I just started, basically running around.
Went through a dungon, collected me some $1,787 in gold.

What can I store/stash it?
Or spend it?

I would really like to stash it somewhere.

What's your build?

quote Originally posted by BlackEmrald: What's your build?

I don't remember.
I think I am a Warror.

I built it months ago, but just got around to playing.

Well you don't really need to stash it.
build up your smithing skill and start making things. Buy components and sell the weapons.
Pick up every plant you find and sell in the next town. Free money.
After you finish the white run quests you will get the chance to buy a house.
Once you have a house you can store the things you don't want to sell.

Stop going out at night and during storms
Honestly the vanilla Skyrim is bland, there are mods that will make it better by bumping up the colors.

quote Originally posted by Boondawg: Went through a dungon, collected me some $1,787 in gold. What can I store/stash it? Or spend it?

Weren't you recently looking for a new TV?

P.S. I just found that horse standing in the woods.

Well if you need gear, head to solitude or my personal favorite city- Markarth. Dwarven armor/weapons/metal galore

Until you buy a house, any place you "stash" something may not be there when you come back.
You should have made friends with someone who helped you escape Helgen. You can dump stuff at their place until you get a house.

If you want to mod the game, there are tons of graphics mods to make it a much more beautiful world, especially in the Rift. (South East, towards Riften)

There are traders in every city. You can trade at general stores, blacksmiths, alchemists and with court wizards in each hold's castle. There are other scattered merchants as well.

Until you get a house, you can try stashing in certain spots but it disappears sometimes. I would only carry enough to sell off again at the next town, and if I really had some good stuff, would stash it only while I went to town and sold some to come back and repack my bag.

You sell stuff with merchants in town. Play around, you'll figure it out.

You could be spending all your extra $$$ on ability trainers to level up. The higher your level, the cooler and more specialized the spells, receive more difficult and lucrative quests, etc.

I regularly train. Likewise, if you want to increase your enchanting, blacksmithing, alchemy ability, start buying the ingrediants you need to make stuff. Start your own business in skyrim, build expensive items, sell them and re-up your supplies. Pretty soon you will own the world.

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quote Originally posted by tbone42: You could be spending all your extra $$$ on ability trainers to level up. The higher your level, the cooler and more specialized the spells, receive more difficult and lucrative quests, etc. I regularly train. Likewise, if you want to increase your enchanting, blacksmithing, alchemy ability, start buying the ingrediants you need to make stuff. Start your own business in skyrim, build expensive items, sell them and re-up your supplies. Pretty soon you will own the world.

Yup. Making Iron Daggers is probably the fastest/cheapest way to build up your smithing skill. Good smithing means you can sell the stuff you make for more $$$ as well as have better stuff for yourself.

Alchemy can make some serious coin once you learn a few good recipes. Grab everything you can find and if it's an alchemical ingredient, eat it to find out a property. Once I learned how to make paralysis, slow, sneak and invisibility potions, money was easy. Low on cash, go foraging and cha-ching!

That all sounds really good.
Thanx!

P.S. When I go clear out a dungon and come back out, my horse is gone.
How do I tie him down?

If you buy a horse it will follow you just about everywhere you go. Get into modding, it makes the game sooooo much better.

I'm sometimes amazed at how much has been created in these virtual worlds, and how millions of people spend so much time in them. With all the planning and depth and complexity...You'd think we could somehow figure of some the RL problems... I swear, some folks act worse than third rate programmed NPCs... like they have the intelligence level of the old doom-era games...
or the cows in minecraft.

Why did they choose such a "grey" palette for Skyrim? Not sure if it's even the palette , or just that things seem "washed out"?


Like her face... looks grey...

I'm not knocking it...

Here's what mods can do:



Good ENB settings:

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quote Originally posted by Boondawg: That all sounds really good. Thanx! P.S. When I go clear out a dungon and come back out, my horse is gone. How do I tie him down?

Did you just steal the horse? If you buy the horse, it should be with you pretty much wherever you go. Every time you fast travel he/she will follow. I just use Shadowmere, a horse gained through a quest.

quote Originally posted by TheDigitalAlchemist: I'm sometimes amazed at how much has been created in these virtual worlds, and how millions of people spend so much time in them. With all the planning and depth and complexity...You'd think we could somehow figure of some the RL problems... I swear, some folks act worse than third rate programmed NPCs... like they have the intelligence level of the old doom-era games... or the cows in minecraft. Why did they choose such a "grey" palette for Skyrim? Not sure if it's even the palette , or just that things seem "washed out"? Like her face... looks grey... I'm not knocking it...

Boonie took a screenshot at night, and yours is just a bland area. People are dirty and different colors. Some are not as greyed out as others.

In nature, the colors pop out a bit more, but overall, it's not supposed to be a vibrant happy place, but more a sad, dreary place under siege by dragons. One scene in particular gets two conflicting emotions down really well:



It is a beautiful area, but is home to a dead race, and with the fog and lack of sound you find yourself awed by what's around you, but freaked out at what could be right next to you.

I guess what I'm trying to say is, colors were chosen for tone. The color chosen for different areas provides a different tone for the player.

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yes, it's a grey world, by and large, about like fallout3. very grey. but there are mods.

http://skyrim.nexusmods.com
Best place to get mods, large community and has been around for a long time.

This was posted a little while ago... What Skyrim looks like with 100 mods.
http://kotaku.com/5961994/w...ing-100-mods-at-once

quote Originally posted by Fiero_Fan_88: This was posted a little while ago... What Skyrim looks like with 100 mods. http://kotaku.com/5961994/w...ing-100-mods-at-once

Holy cow! That looks amazing!

And this:



I'll probably get a gaming computer eventually. My laptop can't even run Skyrim without mods haha.

I'm confused.
There is a mod for different sections of the game?
1 for people, 1 for weapons, 1 for each town, etc. etc. etc.?

So, for the game to look really good, you need to download and install 100 graphics mods?

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If your bored boonie you could try to find the talking dog Barbas.. I think he's roaming the roads outside Falkreath i believe, talk to people in falkreath and one will tell you about a wild dog roaming the roads, after that go outside of town and you should spot him nearby.. When you find him he will just talk too you, he's pretty funny actually, talks with a Jersey accent sorta.. He will give you a quest to reunite him with his master (one of Oblivions demon overlords) and you get a legendary unique mace weapon for doing it.. You can do the quest anytime you wish, and the dog will just follow you around until you decide to do it.. He will attack enemys too, but doesnt do much damage but he can soak up alot of damage making him a good meat shield for you when you get in large battles. He does not count as a follower either so you can still bring someone else with you. Its more fun having your own pooch with you on your adventure.. And if you ever get tired of him, do his quest, then get a really nice rare magic mace.. The story around his quest is really funny too.

As for the mods boonie, there are lots of them for lots of different things.. Some a mods too improve the graphics (which you usually need some beefy hardware to use) or some are new or modded weapons, even smaller things like new "skins" textures, skys, buildings, some even add extra dungeons and towns.. Just mix and match what you like, but be careful as some mods are not compatable with others, read the info on them to find out.

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quote Originally posted by Boondawg: I'm confused. There is a mod for different sections of the game? 1 for people, 1 for weapons, 1 for each town, etc. etc. etc.? So, for the game to look really good, you need to download and install 100 graphics mods?

There's an entire community of people who have made mods of just about everything. You don't need to install 100 graphics mods.
The easiest way is to log into the Steam Workshop and check out the mods available. Then you just click "subscribe" to add it to your Skyrim install.

First, get the HD Texture Pack. (listed under DLC for the game - official Bethesda update, not a user created mod)
You might also look at WATER (something like Water and Terrain Environment Revamp, etc. ) It has a lot of beautification mods all together.
I'd also recommend,
"Complete Skyforge" (adds a smelter and tanning rack to the Skyforge.)
"Follower Map Markers" (lets you get map markers for your followers so you can find them when you get separated)

I'll look at my install and see what I have later. I have about 50-60 mods running. Most are little tweaks that stand alone. Some add player houses, some are minor bug fixes, etc.

You can download lots more from the Skyrim Nexus (links to some above), including adult oriented mods, but those you have to typically install manually. The ones on the Steam Workshop are 1 click installs, and can be just as easily removed.

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quote Originally posted by Fiero_Fan_88: This was posted a little while ago... What Skyrim looks like with 100 mods.

That's beautiful stuff!

100 mods active in Nexus Mod Manager, most complement other mods and are just small tweaks that make the game better.
I have that many again that are disabled but I keep them ready incase I want to try something new.
I also have 7 steam mods subscribed so total 107 mods and can play for hours and not have any crashing or performance issues.

A good CPU is as important as a good Video card. I have enough ram that I dont have to run a swap file so no disk swapfile.

For your amusement - The Elder Strolls, aka the Life and Times of an NPC.

The Elder Strolls, Part 1: Fresh Off The Boat
The Elder Strolls, part 2: That Sinking Feeling
The Elder Strolls, Part 3: Off to Meet the Blizzard
The Elder Strolls, Part 4: Nordrick the Envious
The Elder Strolls, Part 5: Spring Break
The Elder Strolls, Part 6: A Wolf Pack of One
The Elder Strolls, Part 7: Homeless Romantic
The Elder Strolls, Part 8: A Mammoth Decision
The Elder Strolls, Part 9: Groom and Gloom
The Elder Strolls, Part 10: The Pale Horse

I now suffer from the same thing other players have expirienced.......random CTD's (Crash To Desktop).
I have tried a few of the 20 or so "fixes"......nothing working yet.

Even starting with a fresh install, no mods, and graphics settings manipulated in every posable way.
Sometimes an hour, sometimes a minute.
Crash-a-roonie.

Aggravating.

The only time that's happened to me is when I had mods that were conflicting.
If I had a mod set to unsubscribe, but tried to load it, that would cause a crash. I've also had corrupt game saves cause crashes. Load from an earlier save game and it worked fine.

Are you running any sort of overclock on your video card, Boonie? I know my GTX 470 used to have crashes to desktop even at a mild overclock unless I had my fans forced to run at near full speeds. The stock Nvidia fan profile was apparently not aggressive to deal with the demand the game put on my video card. Just an idea....

For comparison, my ATI 6950 runs 70-75°C with the factory fan profile. I changed it to ramp up the fan speed faster. A bit more noise, but a lot cooler.

quote Originally posted by Boondawg: I now suffer from the same thing other players have expirienced.......random CTD's (Crash To Desktop). I have tried a few of the 20 or so "fixes"......nothing working yet. Even starting with a fresh install, no mods, and graphics settings manipulated in every posable way. Sometimes an hour, sometimes a minute. Crash-a-roonie. Aggravating.

http://code.google.com/p/be...ion-sorting-software
Use Boss It will help fix your load order and help with mod related issues.

If you continue to crash try going into steam and right click on your game
Go to the local tab and run verify integrity of game cache
If you want to totaly reset your game you can use the delete local game content button but you will have to down load everything again so dont do that unless you have to.

It could be some left over part of a mod that when the game loads it you CTD verify the game files and if you have to you can reset.

When I change body types I reset my game cache just to clear out any old files then use NMM to reload each one.
If you load a lot of mods that over write each other its a good idea to group them together by adding something to the first part of the name. Like Body 1, Body 2, etc... you get the idea. That way if you do reload your cache you know what order to reload your mods.
If you are manualy updating your game I cant help with that, have been using NMM for years and before that OMOD for Oblivion, I believe they even had one for Morrowind

Good luck Dovahkiin we are counting on you

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They even have mod managers for the fallout games. Thanks to this thread I started replaying Skyrim with all the mods I added. I made sure it all worked and.. forgot about the game. >.>

Yeah, I found the problem.

It's either Antilising or Anastropic Filtering.
With both turned off in game, it works fine at all graphics settings & resolutions.

I will be digging deeper and expirimenting to tie down exactly which it is and why.

Download hearthfire and invest it in a house.

Damn, the last Elder Scrolls game I played looked like this:

That looks too crude to even be daggerfall. Must be the 1st one.. I never played that one.

I might have posted these before. If so, sorry for the repost, but with Boonie's journey to Skyrim, I thought they would be appropriate.




(The original caption I came up with, but I like the one below better.)




This sums up my Skyrim experience.

BTW "Solstice01" is my XBL acct name.

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