Jackaline

Yeah, I already have improved follower stealth AI and they still babble on and on. Super frustrating. Yes!!! I like all of these ideas, I hadn't thought too in depth about how exactly the unique loot would be accomplished but I LOVE that one about salvaging parts from enemies armor to improve your own!!

From what I've seen of .nif files I could probably do something like this? I'm fairly sure the cape part of armors is it's own removable 'piece' for example, and the pant pieces could probably be taken from the miner or noble sets. Wouldn't be able to guarantee anything wrt clipping though.

I'm interested! I've never worked on a follower mod before, but I was considering doing one by myself anyway. My SO has said she'd be interested in voicing a follower and we have access to a decent mic as well. What kind of character did you have in mind?

I really like this idea - some guy in the discussion of your mod says it's because the scripts aren't packaged in the BSA? I've never worked with the scripting side of mods so I have no idea what that means, but I thought I'd mention it anyway. I don't get how that would make it stop working after working for people for a little while at first though... This is a kinda dumb question, but did you have any scripting experience before this mod? If you didn't, was it total hell learning it? I'm considering getting into it but I'm also kinda like... Will this make me want to die...

I can confirm that he never stops being follower-able! You can dismiss him and invite him back as much as you want, I just wish he was a bit quieter. God do I wish that.

Ok, I'm gonna preface this with the fact that these aren't not so much requests as just 'man imagine this' because I think we all deserve more joy in our lives. It turned into a kinda long post, so I divided it into 3 sections, gameplay, environment and NPCs. Basically don't take this post as me trying to bark orders to people, I just think about Skyrim a lot. GAMEPLAY ENVIRONMENT NPCS Yep. If people were interested in an idea but no one was willing to make it, I could actually try make some of them myself. So far I've only done textures and basic race mods, but I could have a go especially if other people wanted to help out. I'm a really visual person but I'm alright with codes in general. My SO is an actor and also loves Skyrim, she's offered to help out in the voice department and we have access to a decent mic. I'd totally be down to collab on any of these, even if we didn't have a whole lot of combined knowledge or experience! Either way, I'd love to hear any feedback.

Another update, I think I sorted it out?? At some stage I had a giant pale-blue spike in the middle of my vision always so that was kind of messed up and hopefully won't return. But yeah. Nice & yeah probably, removed it thanks for the heads up. Hahaha man I just find the skimpy armor stuff real immersion-breaking, I end up kind of sitting there wondering if they're OK. Are these ladies cold? Do they need help?? Who is dressing these girls????

Yeah, OK whatever Mod Organizer was up to seemed to be the culprit somehow, everything's fine now. Still pretty hesitant about putting all my mods back on but I've got quite a few back on now and it hasn't gone back to hell. My argonian now has see-through armor though. It's been a while since I did mods this way. :sad: If anyone wants to help me get over this last hurdle it would be much appreciated, here's the only mods that can feasibly be at play here: -dark brotherhood armor fix -weapons/armor fixes -femfeet redesgined -bigger argonian tails -argonian reptilian feet -breastless argonian females -skyrim modesty mod -practical female armors Thanks to both of you for the moral support in these trying times.

I used to do that but I like having all my mods in organized folders separate from Skyrim's data folder - I'm constantly tinkering with texture files and stuff so I just find it a lot easier to do that and back up work and everything that way.

Small update: Still haven't gotten around to cleaning the fan, but I did try updating stuff like DirectX and the other things included in the Skyrim folder. This sounds pretty basic but I just kind of assumed they'd be installed with Skyrim. Anyway, this hasn't changed anything with the modded game but the vanilla game runs (and looks, oddly enough) excellent now. I can save, tab, do things fast, jump down hills, the lot - no CTD, not even any lag. I'm super impressed. It's almost like installing basic game components makes the games work better. I should mention, this is when launching it from Steam's desktop shortcut for it instead of launching it from Mod Organizer (I have a vanilla profile on it to keep things in one place) I don't want to jinx it but it's actually running smoother than I've ever had before, and I can't tell if I'm only just noticing it now or if the high res packs didn't work before but that's looking really good too. I seriously don't understand the correlation between Mod Organizer and Steam especially not now, but I am seriously wondering if I just... Sneak the texture packs into the Skyrim data folder and bypass Mod Organizer, maybe it won't notice... But also I've been loving not having to deal with the data folder and if it doesn't work then I'll have doomed myself to that fate again. Anyway, next on my list of things to try is installing SKSE again and seeing if it breaks it (won't really prove much but if anything changes it'll be a good sign I should stop), installing some easily removable mod into the data folder and seeing if it reacts like it does to Mod Organizer being on, and of course cleaning the fan. Seeing how well it ran just now, and seeing as my computer hasn't been screwing anything else up as bad as Skyrim, I'm sorta temped to leave the virus checking stuff for now. I don't know. I'm really lazy. We'll see where inspiration takes me.

Thanks for the reply! Yeah, it's a Sony Vaio laptop that I've had for at least 3-4 years now - I've actually set up my desk so both the sides and bottom get air through them but I haven't cleaned the fans before. I might have a go at that. I did have some kind of virus on my computer before I reinstalled Windows that was making explorer.exe crash and all this nasty stuff - I've been borderline obsessively running Malwarebytes since that, but it is starting to get a bit weird again. Man, I really hope I don't have to fish around with that again... Good to know it's probably not Skyrim itself, doesn't surprise me to hear it's probably my laptop although it's still kinda sad. I'll check out the fan and do some more research on those virus types and get back to you if anything changes. Thanks again, dude

Sorry to double-post I don't know the etiquette with that here but seriously... My game is now fully legitimate and it only got worse. I'm not so stupid that I'd put this much effort into a post about a pirated game. I payed for this with my money and it will not go, when in the past it has. It's very frustrating.

Yes, then I bought the game and this is still happening. My current copy isn't pirated. These problems only started when I bought it. Hence why I'm not stoked.

Hello, this is my first time posting to the forums - just gotten to the point where trying to fix this by myself is taking up way too much of my time. The issue I've been having is that Skyrim CTD's (no error message or anything) from pretty much anything requiring my computer to think, I guess. Pressing esc, pressing tab, pressing E, jumping down a hill too fast, that sort of thing. I've just found out this happens without any mods as well. I've been having more and more (different) problems with Skyrim for the past few months, mostly because I'd been stupidly adding and taking away mods willy nilly from my character. I ended up doing a factory reset on my computer, and upon reinstalling my pirated copy of Skyrim I found it wouldn't load up at all. I figured it was probably a sign to buy it on Steam and start a new character but I'm kind of devastated to find it's only gotten worse since doing that the other week. Since then I've been doing all sorts of stuff trying to figure out what's wrong with it (with new test characters each time): disabling mods, updating mods, getting patches, combining texture packs, optimizing said texture packs, reinstalling scripted mods, adding ENBoost, removing ENBoost, removing SKSE... Nothing has made any difference whatsoever. Even when I stripped it down to absolute vanilla without even the DLC's and started over, it CTD'd when I tried to loot the Stormcloak's body in the intro sequence. Another fun new issue I found just now was that I was unable to load up a save I had just made after briefly quitting to turn one of the graphics settings down - just some nice endless loading-screen stuff going on. Not really sure how to make sense of my computer specs to be honest, but here's some of the things I see people mention: http://i.imgur.com/ZZ4UXFI.png http://i.imgur.com/8Lgdi6L.png http://i.imgur.com/2iVPD54.png I use a laptop with Windows 7 Pro on it, which probably isn't ideal but I've got to emphasise I've been playing this game for at least a year and it's been doing really well. I always have the settings on pretty low, but that's fine and the only issues I've had with crashing have been from load ordering problems when I was still figuring that stuff out. The game is located in C:\program files(x86)\steam\steamapps\common\Skyrim, it's presumably the latest version since I bought it from Steam only recently, I also use Mod Organizer 1.3.7. Right now, it's totally unmodded without SKSE but I'd usually have over 200 mods activated. I don't know if that's stupid or not, I've been doing my best to narrow them down but I do have standards. No offense to Bethesda. But I can honestly tell you this was working out fine for me before I entered CTD hell. I use TES5Edit and LOOT and all that. Since there are no mods activated right now I'm pretty sure this isn't a load order issue, so I won't post a LOOT log unless someone asks about some specific setup I had. Sorry if this is a bit long-winded, thank you for checking it out - totally don't know what to do anymore and it'd be awesome if someone could help fix this. I just wanna play Skyrim again, I don't even care if I have to play vanilla at this point... Was a real decent game despite how much I complain about it. Maybe it heard me :sad: