Not rly. Buying crap load of rings and Soul Gems + What I collected already and enchanting only takes like 10 minutes..But with just that, I can only keep like two-three major cities safe...

How's this for a middle ground? Since NPCs are the vampires' food source, maybe they should feed and put them into a blood-loss coma instead. So a vampire attack would result in:

1) Dead guards - vampires target dangerous respawning NPCs actively and kill them, making subsequent attacks easier if the return before the respawn schedule kicks in
2) Comatose NPCs - the defenseless civilians are fed on (via a script?) and then left to lie where they fell until they recover 24 hours later.

This creates corpses (the guards) which makes subsequent attacks easier until they respawn. The NPCs are put out of commission but not permanently killed, creating a real inconvenience for the player (no merchants, quest-givers, etc. until they wake up) without breaking their game and no need to eliminate the attacks. The stakes aren't quite as high as perma-death, but there's a real motivation to thwart the vampire attacks, and they can go on ad-infinitum without breaking anyone's game. This also makes sense in terms of lore - the vampires won't lose their food source and exterminate every civilian in Skyrim, but they will effectively subjugate them if the attacks go unchecked.

Thoughts?

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Dark Souls is alright but it lacks a lot of the good stuff... The main thing about it is the Combat, that is for sure... But stuff, such as char-creation and lore, is rly lacking... Heck, I think you are force to be a human in Dark Souls, right? Hadn't gotten it cuz don't wanna waste de' money.

the lore is great, have you even bothered to really look into dark souls lore? the creature and world designs are outstanding

I expect removing/reducing this will be one of the first mods to come out - well, maybe after a marriable Serana/hundreds of Serana-related mods. So, as a PC user I'm not too worried about this, but still, it's an issue if its causing this many people to become annoyed, and Beth should probably come up with SOMETHING.

I am lucky to count my self as one of those people that dont have this problem

Up till now. Its never ending don't forget so don't count yourself so lucky yet.

Unless you meant because you don't have the DLC. lol

... Or that you are not bothered about NPC's dying.