I just come out of my house in Solitute and a master vampire starting massacaring everybody.I tried to save all the people three but they still died!

If you side with the Dawnguard its added so they won't be irrelevant.

if you side with the Vampires..they only attack the roads and are friendly to you..or well they are to me.

just bad luck try to reload a save when your in the house and wait about 12 am I think about almost ever npc is sleep and see what happens

Three people = everybody?

Actually, as a Vampire player, I find I'm also beset by random vampire attacks. I assumed they were envoys of the two potential usurpers.

I mean three named npc, Jorn, Vivienne keep getting her head chop off and the guy from hammerfall

My character hasn't even started the Dawnguard Questline yet.

I'm level 8 and on my way back to the Mage's College after completing some 'fetch' quests.

I stopped in Whiterun to flog some gear and stay at the Inn.

I get outside and there's a Vampire Massacre going on.

They killed the Woman who runs the Blacksmiths on your right as you enter the city.

Now I know I can still go inside and buy weapons from the guy... but she was like a feature of Whiterun?!?!?!

Did the developers want the Vampires to be so robust in their attacks?

If important salesepeople are going to be killed on by Vampire attrition is there anyone going to take their place?

This is the first time I would have described an Elder Scrolls game as "annoying".

(Well apart from 80 hours into "Morrowind" when I discovered I could progress no further in joining House Telvanni because I'd killed Balados for his 'Shiny Coat').

Az

Yeah I lost the female blacksmith to so I had to reload and act quicker. So far its only been the one attack.

She my fav blacksmith... I buy and sell everything to her! Thats not good.

should have learn healing hands mage jk I find it annoying sometimes but its keep me on my toes and I like that

I've yet to run into this problem but so far reloading to a previous save works wonders. What I would do is either reload a autosave that was in an interior and wait until midnight or if you fast travel and a vampire attack randomly happens then I suggest reloading to the previous auto-save and choosing a location close to a village and walk/ride there.

I reloaded to a previous save and to be safe, just bought from the Khajit carravan outside and didn't enter the town.

I still wonder if they could have coded these attacks better.

Az

Well if there was no danger to the attacks what would be the point?

There is not "danger" from the attacks.

Just the potential to kill shopkeepers who are useful.

I see what you mean. I just don't see how it applies here unless the developers have coded it so that someone will eventually take their place.

Az

In this case I doubt it as there is already someone there to take her place.If both shopkeepers die then i assume so.

All the vampires for me are still hostile, and they do attack cities...but I have yet to see anyone get killed by the attacking vampires. I believe the reason they're supposed to be hostile is that they are not "pure" vampires, and are basically just blood-starved beasts who kill everything near them. Similarly, those side quests you can do for Fura Bloodmouth to go kill some vampires somewhere who are drawing too much attention to themselves - those are generally master vampires, and they are hostile.

Well apparently on my game people can get killed while I'm not even there...went into the battle-borns house and found idolaf as a pile of ash...

This is my question too. I lost the "Pawn" salesman in Whiterun and it has been over 8 in game days and no one has open the shop, it's still locked. I thought this "Radiant" AI was supposed to have people take over stores and stuff.

Lol happened to me in Riften however everybody was just scrambled in one big messy battle that I couldn't tell who was who so I accidently ended up killing citizens too

They need to fix this ASAP.

Yeah, I don't understand why Bethesda is so obsessed with the idea that there has to be all these commonly-recurring events that ensure that there will pretty much ALWAYS will be tons of unavoidable collateral damage at some point in your game. These types of events effectively punish you for playing the game, as these events tend to do annoying things like kill irreplaceable merchant and quest-giving NPCs, generally leaving the player with no choice in the matter but watch everybody die in the background while you try and fight the enemies, of whom in these types of events rarely ever focus on the player until all nearby NPCs are dead. These vampire attack events sound worse than the dragon attacks, as they can go indoors, too, and it seems as if they are practically guaranteed to kill somebody, meaning if you play the game long enough, you'll likely reach a point in which there are no non-essential or respawning NPCs left in any of the towns, which anyone could see as a major problem.

Also, may I ask why exactly vampires are invading the cities and massacring everybody? I mean, it sounds pretty counterproductive for vampires to exterminate their own food supply.

Some towns in Skyrim are very small.

they aren't necessarily aligned with Harkon so it's possible they heard that vamps were takin [censored] over and went a little crazy, the vamps aren't as coordinated as one might think

Well, I think it would make a little more sense if the vampires would be targeting guards specifically, if they were to attack towns at all. Maybe these vampires are just stupid and shortsighted.

this.

Because Its a vampire apocalypse.