Would anyone else want to see actual jobs? I know you can chop wood and stuff, etc. But I think it would be cool if we could jobs you HAD to show up for. You got salaries and stuff. It would also be cool to own businesses and be able to build your own headquarters and cities. I am on the 360 by the way.

One such job could be blacksmith something along the lines of this. "I need two sets of imperial armour in the next 48 hours and you will be payed X amount"

Not really, I like the idea of becoming a blacksmith for coin (which you can already do anyway basically) but having to actually turn up for work everyday seems like a pointless addition. Just roleplay if you want that, I do sometimes with woodcutting. Building your own cities is never going to happen, it's ridiculously optimistic, of course it would be cool but other than modding there's no way that feature is ever going to make it into vanilla Skyrim. Own businesses would be nice, especially if the merchant who previously owned it has died (particularly blacksmiths in dragon attacks !!), makes a use of the place rather than it just sitting their empty and useless.

The Sims 3: Skyrim

Make you Sim a dragonborn at night, while smithing at the forges in daytime.


It wouldn't fit in a game like Skyrim.

This, pretty much.

Expanding on the 'own business', would you, like, buy a shop, then hire someone to be the shop keeper, and you can then give him items you find to sell?

I guess that would be better than currently going to shops to sell items because they have a set amount of gold, and you have to go to a lot of different shops to sell your items, whereas this way you could just put all the items you want to sell in the shop, then go off and do your own thing, then you could come back and collect all the money made.

@the person above me (can't multiquote on iPod) - even the Dragonborn needs to make money somehow

I was just so happy woodcutting was in the game.. I spent so much time in Fable II simply chopping wood, I was enraged when they removed it and replaced it with PIE MAKING..

Honestly though chopping wood in Riverwood, watching the river rush by while listening to the epic soundtrack of Skyrim is immensely satisfying for me.

i'd like there to be some kind of 'contracts' as was mentioned above. do X within Y hours and you will be paid Z. even if something resembling a guild appeared and you had to gather specific items to make specific sets of say armour or weapons, then the contracts could be like radiant quests after the dark brotherhood or thieves guild

Yeah, I think it would be cool if the job system was similar to Fable 2s because the way they had it set up, you didn't have to do it. You could just do it any time you wanted, for the gold.