MacSuibhne
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I think the real issue is that I struggled first time around to get to level 48....I'm not a "natural." And as much as I love Skyrim and think that it is the best game I've ever played, some of the quests are a bit tedious and after a while the dungeons are almost boring.
If I could start over at level 48 and with the quests I've successfully completed done, I'd be a happy camper...but then I wouldn't be starting over. [sign]
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No, it is not installed. It is only downloaded. You still need to activate it.
Depicts images from an older version but the concept and the steps are pretty much unchanged.
http://wiki.tesnexus.com/index.php/Installing_Mods_Using_NMM
That worked...I didn't twig to that button before. Of course the documentation on using NMM seems pretty sparse....?
Thank you! You've been a big help.
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So...I am starting to play Skyrim again after an hiatus of two years. When I quit playing I had reached level 48.
I quit partially because I had some bugs/glitches that I didn't know how to resolve--mostly quests that couldn't be completed.
I wanted to start again to play the DLCs but I am not eager to start all over again with a new character.
In my Journal, one of the main quests that seemingly cannot be completed is The Liberation of Skyrim. In the Game it seems Ulfric has won control of Skyrim. But among the three sub-quests "Liberate Hjaalmarch" displays as uncompleted but I cannot not set a marker on the map.
In the Misc quests, I have killed the Hagraven Petra but that quest is marked as incomplete. I have two copies of Waters of Oblivion in my inventory but the quest to" Find a copy of The Waters of Oblivion" is unfulfilled.
I have collected a bounty from Skaald at least twice. I have brought a Dragonscale and a Dragonbone to Esbern but it shows as needing to be done.
I am still a werewolf...although i have healed the others with the heads from the Glenmoril witches (I still have two in my inventory) I cannot seem to heal myself and the Purity (?) Quest does not//no longer appears in my journal.
And there's a a woman in Riften I'm supposed to help or get something from who never responds to my inquiries.
I reinstalled Skyrim and got the official update and I think I have properly installed the unofficial update.
Are these problem really problems? Must I start over or can I go on to Dragonborn?
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Nexus Mod Manager
Thanks again,
Earlier (shortly after your first response), I found a link on Nexus to NMM that worked and I DL'd and installed it. Then I manually downloaded the unofficial patch and installed it through NMM.
But newbie to mods that I am, I'm not sure all is copacetic. NMM lists the unofficial patch under the mods tab but that's it. I thought I had read somewhere that it would show up in a list below skyrim.esm and update.esm. In NMM, under the plugin tab, both Skyrim.esm and update.esm are listed but nothing else.
And when I click on "data files" as I start Skyrim, nothing is listed.
So...is the unofficial patch installed and working or not?
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https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/change-firefox-behavior-when-open-file
Instructions on how to tell Firefox what to do with files that you want it to open with a specific program when downloaded.
Thanks for the response.
Yes, I understand how to associate programs with file extensions. But what program do I need to associate with .nxm?
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I'm having trouble downgrading the unofficial Skyrim patch.
When I click on either button the end result is that I get an error message:
The address wasn't understood
Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (nxm) isn't associated with any program.How do I address this problem? How do I download the patch?
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Well, I don't know if this is in the right spot but need to start somewhere...
After a hiatus of about two years I have re-installed Skyrim. It appears that I have the latest official update--1.9 something or other. Otherwise my installation is pretty much vanilla (and always has bee)
But I am looking to add SLC--Dragonborn, Hearthfire and perhaps Falskaar.
So...what about the un-official update? What does it do? Does it help?
My system is an Intel i5 650 at 3.2gh with an Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT
I am thinking about adding the Steam dlc high resolution texture pack. Is that a good mod or should I look at some of the enhancement packs on Nexus, instead? Which ones?I want to improve the look and immersion of Skyrim without...hopefully...significantly impacting performance. Suggestions please.
Should I install Dragonborn and Hearthfire before or after adding mods to the basic game?
Will I need to run Tessedit? When?
Lots of questions...sorry about that...but I'm new to modding and would appreciate any help I can get.
PS...I have roughly 275 hours in the game and really don't want to start a whole new play-through before being able to go on to DragonBorn.
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I do have it to change stats when you convert but yea i agree it is a sorta "cheat" in a way
I don't think scenery conflict; you might overwrite with another but not necessarily conflict i think
You know I didn't mean that in a disparaging or bad way. I just meant that I'm not looking for mods that give me an advantage over what is the default in the game. At least not yet. :thumbsup:
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Thanks again to both of you. Since I've played the game once, I think the first mods I want to install are anything and everything that enhances appearance without sacrificing gameplay or conflicting.
I want to be amazed by the looks of the game all over again.
And then I'm looking for things that will increase or renew my immersion in the game. I'm not really interested...at this point...in mods that "cheat" so to speak.
Will enhancements to scenery and so forth carry over and not conflict if I dl Dragonborn?
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Skyrim requires the steam client. It is a legal thing; therefore, you will not be able to use NMM or skse without the steam client.
You can, however, set steam in offline mode. This makes it less annoying.
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
How exactly do you do that?
I know this is simple stuff but if I reinstall both the Steam client and the game will I be prompted to get the official updates?
Also, got any mod you might recommend?
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Hi,
I bought Skyrim through Steam and always ran it through Steam. I believe I even got and installed an update through Steam. No mods though.
I played through the game and eventually uninstalled the Steam client as well as the Skyrim.
I find myself thinking about the game and some of the places scenes and adventures I had and was thinking I would reinstall Skyrim...maybe to add Hearthfire and Dragonborn...maybe as a prelude to playing Skyblivion and or Skywind when they are available (if ever).
I have the disc for Skyrim but would like to play it offline--not through the Steam Clinet if possible. At the same time I would like to update the game and perhaps add some mods.
Can someone give me a quick and dirty run down of how to go about installing the game, getting th eupdate and playing off line?
And while were at it, perhaps a list of useful or interesting mods?
A lot to ask I know but I'd appreciate it...I'm only a sometime gamer, mostly fps's (but Skyrim was the best I ever played) and I'm 68 years old so my memory and my tech savvy isn't like it was 20 years ago.
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It is well to remember that the Empire engineered the whole Markarth Incident. Ulfric was loyal to the Empire until they arrested him and betrayed the promise made to engage his help in putting down the Forsworn and recovering Cidhna mine and other valuable resources for the Empire.
I'm not convinced that by the terms of that craven treaty (the WGC), the Empire had any option but to accede to the Dominion's demands to abrogate the promise made to Ulfric. Throwing him in jail is another matter, however.
And in any event, if the Empire cannot, or, more importantly, will not, protect its own citizens...treaty or no treaty...against murder and the depredations of a foreign power, it has no legitimate claim to suzerainty over Skyrim.
That, in a nutshell, is what the Stormcloak Rebellion is all about.
Parenthetically but to the point, I was roaming about down near Brittleshin Pass yesterday and ran across an out-of-the-way Talos shrine. Scattered about the base of the shrine were five or six dead Talos worshipers. My first thought was "this has to be the work of the Thalmor." So, I widened my search.
Sure enough, off to the edge of a low cliff there was also a dead Justicar.
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Think of any totalitarian system you ever heard of in our world. What are the common elements to their oppression? Secret police (justiciars). Disappearances (Thorald and Etienne Rarnis). The midnight knock on the door. Purges. Gulags and torture dungeons. Collaborators and sycophants within the population (Gissur and Shavari), leading to neighbor fearing neighbor and parents fearing their own children. Political control officers overseeing those who occupy vital positions (Ancano). Economic manipulations meant to reduce the lower levels of society to grinding poverty, or worse.
This is exactly the kind of system that the Thalmor are creating in Skyrim and have presumably created in Cyrodiil. It doesn't take much of this for a population to become too demoralized and weak to ever hope to strike back effectively. The social fabric unravels as the bonds of trust are broken. Even if there is a resistance movement, such movements have never freed their countrymen by themselves, but have only achieved their goals with the help of outside forces. What outside force is going to aid a Skyrim resistance if they allow the Thalmor to fully establish a presence? Resistance movements can also be very fragile, subject to betrayal from within and from civilians living in fear of retaliatory strikes that will decimate them every time the resistance kills one Thalmor.
If Ulfric had chosen not to rebel but to wait until the Empire was ready to strike back, the Thalmor would have had more time to cement their control over both Skyrim and Cyrodiil. How prepared would Skyrim really be to fight after another decade or two of this? How prepared will Cyrodiil be? And what useful strength can either build when their provinces are full of spies and collaborators feeding information to the Dominion on troop numbers, training, readiness, locations, and plans?
If Ulfric kicks out the Thalmor now, before it is too late, then Skyrim has a chance to build its strength without the destructive influence of the Thalmor occupation, not to mention the destructive effect of the resources being bled out by Cyrodiil. However, he has no way to drive out the Thalmor without first dealing with the Empire that is backing them up. If Ulfric had made, say, the Thalmor Embassy his first target, does anyone really think the Legions would have stood around with their thumbs up their butts? As long as the Empire is not willing to repudiate Skyrim as it did Hammerfell, the Empire is obligated to retaliate for any attacks on the Thalmor. And it is clear that the Empire is not willing to let Skyrim go because they want the resources even at the cost of making Skyrim less fit to fight in the long run.
+1 There are so few voices of reason and apparent maturity on this forum, I felt compelled to quote your whole post. It bears repeating.
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Morality on issues such as murder is a matter of opinion. Whether your morals are right or wrong is simply a matter of faith. You can not prove that murder is wrong, so don't try to. Murder is wrong simply because the people have decided to make it wrong.
When you live in a greyscale world you never see the edge of the cliff until you've walked off of it. Every tyrant, every monster that ever lived believed that morality and right and wrong were a matters of opinion. In such a world, anything can be justified, no matter how heinous...and has been and will be, using the very same arguments that you use.
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Logic can only go so far with so much speculation based on hearsay evidence. Because remember that almost every fact is told to you, so how do you really know who is telling the truth? You don't. Hearsay is worthless. People assume every NPC tells the truth, but a realistic story would have liars and also people who have been lied to.
Black and White is simply... Who are you loyal to? That's all. There isn't a right or wrong because the story doesn't have enough evident to draw such a conclusion.
I agree with you wholeheartedly. But I do think there is a right and wrong. Read my post above--#66. There is enough Lore and History and things known that you really don't need to rely on NPC's and hearsay to say that things are "rotten in Denmark." So then it comes down to do you hold your nose or do you step up?
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What is black and white about the entire story is that you can pin the entire rebellion on one man, Ulfric Stormcloak, and use him as a scapegoat for a reason to hate the rebellion, where as in real politics, a rebellion would have many more figures in the formula than one simple man.
Only if you abandon all reason and logic.
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To some this is a black and white issue. And yes, there are a lot of ambiguities and a lot of contradictory cues, esp. if you give weight to unwarranted hearsay and discount the Lore and the history.
But those who tend to see the world in greyscale are, in my opinion, more likely to dismiss or minimize the importance or the impact of people dying at the hands of the Thalmor. Or the fact that the mindset (attitude/policy) that allows the Empire to look the other way when Thalmor execute people without trial is not significantly different than the mindset that informs the star chamber executions at the very beginning of the game--mortis omnia solvit.
Time and again we see folks justifying those deaths "for the greater good." Nevermind that in effect, the Thalmor are already waging war...with attendant casualties...against a portion of the Empire, ie., Skyrim. While the Empire does nothing for the citizens who rightfully look to it for protection.
This is pretty black and white in my book...no excuse, no rationale can confer legitimacy on a government that will not stand for its people. In that context, there really is no Empire...only a functionary for the Thalmor and the AD. In other words, the Thalmor are in charge, and for all intents and purposes, are the government of Skyrim...and of Cyrodiil. When the Thalmor say "jump," the Empire asks "how high?" Skyrim owes no allegiance to the Thalmor (despite Imperial claims to the contrary) nor to a government that is unwilling (as well as incapable) of protecting its citizens.
In that sense, it is really the treatment (or mistreatment) of Hammerfell, and its abandonment by the Empire, that is at the root of Skyrim's aspirations to independence and the concomitant civil war. The Empire sowed the seeds of its own destruction...and of rebellion...with the WGC and now it is reaping the harvest. Unlike most of the Jarls and the High King...who swear allegiance to a foreign power...Ulfric, for all his faults, is a leader with a vision, not just another bureaucrat doing what he is told to do. In that sense, any vision is better than none.
All roads lead to Rome--you can point the finger of blame at this one or that one but ultimately it all comes down to the Empire.
Beyond that...and cutting through all the sophomoric obfuscation...logically, the Empire would need divine intervention to regain enough strength to confront the AD. The Thalmor presence in Skyrim violates Skyrim's sovereignty...it is essentially military rule...and, in a larger sense, critically undermines the ability of the Empire to re-group militarily. To the extent that the Thalmor have a similar or even greater presence in Cyrodill (not an unreasonable assumption), the Empire too is under the military rule of the Thalmor and cannot effectively do anything that would alert the AD to its putative re-emerging power. With the WGC, the Empire handcuffed itself and is effectively dragging all its people and provinces down with it.
Those are the facts as I see them and when you add it up, it seems pretty black and white to me...
I suppose, given the history of these threads someone will come along and quibble or re-interpret the history and the facts no matter how baldly stated. Or introduce elements that have no basis in anything but interpretation, opinion, and speculation. That said, "to treat your facts with imagination is one thing but to imagine your facts is another."
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Edit: Please please please let's not turn this into another dreary Stormcloaks v. Empire thread. There's already enough space devoted to that argument.
Who mentioned the Stormcloaks?
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Thalmor HQ is located in Castle Dour...further underscoring the close affiliation between the Thalmor and the Empire.
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It would also be nice if people who aren't going to actually post (and instead just quip about "OH LORDY THIS TOPIC AGAIN!!!") didn't bother posting at all.
+1 :thumbsup:
What would really be nice is if people who wanted to contribute (and I realize "contribute" is often a stretch) spent as much time reading and thinking about the posts they are responding to as frantically rushing to post something contrary.
Everybody wants respect and would prefer that they be taken seriously. But it is unreasonable to look for respect when it is so starkly obvious that the poster hasn't taken the time to read, or read for content, import, or understanding, in the first place.
A simple suggestion: If you want your posts to be taken seriously you have to extend the same respect to others.
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Agreed, Kraeten. Personally, I'm getting sick of these.
HOWEVER...
... since "someone" has decided to compare Lisnpuppy's warning to the ban on Talos, may I be free to point out that these constant threads that essentially say "everyone who plays Skyrim should side with the Stormcloaks and anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong" could just as easily be compared to the Thalmor's attitude of "Talos was just a man and never became a god, and anyone who thinks otherwise is wrong."
Just saying...
Struck a chord, did I?
No one has said anything remotely like that.
You're free to play Skyrim any way you want. I...and many others...have said that, repeatedly. Apparently some people just weren't listening.
What has been said...by myself, again repeatedly...however, is that if you come on a public forum and make scurrilous and slanderous remarks that have no basis in Lore, fact, or reality you should expect to be challenged.
Just as a desire for independence drives the Stormcloak Rebellion (it is named after Ulfric...he didn't name it himself), so too a search for fairness and objectivity informs my remarks (and those who share a similar perspective)--a simple concept commonly referred to as "presumption of innocence." Maybe you've heard of it?
When these kind of threads get going it is always the Imperial apologists who point the finger first--Ulfric is a "scumbag", "Ulfric is a murderer", "Ulfric is a racist", "Ulfric is this", Ulfric is that". None of which can be empirically supported...which leaves only opinion, and emotion (sometimes verging on hysteria), and "guilt by association" to carry the day. But such arguments are simply not serious enough to count.
And, at some level, I suspect everyone knows that.
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So, if most slaves are content with their master but a few want to rebel, then the rebels should stand down if there is any chance their fellow slaves will fight on behalf of the master and might need to be killed? I don't think I like that logic. By your standards, no rebellion is ever justified because the rebels always have to war against some of their fellows who are advantaged by the status quo and will fight to maintain it.
Who should make the decision as to whether or not a wrong can no longer be tolerated? It seems to me that the people who are being wronged are the only ones in position to make that call. It doesn't matter how many people have been directly victimized. Those who are in a position to rightfully fear wrong being done to them are entitled to do what is necessary to prevent that.
Fundamentally, controlling who or what people worship is controlling what they think. It is "mind-control" and nothing short. And mind control is the essence of totalitarianism...it is oppression defined. Those who aid or abet that oppression...or even look the other way...are craven if not complicit.
It bears repeating that the Code of Hammurabi--"symbolizing not only the emergence of justice in the minds of men, but also man’s rise above ignorance and barbarism toward the peaceful and just societies"--was written more than 3700 years ago.
The point is that even in cruel and violent societies, people aspire to justice and seek redress wherever possible...
And rightfully so.
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This is 1) people are getting personal 2) arguments are just going the same route over and over.
Really....I will let this stay open if people are WILLING and ABLE to keep it to the original posters questions. This may mean you have to play devil's advocate. Try it..its fun and takes a bit of brains.
If you all can't get it together and learn how to present logical, decent and mature arguments then I will shut this down too and start issuing strikes and bans.
With all due respect...and I don't post here much anymore just because of the sophomoric, if not jejune, nature of the postings that you mentioned. But I suspect that the reason this subject (the fundamental controversy at the heart of the matter) keeps coming back, is that people are genuinely moved and interested by the issues involved. If they cannot discuss them on a Skyrim forum, where can they discuss them?
I agree with most of what you said, and if I had my druthers, the conversation would be elevated several notches and perhaps some guidelines as to what is acceptable in terms of posting behaviour--no ad hominum attacks, for instance, and, even more optimistically, what standards of evidence is credible, would be established. But Forums don't work that way...usually.
As it stands...if you will forgive the observation...it's kind of like the ban on Talos, however.
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Imperistan,
I'm sorry, I have to disagree with your premise. The issue has been raised...I've raised it myself on numerous occasions.
The problem is that it falls on deaf ears...just as the concept of "presumption of innocence" falls on deaf ears. Just as "guilt by association" or "trial by innuendo" or "gossip mongering" or even the idea of "credible evidence", cause more quibbling than comprehension.
The whole idea of protecting the rights of the few is a foundational creed in any democratic system of government and one of the the most critical ideas in any fair and just society.
The idea that the "needs of the many outweigh" the rights of the few is the governing principle of flocks of sheep, or herds of wildebeests or schools of fish--the world is full of predators and only by sacrificing the nameless and unimportant few can the majority survive.
Graphics and framerate - What must I do?
in Skyrim LE
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speaking of graphics cards..if the card in question had 3GB memory and a 384-bit bandwidth...would it suffice to play Skyrim with multiple texture mods?
Would 4gb and 256 bit be better or equivalent?