roikka

My Skyrim started suddenly to freeze. It just stopped and never thawed. I loaded Memory Block Logs, and noticed that every time it froze, the main memory block was around 254MB:s and the block 2 at 188MB:s. And according to Task Management, it's not because I run out of memory or anything. I suspect it won't work, but I tried solving the problem through the Skyrim Memory Patch included in SKSE 1.7.0 (I have ver. 1.7.2). Apparently it never accepted the SKSE.ini I had to make, as the memory heap didn't grow, and the line regarding my firstborn didn't appear in the skse_steam_loader.log

Actually, no. Ulfric Stormcloack is an idiot with the diplomatic, political and strategic sense of his average follower. His only saving grace is the lack of blatant racism typical to stormcloacks. The Great War started as a Curb-Stomp Battle where the Empire and all of it's provinces got their asses handed to themselves, but later on got their act together, and began to beat the Aldmeri Dominion, forcing them to retreat. At this point the Empire is badly ravaged, but the Summerset Isles are intact. They need peace. The result is the White-Gold concordat, a nearly pyrrhic victory for the empire. In other words, when Empire realizes that prolonged fighting in the enemy's home turf will be suicidal, it forms a peace treaty. And since they are a race of idiots, the Nords would have preferred such defeat and demise over victory and, most importantly, survival. They hate elves for the Grat War, and for their history. They want to invade Summerset Isles and get rid of the Thalmor, fair enough. But their plan of doing this is to cut a bloody swath across Skyrim, thus making enemy of the Empire, rebuild, and then attack Summerset Isles. And because they think they are so hardcore, they give the Aldmeri Dominion a head start of 30 years in rebuilding. Do I have to count the ways in which this is stupid? 1) Civil Wars are almost never peaceful affairs, even as far as wars in general are concerned. The only form of warfare in the real world containing more civilian casualities and possibly also more collaterial damage is an outright genocide or a strategic-scale nuclear bombing. Rebuilding after civil wars tends to take a while, and still leave the country divided, and the last thing you need during an invasion (yours or enemy's) is a rebellion against you. 2) The enemy of my enemy is not my enemy, he's my bloody friend. No matter how ragged the empire is ran, it's still the best hope the Nords have for defeating the Dominion. After all, the nords don't hate the Empire, they hate the Aldmeri Dominion. The same Aldmeri Dominion that already wreaked some serious havoc against a relatively united empire, so of course Skyrim has good chances against them after a quarter of a century and a Civil War afterwards. Not. 3) Who says the elves will wait? Their homes in the Isles were left intact, and so was Elsweyr and Vallenwood, both controlled by them. And that was 30 years ago. They have had plenty of time to rebuild and rearm themselves. Granted, their standing in Skyrim does weaken when the Civil War ends, but that still doesn't mean Skyrim is by any means ready to take their invasion when it comes. If Skyrim becomes a sovering nation the Empire might try to retake it with the excuse of defending it's former province against the invasion from Aldmeri Dominion, but since stormcloacks just caused them some heavy casualities, they might not have the forces to do so. Even if Skyrim remains as a part of the empire, it's forces have suffered heavy losses due the civil war (unles Season Unending went well) and it still has a lot of unrest in it's hands. And I'm not talking about forsworn. 4)There is an ethnic cleansing in the air. While Ulfric personally might not have issues with dunmer, a lot of nords do, and that is more than likely to errupt as ethnic violence, adding resistances by ethnic minorities to the problems Skyrim already has. 5)Talos and associated political blunders. And the cassus belli for this all is a local tradition that despite supression is still alive and well, to which the empire mostly turned a blind eye to until certain somebody began to make noise of it, and propably is the first thing the empire is going to restore the first chance they get. The ban of which was an obvious provocation to get Skyrim to revolt, making it the most obvious religious excuse ever. And that is saying something. Another excuse is that since it won, the empire is too weak to protect its provinces. So of course the best way to fix this is to pit an entire province against itself, and then fight indepently against pretty much everybody. And Ulfric, unlike your average stormcloack, should know most of this. He fought in the Great War and saw the havoc it caused. He saw the the reachmen conquer Markarth the first chance they got. He is aware of the problem known as the Gray Quarter. But is he concentrating on these real problems. Oh no. Rather, he is mad because the empire would not jeopardize the terms of the treaty that propably saved all of them just because Ulfric demands it. Also, Ulfric preaching about Old Ways is complicated. Those ways were effective during the days of Ysgramor, but a lot has happened since them. Tiber Septim among other things. Not all nords respect them, and didn't necessarily respect them when Ysgramor was still alive.