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Acadian |
Apr 15 2014, 07:23 PM
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Paladin
Joined: 14-March 10
From: Las Vegas
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I'm not familiar with such a mod that, I would imagine, reduces enemy spawn points along the roads. I'm sure there probably are such mods though. I reduce the number of wilderness fights via SubRosa's mod Witchcraft. One of the features of this mod is that wolves, bears, lions, boars and spriggans are not hostile. For RP reasons, we still like to give them a wide berth, but that one mod can significantly reduce 'annoyance' attacks while traveling. I find that mud crabs, imps, trolls, wills, ogres, minotaurs, land dreughs, etc still allow for enough excitement while traveling. In fact, I tweaked SubRosa's mod to render boars once again hostile. Witchcraft is a flawlessly put together mod that has other nice features as well (some bound armors and the ability to summon forest creatures). It is well worth taking a peek at. And, of course, it has the wonderful plus that if you have any questions about it, we have the wonderful authoress of this mod right here at Chorrol!
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haute ecole rider |
Apr 15 2014, 09:16 PM
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Master
Joined: 16-March 10
From: The place where the Witchhorses play
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TIE (Tamriel Immersion Experience) greatly decreases the number of bandits, et al on the roads. I've also noticed the will'o'wisps aren't nearly as aggressive as they are in Julian's story. Whew! All of us - two-legged and four - are very relieved! I also heartily second Acadian's recommendation of Witchcraft. It's a solid mod that plays well with TIE. This post has been edited by haute ecole rider: Apr 15 2014, 09:17 PM
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Acadian |
Apr 18 2014, 07:30 PM
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Paladin
Joined: 14-March 10
From: Las Vegas
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An update on Valenwood Improved (VI) + Elsweyr. As you recall, I'm using the older Elsweyr mod (will change over to Illiana's March 2014 version sometime fairly soon), and also, that the patch between the old Elsweyr mod and VI is no longer available. Well, I'm pretty pleased with VI except for the western portions along the Elsweyr border. As I've gotten further and further into VI, the terrain rips, tears, and mismatched terrain planes are pertty bad. I'd say as much as 20% of Valenwood is unusable due to that. On one hand, the rest of VI looks good and is a pretty nice mod. My real concern, however, is that when back in Elsweyr and looking toward V-wood, those terrain abominations along the border or very visible. That really distracts from the beauty of Elsweyr - well, only if you look to the west. I'm dealing with it for the moment since I'm not done pondering and evaluating and exploring. Once I change over to the new Elsweyr mod, I'll load Elsweyr after VI and evaluate things. My long winded point here, I guess, is that at least with my setup, all is not happy along the Elsweyr/V-Wood border as I had initially reported. Again, I don't know yet how the new Elsweyr mod will fair with VI. If it comes to a choice between the two mods though, that is easy. Elsweyr, at least for me, is hands down the better mod to have. If I do dump VI, I'll go looking for a separate worldspace (like SI uses) mod that provides a more rain forest/jungle feel to go explore.
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ghastley |
Apr 18 2014, 08:47 PM
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Councilor
Joined: 13-December 10
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I think Acadian and I have the same VI.
It's not a mod, it's the beginnings of one. So there's a lot of new territory, but it's not yet properly filled in. Some places are virtual ghost towns, with nobody living in the houses. Some houses have no furniture. However, there are quests and NPC's in parts of the province, and what's there works fairly well. Because it was developed independently, it doesn't mesh with Elsweyr. The patch I have (from Illiana) fixes the border alignment issues Acadian mentioned, but doesn't go any further. There aren't any cross-border quests, for example, except between each province and Cyrodiil. Nothing that uses both Valenwood and Elsweyr.
We've probably mentioned a few of the bugs we found, like unkillable spriggans, and overpowered enemies. I patched my copy to fix them, so I forget they were there. I think I also fixed a multitude of smaller cosmetic things as I came across them, for my own use. I can package up my copy if anyone here wants it, but I can't support someone else's mod.
I also run Shezrie's Towns, and there's one in Valenwood, close to Anvil. I help her patch that for a few land tears etc. that VI caused, and again, I forget what we fixed. That patch is probably still available, but may not be on Nexus.
If I get round to pulling down the latest Elsweyr, I can check if the VI patch still works. If not, I might even rework it myself.
I use Dynamic Maps in my game, and I developed an overlay for each of Elsweyr and Valenwood. I only have one style, and it may not work for everyone. I'm not sure if they're part of the DM package now, from other authors.
Which brings me to the southern part of the map. The Elsweyr mod is strictly Anequina only, and doesn't include the Pellitine cities of Torval and Senchal. So that piece of the landscape only exists in the Valenwood mod, and they didn't get it right. Since all that was needed was a border region near Haven, there's enough to take you over to Duncori, which is as far south as the Elsweyr Anequina mod goes. The peninsula south of that is the wrong shape, and needs reworking before Senchal could be added. Also, Elsweyr Anequina has invisible walls along its borders, which I had to remove by updating Illiana's patch, as she'd left the Torval area walled off.
There was a separate project to create Senchal, (by StarX) and you can still find images of it on the TESAlliance site, IIRC. It was intended to be merged into a composite Elsweyr mod, and someone else was going to do Torval. Rimmen likewise, but it looks like that area was surrendered, and Illiana's got control.
I've held off from making any pieces for my mods that go into Elsweyr or Valenwood, but they have had mentions in some quests. Aranxa was summoned by Altmer conjurers who wanted to mount an attack on Riverwood, but she never left Fort Black Boot. The Mane was to be the assassination target of Enilwen, but she was talked out of going to Torval while she was still in Skingrad. Taminwe goes to Senchal from Leyawiin, while the player stays in Cyrodiil. The only actual cross-border quest was to my own Falkreath, but I was always hoping Elsweyr would be fully released, and I could use it. Maybe that's a bit closer, now that Rimmen's included.
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Mods for The Elder Scrolls single-player games, and I play ESO.
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Acadian |
Apr 19 2014, 08:43 PM
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Paladin
Joined: 14-March 10
From: Las Vegas
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I've deleted Valenwood Improved (VI) from my load. I was willing to tolerate the near empty cities, unfinished building interiors, forests instead of jungle, and land tears that were contained within V-wood.
The mod went on 'probation' though when I saw that the land tears and mismatched terrain planes were quite distracting when looking westerly from Elsweyr. That probably would have ultimately caused me to uninstall it. The patch between the two is no longer available and was made for the older Elsweyr mod anyway.
What caused me to uninstall it however was some excitement earlier today. As Buffy progressed into central V-wood, she began encountering the 'I HAVE NO GREETING' glitch. At first, we attributed it to a problem in central and possibly southern V-wood, since the NPCs in northern V-wood had talked fine. On a whim, however, we popped back to northern V-wood and encountered this new problem there as well. Nervous now, we popped to Anvil and encountered it there! That generated an instant uninstall of VI - which did not solve the new problem in Cyrodiil. What fixed our game was loading an archive save from right before we installed VI.
I'm certainly no whiz with mods, but I know my limitations. VI is not for me. That said, I'm very glad I tried it (and emerged relatively unscathed), since I've been curious about the mod for some time.
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Renee |
Apr 19 2014, 09:18 PM
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Councilor
Joined: 19-March 13
From: Ellicott City, Maryland
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QUOTE(Acadian @ Apr 19 2014, 03:43 PM) I'm certainly no whiz with mods, but I know my limitations. VI is not for me. That said, I'm very glad I tried it (and emerged relatively unscathed), since I've been curious about the mod for some time.
Well if you're giving up, there's no way I'm going in there! That sounds like a broken game waiting to happen, unless you know a lot about fixing things. Which I know less than anybody here, just about. It'll be cool once everything gets ironed out though, eh? How large is VI's landmass? Similar to ES games or smaller or larger? Thanks for the Weye AFK tip, haute.
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Rihanae |
Apr 24 2014, 12:55 PM
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Knower
Joined: 4-March 11
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Sorry I took so long to get here! Renee I am indeed talking about AFK Acadian it's a shame VI wasn't for you. I can't blame you though. I tried it a while back and had the same personal issues with it. It's disappointing because it truly has the makings of a great addition to the world. The description of the mod claims it to be a 'Landscape mod', explaining the lack of interiors... but personally I just think it's laziness to describe it as that when it's clearly just unfinished.
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Renee |
Apr 24 2014, 03:29 PM
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Councilor
Joined: 19-March 13
From: Ellicott City, Maryland
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QUOTE(Rihanae @ Apr 24 2014, 07:55 AM) Renee I am indeed talking about AFK Thank you. So last night I used Camping for the first time holy moly I love that one. I love the fact that there are different levels of campsites (pup tents to caravan-style, fully-enclosed shelters). I am RPing that she can only use a tent if Saga's got a horse to carry it from place to place, and of course since she's not afraid of the elements, she's using the cheapest tent + bedroll we can buy.
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