Hi Nerxurs

[pforpterodactyl]

Hi. I made the first post I remember making in the help forum, trying to figure out how to simulate seasons for a Skyrim "novel" I'm writing on my blog. Or... hopefully writing. I'm a mom, so not a lot of time, but I do like writing and playing Skyrim, and sometimes I find the game limiting my creativity, so I've enjoyed going beyond the bounds of the game in my little "novel", though I'm not very far (hence why I'm considering adding seasons). I've only posted one chapter (Unbound) but I've written up to that Turdas I think. I had to take a break because I needed to focus on the writing side of things, which is also fun. I honestly find it more fun than playing the game normally, but I've made myself keep a for fun game so I'm not "working" every time I sit down to play. Unfortunately I broke it while trying to create seasons, though I think it had more to do with switching to Vivid Weathers mid-game than switching from summer to winter overhauls. Those seemed to go okay until I tried Vivid Weathers, because True Storms made the indoor thunderstorm sound when we were having a snowstorm in Rorikstead. I haven't attempted to fix it yet. I will probably try tomorrow but I was feeling too despondent about it today.

 

I like to play a two-handed male Imperial every time, though in my for-fun game this last time I actually did dual wielding, which I'm finally pretty good at, but I think I'm much better at two-handed, or its just an easier way to play. I was scared the first time I started a game, because I used to try playing as a sneaky character or something, but then I'd die because as soon as someone noticed me I couldn't defend myself up close very well. I don't know. And I'm not that good at making sure to block. Basically, in combat I panicked and clicked all the buttons. For that reason, it made the most sense to go melee and simply bludgeon my enemies to death, plus great swords are super cool. I really wish Dawnbreaker and Dragonbane were great swords. I've dual wielding them in my fun game, if I can revive it after my seasons debacle, but alas, cool legendary great swords are a little harder to come by. My brother said my skill set was weird because I used two-handed weapons, while my archery and sneak skills were equally high in an effort to avoid conflict as long as possible. I'm not very good about wearing my heavy armor the way I should either. I usually run around in Vampire Armor not as a vampire simply because I like the way it looks. What can I say? I like to role-play my game. Wearing heavy armor everywhere sounds awful and kind of weird. I try to remember to change before fights but I usually don't think about it unless I'm about to tackle a really difficult opponent. Somehow my heavy armor skill is still higher than my light armor most of the time. But yeah, I don't play the game the way you're "supposed" to I guess. The first time I went through the whole main quest, I maxed out two-handed, archery, heavy armor and sneak, and I think I was getting there in smithing and trying to increase my enchanting.

 

But I am honestly just wasting time here because the thing I was planning to do tonight fell through, so I'll stop writing this long post to no one and go....

[Deleted54170User]

A few days ago while I was playing Skyrim I found a setting which I think makes it so our characters Armor is jumped into when battle occurs in the mod AFT: Amazing Followers Tweaks.

 

In the game I always put on my armor when I go out into the wild though. I think it's wise.

 

I'm not trying to attract anyone. In fact I prefer not to attract any fights. I've a soft spot for just wanting to explore and discover everything on, in, around, that I can find about the people, places, and mysteries of the land. If I didn't have to train to fight, and fight dragons too, I would have scoured Skyrim and built a college for Architects and Archaeologists to add so the mages college of magic isn't the only one, instead.

 

I may be a bit too hopeful that someone else with the time and the skills will add at least the Archaeologist College like the one that was made for Oblivion by some Modders.

 

The AFT setting might be for followers. I thought it was for our character though; or I might have considered turning it on so Lydia could dress while out of battle and doesn't look so unattractively powerful all the time. :dry:

[pforpterodactyl]

A few days ago while I was playing Skyrim I found a setting which I think makes it so our characters Armor is jumped into when battle occurs in the mod AFT: Amazing Followers Tweaks.

 

In the game I always put on my armor when I go out into the wild though. I think it's wise.

 

I'm not trying to attract anyone. In fact I prefer not to attract any fights. I've a soft spot for just wanting to explore and discover everything on, in, around, that I can find about the people, places, and mysteries of the land. If I didn't have to train to fight, and fight dragons too, I would have scoured Skyrim and built a college for Architects and Archaeologists to add so the mages college of magic isn't the only one, instead.

 

I may be a bit too hopeful that someone else with the time and the skills will add at least the Archaeologist College like the one that was made for Oblivion by some Modders.

 

The AFT setting might be for followers. I thought it was for our character though; or I might have considered turning it on so Lydia could dress while out of battle and doesn't look so unattractively powerful all the time. :dry:

Hahahaha! Yes I use AFT. It's really good, but yes, for followers. I actually just got it because I thought I should be able to take my son with me on trips if I felt like it, so the "Children Fight Back" mod was supposed to work with AFT so you could get the dialogue. I felt like Aventus should have some real-world experience since he naively wants to become an assassin "like me" (I always kill Astrid instead of joining the Dark Brotherhood).

I do really like that I can make my followers go helmet-free unless they're in combat, because Teldryn is always wearing a helmet and he is my favorite follower. It gets annoying. Especially because that bonemold armor looks terrible. I have also considered making female followers not wear armor all the time with the mod, but I haven't tried it yet.

 

Yeah, I like to play my game like its an actual story (hence the novelizing). So I figure if I were in my character's place, I wouldn't wear armor everywhere. At least not heavy armor. Plus I do sneak quite a lot. I think two-handed and sneak were the first two skills I maxed the last time I played, weirdly enough.

 

That said, I do run around occasionally in blades or ebony armor in the wild once I have leveled up a bit, if I want my heavy armor skill to increase. I guess I am a bit shallow with my character lol. I like to like looking at him if I can get a good screenshot.

[Deleted54170User]

 

A few days ago while I was playing Skyrim I found a setting which I think makes it so our characters Armor is jumped into when battle occurs in the mod AFT: Amazing Followers Tweaks.

 

In the game I always put on my armor when I go out into the wild though. I think it's wise.

 

I'm not trying to attract anyone. In fact I prefer not to attract any fights. I've a soft spot for just wanting to explore and discover everything on, in, around, that I can find about the people, places, and mysteries of the land. If I didn't have to train to fight, and fight dragons too, I would have scoured Skyrim and built a college for Architects and Archaeologists to add so the mages college of magic isn't the only one, instead.

 

I may be a bit too hopeful that someone else with the time and the skills will add at least the Archaeologist College like the one that was made for Oblivion by some Modders.

 

The AFT setting might be for followers. I thought it was for our character though; or I might have considered turning it on so Lydia could dress while out of battle and doesn't look so unattractively powerful all the time. :dry:

Hahahaha! Yes I use AFT. It's really good, but yes, for followers. I actually just got it because I thought I should be able to take my son with me on trips if I felt like it, so the "Children Fight Back" mod was supposed to work with AFT so you could get the dialogue. I felt like Aventus should have some real-world experience since he naively wants to become an assassin "like me" (I always kill Astrid instead of joining the Dark Brotherhood).

I do really like that I can make my followers go helmet-free unless they're in combat, because Teldryn is always wearing a helmet and he is my favorite follower. It gets annoying. Especially because that bonemold armor looks terrible. I have also considered making female followers not wear armor all the time with the mod, but I haven't tried it yet.

 

Yeah, I like to play my game like its an actual story (hence the novelizing). So I figure if I were in my character's place, I wouldn't wear armor everywhere. At least not heavy armor. Plus I do sneak quite a lot. I think two-handed and sneak were the first two skills I maxed the last time I played, weirdly enough.

 

That said, I do run around occasionally in blades or ebony armor in the wild once I have leveled up a bit, if I want my heavy armor skill to increase. I guess I am a bit shallow with my character lol. I like to like looking at him if I can get a good screenshot.

 

 

Hm? Interesting. I realize some of the guys I chatted with do play as female characters. Since I always play in the mode where all I see are the weapons in my hands it never occurred to me to want to see how I was dressed or if I liked the image I saw.

 

I do recall getting all spiffed up to go to the weekend dances at a place which gave us a hang out besides the high school gym. I was always making sure I had no zits or there was a hair on my head out of place. I just never thought about wanting to look at my creation to give those special touches and make sure women would find a game character attractive. No one actually see my game character.

 

Now then. The games getting more followers with personalities. Maybe the followers that are females we can help out and become BFF are better at making us feel like we are with a human. They are created by a human. I might learn more about romancing and see what I could have done differently in real life.

 

Thanks for giving me a little bit of your present way of looking at gaming life.

 

I knew guys thoughts on game characters from various sexual preferences and real life, but now.

 

Wow! The modern stuff in escapism games! I was reading about a mod for another game Fallout 4. A follower with Artificial Intelligence. The Machine and her. Willow was another for Fallout: New Vegas without AI though.

 

The possibilities! I'm going to have a nap. It's late. When I wake I hope I have some new ideas.

 

Sleep well. Live well. And prosper.

[pforpterodactyl]

 

 

Hahahaha! Yes I use AFT. It's really good, but yes, for followers. I actually just got it because I thought I should be able to take my son with me on trips if I felt like it, so the "Children Fight Back" mod was supposed to work with AFT so you could get the dialogue. I felt like Aventus should have some real-world experience since he naively wants to become an assassin "like me" (I always kill Astrid instead of joining the Dark Brotherhood).

I do really like that I can make my followers go helmet-free unless they're in combat, because Teldryn is always wearing a helmet and he is my favorite follower. It gets annoying. Especially because that bonemold armor looks terrible. I have also considered making female followers not wear armor all the time with the mod, but I haven't tried it yet.

 

Yeah, I like to play my game like its an actual story (hence the novelizing). So I figure if I were in my character's place, I wouldn't wear armor everywhere. At least not heavy armor. Plus I do sneak quite a lot. I think two-handed and sneak were the first two skills I maxed the last time I played, weirdly enough.

 

That said, I do run around occasionally in blades or ebony armor in the wild once I have leveled up a bit, if I want my heavy armor skill to increase. I guess I am a bit shallow with my character lol. I like to like looking at him if I can get a good screenshot.

 

 

Hm? Interesting. I realize some of the guys I chatted with do play as female characters. Since I always play in the mode where all I see are the weapons in my hands it never occurred to me to want to see how I was dressed or if I liked the image I saw.

 

I do recall getting all spiffed up to go to the weekend dances at a place which gave us a hang out besides the high school gym. I was always making sure I had no zits or there was a hair on my head out of place. I just never thought about wanting to look at my creation to give those special touches and make sure women would find a game character attractive. No one actually see my game character.

 

Now then. The games getting more followers with personalities. Maybe the followers that are females we can help out and become BFF are better at making us feel like we are with a human. They are created by a human. I might learn more about romancing and see what I could have done differently in real life.

 

Thanks for giving me a little bit of your present way of looking at gaming life.

 

I knew guys thoughts on game characters from various sexual preferences and real life, but now.

 

Wow! The modern stuff in escapism games! I was reading about a mod for another game Fallout 4. A follower with Artificial Intelligence. The Machine and her. Willow was another for Fallout: New Vegas without AI though.

 

The possibilities! I'm going to have a nap. It's late. When I wake I hope I have some new ideas.

 

Sleep well. Live well. And prosper.

 

 

For some reason I couldn't find this thread anymore and I wondered what happened lol. I just found it, obviously. I was probably just forum stupid. I've only ever really used Personality Cafe very much, but I had to leave it behind because I have issues with social media.

 

Yeah I usually only see my characters' hands too. I prefer first person perspective most of the time, but I guess its the story thing that makes me care what he looks like. I randomly zoom out and see if he looks cool sometimes because I'm weird like that. Or recently I was going through the first couple quests a second time for my novelization, specifically to take good screenshots, so I have screenshots of him for that reason, though he is intentionally grimy and unkempt in many of those, and when he gets a haircut and washes his face, he isn't wearing war paint because I decided his anger was all spent before the start of the game. It will have to be rekindled before I can put war paint on him again, which is disappointing. My characters so far have all looked about the same lol. If I ever do a second novelization though, I guess he will have to look different.

 

That's really interesting about the followers. That would be so nice to have more of an AI follower. Being able to play with friends would be best I guess, like role playing, but I have Oldrim so I can't do that right now. I do role-play (in writing) with a friend of mine. I actually was doing it tonight. We are smoothing out the rough edges of a role play we were doing... almost a year ago now. Wow. Anyway, it turned out really good, like a serious epic story, and I had intended it to be a novel before role-play, so we're trying to make it happen. I missed having real social interactions playing Skyrim after writing the first role-play draft last year. Like if I jump off a balcony, I expect someone to comment on it, or visit the Jarl in my underwear. I certainly expect to get some good, witty conversation on occasion.

 

I don't really think of my character in a sexual way lol. I like looking at him, but it's not like I get excited or anything. I didn't get the mods to make his body look better because he's always wearing clothes and there was a lot of nudity involved with the one I found, which made me uncomfortable. I just don't like that his skin looks so... leathery. And his hands are too big because I stick to the lower end of the weight scale, but it wasn't worth fixing. His face is fixed, and he wears clothes anyway. If I had gone with a female character I would have made her super attractive too even though I'm straight. I almost considered starting with a female because the males looked so bad. Wow I sound so shallow hahaha. I am not afraid to make him look disgusting when he's got long greasy hair and blood all over, but I am comforted by the fact that he can cut his hair and wash up. And put on scary war paint. I think I chose a male character partly because I always write from a male perspective. I was musing a little bit ago that this is probably because my relationship with my mother has been a bit rough, so good feminine examples haven't been as strong in my life, despite being an actual female.

 

As for real life, that goes a bit beyond this post, but my first suggestion is to eat healthy (I recommend looking at a natural paleo base diet with the occasional foray into other treats no more than a little once a week) because that takes care of most looks issues. But looks are by far not the main thing girls care about. It helps for sure, but I married my husband because he was reliable, brutally honest, wasn't too gross for me (that was my standard for looks irl lol) and is a hard worker. We also share much of the same worldview. Also, sometimes you have to be picky too. Like, think about the kind of girl you need and then what kind of guy she would need and practice being that guy until you become him. Don't pick a girl who would manipulate you because that's usually simultaneously belittling you and objectifying her. ...This is probably getting too deep and preachy for a Skyrim message board so I will stop. Especially since I don't even know what you were talking about, really.

 

My toddler was recently running up to people and doing the Vulcan symbol, saying, "live long prosper!" but I was shocked at how many people didn't understand what he was about. Like, they didn't know the saying and symbol. Wtf.

But you too, sleep long and prosper!

[Deleted54170User]

We started out much the same. Me?! Male though; after being weaned from the soft care baby life and reaching 2 years of age we are not all the same, but we still work. Sort of like Musk cars we are set on autopilot over and over, until we learn. After we reach the age of maturity our first mentors send us to school if they can't fix us at home. There they try to find and see if the dings, dents, and other stuff can be mended enough so we still are good enough quality to enter the next course of living life.

 

Working for a living. :mellow:

 

So many children who were born on a farm or ranch or somewhere you may never have seen don't qualify to work there. :ermm: Seems a lot more children grew up without that means of support in their dossier :geek: who were born and raised in those schools of life.

 

Of course you don't know how I am! :sad: You gathered a bit more about yourself though. :happy: I hope you found a bit of one of those little shriveled parts of your interior functions you examined that can be restored. :dance: It probably just wasn't getting enough fluid to it because you weren't focusing on that :unsure: sore spot as much. Some of our good parts get damaged a little, :ohdear: or a lot depending. :wallbash: If it's just a bit dry, it may be restored; once we focus our attentions there long enough so the automatic flow is fully restored. :D

 

That good part of us. :woot: Like a spot where one of our mentors left a ding when the original mentor, our Mother let us be held by our Dad, sisters or brothers, Grandparent's, Uncle, Aunt's, baby sitters, strangers. You know. People with little knowledge of what's really best for the baby. Who all believe their own children prove that they once did a pretty darn good job, but still dinged them up a bit. :wink:

 

Have a good one! :tongue: :teehee: