Denina

The guy who stands outside the Ald-ruhn Mages Guild and talks at you every single time you walk by him. He sends you on a quest to Solstheim. Whoever the numbnut at Bethesda was who decided to put him right there should be booted in the butt for that. Extremely annoying!

Morrowind, no doubt. I still can make up stories based on the lore of that game. Second and while this is an MMORPG, still deserves a mention as it has a special place in my heart, EverQuest. The game has changed a lot since I last played to the point it's almost unrecognizable, but I took roleplaying fairly seriously in it and it's how I have Denina as a user name. EverQuest was my first foray into any RPG so it bears mentioning. But yeah, nothing beats Morrowind.

I once roleplayed a character who wore sexy clothes because of the type of personality she had. If it weren't for modders making such mods, the character would've been a bust and not been as much fun because a part of her personality would have lacked expression. It wasn't about perversion or kinkiness - it was about the expression of a personality in a character I was playing. It was roleplaying...you know, the whole point of a role playing game to begin with. Mods make it possible to expand the horizons on roleplay...for some sexy clothes helps that expression of personality. For others, wearing flour sacks will do the job. That's how gameplay is enhanced.

Right click to open a menu and in the magic window, hover your mouse over the icons showing your abilities and buffs and see if you were diseased. If not, were you in recent combat with a spell caster? If so, they probably cast a damage strength and/or endurance spell on you. The only way to recover this is to cast spells that will restore your attributes (Restore Strength, Endurance, etc.) or drink potions with the same effect. If you have no restore strength spell or potion, you will have to acquire them or go to a Temple shrine or Imperial Cult shrine and have the shrine cast the restoration spell on you (I can't remember what it's called, sorry). If you're at 0 strength, you're going to have to drop everything from your inventory in order to move and hope you have a fortify strength spell, scroll or potion on you to get you to a merchant that sells one of those potions, scrolls or spells or to the shrine. If you're stuck with none of those, you will probably have to use the console (if on PC) to cheat your way to one of those places. If you're on Xbox, I have no idea if there are cheat codes to let you move around the map. If you can avoid doing that, it's probably best. I hope this helps. Good luck.

Nude children? Seriously? That is more than scraping the border on decency IMO. It's a game for crying out loud. If you want realism, have a kid in real life and raise it to be a decent, wonderful human being. But in a game? That's just a bizarre request making me wonder things I don't want to know about another person. :sick: As far as the rest goes, modders make what they want to have in a game. If they want G string bikinis, men who wear loinclothes or less or even sex mods, let 'em. As someone noted above, mods are optional. Don't use what you don't want. Be glad for what you can get that you do want to use. That's the nice thing about Bethesda games...everyone's game is as individual as they are. Just think twice about asking for naked children...98% of the world (I hope it's that much anyway) might want to kill you for even hinting at anything that reeks of pedophilia. And on that note, where's mah spoon? :devil:

Google has a link to a petition which I signed. If all the Americans would sign it, maybe it would make a difference...hopefully https://www.google.com/landing/takeaction/

Quick save and autosave both have been known to corrupt data in the save games so avoid using them. I rarely ever autosave and I never quick save.

Morrowind is an innately crash-y game. I don't think your crashes are because of your mods so much as it crashes because sometimes that's what Morrowind does. I think what happens is that the game engine gets bogged down in data after so long of play and just can't handle it. In my experience all games crash randomly for seemingly no reason. All I can say is save often and don't use quick save or auto save as they make your files vulnerable to data corruption. Actually make real saves and keep multiple saves of each character. I save every few minutes and definitely right before going into caves or tombs or other areas. Save before you go outside, save before you go inside a door. If you have time and know you will imminently be engaging in combat, save! Save before talking to an NPC to get a quest. Save after you get a quest. I typically save every 5 minutes or less. Yeah, it's a pain in the butt but doing that has saved me a lot of lost play time and headaches in the long run. Incidentally, I've heard of people who have had problems with crashiness with the multi-mark mod so make sure you save before using a mark/recall sequence just in case. I don't know if that might be causing all your crashes (I doubt it) but when using mark/recall, it might not be a bad idea to save. I don't use multi-mark mod and I save before using either spell anyway. I hope this helps. Good luck.

I think it depends on how you use the internet more than just the simple fact of using it. I think many people use it because it's a distraction from their lives and not their lives. As far as the whole mental illness thing, plausible. I think it can intensify it because instead of people actually dealing with their problems, they're distracted from them, making it harder to cope. I know I've done that. It's not always easy to deal with problems instigated by mental illness, but sometimes the internet doesn't really help that. Most of the article though read like speculation to me. There might be something to it but I think the internet is going to have to be around a lot longer to truly gauge the full effects over decades. People were always stupid...it's just with the internet and widespread news availability, it's seen more than it used to be.

Back when Morrowind was made, there was no widescreen for monitors so that was never implemented as an option. Do a search for the Morrowind Code Patch, download and install that. I believe that makes it possible to play with widescreen resolution. I'm not 100% sure of that though but I use it and I play on widescreen and it seems to not stretch as much.

I spent two years working in a call center. This was back in the day when pagers were widely used and to send an alphanumeric message, you had to call a message center and tell your message to someone who typed it in and sent it. I HATED being privy to those messages. If I had a $1 for every time someone said in a loving voice, "I love you" to me that I had to type in to the pager, I could have retired in those 2 years. But that sickening sweet I love you voice. UGH! Save that for your sweetheart; don't make me hear that. It was embarrassing. When we didn't answer pager calls, we had calls for everything else: doctor offices, funeral homes, hospice service, cable companies...and oh how I hated cable company calls, especially when there was an outage. We'd get 100s of calls from customers yapping about their cable being out at 2:00 AM. It would get so bad some nights that we would call the owner at home and wake him up to ask him to put a recording up telling people the tech is out working on it just to get some relief from the call load. In the middle of the night there were only two of us. We just couldn't handle that. And if only one person was out...they were even worse because we couldn't call out a tech for just one or two people. It had to be an area-wide outage. They would get so mad at us like it was our fault. So many stupid arguments over a TV. I quit watching TV for the longest time on account of that job. I hated the customers so much I decided the service wasn't worth it. I may have missed out on some good shows but I read a lot of good books. I don't miss my call center days. Except for having to deal with the cable company and pager customers it wasn't so bad really as I worked with some decent people but I've gotten too cantankerous and blunt to do customer service now. I just don't have any tolerance for stupidity and meanness like I used to when I was younger. I would probably get fired within a week because someone would piss me off and I would tell it like it is and if they didn't like it that they could kiss my butt. And there is a special section of Hell for the people who treat customer service representatives like they're inferior because they don't have what they call a "real" job. I will be in charge of the torture administered in that section. And for future reference, that screaming you will hear? Don't ask. You don't want to know what will be causing them to scream quite like that. Just turn around and walk away. Ignorance truly is bliss. :P

I had thought about installing the Overhaul but I was reluctant to due to not knowing any downsides to having it and not being able to walk in the wilderness would be too much of a downside for me since that's mostly what I do. I'm kind of bummed about that. Does that mod also overwrite the .ini? Is that what causes those render errors? Otherwise, I can't understand why an uninstalled mod should cause that kind of issue.

When I'm on hold for anyone I usually load up pogo.com and play some game on there that isn't timed...a harmless time waster.

When you edited the .ini, you opened it in notepad, correct? If so, were you running as administrator? I noticed most of Morrowind's problems now-a-days are because the user has to be running as admin for changes to take effect. I hope that helps.

Do you have a cure paralyzation potion? If so, try that. If that doesn't work, try cure disease. If neither work, earlier save.

I have never heard of that happening before and I've played Morrowind for a long time so all I can think is that it was an odd glitch. I know if you have mods added to your game, it can cause a lot of odd glitches so I was wondering if you had any that involved weaponry. It may not have mattered but yeah, that's a mystery.

It's true, no one cares about pets. They can be your family and your best friends but no one will stick up for them except the people who love them. It's why my cat is an indoor cat where I can (hopefully, in theory) keep her safe. We had a neighbor we were friendly with for a while until he and my husband had a falling out last year. I don't know the neighbors on the other side of us. My husband knows one of their names but I don't remember. They keep to themselves. We keep to ourselves. The people who live up the hill behind our house are scumbag welfare cases who could work but doesn't. He claims he has some medical problem that prevents him from working yet I see him hauling heavy engine parts and other car parts all the time, helps his parents who live in a trailer on his property and doing all sorts of things that fall under the category of 'work' yet he doesn't have a job. He can take a long walk off a short pier for all I care. The guy is forever working outside on a car that never gets fixed and up and running. He's the quintessential Jeff Foxworthy redneck except that he actually mows his lawn...there's still a car or 2 in it though. We have nothing to do with those people. I have more neighbors who live down the street but I don't know any of them either. We wave and they wave when they drive by our house if we're outside but otherwise, that's the extent of our contact. I don't really want to know any of them. One of them poisoned the scumbag neighbor's dog a couple of summers ago. Never found out who but my husband and I and the neighbor my hubby had the falling out with were mad. That dog used to cut across our yard and a couple of others to go somewhere, we think it hunted in the field across the street from our house and down the road a piece. He was a big old friendly pooch; never hurt anyone, never barked; never tore up anything, it just simply cut through our yards. But someone poisoned it for no reason. I still miss seeing him trotting down the hill behind our house. I would always see him while I was making coffee and getting my breakfast in the mornings. If they were going to poison someone, they should've poisoned the guy instead; he certainly has caused far more annoyance than that poor old dog ever did. But I'm not bitter.

I've done the exact same thing. Now, when I go through the door, I just open the map and leave a notes saying whether I've fully looted it or if I need to go back to mine it (Morrowind Crafting).

Merry Christmas everyone!

I use Microsoft Security Essentials. It seems to be the best I've ever tried and it doesn't bog down the computer the way AVG tends to do.

I wish that software had never been invented. I'm a medical transcriptionist and more and more health care providers are using this. As a result, my income has decreased substantially. What used to potentially be a $40-50k/year job is now down to about $27-30k/year job, if lucky and willing to work 10-15 hours a day, which I typically do. It's partly because of providers sending their dictation overseas where it's cheap and partly because of more providers using speech recognition software instead. Now, more and more transcriptionists are, instead of transcribing actual dictation, are now correcting those speech recognition screw ups which pay half as much though we still have to know the same amount that we did when we actually transcribe word-for-word it so we recognize the errors. Just thinking about it makes me cuss enough to turn the air blue. And what's sad is that when it comes to speech recognition in the health care field, there is a crap ton of pitfalls. Medical terminology isn't really that hard once you understand what all the prefixes and suffixes mean but a lot of them sound very similar and there a lot of words that sound the same but are spelled differently and have different meanings. Most providers aren't all that diligent when it comes to enunciation or spelling or anything else. A mistake that speech recognition makes that is not caught by the proofreader could have serious consequences up to and including death to a patient. And I know the types of mistakes the speech recognition makes. Overworked and underpaid transcriptionists having to proof that, especially when they're tired may not catch those types of errors. The good ones usually will, but we're only human and we can't catch them all. As more people rely on less reliably-trained transcriptionists/proofreaders because so many are leaving the business because of low pay, we're going to see a lot more accidental deaths and serious problems due to these types of errors. The transcriptionist/proofreader will ultimately be blamed for the error and will take the fall along with the provider, but honestly, no transcriptionist on the planet gets paid enough right now to have to take a fall. Many of us can't even afford insurance. Most transcriptionists I know, myself included, are very conscientious and we do the best we can. But as more providers turn to the speech recognition, I worry. I would much rather pay a little more to go to the doctor and have the transcription done right than have any provider use the speech recognition. Still room for error, of course, but I feel that margin is much less. Using speech recognition for more casual things such as posting on a forum like this, I'm all for it and I'm glad it works for you...but still, I wish it had never been invented. I want my pay to go back up to what I should be earning. I carry a lot of responsibility and stress on my shoulders doing what I do and really, I don't get paid enough for it. Unfortunately, now I'm kind of stuck with it. Because of the income, I can't afford to buy a second vehicle so I can get to and from a better job. Moreover, transcription is definitely my niche. I'm good at it. And I admit, even despite the low pay, I love it. But I would also love to be paid what I'm worth. I would also love to not have to work up to 15 hours a day in order to make a decent living. And I do blame speech recognition for part of that. I can think of a half-dozen offices the company I work for used to transcribe that now doesn't because the providers switched to speech recognition software. I also will not go to any of those offices for my health care because of it. In fact, before I will see a doctor for the first time, I will ask that office whether their providers use speech recognition for their dictation. If the answer is yes, I go somewhere else. But transcriptionists have really gotten the shaft in recent years. Doctors depend on us to make sense of their mutterings in order to provide quality care to patients. But the health care industry is doing everything they can to cut corners to increase profits (here in the USA anyway - I can't speak for anywhere else). Most of the health care industry does not really understand or appreciate what we do. They say, 'Oh they're just typists.' What they don't realize is that the job is a lot more than just typing. So, they figure that's a good place to cut corners. It should probably be among the last few they should. But trying to explain that to people who have it stuck in their heads that it's just typing is the equivalent of banging your head on a brick wall but less painful. /end rant

I wanted a rather unusual gift this year. You know how there are some gifts you get people because you don't know what else to get them? Like those Pepperidge Farm cheese or meat box trays, fruit baskets, and the like? Well...I mention it because I actually really wanted a fruit basket. (Hey, fresh fruit is expensive. I'm not actually going to buy that for myself. I would have to take out a second mortgage if I did!) Growing up, every year my grandmother would receive a fruit basket and those Pepperidge Farm tray thingies. I never cared much for the meat and cheese thing but I loved the fruit baskets. It wasn't really anything particularly special: it was just a variety of nuts, oranges, apples and red grapes. Well, I missed having that and I wanted one like my grandmother had because to me, that was "Christmas-y". So when my sister asked me what I wanted for Christmas, I said, "Okay, I will make it easy on you. I want a fruit basket. Keep it simple, it doesn't have to be expensive or huge, just a small one because otherwise, we might not eat it all before the fruit goes bad." Well, my sister never does anything by halves. As she said and I quote, "Nothing is too good for my little sister." I actually received my fruit basket today...but instead of just the simple and small that I expected and would've been perfectly happy with (I'm a simple gal), she got me an Edible Arrangement. Oh my god, if you haven't seen one, click here and drool. It's beautiful. It's sitting in my fridge right now and I can't wait until I'm hungry again so I can eat on it. I don't think I could've wished for anything nicer. Merry Christmas everyone! :)

I concur with Drake. I was also thinking that you might be looking for Slof's Better Beasts too. I actually don't know of any other mod that modifies the beast races; on the other hand, I've never really looked for any either. But whenever I've seen topics about them, Slof's mod is the only one I've ever seen mentioned. Hope that's what you're looking for. Good luck.

Well, I don't know how much help this will be but maybe it will at least get you pointed in the right direction. First, I don't know the finer points of scripting, but I'm not sure it's possible to do what it is you want it to do because when you're not in a cell (either exterior or interior), nothing happens in it. Everything "freezes"in that cell. That keeps the game engine from being bogged down by constant use, making the game lag. Since you don't know when you will be returning to a specific cell, there's no way to script it (that I know of) to 'know' where to be when the PC enters a specific area. And even supposing that is possible, I think you would end up having a case of disappearing boat all the time and with the Morrowind game engine being what it is, unlikely to reappear or reappearing in the wrong places and overall, being extremely buggy, at best. Second, as for the boat having no collision, you should load up Abot's mod in the CS to see how he set up the boat. If any aspect of this mod is possible at all, I would reckon you'd have to do it the same way as he did. I reckon he set it up as an activator but I don't really know so check. Good luck with your project. My knowledge is extremely limited as far as scripting goes, but I do know a few things and I really don't think the scripting is sophisticated enough to handle your idea. If it was, I would think someone would have already made it by now.