Population mods and Encounters

[Alventiothy]

I'm looking for some mods that add some life into skyrim, I've got Interesting Npc's and Inconsequential npc's and find both to be brilliant, so anymore along them lines would be especially wonderful, but any good up to date mods that add people or encounters or just generally something/someone new to see while running around skyrim and saving the world for the nth time.

 

I personally prefer to have skyrim overpopulated than underpopulated, even though I realize Skyrim is supposed to be a sparse land I still prefer to add more diversity to it and fill it with new stuff because it gets boring after the 50th playthrough. So this time I'm setting out to find the perfect combination of npc adding mods combined with city and town overhauls that will make skyrim feel fresh and alive (whilst hopefully not destroying every navmesh in the game). I am also looking for mods that fill in some blank spots in skyrim (I've never been able to make up my mind between JK's Skyrim and ETAC for the big mods but haven't really found mods that cover the more remote areas). I have just built a new rig (6700k + gtx 1080 + 4k monitor) and am keen to have another pop at creating a new skyrim to do yet another playthrough, and so if anyone could recommend any encounter mods, people mods with no limit to how much they add I would greatly appreciate some fellow modders opinions. I can't be the only one who loves watching all the new npc's go out exploring just like me and coming across random battle scenes while out on patrol can i?

Edited July 27, 2016 by Alventiothy

[F310]

I'm looking for some mods that add some life into skyrim, I've got Interesting Npc's and Inconsequential npc's and find both to be brilliant, so anymore along them lines would be especially wonderful, but any good up to date mods that add people or encounters or just generally something/someone new to see while running around skyrim and saving the world for the nth time.

 

I personally prefer to have skyrim overpopulated than underpopulated, even though I realize Skyrim is supposed to be a sparse land I still prefer to add more diversity to it and fill it with new stuff because it gets boring after the 50th playthrough. So this time I'm setting out to find the perfect combination of npc adding mods combined with city and town overhauls that will make skyrim feel fresh and alive (whilst hopefully not destroying every navmesh in the game). I am also looking for mods that fill in some blank spots in skyrim (I've never been able to make up my mind between JK's Skyrim and ETAC for the big mods but haven't really found mods that cover the more remote areas). I have just built a new rig (6700k + gtx 1080 + 4k monitor) and am keen to have another pop at creating a new skyrim to do yet another playthrough, and so if anyone could recommend any encounter mods, people mods with no limit to how much they add I would greatly appreciate some fellow modders opinions. I can't be the only one who loves watching all the new npc's go out exploring just like me and coming across random battle scenes while out on patrol can i?

 

 

Try out these if you don't already have them:

Extra Encounters Reborn

Skyrim Immersive Creatures

Helgen Reborn

Populated Forts Towers and Places

Populated Dungeons Caves and Ruins (You have to search for these two, they aren't on Nexus)

Immersive Patrols 2

Immersive Wenches

Organized Bandits In Skyrim

Warzones 2015 (Hasn't been updated in a bit and even on low settings it causes FPS loss, wouldn't recommend)

 

Use these if you don't use them already:

Follower Commentary Overhaul

Guard Dialogue Overhaul

[Alventiothy]

Thankyou so much, I don't have many of them at all so will get right on it!

Love the look of the populated series, they seem to place friends and foes far and wide and in the more remote areas I was talking about. Likewise extra encounters reborn also looks fantastic.

[laiilaiiheii]

interesting npcs and inconsequential npcs is very nice. Immersive creatures as mentioned is cool to. I do advice to put random cell spawn off with a heavy mod loadout though.

Normally when a area is underwhelming, some house mods or extra dungeons / locations might be nice to. Even if it's just to fill up some spaces.

I like border flags and unique borders a lot to.