» Sat Aug 25, 2012 1:23 am this is my first time posting on a Bethesda forums or any forums site at all for the most part. For the past couple of months I have been sending Bethesda some suggestions for Skyrim DLC and or improvements as well as ideas for future games on their site at gamesas.com on their contact page where you can make suggestions. I have been sending these suggestions to them in bundles filled with ideas and while it seems that they have been paying attention to them, as they make known to us their own ideas list, I would like to start posting them here just to make sure I'm getting their attention and more specifically to get some feedback from any of you.
Now some of these ideas have probably been thought up already but tell me what you think of them. Here is the first list I sent them:
(I saved all of my suggestions in case someone from the company responded to me)
Skyrim Ideas 1
Hello, I am a huge fan of the elder scrolls five Skyrim game and I have a few things for you to consider if you wish. Have you ever thought of creating more unique suits of armor that cannot necessarily be found anywhere and or armors that are more simple or complex? Also what about creating many more available suits of armor than just what you have as, perhaps, bonus armor that becomes available at the same time that certain armor types become available? How about even being able to take different armor pieces as specifically broken down in a list that would include pauldrons, ciurass-front and back, gauntlets, faud and tasset, belt, greaves, helmet, cape or cloak, hood or no hood. With this list players would be able to choose what pieces to connect from different sets and styles of armor with the ability to choose what materials or metal base each piece would be fashioned out of, via steel ingots, ebony, dwarven metal, iron, etc, so that in the end the player comes out with his/her own unique set of armor. Also, I for one think it would be great to be able to color your armor based on metal variations and armor dyes as well as being able to chose what type of fabric your clothes could be fashioned out of. Consider taking roughly the same approach with being able to make clothes. Now that, I think, is a little more complex but what you could do is give us a fairly large variety of different cloth and draqe styles as either full outfits and or broken down into parts including tops, bottoms, neck wear, back wear, shoulder addons and such things of that nature. Furthermore, it would be good to take into account the ability to color your clothes and have clothing that you can wear over your armor such as with robes or cloaks. Also consider all of these things with weapons as well.
For one thing I really appreciated the amellion armor in Oblivion, though it was just the ebony armor arrayed as refined steel it was unique and you could possibly be the only one wearing it. When I looked into the morrowind armor, weapon and clothing sets I was astounded by how much variety there was. I would like to see concepts like that brought back into the elderscrolls world.
This might seem like a lot but its been on my mind for quite some time and I would like for all of the truly great minds at Bethesda to give this some thought. Mods are great but to be able to do things akin to what was explained above within the world itself, it would greatly expand the world and the player's experience within the world. Also you might want to think about being able to build your own houses. After all you came so close to it already when you included lumberjacks and watermills, I don't understand why it was that you didn't just go the distance with it. Would it not have seemed to fit right into the Nordic way of "living off of the land"? How about cutting down trees as well?
