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Posted by: Lena_Wolf May 21 2021, 11:33 PM

Hello all,

Am I the only one to miss dates in the Skyrim journal? We have all those finished quests right there, but there is no indication when those events took place.

I've looked around but didn't find any mods that would add dates to the journal entries. Does anyone know of such a thing? Or have an idea how that could be done? Or even if it is at all possible?

Yes, I do ask the weirdest questions.

Thanks!
Lena

Posted by: Renee May 22 2021, 01:07 AM

Oh, I'm sure I can top you there!

"Are there any mods which make my character do a book-reading animation as I'm reading one of the in-game books?"



"In Oblivion our characters would only level up after sleeping, is there something which makes them level up after sleeping in Skyrim too?"



"Is there anything which makes my character get freaky with an NPC if she's in the mood? Come on, I'm an adult! I can handle it!"
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Anyway, ahem. I haven't heard of a mod which adds dates into the in-game Skyrim journal. But you are right. I've never even noticed dates are no longer displayed for that sort of thing, and I'm the one who's usually pretty obsessed with adding dates into all my writings.

Skyrim has been out for so long now, and it's got the most mods attached to the game by now, so it wouldn't surprise me if somebody has added just what you're looking for, somewhere.

Posted by: Renee May 22 2021, 01:27 AM

Now that I think of it further, I wonder how Bethesda themselves caused dates to appear in all the earlier games? Because when a quest gets completed and moves into the Quests Completed section. This usually happens due to a SetStage command or some sort of variable being set, which are visible I(and changeable, for those who like playing risks) n the Construction Set.

But what's missing is any thing which sets the actual date. There is no SetDateFinished or anything like this. Which makes me think Beth hardcoded the game this way, meaning we don't have immediate access to whatever they did to make dates appear.

So whatever they did in the earlier games, they did not bother with for Skyrim, for whatever reason.

Posted by: Lena_Wolf May 22 2021, 06:44 AM

Thanks, Renee - I suspected as much. So then the way to bring Skyrim events in line with Oblivion in terms of a date, is to ignore the date in Skyrim... since the rest of the game is already ignoring it anyway. Oh well.

Posted by: ghastley May 22 2021, 12:59 PM

They have been getting away from that, because they're not making you do things in a specific order any more. So to avoid arguments about when something is "supposed to" happen, it all happens at the same time. We've been playing ESO for seven years, and it's still 2E582 even though the in-game clock runs three times as fast as the real one.

When you wake up, it all seems like just yesterday...

Posted by: Lena_Wolf May 22 2021, 01:32 PM

I suppose if many players are making use of the same world at the same time, you don't have a choice but let go of time... Argonians were right all along.

Posted by: Lopov May 22 2021, 06:19 PM

There are mods for both of these, here's the link to https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/32357. There used to be one for the standard edition as well.

And here's one https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/17559 but there are more out there. I used some mod in my Skyrim where reading animations were a part of a larger mod that added lots of other real-time animations. But that was before the disk crash and I don't remember the name of the mod anymore.

Posted by: Renee May 22 2021, 11:50 PM

By the Gods, good work, Lopov! So my wacky book-reading idea has been done by somebody. That's more of a surprise than the sleep one, but they're both surprises for sure.

Posted by: macole May 23 2021, 07:17 AM

Yes there is.