The Elder Scrolls Megathread XVII: Paid Mods? Not in My Community. - Games

Does anyone have a solution to the ambient audio lines from NPCs cutting out? All of the solutions I can find all have to do with having a Realtek sound card, which I don't have.

[QUOTE=bdd458;47645069]Does anyone have a solution to the ambient audio lines from NPCs cutting out? All of the solutions I can find all have to do with having a Realtek sound card, which I don't have.[/QUOTE] I'd like to know as well, cause I've had this problem for ages and it's terribly annoying.

I think my windhelm is now going to be eternally broken because I'm in the middle of battle for windhelm and it's completely broken, after a short time the storm cloaks just stop spawning and if I go into the throne room I get locked in and tullius never shows up to confront ulfric.

I finished the battle of Windhelm just yesterday, killed Mr. U and his bitch and then when Big-T and Rikke-sis were going to have the speech I got the brilliant idea of stealing all the food. Took a sweetroll and got a bounty. A imperial soldier comes rushing in with his sword drawn and walks up to me. "Oh boy, here we go..." I thought to which he responded with "I FEEL SO ALIVE" "Good to have you with us!" "Thanks for your help!" "Couldn't have done this without you!" I exit the hall and listen to Tullius's speech, behind me is said guard who keeps following me. During the entire speech he kept spamming all the victory voice-lines. After the speech I run out of the city and attempt to fast travel. "You cannot fast travel while a guard is trying to arrest you." What guard? I look around. I hear a muffled "I FEEL SO ALIVE" from the gate, then another "I FEEL SO ALIVE!" as he runs across the bridge untill he yells "I FEEL SO ALIVE!" for the third time, standing next to me. Relaod auto-save.

I know nobody gives a toss about Oblivion anymore, but I recently picked up modding again. Anyone remember when I said I was trying to expand the Imperial City? No? Yeah, I don't blame you, it was a long time ago. Anyhow, I really, [I]really[/I], [b]desperately[/b] need ideas for worthwhile things to put in. I have ideas, like a Federal district for miscellaneous government buildings, diplomatic districts, ethnic districts like Little Elsweyr, an Imperial Bath, and an "undercity" (if any of you played ICEXPAND, the concept's exactly identical except I'm trying to flesh mine out a bit more and add more stuff to it), but I really need more ideas for districts and just things in general to put in: quests, locations, factions, people, [I]anything[/I]. Just to prove I'm actually working on it this time, here's some incredibly-early-alpha-everything's-very-WIP-and-subject-to-change-please-don't-hurt-me screenshots: [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34159811/pics/mod/oblivion/ISLEU/battalioncirclewest00.PNG[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34159811/pics/mod/oblivion/ISLEU/boulevarddivinesentr00.PNG[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34159811/pics/mod/oblivion/ISLEU/cliffdistrict00.PNG[/t] If anyone has literally any ideas for anything to put in, please please tell me. Also if you want, I'm always in the mood for C&C but keep in mind that I'm not even remotely close to done yet with this. But, yes, ideas, need lots of them, absolutely no wrong answers! :v: [editline]poop[/editline] By the way, the only wrong answers in this case are anything that directly modifies any of the vanilla districts, I'm trying to make it compatible with Better Cities and a few other mods and I also really don't want to muck around too much with that stuff.

The waterfront district could use expanding. For the Capital of an Empire, 2 ships at some shabby port aren't exactly fitting. [editline]2nd May 2015[/editline] also don't worry man I still love oblivion <3

maybe some kind of artisan district? like where all the poets and painters and sander cohen types live. i think you could do some cool stuff with the visuals (like the buildings are covered in graffiti or something) and get a quest or two out of that. i haven't played oblivion in like six years so i don't remember if there's already a place like that or not

Some bathing district perhaps? We've only got ponds. I'm thinking Roman bathhouses or shit like that. You generally could read up on rome or ancient greece, since it's one of the Empires inspirations.

[QUOTE=proch;47645697]The waterfront district could use expanding. For the Capital of an Empire, 2 ships at some shabby port aren't exactly fitting. [editline]2nd May 2015[/editline] also don't worry man I still love oblivion <3[/QUOTE] As I said, vanilla districts are hands-off for the most part... that said, I can't modify the Waterfront itself but maybe I could expand it outwards... In the worst case, if its any consolation, I'm trying to build underground canals that go through most of the Imperial City (you can kinda almost see one of them on the far right side of the Waterfront shot), with docks inside them, so there's definitely going to be attention brought to that. I most definitely agree that the Waterfront was very, very sad. [QUOTE=Cone;47645802]maybe some kind of artisan district? like where all the poets and painters and sander cohen types live. i think you could do some cool stuff with the visuals (like the buildings are covered in graffiti or something) and get a quest or two out of that. i haven't played oblivion in like six years so i don't remember if there's already a place like that or not[/QUOTE] I was going to do something like that, but the graphiti thing sounds interesting, I'll try my best! [QUOTE=proch;47645847]Some bathing district perhaps? We've only got ponds. I'm thinking Roman bathhouses or shit like that. You generally could read up on rome or ancient greece, since it's one of the Empires inspirations.[/QUOTE] Oh yeah, I was going to make a very large, sprawling bathing house. It was going to be the size of the Arcane University from the overworld but stretch further underground. I was planning on it almost being like a labyrinthine, with a few quests inside to boot. And by the way thanks so much for helping me out guys! Keep the ideas coming!

If it doesn't already exist, some sort of larger, expanded Legion Headquarters would be radical. The actual Legion HQ in game is pretty out of the way, easy to miss, and from what I'm reading, small and underpopulated. Something more grand, with soldiers training and things like that, would be radical.

[QUOTE=Fhenexx;47645899]quote[/QUOTE] Perhaps make an entirely new Port district? Honestly the current Waterfront looks more like a Fort, you could try making it even more so, while adding an actual port adjacent to it, or somewhere else entirely. [editline]2nd May 2015[/editline] There's quite a lot of unused space on the north-western part of the Imperial City island, what are you planning to do with that? [editline]2nd May 2015[/editline] ref: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/qq70Hxg.jpg[/IMG]

Ok there's a flyable X-Wing mod for skyrim I can die happy knowing that the Rebels and Empire are fighting over Nirn, at least in my game :v

[t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/535143971121041267/1861E134C411FF644E5C26086F94F1F139D9E4AF/[/t] you're shitting me

jesus christ im sick of mod organizer moving around my files in the skyrim data folder mod organizer has a feature that moves any files that are not registered with mod organizer into the overwrite folder, so the creation kit cant find them anymore

Don't launch creation kit via Mod Organizer; do it via steam or straight from the directory

[QUOTE=proch;47645962] There's quite a lot of unused space on the north-western part of the Imperial City island, what are you planning to do with that?[/QUOTE] Huge walled in area. Currently what's planned there is the Legion Headquarters, Diplomat's Row (all the embassies and stuff), the Federal (for lack of a better word) District, and an area called The Sinkhole directly underneath one of the areas (it's where Sinkhole Cave is, I have to move it somewhere so it's becoming part of its own little district). There's still a few partions not filled in (it's identical to how the Imperial City is partitioned off, except two areas are smaller), so there's plenty of room for other things. There's also a similar area that's off to the East between the Arcane University and the Prison. Most of the areas outside these walled-in areas are completely open, especially the island. At risk of spoiling the ~magic~, here's a map of how I plan on doing this all. Note that most of the locations are subject to change: [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/34159811/pics/mod/oblivion/ISLEU/ICurbanmap.png[/t] Basically anywhere that isn't labelled or partitioned out I don't really know what to do with, which is why I need so many ideas.

Just finished installing my new rig. Time to go back to Skyrim, now with more ENBs and facemelting horrible presets. I'm going to grab the first preset I get and use it regardless of quality. [editline]2nd May 2015[/editline] [url]http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/65406/?[/url] Ooooh yeah this is going to be a good one

Who actually [URL="http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Japhet%27s_Journal"]writes[/URL] something like "OH GODS HELP ME" in their journal as they're about to be killed? Isn't that time better spent preparing for the attack or finding a good weapon? I don't think your journal is going to send for backup. [editline]asdf[/editline] [video=youtube;XiT_5cr3tYI]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiT_5cr3tYI[/video]

[QUOTE=Vehk;47646457]Who actually [URL="http://uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Japhet%27s_Journal"]writes[/URL] something like "OH GODS HELP ME" in their journal as they're about to be killed? Isn't that time better spent preparing for the attack or finding a good weapon? I don't think your journal is going to send for backup. [editline]asdf[/editline] [/QUOTE] Wasn't he just a nutter?

jesus h christ [t]http://i1265.photobucket.com/albums/jj518/Gilbert5866/Skyrim%20VFNO/ScreenShot197_zpsyc1uusdf.png[/t] [t]http://i1265.photobucket.com/albums/jj518/Gilbert5866/Skyrim%20VFNO/ScreenShot760_zpslm2d2yjj.png[/t] I don't know what the fuck is going on but according to /tesg/ a guy on LL spent three years turning every female NPC into these abominations

[QUOTE=UzumakaiPatch;47646576]Wasn't he just a nutter?[/QUOTE] Well I doubt he just starved to death in that room, considering the panicky bit is the last entry. I dunno, it doesn't really make much sense. He probably was just a nutter.

[QUOTE=UntouchedShadow;47616076]If I recall correctly, it's a short walk from the Whiterun stables in the direction of Whiterun's guard tower, where you fight your first dragon. It's just the big open field area.[/QUOTE] So I only just now got around to launching Skyrim again, and uh it's not there. i did however find this throne just chillin' on a rock out there [t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/719791555838306696/52C4DB920740D44237274F50436102335634CA6F/[/t] anyway, Pastaspace, could I get the RefID so I can just moveto it? Again, I'm at a serious disadvantage here because I have no fucking idea what to look for (you clearly based this on bad mods, and since I don't play bad mods I don't have that intuition). Also here's a screenshot of the quest's sqv output just in case there's something wrong with my copy of the mod: [t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/719791555838307056/9F5DDDBED2264C89DF1DFC267A7C545E4DCBEFCF/[/t]

[QUOTE=Blooper Reel;47646042]Don't launch creation kit via Mod Organizer; do it via steam or straight from the directory[/QUOTE] Yeah I launch it from steam. The probably actually was the creation kit moving around my files. It moved around my dialogue branch files because for whatever reason my follower now has a new master file that I don't want so I guess the creation kit thinks it's a new file and the dialogue trees don't exist anymore.

so i remembered the "save" command had an option to generate a text file from a save, and i used that to get the RefID it turns out we have nobody to blame but Bethesda, because the game's refusing to even render the model. no fucking wonder I couldn't find it :v: i knew it wasn't pasta's fault, i just didn't know it wasn't my fault either

[B]SKY LADIES - THE [I]ULTIMATE [/I]BEAUTY OVERHAUL [/B][t]http://static-5.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/65350-4-1430555678.jpg[/t] eugh [t]http://static-5.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/65350-1-1430553773.jpg[/t] oh god please tell me that's not an enb [t]http://static-5.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/65350-3-1430553773.jpg[/t] please let it just be awful editing [t]http://static-5.nexusmods.com/15/mods/110/images/65350-2-1430555737.jpg[/t] PLEASE

[QUOTE=_charon;47617765]At least a few of the other Khajiit races, pls. I want to play as a ginormous cat-man. Also ESO introduced nagas as a race that may or may not be a breed of Argonians, though I'm not sure if you see them ingame. Not sure what one would ever be doing outside of Black Marsh, but damnit I want to play as a snake-carp-man too. [t]http://dulfy.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/eso-murkmire-adventure-zone-4.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] before people shout muh lore they were first mentioned and described in oblivion.

I don't think people shout "muh lore" too much in this thread anyways. Besides, "lore" has almost lost all meaning for TES since Nexus started being obsessed with the term "lore-friendly". Everything including hair retexture mods has that slapped on it now. There are dozens of books about hair care in TES, after all.

Ok here's a write up of what I've been doing in Skyrim. Firstly, I fixed that weird freezing I have it down to being either Frostfall or Realsitic Needs and Diseases, so I've just disabled them both because I feel weird not having them both on at the same time. So I started up a new character, the lore breaking one picture earlier in Stormtrooper armor. Her name is Cassandra, and she's a member of the Imperial Remnant (Hell if I'm killing lore I might as well use Star Wars EU that's no longer canon), and one day things went to shit. She was supposed to jump to lightspeed like usual, but when she did she was near Nirn. Things were looking grim. She landed in Skyrim, near the border crossing. It was there she was captured by Imperial forces of a different kind, stripped of all possessions, which were sold off. Helgen attack yada yada yada. Escapes Helgen with Ralof and makes her way to Riverwood. It's there she finds her armor and weapons, and a traveling companion: Hjromir. Hjromir has a bad habit of fucking whatever he is doing up, and Riverwood was glad to no longer have to deal with him. Cassandra then recieves a letter from "old friends" who want her to chase some riddles for a home. She takes carriages to many of these places but then gets fucking fed up with it and starts flying around. Near the last one, she discovers that there are 2 Frost Dragons and an Imperial Garrison at the border gate. She kills them all using "magic" called "Ch-Eat". After that she goes to this home, which she was mistakenly invited to since she had never been in Skyrim before (dumb ass courier). She enters and realizes its a nice house but that it's missing an EXTREMELY important feature - FUCKING MANNEQUINS. Oh she is livid. So livid in fact that she goes to [url]www.nexusmods.com/skyrim[/url] to download "Dovahkiin's Hideout Continued" because she knows for a fact that it has mannequins. BUUUUT She needs a house to be able to gain access to the hideout, that's when she remembers a home in Whiterun is for sale and she should honestly go there and tell the Jarl about the Dragons because she did sorta promise someone she would do that. She gets back to Whiterun, runs into Dragonreach HOPING to be able to buy that house right away. Of course she fucking can't, everyone else is too fucking busy with their dumbass dragon problem. Oh, and Hjromir is still there, with the custom crafted Snow Trooper armor made for him by Cassandra. So the Jarl leads her to this dumb mystic elf dude and he tells her to go to Bleak Falls Barrow. And she does, CONSIDERING SHE HAD ALREADY BEEN THERE FOR ONE OF THOSE DUMBASS HOUSE RIDDLES. Not inside of course. So she ventures back and goes in, blaster in hand. Tearing through bandit and dragur flesh with ease. She even gets a "Golden Claw". Hjromir isn't very smart and gets stuck on a trap for a while where he gets whacked in the front by lots of spikes, and gets caught in the axe trap. But, Hjromir didn't have much longer to live. In a narrow corridor where there was oil on the ground, and flaming pots above, Cassandra fired at the pots. They fell, catching the oil on fire and killing the Dragur. Hjromir being an overzealous, and quite frankly shit warrior charged in as she was firing. He died of severe burns. With her Grappling Hook, Casandra picked his body up and continued on through the dungeon. She eventually made it to the end, saw some weird word shit, and is now on her way to Riverwood to give Hjromir a proper warrior's burial at the funeral pyre.

I think we need to build our text walls even stronger. Don't want Stormcloaks or giants breaching our thread!

[QUOTE=Blooper Reel;47646029][t]http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/535143971121041267/1861E134C411FF644E5C26086F94F1F139D9E4AF/[/t] you're shitting me[/QUOTE] Please tell me that this is vanilla.