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Right click VampirePCFaction and have a look at Use Info for it. You'll notice there's a quest associated to the faction (PlayerVampireQuest, Start Game enabled and it never ends). Attached to the Quest is a script (VampireQuestScript). That script has a property for the VampirePCFaction. That property is called in multiple events/functions and the code shortly after it is added. int cfIndex = 0 while (cfIndex < CrimeFactions.GetSize()) ; Debug.Trace("VAMPIRE: Setting enemy flag on " + CrimeFactions.GetAt(cfIndex)) (CrimeFactions.GetAt(cfIndex) as Faction).SetPlayerEnemy() cfIndex += 1 endwhileTook 2 secs to find that, but I didn't look into how it all works or fires (vampire just doesn't interest me at all). Thanks for the help! I thought the issue lied in the faction relations, not in an added quest/script.

I can't solve an issue that is bugging me for some time. I am making a very simple mod : I wan't my vampire character to be shot on sight by the guards and general population, like in Morrowind. Simply adding the player to the VampirePCFaction accomplishes just that. Due to the fact that many vampirism overhauls touch this faction, it made a duplicate of it, called VampirePCFaction_new, for compatibility reasons. I noticed that not only is VampirePCFaction enemy of the crime factions, but the crime factions are enemies of VampirePCFaction as well. Aren't faction relations symmetric? Anyway, I edited the Crime factions as well, and gave them an Enemy relation towards VampirePCFaction_new Still, if I add myself to the new faction ("player.addfac XXXXXX 0" command in console), nothing happens. If i add myself to the VampirePCFaction, guards start to attack right on. I check my mod in TES5Edit, no dirty edits, everything seems to be in order. What am I missing? Is there a special flag or something to turn on attacking?

Is the creation kit capable of handling nested abilities? One ability being part of another one. I am making an ability, (sort of racial bonus) and I want it to have different effects based on a switch-like spell. So I made the base ability, and two abilities for each state. But apparently you can only add Magic Effects to abilities, other abilities not. At least I haven't found a way, nor was succesful with google. Which is a shame, because that way I could've set up a simple Condition to check a global var for each "state" ability. I could achieve similar result with magic effects, but then the player wouldnt see a new line in his magical effect list, cant easily see what state he is in and what does that do.

I use Requiem, play Altmer, with 90 carrying capacity, and even that feels too much. My char does not wear any armor though, and rarely has any weapon. Usually its just a dagger, a woodcutter axe, and a walking stick. No magic staff, nothing. Only thing that I tend to haul is alchemy ingredients, but that is why I use Rental mods and use chests in inns to store stuff. I use frostfall, iNeed, but I feel these mods are pointless if you can just carry everything. Whats the point of worrying about food when you can carry a whole feast lasting for weeks? Carry weight limitations make scavenging more interesting. It also makes my character feel like he is progressing: Getting better at magic makes more and more equipment unneeded. At first my char is weak, can only kill a wolf with 100% magicka bar, so he needs to carry weapons with him constantly. After couple of levels he can forget about camps because he can conjure one, after more levels he can forget about weapons, he can kill people with magic. Give him even more levels, and he can shield himself from cold, so he can drop the fur armor set. Once he becomes a master magician, he either becomes a vampire, or a lich, and forget all about the menial chores a mortal needs. At that point he does not need anything at him. Maybe 5-10 potions, but he does not need to grab every alchemy ingredient, since he is already a master of that trade.

There are a few dungeons with lot of puzzles, The Lost Wonders of Mzark comes to mind first. http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/36317/? I haven't played trough it yet, but ppl say the puzzles are fun. There are other puzzle-heavy dungeon mods in Nexus I'm sure.

I have at least 500h into Skyrim (at leeeast) I had at least 5-6 long play-throughs, mostly with Requiem, and I havent finished the MQ a single time. Furthest i got was to talk to Earnest or who-the-hell in riften.

The following would be the overhaul of the Skyrim magic system. Instead of making spells more powerful/weaker, giving spells/removing spells, this overhaul would change the entire concept of a mage character: At the current state in Skyrim, a mage character acts very similar to an archer. He can cast multiple spells, has a resource pool that he can manage fairly easily, and deals with his foes with magic spells most of the time. Magic acts like a quick to use, convenient bow/arrow. This overhaul would change that. An average mage, if faced with enemy, would rely more on preparation, than quick reflexes. Soul gems, scrolls, mana potions, staffs, etc would play much bigger role in his fight. At every magical activity the PC would have a choice to be more efficient/powerful/better, but with a chance of backfire. Magic IS dangerous in the lore, but not in the current game. You can't screw up magic, but you should. The usage of magic would move from the battlefield into the lab, or hideout of the mage: 1. Make Magicka a more stable, less fluctuating resource pool. As in double, triple the maximum magicka, and either completely remove, or severly dimish the magicka return rate. If you run out of magicka, you run out for the whole day, if not days. Using your magicka in combat would give you debuffs, headaches, etc. You would regen magicka from sleeping for the most part. Use high magicka spells in combat only when cornered, to avoid death. Other times try to minimalize its use, and stick with easy-to-cast spells. Every non-combat activity would use up magicka. Enchanting, summoning (see below) scrollmaking, even high tier alchemy would require magicka. The drawback of using more magicka in combat would be that you do not have the way to easily regen it, but when enchanting, scrollwriting you can always go sleep a little afterwards, making it more efficient. 2. Conjuration The ingame conjuring Daedra, raising dead and conjuring undead would be completely removed. You would have the ability to SUMMON specific creatures that you already "made" before the battle. Necromancy: Pretty much the Corpse Preparation - True Necromancy mod. You find bodies, bring home, prepare them, then raise them. In combat you only summon the already made companions. If it gets "killed"=destroyed, you would have to recreate it, reanimate it, or get a new body. This part is already been made in the aforementionen mod. Danger would be soul corruption, losing portion of your soul when reanimating, etc. Weaker bodies, better/more materials used in the ritual mitigates this. Daedra conjuring: You could learn spells for conjuring unbound daedra. You could only cast it when specific circumstances are met. For example you'd have to create a magical ring, craft it with enchanted candles, etc. Use big soulgems. Sacrifices, etc. Then, you would summon your unbound daedra, which would either attack you on sight, or get into a dialogue. You'd either have to give it smth in exchange for his service, or defeat it by sheer force and soultrap it. Danger would be an aggressive daedra killing you on sight. Being better in combat mitigates the danger here. Better/more materials and summoning weaker daedra make it less likely that you get an aggressive foe. Having things to bargain give you the chance to have a more lasting soulgem as reward, as well as missing out on the combat. The soul of said daedra would give debuffs to you when carried, so you'd have to only carry a few with you. The stronger the daedra, the stronger the debuffs. The soulgem of the most powerful daedras should be left home, and only carried when you know you will need it. When in combat, you would only be able to summon said daedra, with this soulgem, who would fight for you either until he is dead, or dismissed. The soulgem would break after X times used (negotiated with the daedra when first summoned) or if the daedra dies once. Scrollwriting: Again, this was made countless times by various modders. A new feature would be that making scrolls would not cost soulgems (or only a little bit) but it would cost magicka instead. You could only write scrolls of spells you know. If you raise a particular skill, not only casting the spells in that tree gets cheaper, but the making of the scrolls of said spells as well. Scribing a scroll would raise enchanting, using a scroll would increase the skilltree in question (like using a firebolt scroll would raise destruction) Enchanting: Again, countless mods already overhauled, but the main part is that you have to use up magicka to enchant, making it harder to grind it. Removal of the magicka-cost-lowering enchantment is a must. Staff crafting important as well. Ability to craft more powerful enchantments with the chance of backfire. Staff: Much bigger role. There could be a staff made, which would half the spellcost of every spell, but the other half would be used as enchantment charge. Or staves could remain tool of soulgem -> free spell conversion as they are now. Using staves would raise the skill of the magic school the spell resides in. Destruction: Lower level spells would remain if wanted. The ability to cast high magicka costing, high rewarding spells is important here. Spell-backfiring is just as well important. Giving you debuffs when using spells when are not skilled yet, like max-magicka or magicka regen rate reducing. Alteration: Transmuting would play heavier role, it would be used to transmute ores to be used in creating the various tools for magic, like the magic circles for conjuration, or soul gem materials for enchanting. Restoration: I am in love with injury mods, you guys should try it as well! I never thought they would give this much fun to a game before I tried them. Restoration should be tied in with an injury mod. Instant healing spells would get their magicka use raised significantly, forcing you to use it ONLY as last resort. Instead there should be slow hp regen spells, draining your magicka as well. Spells to help the healing from an injury, or disease would play heavier role, than in-combat life-saving. Alchemy: essentially Chasing the Dragon/Useful Potions/Alchemy Requires Bottles/Improved Potion animation mod. Not much more is needed for this overhaul, just incorporate stuff from these mods: Toxicity to counter the potion-jugging-attitude Raise duration of potions, to make them worth while Lower the regen ability of potions. No instant healing potion, only slow regen. No instant magicka potion (or a custom made potion with SEVERE negativ effects) and slow magicka regen instead. Magicka potions would be used between battles to regain some magicka, but only when it is really needed due to toxicity. Animation: So that you cant drink potion mid-swing. This would make potions a curiosity. You drink one or two once or twice a day, there is only rare exceptions when you drink more. Like when you are summoning a dangerous daedra. Alchemy would have a bigger role in preparing the various rituals for other spells in question, or it would be also really powerful in combat (100% fire resistance) if you're willing to pay the price. Poisons would be used same way as now. I guess you guys get the picture now: More preparation, more casting in your home, less twitchy rocket shooting from the hips. And as I mentioned, parts of this are already made, what is left is to make the other mechanics, and merge & fill the gaps.

There are several Enchanting mods out there, some of them buff the magicka regen enchantment. Try Enchanting Awakened for example :)

There is a mod which gives you the ability to create gold piles http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/51163/? The issue is that it is hard to create bigger piles of gold. At one playthrough after an hour of arragements I did manage to shove all the gold into the corner where my safe was. It was really hard to achieve though. Then I tossed some gems, gold ingots, jewelry on top and it looked like a treasury.

Trade and Commerce did this in Oblivion, and it was one of the best mods for that game. Thanks for linking the Drunken Dragon mod!

The idea comes from various fantasy novells where the mages could store mana in gems/jewelry. It would act as alternative mean to regain magicka besides magicka potions. You could get a spell, that when cast, gave you X% of your magicka back, but emptied a soulgem in your inventory. An even more developed solution would be craftable necklace/ring, or a new enchantment for jewelry. This enchantment would give you no bonus for your PC, but would have an insane amount of charge. Once you use the spell, it would drain the enchantment of the ring/necklace. Another take: You click on your soulgem in your inventory, it is used up and regains your magicka. Essentially giving soulgems magicka potion-like properties.

Wouldn't it be fun, if the game did not stop when you access a menu? It would solve so many problems with the game: No more digging trough your backpack for a health potion in a middle of an enemy swing No more changing armors in combat Changing to long forgotten spells Read a book in real time Favorites Menu would be even more vital In another topic I found some info/code regarding this: bool Function IsInMenuMode() native if (!Utility.IsInMenuMode()) These two govern whether a menu freezes the game I belive. However since I haven't modded Skyrim at all, I can't tell where to implement the scripts for this. (Source Link: https://subversion.assembla.com/svn/skyrim-mod/Tools/skse_1_06_06/Data/Scripts/Source/Utility.psc)

One of the positive things this game series has is the synergy between different skills/classes. Same situation can be dealt in a numerous ways. In the previous games, playing a stealthy mage was actually quite good, almost every requirement for thievery could be filled with magic skills, especially with some mods. Sneak around with invisibility, or simply walk around charmed enemys, make them fall asleep to take their stuff instead of trying to pick pocket, open locks with magic. Most of these things can be achieved in Skyrim as well, with various mods. However there is still one thing that is missing: Do ranged, stealthy damage with magic. I know there are mods which give sneak multiplier to destruction spells, but nuking someone with a firebolt and stay undetected is problematic as well. Also, you still can't use your poisons with destruction spells. A telekinetic spell should fill this gap: You equip an arrow, but not a bow. You equip this telekinesis spell (Alteration tree ofc) and cast it, like a destruction spell. Then an arrow flies at the direction you aim. This spell shouldnt make any noise, would be stealthy, and you could apply poisons to the arrow. Or use noisemaker arrows, water arrows, rope arrows, etc etc.

I want to spellcheck my writing, but the "edit" function is not working properly, I can't save my changes... :(

The Main difference between the Oblivion (and to a lesser extent, Morrowind) Hero and Skyrim Hero is, that the Skyrim Hero is a champion by birthright, while the Oblivion Hero is a champion trough deeds. Example: Dark Brotherhood Oblivion: : You join as a common murderer, then slowly you prove to Vincente that you are capable of assassinating targets. Thus he lets you go to Ocheeva. She gives you harder missions, which prove your worth to the Black Hand, thus they make you a Silencer, and they give you more secret and harder missions. At this stage you do everything by yourself (at the previous misison everyone helped you plan out the murders, but as a Silencer you have a target name written down and thats it) SPOILER : After you murder the Black Hand, the Night Mother tells you how good you are, thus she makes you a Listener. You did things, thus you earned to be leader. Dark Bortherhood Skyrim: You join by killing a gramma, then you do 1 or 2 contracts, and BAM the Night Mother telly you you are the new Listener. No deeds done, you are the leader by birthright, because you are special. Mage Guild Oblivion: Even for joining you have to go to every Guild Hall to prove yourself! And when you have Choices and Consequences mod installed, then you have to do small tasks before each story quests, and prove that you are capable to cast high level spells. At the end the Archmage tells you how good you are, and if you manage to kill Mannimarco, then you should be the next Archmage. Mage Guild Skyrim (=College of Winterhold) You cast a spell to enter the College, cast a spell at a seminar, then you have to go to an exavation side and BAM the Psijic Order tells you how special you are. No deeds done, you are leader by birthright. How to fix this: Dark Brotherhood: After joining the DB, you have to do EVERY Contracts Nazir gives you (Kill vampires, Housecarls, pirate captains etc) before Astrid would give you the first real contract, with the Markarth girl and her Bandit lover. Thus when Cicero comes and when you spy on him, you feel that you earned yourself to be an assassin, and the Night Mother has some kind of point about why you should be the Listener. Add another NPC to give contracts in between the story quests, since Nazir's Contracts are done by now (DB Ressurection mod gives such NPC I belive) and now you have a longer, more rewarding storyline. College: First you have to prove yourself to Faralda. Then you head inside, do the ward seminar, then a new NPC tells everyone to go to rest, and read some books, prepare for tomorrows exams, etc etc. When you talk with him, you can ask wether there are some interesting experiments going on. He says that the excavation of Saarthal is going on, but he does not want younglings to enter it, since it is dangerous. He says only senior members of the college may enter. In order to become a senior member, you have to help the others (do radiant quests and maybe integrate other mods college quests) and finish at least one magic master quest (proving that you are not a warrior fetching books for the college, but an expert at casting spells, who can teach others). Maybe he can give you some quests as well. After you do all that, he makes you a seniour member (giving you expert robe and hood), and tells you Tolfdir just headed back to Saarthal with some students, despite his warning about the dangers lurking around that place. And he asks you, as a seniour member of the college, to hurry there and look after them. After all Tolfdir has the tendency to focus only at whatever he is doing, and to forget about his progenys. So you head there, after you already proved to be a good mage, the Psijic Order can rightfully say that you are special. Both of these solution require minimal scripting, a new NPC with voice, and him giving some quests to the player. These are not perfect scenarios, but it would blend into vanilla skyrim and its voiced NPC's pefectly.