Building an Tamriel like City (Not too foolish please)

[dragonpen61]

The Tamriel Like City is to be name as Poll indicates above. If you want to add a name do so. How this goes is up to you.

 

 

It is easier to attack those who dare to try to come up with something new, even if it seems foolish

than it is to gain the courage to stick your own neck out.

I ask the poll above because I am very interested in the creative side of such games as Oblivion.

 

The city starts out with:

 

Normal

Horse drawn trams as in 19th Century London of Earth: four horses draw each tram along city tracks. Horse-trams. Taking people and perhaps also Imperial Mail.

 

Special:

Central Palace for the Emperor/Empress Imperial Court: it is very large, almost a small city in its own right, with palace proper, halls of governing, grand library, grand zoo, grand museum-gallery-zoo, bodyguard barracks, servant dormitories, many gardens, one grand temple, mages quarters, storage areas, stables, kennels and much else.

Some areas are open to the public at certain times of each month but security reasons no more than one area is open at any one time to keep better control and supervision over visitors.

 

Magical:

Gladiator Arena with magic: Magic in arena means no gladiator actually dies but does go through very painful death experience. Every gladiator also has to pay a reasonable fee that is lost if he/she dies a false death and is regained as credit for the next game if she/he wins the battle. Magic can also make background effects, make the battle ground look more interesting and otherwise expand on entertainment value. But magic is costly and all games need to be paid for by getting many paying people and not just betters.

Each game won for a gladiator means one gained trophy-point and each loss means one trophy-point is lost.

 

Please add positively to ideas.

 

 

 

[AncientSpaceAeon]

Ideas :

- Make it cooler at night.

- A big garden needs to located outside the palace.

- A better "Arcane University", so there's a place of magic but so full of magic.

- A sacred or top secret place (a vault maybe) that anyone forbidden to enter, but can be entered with hard work.

- Top secret organization that controls or influence the entire city (example an organization goverment, that done all conspiracy at the city).

- Strange events like sightings of a dead emperor ghost or something.

[dragonpen61]

Ideas :

- Make it cooler at night.

- A big garden needs to located outside the palace.

- A better "Arcane University", so there's a place of magic but so full of magic.

- A sacred or top secret place (a vault maybe) that anyone forbidden to enter, but can be entered with hard work.

- Top secret organization that controls or influence the entire city (example an organization goverment, that done all conspiracy at the city).

- Strange events like sightings of a dead emperor ghost or something.

 

Excellent!

 

Especially like the bigger garden outside the palace and the vault. What if the vault complex was an ancient secret place built by the Empire to hide great and dangerous secrets such as magical artifacts or scrolls of plans to ancient cave complexes of treasures.

[AncientSpaceAeon]

How big will this be ?

[dragonpen61]

How big will this be ?

 

How big?

 

If gardens a set of gardens each with a special theme such as Garden of the Nine, Water Gardens, Garden of Hedge Maze.

 

If Vault Complex is huge and maze like to make it difficult for intruders to get at secrets. The entrance area could be a false cave system filled with minor treasures to distract people. Every section of the vaults will try to mislead intruders into thinking that it is the final section, that there are no others. Of the guardians of the vault, no individual will know too much and nowhere will there be a single map or set of information on everything. The idea is that the vault complex can be further modded with out having to alter previous work.

[antonkr]

hmm

1 HQ of knights of the nine. Maybe

2 Sewers are secret prison, for most dangerous prisoners.

3 More and more shops.

[AncientSpaceAeon]

More ideas.

- Many, many rivers ! (Make it Venice if you want).

- An underlife beneath the sewers.

- A destroyed part of the city (burned, collapsed, etc) possibly because a siege.

- A tomb with so many secrets.

- Creative and smart city design for all type of characters. (Example balconies for sniping, secret doors for houses entry for thieves, a magical location where mages can test their skills, etc.)

[dezdimona]

for tracks for the trams,you need ore refineries,. How will they be powered? Magic? Timber? coal etc?

Horse drawn wagons as like stage coaches would be more in keeping with a medieval society

[AncientSpaceAeon]

I say Venice style city, rather than trams. (Vivec in Morrowind was kinda like this).

[Birrii]

Maybe some people dancing and singing folklores, and maybe a turkish trader who always yells: "Best prices here! Buy some today!" etc.

That'd be cool, and it's pretty realistic! :3