LE [Gameplay] Less animals/creatures?

[Achaius]

Maybe I am the only one, but I have the feeling that Skyrim is flooded with animals and creatures.

No matter in what direction you look, you´ll see tons of animals. While I enjoyed the looks during the first hours ingame, it becomes contra-productive for overall gameplay after a while.

 

Let me explain:

While traveling, you get interrupted by wolves, bears and/or spiders each and every minute which, for me, has two effects.

First and most important: They become annoying rather than interesting.

 

Second: It costs a lot of time and nerves to either kill them, or ride away, when you actually have something else to do.

 

Also, if you enjoy beeing a hunter, you surely become bored quickly. Why? Because there are Elks around every corner and behind every stone - same effect as for the other creatures, they are nothing special anymore and hunting becomes too easy, sadly.

 

 

Long story short: By cutting down creatures appearances by ~50%, the game would be more fun I think. Wolves would be a nice change from quests/battles again, hunting would need more focus and passion and you would not stumble over foxes, elks, bears, wolves, spiders and rabbits all the time.

 

And as a side note: If there really would be SO many wolves in nature like in skyrim - there would be no elks and deers at all :wink:

 

 

What do you guys think?

[Emton]

Even though this post is from 2011 I just now realized I want less animals too. I'm trying to balance the game so food isn't so easy to come by and animals is one thing there is a whole lot of, so it would make a better challenge for hunting and finding food to have less animals. Ya know I think a good name for this mod would be "Less Animals" and there could be 3 versions: 25% less animals, 50% less animals and 75% less animals. Anyone have any idea of what this would take?