Taking over whatever guild suits you and just generally setting yourself up, what do you do? I always find myself without much direction and just wandering aimlessly looking for something interesting. Perhaps it's an issue with me and I'll never be satisfied by the amount of things to do but..I dunno. I kinda miss Oblivion gates.

I really hope they give us some juicy, innovative and interestingDLC.

Hmmmm, I don't plan TES-games. I just let them happen

This is why I avoid exploring until I'm certain there's very few big-time quests left to tackle.

I have the same problem. May assassin is now level 36, finished the dark brotherhood and now does not really know what to do...

Very interesting insight....but anyway.

This is the thing, on my character right now (Level 40 Heavy Armor/2H/Block Orc) I've completed the Companions, I'm about to bring Ulfric General Tulius' head and I have maybe 35-40% of the map explored. I have a lot left to go it's just...what do I do just walk outside and go in one direction? Maybe I'll try my hand at making a lap around Skyrim starting from Riften, around the south, up past Markarth and all the way around to Windhelm and back to Riften. Maybe I'll finally run into a random encounter..

I wish you could rally a bunch of Stormcloaks and go wreak havoc on Solitude or something..anything to break the monotony.

Sounds to me like you are done with that char. Sooo... start a new one.

I have played a lot of characters in Skyrim, and some of them reached levels 50+, and some 40+ and so on...

I have never finished the main quest, and from the faction quest lines, I have only once become Archmage.

I wander around a lot, and let things happen, and live another life in the game would.

And I have not found the game boring yet.

After playing for over 200 hours on 5 different characters, using console commands and trying my luck with master difficulty only to fail brutally and inexcusably, I have finally run out of oomph.

I'm simply waiting on the creation kit so I can change my game into something completely and utterly stupid. Skyrim will no longer be a land of harsh war, but a world of immense stupidity. Thousands of people wandering aimlessly across the tundra with no particular place to go. McDonalds on the road just outside of Whiterun, and perhaps a Jiggly club to top it all off.

Ah, yes. The endless fun of creating what isn't there simply to laugh as it becomes reality.

The issue there is once you've played a couple of characters (or even just one) extensively, you can cover all the "major" stuff and it feels stale regardless. After I played through the Main Quest like twice, Civil War 3 times, and each guild once, I have no desire to do any of it again. But, I intended to invest a lot of time into this game for like a month and then stop playing, so this does not bother me.

My characters are always power hungry and tend to gain control over all the guilds, but I know what you mean. After getting everything you want, taking control of the factions you like and etc, it just gets boring because most likely you nearly completed everything.

I blame radiant questing and the shortage of guild quests

I agree completely, the guild quests were way to short and the npcs kept trying to influence you into doing radiant quests, It was so freaking boring and annoying.

Play a different game.

Well, sounds like it's new character time, maybe one with more roleplay emphasis?

With TES games, I find it takes me a few playthroughs before I can really make a character to "effectively" roleplay. The first few characters are just exploring, seeing what the guilds have to offer, and figuring out the main questlines, so I tend to rush through things. After I see how the game works, I can make an RP build that fits in the game world, and I'll tend to get more play out of it.

What usually gives me character fatigue is actually the running back and forth across the map. If I don't have a real plan for my character, I can get bored around level 20-25, because by then I've usually seen a good chunk of Skyrim and travelling doesn't feel *new* for that character anymore.

There are a couple ways to combat that. One is to develop a thorough quest plan. My current Nord is going through the Companions, then he'll tackle the main quest, and then (most likely) get involved in the civil war. There are a couple of miscellaneous quests that this guy will do as well - and the radiant quests will actually *help* keep me interested.

The other way is to avoid all major questlines, pick a section of the map, and use that as your base. Don't crisscross the province three times in a week. My last barbarian (another Nord) spent most of his time killing Forsworn in the Reach, just getting bounties from out of Markarth. That got him up to around level 15, and then he went off to see the rest of the world. Actually, come to think of it, he's sort of drifting now too...

Anyway, the best cure? Do something else! Come on, Skyrim can't satisfy your every entertainment need. I hate seeing those threads titled "Well, 6,783 hours in and I'm getting bored". Of course you are. Name one game you could play forever. Go play outside.

Generally I make characters with only one specific goal. Each character only completes one major quest line. Once they have achieved that I generall start a new character. The game becomes rather boring after you pass the midway point in levels. Its the earlier challenging stages that I love best.

I have two main characters, and I split all the guilds and city quests up between them according to their "role play". I am not hurrying through the quests with either of them. I spend a lot of time just wandering around and discovering non-quest dungeons, or just hunting or finding alchemy ingredients or whatever. Then I have a third character who is more just for laughs. Super powerful, roaming the land with his super powerful wife, causing chaos. When all three are done I'll create another concept character. But maybe ME3 or the new GTA will be out by then.

When I feel I've ran out of interesting things to do for a character I "park" the character. I role play, so I'l just start another character who will do other things and look at things with a different perspective.

"Parked" characters usually get revived after a while. Mods and DLC tend to rejuvenate my interest.

I've played 563 hours ... And I still haven't joined up with the college, the companions, not sided with the imperials or the stormcloaks, and not got any further in mainquest then handing in the dragonstone.

And I'm greatly looking forward to do all those things

But I'm not sure how I ended up at so many hours played though, I'm just having so much fun

I have on character stuck at level 47, one at 36 and one at 24 or so.

First one finished DB and TG.
Second one MQ and halfway through Companions.
Third one finished College.

I have a hard time getting that level 50 chevvie.

Start another playtrough.

That's the diffrence between Oblivion and Fallouts and Skyrim, I never finished Oblivion, i just stopped playing it Both Fallouts and Skyrim i finish with each character before starting again.

LMFAO. Hey sounds just like Skyrim now minus all the interesting stuff! Nah, I can't knock it. This is my 4th character...I don't even want to say how much time I've invested. My favorite character is level 78.

Either start a new character, or continue to do the random guild quests while role-playing with the character.

You can keep doing radiant assassination quests lmao

You have a couple choices really.... take over another "guild".... become Thane in 1 or more holds.... track down and do some Daedric quests... or continue with the MQ....

Whatever suits your characters moral compass and motives

I am rerolling the same character but I'm going to level all my core skills in the beginning just to play it as a higher level character.