Bears, Bears and more Bears

[sinnerman69]

Either someone on the development team for skyrim is a avid hunter of bears or a closet Chicago Bears fan and trying to boast about it, I cant walk 2 minutes without bumping into a fragin bear o_O I cant take in the scenery for a moment in peace it seems :ermm: this is around the area of Riften mostly I probably have fifty or more bear pelts in my inventory menu right now

 

Is there a evenly distributed ecological system mod for this game? or less bear encounters?

Edited September 9, 2012 by sinnerman69

[daventry]

No, but theres a Mod that doesent work no more, that quiets the Bear Growl, so someone has to make a Less Bear More Quiet Growl Mod.

[Moraevik]

I've never had this sort of problem with no mods installed that affect the spawning of wildlife. I suspect you have a mod that (a) increases the spawning rate and/or numbers of animals in the wild, and (b) levels them to the player (which is why you're not being overrun with skeevers and wolves).

[Cthuloot]

1) Go to the 7000 steps and read all 10 etched tablets

2) ???

3) Profit

 

It gives you a Voice of the Sky buff where no animals will run from you or attack you. Quite handy!

[sinnerman69]

I don't use any spawn mods, I use the default launcher window to organize and move mods around and manually install mods and never use community made managers

 

here's my list of mods

 

# This file is used by Skyrim to keep track of your downloaded content.

# Please do not modify this file.

Dawnguard.esm

LevelersTower.esm

Conjuration & Summoning fixes.esp

dbmisc.esp <--------------------------------------------------------moves dark brotherhood forever quest to the misc menu

LFox Pickpocketing Chance Caps at 100.esp

Lost Art of the Blacksmith.esp

The Paarthurnax Dilemma.esp <------- thinking of removing and siding with the greyboards for now on

BarenziahQuestMarkers.esp

GriptzionTeleportMenuSpellv3.1.esp

Dawnguard Breezehome Fix.esp

JiubQuestMarkers.esp <-------------------------------- teleports you to all ten journal pages

hothtrooper44_ArmorCompilation.esp

Edited September 9, 2012 by sinnerman69

[Moraevik]

I wonder if Dawnguard could be the culprit. I have no idea to what extent this DLC impacts the vanilla game, but I know it does add things. Perhaps the devs fiddled with the wildlife, too. Do an experiment. Disable Dawnguard and make a clean save. Go back to an area where you know you're seeing more than the expected number of bears and see if they're still all spawning there.

[Cthuloot]

Even before I started modding, there was a ridiculous amount of bears... I think that it might be the lack of actual enemies... =/ Think about it.

 

You've got...

 

Wolves

Bears

Saber Cats

Frostbite spiders (of varying sizes)

Trolls

Snow/frost variants of the above five

Cave bears

Skeevers

Falmer

Chaurus

Skeltons

Draugr

Bandits

Vampires

Occasional NPC (Hired thugs, simple "High Elf" hostiles, the Old Orc, soldiers, etc)

Spell Casters

Attronarchs

Ice Wraiths

Dragons of varying size and color

Dragon Priests

Wisp and Wisp Mother

Dwarven Centurion

Dwarven Spider

Dwarven Spheres

 

That's all I can think of. Which is a short sad list for the vanilla game, especially with a game as big as Skyrim. Dawnguard doesn't add much more

 

You get...

Master vampires

Death Hounds

Gargoyles

Dawnguard dudes

Huskies

A new Chaurus

As well as a special type of a few wild animals.

Two new dragons.

Hostile werewolves

 

That totals less than 30 "unique" models for enemies. Of course there's the different types of them, so they can 'brag' about 150 or so "unique" enemies. Unless you're finding 10 or 12 bears at a time in less than 10 or 15 minutes, I think it's just poor rolls on the random chance thing Skyrim uses to generate enemies. But it's not uncommon for me to fight 4 or 5 bears between Say Whiterun and Ivaarstead, then 2 or 3 more on my way to High Hrothgar.

 

On a side note... Has anybody played around with the Skyrim monsters mod? Particularly the Lore Friendly version? I've been considering getting it.

[sinnerman69]

I wonder if Dawnguard could be the culprit. I have no idea to what extent this DLC impacts the vanilla game, but I know it does add things. Perhaps the devs fiddled with the wildlife, too. Do an experiment. Disable Dawnguard and make a clean save. Go back to an area where you know you're seeing more than the expected number of bears and see if they're still all spawning there.

 

 

 

I discovered a highly endorsed armor/clothes mod called Immersive Armors last night and downloaded it and installed it and well be testing it extensively today with Dawnguard and all the other mods in my game!..

 

I removed the The Paarthurnax Dilemma mod and decided to side with the old guys on the mountain for now on!..

 

 

The bear encounters only bug me when I'm wondering skyrim trying to discover every location, but I think it's better for quests to point to all map markers and not first discover them, that way when a location is done and cleared you wont get confused if you've been there and wondered that location

Edited September 9, 2012 by sinnerman69

[Cthuloot]

If memory serves your map will say "Cleared" with a little icon next to the location when you mouse over it...

 

But as I said, I think it's just poor luck with what creatures are being selected to spawn. What level are you? at 23 with the hunter armor from the mod you mentioned, the only bears giving me massive headaches are the Snow Bears. They can down me in like 2 hits on Master difficulty.

[sinnerman69]

I was wearing the Paladin Armor from Dawnguard Paladin Armor mod, but after discovering Immersive Armors mod I removed the Dawnguard Paladin Armor mod from my game , I don't like running more then one armor/clothes mod at a time in my game!.. Edited September 9, 2012 by sinnerman69