The Future, I had to do it. Options

[Channler]

So I have an invariable amount of time a day to sit down and reflect. And today I sat down at my computer and decided to type in a few letters that haven't graced my computer in a long 2 or 3 years. Morrowind.com

We all know this just leads to the TES main site, but it reminded me, before the release/announcement of Oblivion, the fervor that which I checked those forums every day, and the absolute excitement I received when the Daedric runes came up when I visited the site.

Well I don't know why, but I feel a little bit of that excitement again. I almost feel like I'm about to jump into the goon rush that is the elder scrolls forums and jump into one of those "TESV" threads. Interesting stuff guessing the future.

Anyways so I think I'll be the first to open up with the grossly general question..

What do you hope for, for TESV?

[Gaius Maximus]

In another forum, I was responding to the issue of Speechcraft and mercantile being useless in game, and I think it would be quite nice if these things got included into TES V (highly unlikely).

There should be an economy. This would make living as a merchant much more profitable than a dungeon looter, most likely. It could be somewhat like this - in Anvil, say, silk is cheaper than anywhere else, because there's more of it comming, from other provinces and such. However, in Cheydinhal there's a need for silk. So, if you bouth silk at Anvil and sold it off at Cheydinhal for a higher price - you've got profit. Plus, there should be the options to buy exotic materials through the means of caravans - like, there would be caravans going from Cheydinhal to Morrowind every three months. You could add your own goods to trade, and either order them to be bartered into other stuff which cannot be found in Cyrodiil, or sold. Obviously, you could buy things also.

Eventually, it could maybe be possible to build a ship for yourself, and tax the other merchants who wanted to deliver goods with it, also deliver your own goods (of course, you'd have to pay taxes yourself, as well as payig the crew and the captain, too). Eventually, it could all turn into a large, well-oiled trading empire that brought hundreds of thousands of Septims, also making you a very famous person!

On the other hand, smuggling could be an option too. It would be really risky, though maybe more profitable. Also, whereas honest trading would make you famous, smuggling would probably obviously make you infamous.

Also, maybe it would be possible to open up an inn, which would require both speechcraft (to attract customers and workers) and mercantile (obviously to do business).

Also, to make speechcraft skill better, maybe there should be the option to get into the court of one of the cities, and make your way up to becoming a diplomat, or maybe a herald of the Count of that city. You would be sent with messages, also with secret tasks such as to bribe people in the court of a rival city, which would require high speechcraft.