LE Unbugging Lydia

[prolovegirl]

Lydia is arguably one of the most beautiful women in Skyrim, and she is supposed to be available to the player as a potential spouse after the Amulet of Mara has been acquired, but a bug prevents the marriage dialogue option from opening. Could this be fixed with a mod? I don't know anything about programming, but you'd probably just need to add something to her programming, like "addtofaction 19809 1" or something. But then you'd also need to stop her from returning to the wedding temple as though the marriage had just replayed, when the player visits it again later in the game.

 

There's another problem with Lydia. Although she levels up with the player, her stats and attributes are not always recalculated, resulting in her being increasingly vulnerable at higher levels. I don't know what the problem is, or how you'd fix it, but if you can, that would be great!

 

Looking forward to your ideas about this...

 

Edit: Another thought: If you wanted to make a version that also makes her essential, that would be very helpful too! :)

Edited November 23, 2011 by prolovegirl

[prolovegirl]

It would be nice if this faulty programming were fixed with a mod, BUT...

 

I found a bit of a work-around. You wear the amulet of Mara and open the console, and click on your intended spouse, and type:

setrelationshiprank player 4
addfac 19809 1
addfac 5a1a4 1

 

Then you close the console, and open the conversation, and she will initiate the marriage dialogue.

 

I've heard you can do that to marry anyone, but I just did it to marry Lydia.

 

Source: Marry and Companion Free, by Gotika

 

PLG

[PrivateJoker]

Could someone also fix the bow bug so that she will use the daedric bow i've given her? Possibly removing her standard bow altogether OR replacing the standard bow with a daedric version?

[Kultan]

I'd love to see a mod that re-calculated followers every time they joined you so they aren't left nerfed as the game progresses.