LE Easy Request

[nightinglae850]

Every wonder where all those courier's go with letters? Or how people buy their services?

 

Well my request is to add a building outside solitude which is a courier's office. Just a simple building with a few courier npcs inside and a desk with a boss npc working.

 

What would be cool is to have a few pre made letters that you can pay a courier to send, like a letter to your spouse saying that your ok and will be home soon etc. then the courier runs off.

[Dhegonus]

the first bit is easy, the second part.. scripts..argh... game breakers heh

[nightinglae850]

Yea the 2nd is just a bonus if someone gets it to work :) the office is all that is needed

[matortheeternal]

Sounds like a nice addition. I support this idea. The 2nd part doesn't seem too difficult so long as you don't actually send the courier anywhere. Just make it like "I'll get this to ___ as soon as possible", then the letter gets placed aside and after a certain amount of ingame time the effects of its arrival are triggered (though the player cannot observe the actual arrival event, obviously).

[nightinglae850]

Yea it would be a cool addition,

 

One way it could work is:

1. you talk to the boss and say i want to send a letter

2. in dialogue he gives you a list of cities and towns

3. When you pick one you get a list of all the npcs living there or just pick spouse

4. Then you walk over to a table and do the letter writing animation for 5 secs, get up and hand it to a courier

6. He runs out of the building and disappears

 

Idk if thats possible though

[matortheeternal]

Yea it would be a cool addition,

 

One way it could work is:

1. you talk to the boss and say i want to send a letter

2. in dialogue he gives you a list of cities and towns

3. When you pick one you get a list of all the npcs living there or just pick spouse

4. Then you walk over to a table and do the letter writing animation for 5 secs, get up and hand it to a courier

6. He runs out of the building and disappears

 

Idk if thats possible though

 

Seems totally possible to me. Might have to make the animation from scratch though, I don't know if there is a letter writing animation in Skyrim (is there?)

 

-Mator

 

Edit: You'd probably want to find some interesting ways to implement this asides from a letter to your spouse. E.g. letters to followers which ask them to meet you (then they come out of nowhere after a certain amount of game time a certain distance from you, and come to you).

 

Add in a few quests into the mix that involve letter stuff, incorporate speechcraft, expand some more, etc. Call it "The Post Office". Include a going Postal quest where you murder a bunch of people with a mail bag. Profit. $$$.

 

 

Edit 2: Oh and, more than one post office for more postal needs. I'm thinking 2-4 post offices. Yeuh.

Edited April 12, 2013 by matortheeternal

[nightinglae850]

good ideas! but i think whoever picks up the mod would want to keep it simple :) although 2-3 offices isnt a bad idea.

 

yes there is a letter wrting animation in the game already:

http://static.skyrim.nexusmods.com/images/6055089-1359986546.jpg

[Xilante]

I'll take up the request but most likely the NPCs will be voiceless as I don't know any voice actor and I'd probably need to make the original solitude a little bigger to place the office correctly without making it seem displaced (thus making any mod that edits solitude incompatible with it), is that fine?

[nightinglae850]

Yea thats fine your the boss here :) thanks

 

To make things easier for you, there is already the East Empire company building outside Solitude, so another official business building outside would not seem displaced if you didnt want to expand the city

[Xilante]

I think there's no space though, So i'll have to expand it a bit anyway but that shouldn't be a problem, most people from what I read like bigger cities, I could make the "Boss courier", the one that handles the stuff deaf mute, so that would solve the voice problem while the rest of the company would be normal couriers (vanilla)