 minute out of game means 5 minutes in the game)
player.setav healrate 0.0 (turns off automatic healing so you have to use spells and potions)

I use TFC and TM a lot.

Sometimes I also need to use the moveto command to put an NPC back where they should be because they wandered through a worm hole and ended up in Oblivion.

I use it for small things but not cheating. Use TFC 1 for screenshots, for example. And I've had to use toggle collision to get unstuck from weird terrain a couple times. I also use it for testing, to compare armors @ 100 skill or whatever. See what certain perks do, try out high level spells before investing in the school's tree blindly, etc.

Here's what I normally use:


(with companion targeted) moveto player - because I get tired of waiting for them to find pathing to get where I am

showinventory - when I'm curious as to what the NPC's are using

removeitem / equipitem - mostly on NPC's that reverts to their default equipment and/or won't equip the items I've given them

set timescale to 8 - because the default time is still too fast for my tastes

save "" - so I can sort the different characters I use

evp / resetAI - I use these when NPC's that I'm suppose to follow (or fight) is just standing around and not doing anything

addtofaction 19809 1 + setrelationshiprank player 4 - for that special lady that my character has his eyes on!

addtofaction 5c84d 0 - combined with "setclass ", I can now have Hroki from Markarth be my companion

Only console command I've used so far is "tcl" for when items fall under the floor in the house.

No, in fact I don't even know how to bring up the console and neither do I want to know.

No, I would feel like I was cheating.

There are ways to use the console that doesn't involve cheat.

I certainly don't use the console commands to cheat if that is the topic. What is the point of playing a game to be challenged if you then cheat to avoid the challenge?

I do use the console every single time I have to open the game however..

setcamerafov 80
set timescale to 10

have become standard commands after launch for me. Sometimes the game seems to preserve these settings from a previous save.... other times they don't.

I only save via console. Also fov 85 and showracemenu to change the appearance of my char during the game (they should have just added an NPC for that, seriously).

I use console commands mostly to get around bugs. As far as Equipment and money go, I played 200 hours Legit. After 2 whole games of getting to 65+ on my new chars I console command all my gear and money. There's no point in doing the same GRIND every game. My firt play-through I used no Internet, no console, nothing.

such as??

and I do know cntrl Alt del.

I use "FOV 80" every time I start the game.
Rarely I do "showracemenu" to adjust my appearance, other times just to experiment.

Yes, but never to cheat.

Mainly
- To take good screenshots (TFC 1, TM, TFC)
- Roleplaying reasons (I gave my old character 80% movement speed with player.forceav SpeedMult 80)
- Fixing bugs

TFC 1 and TM for those scenic screenshots.
showracemenu because sometimes i'm feeling like a new beard or haircut

Only ones I've used..

Only to fix bugs - advance buggy quests and the like.

You can just use "inv" for short. Does the same thing.

I use 'save' to save, this way I can name my savefiles.

I have a bugged quest and the NPC is nowhere to be found, I 'moveto' him to me.
There is an enchanting bug that paralyse the keyboard control, I used console to bunny hope (moveto) from one NPC to another. In the end, I still have to load a new savefile.

showracemenu once to change my appearance a bit, also used tfc to take screenies and tcl when I got stuck.