Murder Investigations

[Lord Jefferson]

HI everybody,

 

My idea for a mod is a small crime investigation/private eye faction you can join, involving a new district for the IC, The Imperial City Judical District. The district would have courthouses, offices, guard barracks and Court cells. it would be separate from the rest of the IC like the Arcane Univesity or the Prison district.

 

Quests would range from standard, wife kills cheating husband, sibling killing sibling for an inheritance to a Jack the Ripper like quest or tracking down smugllers or Skooma dealers.

 

Any comments or ideas would be welcomed

 

:thanks:

[alex2avs]

Sounds good for me :)...

 

Please , continue (full quest example :D)

 

Alex Valentine

[AncientSpaceAeon]

It's best that the new district also the headquarters for the Imperial Legion and Imperial Watch too. The IC Prison looks dead.

 

There are other ideas :

- Some missions needs you to go undercover

- Sometimes, there are bribes to us. Sometimes for stopping the investigation. We can either reject it, or accept it.

- And others.

[alex2avs]

about bribing ... sometimes you get last warnings... and the next time you're alone , in a dark place ... or sleeping... you'll wake up with an assassin ;). Creating a new district in the IC will be hard and could mess up some other Vanilla-quests.

 

How about offices in every town ?

[Lord Jefferson]

Hi,

 

The real question is whether to remove the Imperial City Prison district or to just re-build it.

 

Here's what I think

 

Removing and replacing

 

Pros

 

Much more exterior space to work with

Blank canvas

 

Cons

 

Altering quests-DB,TG and the security training quest.

 

Rebuilding it into the Imperial City Judical Disctrict

 

Pros

 

Good base to work with

 

Cons

 

still alters quests but to a lesser degree

will still look the ICPrison district

 

As for offices in other cities, I think its a great idea, however I don't want it to be like the fighters guild,

i.e. only doing one quest at a time you could have multiple quests running at the same time that eventually lead together

 

 

What do you guys think about the ICPrison District? Rebuild or Remove and Replace?

I'm for Rebuilding it, your thoughts would be appriecated

 

The judical District as a center of the Imperial Legion, Imperial Watch as well as the Imperial Supreme Court?

 

I'll start working on quest details for you for in my next post Alex.

 

 

Good ideas so far:

 

Bribery

Assasin in your sleep

Undercover missions

Skooma!

A Jack the ripper quest is a must!

Gang wars (over skooma?)

 

Anyway I'll see you gus later.

 

Lord Jefferson

[Apophilius]

Seems a simple enough of an idea, but it has some problems.

 

I wouldn't recommend deleting or overhauling the IC prison or creating a new district (fingerprint factor), but you could add a bit to the prison so your new faction has something to work with.

 

Secondly, the idea of a private eye team in Tamriel/Cyrodiil/Medieval times isn't practical. Back then murders went on all the time and nobody cared to look into it. The fact that they have law enforcing guards in the game is already an overly large step towards modern legal systems. But the idea for a new faction like this still sounds sweet.

 

And one quest at a time is a hell of a lot easier to manage than say 3 or 4 quests at a time because you've got to organize the faction. Typically in the game, you go up in rank my completing contracts for guilds. You've got to do a lot of scripting to be able to do this many quests at a time while keeping order, plus the rank system would get a lot more confusing. Parsimony is a plus

 

Overall, its a good idea but needs modification before work. :ermm:

[Doomsdaylee]

Well, a P.I. thing sounds about right though, and even runs with what you were saying.

Think about it: Your friend is murdered, and you suspect his father did it. The Guards won't help you, because you have no true evidence! So, you go hire a mercenary to look into it.

 

Anywho, onto the mod:

I'm no modder, but it does sound interesting. I'd recommend (if possible) turning one of the useless buildings into a new office for the PI faction.

[Lord Jefferson]

Hi all,

 

sorry about the delay-EXAMS :wallbash:

 

Anyway, the new faction could bring you into conflict with the Imperial Watch-accusations of being a vigilante/illegal actions

 

Quest ideas

 

1

 

Vandalism of Murder Investigations property could lead to a bad watch captain working outside the law

 

-convince his rival to arrest him

 

-brawl in the courtroom between guards loyal to either captain

 

-PC has to protect the Head of MI(Murder Investigations) Warnel Fen

 

2

-Dead farmer found on his property, horribly torn apart

 

-investigation leads to ancient death of the world cult planning to release an ancient plague from the tombs beneath th IC

 

[possibly a splinter of the Mythic dawn or DB(more souls 4 Sithis)]

 

3

 

-Jack the ripper quest

 

-he turns out to be Warnel Fen's son, rebelling against his father

 

4

 

-Hunting down people who stole a jewel from a house in Anvil, track them to their ship, attack with MI mercinaries and kill them all

 

-defend yourself in court from accusations of being a vigilante

 

Anyway I have made a start on the mod

 

See ya

 

Lord Jefferson

[Alkser]

Instead of rebuilding ic prison district or adding a new district we could add some offices in ic prison it would be easier to make.

And of quests they are hard to make as some1 above mentioned you'll need to do scripting which is not easy

[AncientSpaceAeon]

And of quests they are hard to make as some1 above mentioned you'll need to do scripting which is not easy

On my poll, many modders skilled at scripting. Isn't easy, but I say there are worse.

Instead of rebuilding ic prison district or adding a new district we could add some offices in ic prison it would be easier to make.

That's my stuff, can do it in a few hours ! But useless I say, better a questline.