Teacup Café XLII

[Noble Elf Lord]

Originally Posted by Ingwe

It's been a month or so since I played Skyrim. Got kinda nostalgic as of late, and started playing some TES4: Oblivion again, along with the Shivering Isles, Knights of the Nine, the other addons (DLCs), and some mods like Midas Magic, Servant of the Dawn, Mannimarco Resurrection, and The Lost Spires. I haven't gone through a full playthrough of that for, well, must have been about three years.

I'd like to see some sort of conclusion to the Aldmeri Dominion arc in some upcoming story, but I'd imagine Bethesda will probably come up with some other idea involving another province, and they'll just mention how the conclusion of the conflict with the Thalmor worked out through some book we can pick up in-game in TES6.

Aah, the nostalgy! I will return to Cyrodiil, but I should reinstall Oblivion to make some mods work - right now my 1st-person camera makes characters unduly tall...

If they do that, I'll hate them forever. I WANT to behead the Head Thalmors, the bastards who started all this...

Originally Posted by Mari

I've started playing Skyrim 3 weeks ago. It's much more difficult than Oblivion, mostly because it's so hard to get money without investing in perks in the enchanting or merchant tree.

Mari, a little tip: Alchemy gets you serious money. Brew Invisibility and Damage Magicka Regen- potions, and cha-ching! (Also kill people and take their stuff ) Btw, is it on PC or PS3 or XBox?

And y'all, take a look of what I've written
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Galadr...etch-391173954

[Mari]

I guess it depends on your personality. My parents would fall asleep, but my aunt lies awake till everyone is back in the house. And my cousins tended to go out late! o_O

[Mari]

PC. Alchemy only gets you serious money when you've invested in the speech tree. Otherwise the merchants either don't have enough money to buy more than two potions or the ingredients are so darned expensive if you're too lazy to look that brewing the potion isn't justified.

[Noble Elf Lord]

Well, mod the game then! Besides - how much money are you gonna gather? If you're too lazy, well, it's your problem... it's not that difficult. You gather lots of stuff just by exploring. Blue butterfly wings + blue mountain flowers make a dam. Mag. regen Poison, and both are plenty about.

I'd suggest a remedy for your laziness: get the mods More Perks Per Level, and Harvest Overhaul. The former allows you to configure the amount of perks you get per level (I myelf get 1 perk every other level, and 2 every other.) Harvest O. increases the amount of ingredients you harvest, on a realistic scale: from a large bush of Mountain Flowers, you may get as many as c. 6 to 9 flowers; from a small, 1 to 4.

Do you use any ENB:s? Other mods? Beware, you awoke the nerd in me

[Mari]

No, I just use the basic mods: heartfire, dragonsomething or other and another. I do want to beat the game myself you know And I do gather a lot of herbs, but the fact is that potions just didn't make me much money until I figured out I could invest perks in speech to get better deals and after that they did make me money, but now I can't sell more than 1 or 2 potions to the merchants because they don't have enough money to buy more >_<
At least in Oblivion I made a whole lot of money because I figured out the marketing system and got good at haggling, here that is not present and that is basically what bothers me.
And the dragons. They bother me a lot too :P Thankfully I have good followers and my flame atronach is a good match for dragons too, so basically all I have to do is stay out of sight and wait for them to finish it :P
I would do it myself, but I just can't seem to move and look around quick enough to hack someone down. I saw on forums that more people have trouble with slow mouse movement. Ah well, at least I got it to play.

[Noble Elf Lord]

(Hearthfire, DragonBorn and Dawnguard.)

It is still beating the game yourself! Honestly - one flower from a large bush? Is it not a flaw by Bethesda if you can only sell a couple of potions? I consider mods to be fixes to such flaws, or content add-ons.
In retrospect, I think the haggling system is kinda ridiculous... this is better.
Um... what's your difficulty level? Or are you perhaps a Master of Conjuration if your Flame Atronach is a match for a bloody dragon? Hmm, I think I've heard of that bug... have you tried to change the speed from options? Sorry, likely a stupid question, but still...

And those ENB:s are pretty damn awesome. If your PC can handle it, I'd suggest you take a look. Go to Skyrim Nexus, and search for "ENB".

[Mari]

I'm not a master of conjuration at all (very much a novice even), but dragons aren't that difficult. I play at normal difficulty level.

Yes, I tried all the suggested things. It works now and most crashes happen after a certain flash, so I can save before crashing. Very useful But really, I'm not a big fan of 1 on 1 combat. I prefer to blast them from a distance.

Why is the haggling system ridiculous? I think it's more fair than this system were a potion is worth the same amount everywhere. There is no real demand-supply chain while this was present in Oblivion. It really doesn't matter if I sell a potion in market A or market B in Skyrim.

[Noble Elf Lord]

OK And your mage's level? I always play on Expert, from the beginning till the end.

Hmm... I'm sorry for that. Then again, Elder Scrolls have always had a bit of a tendency to crash... Ye skittish mage, ye! XD My first character in these games is always a jack of all trades - sword, magic and bow. I later create the assassin, mage and *random* types. My current char, Redguard Weapons Master, is quite formidable now, with 77 levels...

But in the haggling, the only thing that defines the price is the skill of the merchant. There are no sales or demands. It's a shame. Fable II, and partially III, did this well. But I get your point.

[Varnafindë]

Happy (belated) Anniversary, Val!

[Noble Elf Lord]

I see... Well, not that long to go...

Thank you! Just water colors and really thin markers Do try.

[Mari]

Has a bit of a modern Japanese feel to it.

[Noble Elf Lord]

Thanks? I think

[Mari]

Hehehe, it just reminds me of those old geisha drawings, but with a modern twist.

[Noble Elf Lord]

You'd know, I'm not so learned in Japanese art...

Hm, been a while since I digested anything here. *has tea and cookies*

Watched A Thousand Words yesterday. Not bad.

[Mari]

I dropped an ikea table on my foot yesterday. That was bad. Can't really walk too much on it now. Never knew those things could be so dangerous

[Noble Elf Lord]

What kind of a table?

Get better!

[Mari]

Those small ones that cost 5 euros :P
I wore shoes today I've been teaching on socks for the past couple of days.

[Earniel]

If it cost 5 euros, it can't have been that big, can it? I was expecting dinner table proportions. That said, even the little ones can be nasty, I expect. My sister broke a foot-bone once by dropping a jar of chocolate paste on it. As often with injuries, she blamed me.

Does the floor in your school have floor heating?

[Rían]

Originally Posted by Eärniel

My sister broke a foot-bone once by dropping a jar of chocolate paste on it. As often with injuries, she blamed me.

Were you fighting her for it?

[Earniel]

Originally Posted by Mari

Yes, but the school floor is too dirty

So it's too dirty for homesocks but not for two pairs of ordinary socks? I like your logic.

Originally Posted by RÃ*an

Were you fighting her for it?

Oh we weren't fighting over it. In those days (welll, still do, really) I ate a lot of chocolate paste so it was kind of my jar. Therefor, if it fell out of the high cupboard, I must have been the one who didn't put it away securily in the first place.