LE Dine with Children

[Xalaber]

I saw this mod, Dine with Followers by wgstein and tried to message the creator to consider this idea. I was unable to though. So I am coming here to the forums.

To be quick, I will only say few things I had in mind:

1. A dialogue option where you tell your child its <meal> time. (Depending on the time of day it would be breakfast, lunch, dinner, or dessert) Then all your children would go to the table you go to. If you had a wife, then she would too.
2. An MCM menu to configure a few things such as: what meals to include (out of the 4), what time of day the meals take place, do the children eat even when the player isn't home, etc.
3. This is optional, but would be very beneficial. Make it compatible with Multiple adoptions.
4. Oh, and if possible, make it compatible with custom homes. Of course there may be some difficulty with the children's AI knowing where the meal table is. Simple, wherever you sit down right after you say its meal time. Or you could direct your child to sit at the seat (A lot like holding down E on a follower, and commanding them to do something).

Anyways, this idea will require the DLC, Hearthfire and possibly optional patches for Multiple adoptions and Custom homes.

 

If my custom home idea won't work, then either the mod makers who make those custom homes will have to make some patch themselves, OR just scratch that idea and make it only for the vanilla and hearthfire houses.

Edited December 23, 2014 by Xalaber

[Boombro]

Dude, if you wanna make a mod, make a mod. Not that many people use fourms to vote, maybe only like 5 people will vote.

And I'm sure Multiple adoptions will work with it, it makes sure to make use of the same markers and xheaders as base game homes so they will walk around the home. If you get it working with the xmarker (sandbox home.) the table (because it must have a keyword.) then it will work on a modded house no problem.

 

For the table and how your kids will reach them, did you take a look at tavern wenches maybe? As you sit at the table with your kids in the house, they will rush to you like the wenches, and you can tell them to sit down or something with a dialogue option. Ineed, a need mod, makes your followers dine with you too.

[Xalaber]

I don't really know how to make mods. Besides thats the whole purpose of these mod request forums: Its to request. I think that "If you want it, make it yourself" talk doesn't seem quite appropriate in the mod request forums.

Hypothetically speaking, what if everyone had that kind of talk on all the mod request topics? That would make us all (who have great ideas) not bother sharing them because we know that people will just tell us to make it ourselves.

 

Anyways, back on topic. If you already can have your children sit down, then consider this a mod that expands it. However, I have yet to notice this vanilla feature.