Elder Scrolls alive

[Sinisterplots]

Sure Oblivion has drop dead gorgeous vistas and eye candy to beat the band but I'm disappointed in the lack of "life" in oblivion. You would expect a huge bustling Imperial city with like dozens and dozens of people not some random 2 or 3 NCPs. I understand there was a limit in the voice acting but still the cities can use a little more people.

 

Also there aren't any caravans, riders or anyone traveling the roads except the occasional guard and black horse courier. The only excitement on the roads are marauders and bandits. Also it wouldn't hurt to have the ability to own property and having the occasional odd job for some extra pocket change.

 

Maybe change the uses of certian food items too for that matter other than being Alchemy ingredients.

 

I know it sounds very ambitious but I think Bethusda can try a little harder to immerse us into the Elder Scrolls universe. I mostly mod for RTS games and this will be my first attempt to mod an RPG. I have yet to learn what kind of tools I need to start this ambitious project if it is at all possible.

[rondivu]

Sure Oblivion has drop dead gorgeous vistas and eye candy to beat the band but I'm disappointed in the lack of "life" in oblivion. You would expect a huge bustling Imperial city with like dozens and dozens of people not some random 2 or 3 NCPs. I understand there was a limit in the voice acting but still the cities can use a little more people.

 

Also there aren't any caravans, riders or anyone traveling the roads except the occasional guard and black horse courier. The only excitement on the roads are marauders and bandits. Also it wouldn't hurt to have the ability to own property and having the occasional odd job for some extra pocket change.

 

Maybe change the uses of certian food items too for that matter other than being Alchemy ingredients.

 

I know it sounds very ambitious but I think Bethusda can try a little harder to immerse us into the Elder Scrolls universe. I mostly mod for RTS games and this will be my first attempt to mod an RPG. I have yet to learn what kind of tools I need to start this ambitious project if it is at all possible.

 

1) You have to remember, some low end spec machines may not be able to handle that extra stuff, so they were probably thinking of the compatibility of Oblivion.

 

2) Please check around a bit more, there's a few mods that add people on the road as well as mods that add more people to cities already. One of them is Total Immersion Experience (T.I.E.) at:

 

http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=15258

 

This version of the Mod is compatible with the 5 major total conversion mods but the original can be found here:

 

http://www.stephanewuttunee.net/tnr_tie.html

 

There's a few more I've seen, but T.I.E already does alot for my system (at that which I it can handle) that I haven't gone looking for more, but I HAVE seen more mods similar. So use that advanced search, and look for NPC's (via sorting through high rated ones). Good luck if you're planning to make one like this.

 

3) Owning property? Other than mods that give you property, you can buy houses, but I'm not sure about owning property.

 

4) Changing food items would require scripting knowledge as it is built in as alchemic items (but you can mod them with different functions I believe since they are items). If you wanted food then it would have to be through scripting. Once scripted, any item can do various things depending on what you want. If you were to have them do something else, what would that be?

 

Hope that answers some of your questions.

[Deleted269910User]

There are tons of mods that add more NPC:s to the game, travellers and such(More info of each mod at their file page.);

Extended Skingrad

Extended Chorrol

Extended Imperial City

Tamriel Travellers

Cyrodiil NPCs Remodeling Project - Chorrol

Cyrodiil NPCs Remodeling Project - Bruma

Cyrodiil NPCs Remodeling Project - Leyawiin

Crowded Roads Revamped or Crowded Roads Advanced

 

Also about food items etc.;

 

Real Hunger or Real Hunger - Cobl

FF_Real_Thirst or FF Real Thirst - Cobl

 

I'm not gonna bother posting more, but these should give you more than a good start. There are also plenty of overhaul mods to look at, but these are the small scale variants.

 

~Elraine