LE Equip Consumables to use them

[notmyhome]

Hello,

an idea of how to prevent potion spamming would be to have to actually equip them before using. While it still wouldn´t solve my main source of immersion-break, the seemingly unfixable time-freeze in menus, it would already do a lot towards immersion.

Sadly, I don´t have any knowledge in scripting and could therefore only help as a beta-tester, not a co-modder.

Thank you!

[chicky540]

em, what do you mean by "potion-spamming"? ... ive never heard that before. cheers

[themdc]

You mean potions have cool downs ? - so you can't just save your ass with ease ?

[Floordan]

Nah I think they mean, you have to equip the potion to your hand, find a safe place -- or just somewhere away from the thing trying to kill you -- and drink it, accompanied by a quick animation. That way you'd actually have to physically drink it, which stops the inexplicable "Drinking" 50 potions in 3 seconds.

 

This would also be immersive because you'd need to make sure that you have the right potion equipped at the right time; if you're in the middle of a battle you'd want to make sure that the potion is going to crank you back up to full health, as the few seconds it takes to drink it could mean life or death.

[TaeRai]

What about something similar to Oblivion's sytem? How you can only drink a few potions at the one time?

[chicky540]

yeah, i remember that oblivion-thingy... quite frankly i mainly use potions in skyrim for combat (fortify stuff) and trading, for an orc on level 228 the regular potions are not strong enough, and i prefer relying on some "grand healing" instead of carrying tons of potions ;)

[notmyhome]

Floordan got it right in #4. The animation wouldn´t even be necessary, more like the icing on the cake :D

I named it Equip Consumables, because if it works at all, it maybe could be expanded towards food too.

Idea: treating them like a scroll? equip, charge, use, they disappear?

Sorry if this is nonsense :D

[MostlyMuggie]

I think it would be a fine and immersive idea. There are already animations for holding and drinking potions, so I don't think it would too difficult, aside from converting every drink... I always hated how you can just pause the game and drink all you want and be right back to fighting.

 

The Morrowind way was much much better. When you drink the potion, it isn't instant so when you leave your inventory, your stat slowly rises making it more difficult in combat.

 

This mod does that and prevents potion spamming:

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/30073/?

 

Here are some alternatives:

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/28958/?

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1580881

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/5873/?

 

There are also a few mods for adding animations to consumables if you are interested. This mod goes well with any of the ones above:

http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/28114/?

 

I hope this helped. I think with these mods, you can get the experience you are looking for.

[notmyhome]

Cool! Thank you; the combination of Potion Drinking Animation and Spamming Prevention should do the trick!
As for food and drinks, RnD will take care of that.