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How are you making these? Are you a developer or have the construction set?

When I first played Morrowind I was blown away. The first thing that made me addicted was the gameplay. Able to steal stuff that in most games you could only look at. Then I leaned about mods, I downloaded my first house mod and that was it, Bethesda for life. As soon as Oblivion came out, I bought it and played it to death. I modded it so much with every graphic pack, weapon and spell pack, monster pack etc etc, even talking about it I fancy a game of it. So just think how good this game is going to be once the modders get hold of it and make it into the game it 'should' be. At the moment we can just make a long list of fixes we want and wait for the construction pack. .. hopefully won't be long ...

Politics .. I don't support anyone .. I play both sides like Clint Eastwood in Fist full of dollars .. whichever gives me most loot at the time. If someone crosses me I kill them in nasty ways .. if someone is kind to me I smile falsely, steal what I can and scarper before the heat comes. I'm a total coward and sneak as much as possible, run away and hide if things get too tight. I exploit every exploit and silver tongue my way into getting my own way. I tell people what they want to hear, then when they trust me I back stab them, rape their wives, sell their kids to slavers and throw their pets on the fire. .. anyways now about Skyrim .. I don't play it :P

With Oblivion mods I always used the Dark Dungeons mod because otherwise it was too light an unrealistic. No torches, bright as daylight. I hard perma night eye via spell or ring. I'll miss that sense of wandering around in the Dark having to strike a match just in time to see a Zombie horde bearing down on you.

Even if you're trying to do a "budget" build, don't bother with anything less than a GTX 560Ti. By that time, a 570 might even be "budget" priced. I have a GTS 450 in one of my machines, and it plays Oblivion, Fallout, New Vegas, and many other games respectably, but it's not going to hold up to modern and future games as long as a 560 or 570 will. I guess I expected a few 'you must buy the game, play it now' comments and prompt some useful discussion e.g Lyanheart, instead of getting trolled by a few lamers questioning why I posted. This is an open forum, what are you 'the forum police'? sheesh Thanks for the budget build info Lyanheart. I am trying to be cheap.

There are several reasons why I haven't bought Skyrim yet. #1 My ageing PC won't cope and have to spec a new one out with at least 400GT card. #2 I don't want to fork out £40 for the PS3 version. #3 No construction engine/modding yet. With Oblivion I created all my own Conan character and used the Conan character with pure Barbarian setup. #4 I'm off on 3 weeks winter holiday in a few weeks and will be on a beach instead of in front of a PC, if I start skyrim now, I know I won't want to go. #5 I played Morrowind and Obvliion to death and my Oblivion was so patched, and modded with spells, monster, character and graphic add ons, I'm worried about being disappointed with the graphics from what I've been reading on the forum. I'm going to wait for the new year when price drops and there is some good user content out there, then with my new PC I'm going to get into the innards of it and make it the game I want to play as I did with Obvlivion.

I use Tortoise Subversion to create a repository of my Oblivion folder so when I add mods I can easily revert if things go wrong. Also with change control you can see which mods overwrite the files of other mods, and if you don't like one change to a texture/mesh you can always roll the back to the earlier version. This has saved me many a re-install. At the moment I have about 50 mods running and working together without issue (well almost) Does anyone do anything similar? All you need to do is download Subvesrion from here. http://tortoisesvn.tigris.org/ It integrates with your desktop. Then right click and create a new repository on your local filesystem. Remeber this will take about as much space as your Oblivion directory in the end so make sure you have space. Once you have done this, then browse to your oblivion folder and right click on it and select import and path to your repository. This will be file:///C/whateveryoucalledthedirectory/ then the import will run. You will then see a current lsit of files. Checking in and checking out of the repository is then very easy (RTFM) :)