I tell you what would add more realism to this game and they have almost got it right with folks warning you if you get to close to their camps.

Not EVERYTHING classed as a baddie should be scripted to attack.

You should come across bandit gangs who are simply not interested in you.

Bears and trolls that warily skirt around you.

Black mages who run away when you approach their camp.

Sabre tooths who will sniff you, growl and then flee.

When fighting in a Forsworn camp, you could have the odd one run away from the battle.

Stuff like that really.

A Hagraven who is too busy making a briar-heart to attack you, its only when you try to swipe her soulgem that she gets ratty and lets you have a fireball to the swede.

And once, just once I'd like to actually witness an adventurer take an arrow to the knee!

It feels like you know whats going to happen at any given moment and adding these dimensions to the game would add yet more colour to this amazing world.

The end.

Meh I kind of find it annoying that I have to quicksave and Sneak attack and kill something just to see if it was a hostile character or a friendly. I will kill something "Oops that wasn't a Bandit" - reload. At least Forsworn look a little different.

But....you are the Dragonborn...all who oppose you must be destroyed...

Also, I like to use the 'wait' option if I'm not sure whether a person is friend or foe. The game won't let you wait if there are enemies nearby.

Bandits tell me ''that's close enough'' if I come to near to their territory and if I continue, they attack me.

I wish bandits surrendered and stayed surrenederd

yeah, few features like that would certainly add to the game.

TESVI perhaps

Yeah! See my topic on getting outlawed in Riften. This happens all the time. My point is not that baddies should be harder to tell, they would need to make factions stand out more.

At the mo practically anyone in Skyrim can wear fur armor. That is another level of detail the game needs.

Yeah I know, see my original post.

I'm saying that if you approach they should sometimes run off, or that when you approach a band of them out on the turndra they don't attack as mandatory.

Lone bandits will occasionally flee, especially if you just killed their buddies. (I usually kill them anyway though, to avoid lag buildup)

Speaking of arrow in the knee.. I came across some crazy wood elf who shot me in the eye with an arrow.. 30 seconds later a guard said "I took an arrow in the knee" thing.. I just wished i had a conversation option saying "The knee?! Look at me?! I have a steel arrow in my eye !!"

Yesterday I came cross a Bandit camp and they demanded me to pay toll to pass through. I thought it was quite funny. I do agree with OP, it would be too awesome to have a sabertooth come walking up to you and then sniff you: 'oh noes the dragonborn, RUN!'

yes not only bandits, i think all mobs you are clubing surender wen they ask for it

yes and that the mobs knove ther limits,

wen and almost unarmord dude run up whit a dagger to you and youre comapnion in full chiny plate and sparking 2h and demand us to give all oure stuff, hehe. what dose he thinking ....

I'd like to run my own bandit camp.

This is my point! It wouldn't happen.

Bandit1: "Heck, who's this dude with full Deadric armor and a soul stealing dwavern flawless battle axe and side kick with Eboney legendary armor and maxed out Destruction power?"

Bandit2: "I don;t know but lets not hang about to find out! RUUUUUUUNNNNNN!!!!!"

Glad to see I'm not the only one that does that.

It is definately better than OB and most other games, but it would be kinda hard to pull off.

What I was hoping for is some recognition or something for who you are. At levels 1 through 5 and can justify every bandit just trying to kill me. They are bandits and I look like easy pickings. But if I am 40th level I should have some kind of reputation by then. Add to that I'm walking around in high level armor and most if not all bandit should want to leave me alone, or run when they see me coming. THAT's what i would love to see in this game.

ps - it was the worse in MW when the ashlanders would attack my Daedric clad warrior with chitin arrows and daggers. I mean seriously?

I wish bandits would engage in dialogue and ask who you are first.

Cheers

Nail on the head.

A bit of interaction would be cool, you could even join their camps?