Ashven

Razorwire beat you to this some time back. His method is rather complex looking, but he did design it so people could make their own video packs. I'm just not sure that anyone did. Razorwire is a brilliant guy. Check out his other mods too, if you get hot and bothered by gadgets.

XRE cars blew my mind. All the more reason to migrate to Vegas (for those who can), I guess. That level of scripting probably transcends mortal minds, though.

A suggestion that may or may not work for you - you could rather 'harvest' the misc item gore parts, which you then could use to repair your armor via the repair lists. It'd put a step into the process, but it would be easier to implement.

Rockstar has access to the raw code, meaning they can fully implement such a system in its entirety, without having to dance around game limitations. Bethesda's version of Gamebryo has been extremely custom since the Morrowind days, and I suspect they are too afraid trade secrets might get out should they allow more freedom with it. Basically, if we can't do it with the GECK and FOSE, it's not going to get done.

Yes and no. There was a car mod called the Road Warrior. Download it and check it out, and you'll reaiize why it's not so easy to do. There's also the J3x-ified Motorcycle. The Motorcycle is the least buggy in my experience. It's really hard to get the collision right.

There's a file on the nexus that supposedly fixes this issue, but I think it does so by entirely removing their outfits altogether (so they're naked until you clothe them, even before you get them as companions.)

Well, I've been having that <Alias=> problem thing for a while now, so I couldn't do things like marry Ysolda or accept thieves guild missions or bounties. On top of that, most quests are now broken, because critical NPCs never appear or won't talk to me! Add to that, I started a new game to see if it was just a bad savegame or something, and now half the NPCs in a village are missing. I walked into Whiterun, and the Battle-Born guy who talks to the smith wasn't there, and she was having a one sided conversation with an invisible NPC. Whenever he would have normally spoken, she just kept running her lines on until she was done. This is just the most recent, most memorable occasion. This is the norm for almost every town in game. And this has been happening for a while. I just don't know what to do.

I don't use crafting, alchemy or enchanting. I find it really kills my gameplay when I do. I like to call myself an 'honest thief' though, because I don't use weapons on people (the driving ethic behind it is that I'm the 'bad' guy here) and I will pay my fines and serve my sentences. If I get caught; I don't get caught often. So when I make a great big blunder my pocketbook suffers for it. But as far as expenses go, I've got a primary needs mod that makes it a bit harder to keep the clink in my pocket. On the other hand, I have the expensive cart-travel mod (any my PN mod removes fast travel) so that really eats gold as well. I also don't own a house and when I'm in town, I have to stay in inns. When I'm on the road, I have to stock food and supplies, and I sleep out of a tent. And when I got my horse, I had to do a lot of pickpocketing to make it up.

You wound me. I take great pride in my work. But I do play by different rules for "The Game" so my experiences are probably far different. I do indeed agree with you that everything needs to be real time. It would make most things a lot more interesting - it would even be interesting if the menus were real time as well. Hell, having real time menus would drastically alter playstyle for everyone, come to think of it - no more pausing combat to manually doodle your weapons around, drink a ton of potions, or equip spell of UberRainDeath at your leisure. I'm also an Adept from the Thief series of games - I truly did love their entire system. In fact, Thief 4 might steal me away from Skyrim, if it's half as good as I expect (I've stay with the Elder Scrolls because it's the closest to decent thieving experience possible.) The lockpicking took me a couple minutes to get used to, and it seemed strange, but after the first couple locks I was crackin' 'em like an old pro. If there was a way to replace our crappy minigame with that, I'd never look back. Especially if it was real-time. Pickpocketing poses an issue, though. Honestly, you should be able to do keep the current pickpocketing exactly as it is, except for real time. I say this, because there are times where you are planting things or taking non-gold, non-key targets like gems or papers. But REAL pickpocketing should be more like the classic Bump'n'run. It aught to be a special power (so you can map it to the shout key) and when you use it on a mark while in close enough range, it should transfer all gold and gems (maybe keys) instantly - even if you get caught. Getting caught should rely on both sneak and pickpocket skills to actually determine your success chance, since you're relying on the people around you to cloak you. And even if you get caught, that's called Pursesnatching and most perpetrators end up running for the hills. Throw in some way to do disguises, and you've got career criminals springing up.

While we're at it, let's merge all schools of magic into one, since I can't imagine all of you folks using every school and putting perks in them. Lockpicking is broken, yes - but it CAN be fixed. It CAN be made into a useful and integral skill again. And just because most of you don't care for it, doesn't mean it should get twisted around. The Stealth Arts are MY arts. I've been plying this same in-game trade the same way since Morrowind. I've had to watch people rip the flesh off its bones to better accommodate the casual/lazy gamer and frankly, it's disgusting. All the focus is always given to magic or combat, and rarely do the devs or modders throw us a bone, except for the few, the proud, and the glorious modders like Reneer (amongst others.) I swear, this blasphemous anti-lockpicking talk is going to make me scream. It needs fixed. I rest assured that it will be fixed. I remember scanning the Oblivion mods not too long back (just looking, since I don't play anymore) and seeing someone who's working on a real-time lockpicking thing. It was nifty that it was exactly the same as the vanilla game, just real-time. I don't recall much other than that, though.

The controller allows you a lot more freedom. You can't rotate slowly with mouse and keyboard. Another reason it's starting to be really evident that developers care more about consoles.

If I recall correctly, I think you can set in your profile whether or not you want to view Adult Only files.

Reduce the amount of lockpicks available in the world, jack the value of 'em up quite insanely (assuming that finding one would now be a *censored* and they're costly as hell) and then apply the Unbreakable perk to the player from the get-go, and you've got a lockpicking solution. Add to that, locks are now 100% harder to break and require more time and patience to break, and you've got a winner. There will be times with a Master lock at such a low level (this way, not vanilla) that if you're off by a hair it wouldn't turn. Making putting points into Lockpicking valuable again, since you'd much rather find the sweet spot easier than spend a literal fifteen minutes just picking a lock and the Lockpicking skill tree would make more sense, and the Unbreakable perk could be replaced with something equally nice on the tree. I only play real, hardcore thieves. No combat thieves. I do more damage to a coinpurse with a lockpick in an hour than a war does to a treasury, sometimes. And if the skill trees were combined, I'd kill somebody. They've already destroyed half my skillset from Oblivion, are people dead set on making real thieves obsolete? Or does everyone assume Jack-of-all-trades/Assassin/mage/warriors are thieves too? Pickpocketing bad needs an overhaul, in my opinion needs it more than lockpicking. Why I can't do a bump'n'run or purse snatch (crude, but it is a method nonetheless) is beyond me. Hell, mugging would be interesting. I'm not interested in killing people, so I have to accumulate my wealth the Stealth way. Of course, it's okay to give a warrior twenty ways to lop off a head, but thieves don't matter so let's lump them into a minority and ruin their gameplay. For Talos' sake, I can't walk ten feet in the game without being forced to either run for my life or defend it.

I would sing your praises to the heavens and permanently worship the ground you walk upon, if you can figure out how to do a climbing mod. Seriously.

Well, my attempt at modifying the flying code to work for climbing failed miserably - couldn't figure out how to switch the script to work continuously whilst in a trigger. I figured had I managed to get that to happen, I could clunk around and eventually get it to push you up and down, instead of where you looked. I'll keep watching and studying more code, but for now I'm a tad discouraged. xD