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Again, to both of you though, whilst I can appreciate the suggestions... ONE... work... TWO... with whom.... Why in the ever loving f*ck would ANYONE go to that trouble, for the cookie cutter, samey same, little boxes, rehashed vanilla voice assets, waif bodied, bubble butted, big boobed, nobodies, with not a single unique feature, that being tossed up as custom female followers these days? As I said, I very much agree with the OP. They are crap, and worthless, and it's a damn shame.

Oh I have 2 TB reserve and 500GB SSD main driver so that is not an issue.... but still that's a lot of saves. Oh yeah, and as for Draconian, true hah, but context.... a LOT of mods are buggy AF in this playthrough... I have a conflict with ONE I really want to try (follower) but they kept crashing after 10-15 minutes.... (after 5 if I used the overhaul though so small win), yet nothing obvious was conflicting, another follower mod borked because I was beyond the point of quest triggers for their story, which locked away a bunch of s#*!, since I could not make it work, a cheat book I installed after I had to reinstall my game the first time, and lost my lvl 23 character and so looked for a quick regain.... well it just borks my saves now, and my follower framework is struggling too sometimes, with applying all it's features to characters... as many are forced followers made to be so by mods not normally available, I think. Also, another follower is totally screwed, and upon reading the FAQ, it's because I broke her AI by deleting objects assigned to a file path of one of her features, before removing them from such. I am thinking this time around, I managed to get my game to play nicely with about half the max mods, BUT still, because I screwed up a few places, and broke a couple of them, they've slowly been corrupting my game. Doesnt help I increased my carry weight by ten tons too, as I noticed that created issues as well at times.... but I did not have time to f*#@ around with weight lol. Maybe I just download that mod that makes everything weigh 0 to solve that, rather than console. All in all though, it IS feeling like maybe it's about time to wipe, polish and reinstall, and try to sort my issues out with some elements of the game in ways that more stable than what I chose. The aforementioned issue in my OP, is just one of many that has crawled in to my game.

I have a pre-diploma (cert IV) in Pure Screen Production, and I got half way through a degree in Theatre and Communication before my mother had her first stroke and I had to abandon both my diploma plans and my BA in Theatre, in both I was marked very highly for my writing, and I won an award for my acting.... but I feel that such a big undertaking, as you say... even if you are right... the scripting needs be good.... though I will go further and say the CONCEPT needs to be 'Right' and the script needs fit that, and then acting needs marry the two... the 'feel' the 'nuance' the concept... of the character... and how it's expressed. But ultimately, this makes BOTH as important as each other, though in my personal experience, the right kind of good performance can elevate a poor script much more often than a good script can elevate a poor performance.... yet since both ARE as important as each other... and BOTH are significant work......I would not be confident in investing in writing for any of the concepts I have, at least for stories with female characters, or for CC female Followers.... simply due the lack of any accessible and obvious voice talent. As I said, that is what seems missing. Good female voice talent. In the absence of that, it would be VERY VERY difficult to do much. Of course, that is also making the assumption that there is also the TECHNICAL talent there to make the actual mod, on the coding and such side. There seems to be very little male voice talent, seeking work, and even less female, and there also seems to not be so many modders standing up and offering to make something "Good", in terms of writing and acting talent, a reality, make it in to an actual mod. There's a lot of creative people here, and the writing, and story, requires naught but a word processor and effort, and I think MANY here could provide some AMAZING stuff that would definitely be 'Good', but without the voice actors to realise it, and modders to make it, there's no point. Hopefully somewhere along the line, there will be some bored modders and bored voice talent, that post up they are so and seeking projects... one day. Then maybe some work towards the OP's ends could get done... then flicker out... and cause wait another few years for the next lot etc etc etc etc. If it ever happens... that's how it will happen.

So I just began the Dawnguard DLC after playing for weeks ignoring it.... and I did the opening mission, I found Serana, I escorted her back to Castle Volkar, and I refused Harkon, and got banished. When I returned to the Dawnguard, instead of Isran then sending me to find Sorine and Gunmar..... nothing.... he is just sitting in his room up stairs inside. He doesnt ask me about what I found, no option to mention Serana or the Elder Scroll, not fetching the two people he needs.... nothing. Now, I have to admit I did NOT travel directly to him AFTER exile from Volkar.... I stopped.... help the Custom follower Vilja send her little sister home, which meant traveling to Dawnstar, and then split up with her, and dropped something off in Dragonbridge, then spent the night in Whiterun, and then stopped off at a custom house just outside of Riften, to make sure my guards had not killed Sapphire from the Thieves Guild, or tried to, as she now lives there and they HAD tried to before...... but I use iNeed and if I do NOT take my time on map long journeys, I arrive at hectic moments, or the start of missions, exhausted, hungry and thirsty, and suffering for it. Yet nothing about any of that SHOULD stop the Dawnguard missions triggering. I should also say that I had to restart those missions from an older save, as I was crashing during the Moth Priest recuse.... probably because I had Sernana and THREE other custom followers with me.... and kept crashing when I tried to abort my mission, and fast travel away with them, so I could dismiss them. So I just figure time to restart that whole questline from an older save. Which I did. But NOW I have this problem. Is there any way I can force it to trigger?

Guess I'll have to. More and more seems bugged. I need to disable Autosave too, so it doesnt save them in. I have something like 201 saves on this play through. Maybe I will uninstall ALL mods, and just reinstall the whole game.

It doesn't matter whether a follower comes with large or small or ginormous manga breasts out of the box because, unless a person is lazy or unwilling to learn, that follower's body can be tailored to have EXACTLY the dimensions that one finds appealing or interesting. Even I've succeeded in doing it, and I'm just a wee bit shy of village idiocy with respect to 3D modeling. For "ease of use" and sanity it's best to focus on designing a desired "replacer" body in BodySlide, one body to rule them all (with wide weight variation), and then also apply that same body to the desired follower if she uses a custom body, and then finally use BodySlide to tailor the vanilla or replacer and all standalone clothing to fit that body. Having done that, there will be peace of mind knowing that any NPC or follower can wear anything without issues of clipping or distracting changes in morphology... and hopefully no distracting neck or other seams to be fixed. That requires not only skills, but other programes too, some of us just do not have that in us, or perhaps do not have the hardware, or room, or whatnot. It would be nice if the Hentai crowd was not the only sector making Female followers these days. I am sure for people with the nouse and time and capabilities their end.... conversion is an option, but for lot's of us, that simply put, is WAY too much hard work.... especially since there's no good fully custom voice acted female followers being made anyway. If the 2020 version of Vilja comes out, or Sofia, or a new Recorder, then sure, yes, we might be tempted to at least try, though I suspect half a dozen replacers/reimaginings would pop up within a week or two anyway, making it moot.... but for the same old same old, rehashed vanilla voice assets, limited interaction UI, cookie cutter followers we're getting? Easier to just ignore that trash.

You cannot really SEE very much of the outfit. Do you have a better picture? I have some idea as to how you might actually make something reasonably close to this, if I can only see what she is wearing..... I am assuming that's just a short dress with a plunging neckline? There's a few options for something close to this. A few of the pieces in THIS collection, come close, if you're running UNP, and I believe a CBBE version exists, there MIGHT be a Vanilla one too.... between the main and the DLC collection, you'll come close on the dress.... https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/32205?tab=posts Another UNP one, but the same is available in CBBE..... this dress comes kinda close doesnt it? https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/25511 Or the dress from this too. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/25874 again, UNP, but available with CBBE too.. .....in fact I think all of these have conversions to full UUNP and CBBCE for physics too if you have that set up. Yet another UNP set, well this is in fact a whole store, with three NPC merchants, that has a spare bed too, and crafting capabilities.... it's an excellent mod... AND... you WILL find boots AND gloves that come close to the pic here as well. https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/9213 That last one also has cloaks and capes, including a couple that come VERY close to that picture. Those should be a good start, try them out and see if they are not able to get you close... at least much closer than what you seem to be saying you found. Good luck.

I am sure it can be made Lore friendly in terms of the TES series, but I doubt it can be in terms of the Skyrim environment..... and more, I doubt anyone could ever call Skimpy armour practical. Armour that is Skimpy.... KIND of has historical precedent..... that is to say.... the early mirror armours would just be a leather harness of small mirrors in key positions on the torso, often three dimensional and shaped liked mythical beasts...... and would be worn with just a skirt.... by men actually.... with them only wearing a simple helmet and greaves and vambracers..... BUT.... ONLY with a HUGE shield. In fact, Celts, despite inventing maille.... often fought NAKED...... but ALWAYS behind a HUGE SHIELD.... remove the huge shield, and skimpy armour is as practical as a screen door on a submarine and there's no way around it.

OK So in the last few days, I have developed a bug where Dragons, will flee, not just flee, cricle, and press the attack....but flee way over the mountains right way across the map..... miles and miles away in to the nearest mountains. Yet my game doesnt break off the attack.... they're a tiny dull red dot, way away from anywhere I can catch them. Worse, when I use Dragonrend on them, lvl 3 and all, they do this too. More... if they're already on the ground, and I use Dragonrend to keep them there, they immediately become airborne and then proceed to do the above. If I run the other way until I am so far away from where the engagement began, it finally ends... I CTD a few seconds later. If I fast travel close to where the Dragon looks to be... it is gone... I fast travel back to where the encounter began, and it's there.....but if I fail to kill it fast, it will repeat the process all over again, then I have to. It is taking me an hour to kill some Dragons because of this, but I cannot just leave it, or I crash. HELP!

Because this is just your opinion based on one anecdote. And there's no telling what sort of cognitive biases your opinion has had to filter through before you typed it into the browser. Or even whether your anecdote is accurate, even though I find it believable. Also, your whole premise is a non sequitur because you're comparing an open public forum where virtually anything goes, with a modding site governed by clear terms of use and forums dedicated to one specific mod for the express purpose of allowing a modder and mod users to communicate about the mod. In other words, your story is irrelevant to the point of this thread and therefore so is your conclusion. One of the reasons modders like to have the ability to delete comments is to avoid mod users wasting their time and filling up the comments tab with erroneous bug and incompatibility reports. I've seen countless mod comment threads where a mod user expects the mod author to diagnose their mod incompatibility problem for them, merely on the suspicion that the mod is causing the problem. I had one user of my mod who carried on posting even after I conclusively proved that my mod couldn't have been causing the bug. Having to appeal to a moderator to delete comments only increases the time wasted. So if I could make something clear to you, it's this: my time is more important than your personal preference and your desired ideology. Now now, do not be defenisive and wind up looking at best idiotic, at worse hypocritical. You accuse me of anecdote, then provide the same, you accuse me of bias, then state a bias that you like to have X because Y.... so that just makes you a fool. OF COURSE modders want what you say. But you make a worthless trash piece of s*** buggy as f*** mod that is a nightmare to work with, but removal means a totally new game, and people take issue with that, and start to complain, are you telling me, as a modder, that you could not imagine other mothers trying at first to blame load order, other mods, misintallation...... and if NOT THOSE, CONTINUING to edit or delete comments? I have SEEN it here my friend. I can point you to a mod and comment section. A notoriously buggy mod, that has a lot of triggers missing for progression, and is very unintuitive, that even conflicts with it's self, om which I have commented, and other's have, those comments been removed. Was it because of misrepresentation, and other factors caused the problem? No. As the bug was recognised. Other issues where with the difficulty and obscurity of certain pathways within the mod. NOT the mod not working, just being quite poor in how certain elements worked. Cant blame that on load order, or conflicting mods, or performance issues. Bad design rests solely on the creators. Yet as I have said, I have seen a few mods, on a few occasions, here, where comments disappear because they are CRITICISM, NOT 'junk comments'.....and it should NOT be up to USERS to report such abuse where suspected when evidence can be hard come by, but for the Authors to need to SEEK permission to edit the comment threads, from Nexus themselves, as to prevent this. Your time is NOT more important than MY time... and bad mod... especially on that changes a lot, edits lists, or plays off core Quests, and doesnt show up as as bad as it is until begun/used a little.... WASTES MY TIME, as it leaves me with the choice of struggling on until I finish this playthrough, or cleaning every fresh from jot, hard wiping up, and starting a new game.... after first preparing my DL all over again. Your time means less than nothing to me in the face of that. Yet I recognise it's valuable to you. So my compromise would be to allow mod Authors some priority preference, when dealing with the site mods/admins, and so you can submit your edit/removal request for abusive or incorrect comments, false content, and know they'll check up on it before they deal with any other users issues. That seems fair. That stops abuse. Being able to delete abuse, sadly, is a power in itself which can become one. I think it should be always handled by mods and admins, not users.

I'd be really interested in doing some voice acting, so long as there was a nice simple recording programe available like the one that came with Windows back in the day..... I do not think it does now, not on Win10.... I have a reasonably high quality mic and free time as I work two four hour shifts a day at different jobs 6 hours apart. But I could, obviously, only do male characters, and it seems like for both true CC followers, and NPC overhauls, it's the females that need it most. I would also be interested in doing some writing and story development for any NPC or CC Follower project, but again, seems like what's missing is the female voice talent. I think that is the biggest hurdle to both the CC Follower issue and the NPC overhaul idea, the lack of female voice talent with the time to really give a comprehensive effort for such projects. I rarely see ANYONE voicing the idea they'd be interested in some voice acting, if anyone is in need of such, but when I HAVE, it's been men all three times. Four including myself. It's a great idea, but there just not seem to be talent nor impetus.

Well, as far as female followers go, I think Vilja has a wonderful personality, and so does Auri from Song of the Green, Sofia is annoying and strange and I would give a diagnosis of Aspergers, but there's depth there, and she's good underneath. Recorder has a great personality, and the concept of who and what and WHERE she is, or is from, is fantastic, and they are the only ones I can speak to. Aurlyn Dawnstone has an eventually grating, self centred, condescending hubris ridden personality, and is thoroughly a braggard and brovado laiden, but has some redeeming features, just an OP centre of the world Princess, that becomes pretty reprehensible the more you play with her.... BUT even then THAT also IS a personality, and one that's atypical and of some depth. None of them have Waif physiques with Triple F cups.... and they are some of the more detailed, and comprehensive followers... in fact... I would say NO follower comes close in terms of personality, depth, and immersion than Vilja, and she's self-aware of her love handles and freckles yo! That's the real shizzle right there. So from my own experiences, all the BEST female CC Followers, certainly all the ones with actual custom dialogue scripting and custom voices, are, in fact, far removed from the life raft busted hussies that keep popping up. Sure, most of the aforementioned are years old and maybe need some updates/overhauls, but they are all pretty tame in the boob department. More, I have found all of them to be reasonably balanced and competent in combat, and not OP at all, beyond the level 30 cap placed on most vanilla NPCs. I think the problem is, that it is MUCH easier to create a VISUALLY different NPC using the base NPC template, than to create an ALL NEW, custom, including custom skills, features, dialogue, skills, looks, and true custom voice acting, follower. No one seems to be doing the latter really, atm, so we find that there's a ton of anime followers, or big boobed waif bodied big booty sloots showing up as female follower mods, because they get DL from all the folks using Sex mods. Maybe one day a new generation of proper Vilja or Sofia or Recoder level custom female followers will show up. Hopefully without airbags.

It's really simple. I used to run a lot of pages back in the days before we had anything but the cutting edge things called message board, when Tom was no ones friend, and long before books of faces went digital, and if you let people who START a topic moderate it... they will CONTROL the subject and the narrative. I saw it. Countless times. One of my biggest spaces was a place which operated on some novel libertarian ruleless base idealism, where only sedition, hate speech, and pedophilia (and other sexual criminality) was banned. Free speech was championed, admin and moderators were totally hands off, and sub-threads in different forums were often left unlocked, or control given to the OP. And yet, we DID have to end the latter. Why? Posters putting up a thread, and then controlling it like mad if they did not like things said. Deletions.... but as they got bolder... redactive edits.... which is how we saw it, as it left a tag of their work. I cannot see Mod authors being ANY different. I know just in my short membership here, at least ONE mod comment was removed, and it wasnt for abuse, but criticism. Anyone who thinks this does NOT happen, is either sheltered, naive or deliberately blind to the reality. I think it is really important on sites like this, that transparency is thoroughly maintained, and would personally like to see this function removed from the mod authors tools, and instead, they be expected to report to Nexus staff, those 'useless' comments, for their consideration, rather than be able to make that call, and we need report abuse to Nexus.

I am looking for a mod that simply adds some hair.... preferably in blonde, black, brown, red and grey, to the Mourners hat. I think it's actually a very lovely little piece of clothing, but I feel like there should be a little hair visible when worn. I am not sure how hard it is to do, but I have seen a lot of custom headwear and hoods, that have hair, so I figure it cant be that hard.

You cannot make Skimpy armour Lore friendly, as Skyrim is heavily based on Scandinavia, I lived in Denmark for almost three years, coming from one of the hottest countries in the world, Australia... and believe me, even at the height of summer for the most part, you'd not really get away with wearing anything too skimpy in such climate. Maybe a local might, I sure didn't... well I am dude, so not skimpy.... but I wasnt wearing my bonds singlet and thongs.... wait.. flipflops... is what you call then.....at all though. And that's three or so month of the year..... the rest of the time? Hypothermia I suspect. Maybe players, and NPCs that lived exclusive in the Rift or around Falkreath, maybe in Solitude itself.... but beyond there, even around Whiterun, I suspect you're dying pretty quickly in a ebony bikini, so I am not sure how you'd consider that Lore friendly. Skimpy armour is NOT Lore friendly, any more than it's realistically armour in any sense.

There's a good few, just search on the Nexus. I had one PS4 that let you make everything including those, Greybeard Robes, and Psijic Monks robes, but the PC version excludes some attire, like them, but people have made mods for that. There's a mod called Wunderkinds Rares, a very old mod, that's BRILLIANT... it lets you make just about ALL rare armours and clothing, though they have FAR better, in fact very OP, values compared to the vanilla, and they are called other stuff, weird names, but still visually the same. Includes Psijic Robes, Arch Mage Robes, Nightingale Armour etc etc etc. Much more too, so that would be my first port of call, and I think you'll find it's got you covered, literally in this case.

I have Skyfall Estate I think it's called by the guy who did the other two I mentioned, Silian and Frostvale, he just does the best houses, it is in Whiterun and just about perfect. Take a lot in a Whiterun house to top that.

Yes, a follower framework is your best bet. ATF as mentioned above, or EFF or NFF or or or or..... just search follower framework, and about half a dozen will pop up.

There's quite a few out there, just search the right keywords.

Try the Sovereign Slayer set, it's pretty good, and the Unplayable Faction Armour mod has some the Vigilant's of Stendar in some nice Full Case armour, and the replacement Silver Hand armour is pretty nice too, and the Redguard armour is some nice Lamallar that is all too rare in Skyrim, and ALL of those armours are UNISEX, so will work on female characters too. Also, if you havent already, get the Medusa Armour and Zerofrost's Valkyrie Armour..... slightly stylised... but essentially legit practical BEAUTIFUL full plate for women.

Apache Divine Elegance store mod has those masks

This is why it's better just to watch porn. No for real, XMPSSE and RaceMenu and FNIS.... this is all a big headache to install....but more... you have to run an generation script EVERY SINGLE TIME you play Skyrim. It's NOT worth it in my opinion. There's way better 'Sex' game out there too, if you're trying to make machina or something. I'd uninstall the mods and make a new game, and not look back.

Looking for anyone who's got suggestions for a good player home in the reach. I have expectations though. 1: It must contain all sleeping, eating, living, cooking and other sandboxing spaces IN ONE INTERIOR CELL. 2: MUST have an INTERIOR cell.... no 'No load screen' houses. 3: Crafting and cooking MUST be in the interior cell. Smithing can be outside or in a separate cell. 4: Must be FULLY navmeshed and follower friendly. 5: Must have ROOM for at least 4, preferably SIX followers. 6: Must have some minimal armoury and storage capabilities. These are what I NEED, as I am looking for somewhere to store my Reach followers, and I try keep my followers in the same area they come from, just moved in to a house of mine in that area. Makes for far far easier tracking. Bonuses IF: *Has walls, and guards around the land. *Has big plantable garden *Has animals for eggs and milk *Has a fishery *Has one merchant for ease of ridding garbage. *Is a Medium size, as opposed to large, player home. These are NOT hard needs. If anyone knows of such a place in THE REACH... I have them everywhere else, please let me know. There was a mod on PlayStation called...... Bear Springs... I think.... near the Lovers Stone.....which was actually pretty great....but I feel it's not available on SSE on PC, as I cannot find it. So anyone with any suggestions please feel free to point me in a direction, thanks.

Well I think the best followers do not have this problem..... Vilja, Sofia, Recorder, and other great custom voiced ones like Auri, and Aurlyn Dawnstone, and such, there's actually problem no more than 10 good female CC Followers, which are truly Custom... as in custom story, custom dialogue, custom voice acting to match....and by good, I mean even that varies to pretty limited low end customized.... through level Vilja...... and out of all of them, I only know ONE, Neisa, that has an exceptionally HUGE wrack. Vilja, Sofia, and Recorder do not. Aurlyn Dawnstones and Auri do not. Evangeline and Livia and Ceasia and all the lower tier trule Custom followers do not. I mean it's nice to have followers, but why would you bother with any that ARE NOT custom? That are just dress up dolls using the Vanilla follower framework? Just batch download something like Pandorables NPCs collection, and get some great recruitable, marriable, NPCs in your game, to flesh out the what.....30.... vanilla ones already. I totally get your point.... there's a lot.... but the BEST do not have these features....and you can heaps of Vanilla NPC follower clones that are just as good as vanilla followers or better if you look. The easy answer is to just not buy in to the gimmick of downloading pretty nothings that are just veener over the Generic Vanilla follower system, and only bothering with those that are proper CC followers.

I doubt this is a good idea. Totally lore breaking and against the very nature of dragons. SOME, like Paarthurnax, might come to respect men and mer, and seek to find accord, perhaps even train the most gifted in Dragon arcana, lore, and thum, others, might live more reclusive lives, but see humanity... or mer---manity?.... or Orc..manity...... or what not as less of a threat than once some may have seen them, but also more resourceful, powerful and dangerous than Alduin anticipated, so they leave them be, they dont engage them on positive terms with regularity, but they do not seek to dominate them again, resurrect dragon preeminence, and some might always see themselves as the ultimate lifeforms on the materiel mortal realm, or Nirn anyway, and regularly seek to assert such, though without much luck one dare imagine with the aforementioned two groups not behind them. What wont they do? Become joyrides for the rich of moronkind..... this is not some Disney story. There's no Pete's Dragon here. Puff the Magic Dragon was a nice song, but the reality in the lore of the Elder Scrolls games is that Dragons as VERY VERY far removed from How to Train Your Dragon. Dragons do not need mer, or men, or even Dovah blooded people like the DB, to define their destiny. Nor would they EVER accept it.