Mxy responses to the string of previous posts:
- I'm running my graphics on "Medium," but with a few tweaks to the fade settings (Actor higher, grass lower, and items/objects higher) and I think it looks gorgeous! (When I tried out different settings before it "permanently" screwed up my graphics, so I did a full re-install and left it at the recommended "Medium" setting, and just tweaked the view distances....)
- All I had to do was to "pick up" (click on) the urn for that quest and the owner of it folded ASAP! (I never had to break anything, but I did have to fight one guy tho, I think....)
- There are a LOT of places that you can "fence" items to remove their "stolen" status! (What I don't like: If you have ONE of several duplicate items that is stolen, they ALL show as stolen in your inventory! You have to take them out one at a time and put them in different containers to see which one is stolen!
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- Yeah, I'm on my third horse now.... (WHY DO THEY ATTACK DRAGONS WHEN THEY LAND?!?!) I miss Frost the most.
Gonna wait until I can keep them safer and get Shadowmere then....
- No NPC in the game that's important to another plot line or quest will ever die, unless you've completed all quests that require them. (Hint:
If you know this about some character you can use them to tank for you in a fight!!) I don't think this works for any of the "followers," tho....
- Um, I'm a "save-monger." I'm up to save #1743 right now. (To avoid the sluggishness that comes from having that many saves "active" I regularly move out all but the most recent 20 into a location on another drive, thus also keeping my "C:" drive nice and clean of those "useless" GB of files....) I pretty much save before opening every new door in a dungeon, or sneak around a corner into a boss's room. Saves are cheap. Keeping them around and going back when you need to is NOT, though, as it takes a lot more time sometimes. [Note: I also use saves to "mark" piles of stuff that I want to go back to pick up in dungeons. (Remember: I CLEAN OUT
EVERY DUNGEON!....)]
How do I "mark" stuff, you ask?: I do a save of my character looking at the loot, and write down the save #. Then when I have a "break" in the Skyrim action I'll go back (yes, sometimes I have to pull the "save" from my archive, but NBD there) and "go to" that save, find where it is on my map, then go back to my active game state and go there and pick the stuff up! As a result I own
EVERY PIECE OF DWEMER STUFF I'VE EVER ENCOUNTERED IN THE GAME.
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I also have over 300,000 in gold!
- Ya, early on I gave back the Gold Claw as well, not knowing it was a "key...." But going back and stealing it back was no problem-o, and I can even still do business with those characters!
- The "mask collection" was also in Oblivion (ES IV). I'm glad they used it again!
- When an NPC that I "like" or utilize a lot - like my "follower," Lydia - dies, I go back and do that part over. (Usually this just means telling my follower to "wait" or finding a place further away from everyone else to which I draw the dragon to fight it
) Once I had learned the Dragonrend shout, killing dragons became much more "manageable!"
(FYI: I have 11 more dragon souls than I can use right now!)
Finally: I've just about reached my hoarding goal, so expect an image soon!
