SSE Idea: Project VICOS

[ExoArchivist]

Here's the deal: I'm... an amateur mod maker currently stuck with a pretty lacking computer that can only just about run the game the CK barely. However, I'm a published and award winning author, a historian, anthropologist, and even have first hand experience in archaeology. Bear with me, that will come into play in a moment.

 

Also I have had an idea for a modding project.

 

While there's a chance I could pull this off on my own, I'd rather see it done right, see it done well, and let someone else take most of the credit.

 

Vivid and Immersive City OutSkirts

 

Or, as I like to call it, Project VICOS. The name mainly comes from the Latin word vicus, literally meaning "settlement, neighborhood, or borough", but which in a historical and archaeological context, at least in Britain, refers to the area of civilian settlement that virtually always sprung up outside the walls of Roman forts.

 

This type of settlement didn't just exist around Roman forts, however, and it's always bothered me that there's virtually no settlement spilling out beyond the walls of any of the major cities in Skyrim, so this mod would aim to fix that.

 

I've already got in mind having a semi-substantial vicus area outside the walls of Solitude, Riften, Markarth, Whiterun, Windhelm, and possibly Ravenrock (specifically to the west of it), with fairly minor vicus areas added to the other cities (probably no more than 3 buildings or so).

 

All told I've done a fair bit of planning already and have a lot of things in mind if someone or several someones wanted to work with me, but it's more important to me that the idea gets out there, regardless of if I've got anything to do with the finished product.

 

If you'd either like to adopt this project for yourself or work with me, please let me know!