Based on your findings though do you think it is a realistic idea to have carriages carry people across Skyrim?

Would this idea translate to boat journeys as well? There are a couple of smaller boat models in the game that might work on inshore waterways as well as the obvious large sea going vessels . I know usually people want a drivable boat in TES games, but I like the idea of an NPC controlled boat in the same way the carts move (Hey, and if all else fails, ridable horkers).

Basically this has been implemented in games like Red Dead Redemption and GTAIV. It's fun as hell imo and sorely missed in Oblivion and Skyrim.

I can think of a few solutions...

Add the carriage to a special faction. Surely there is something they did in that beginning sequence to disable monsters from attacking, so whatever Bethesda did could be done for rides... unless their solution was that monster spawns were disabled.
Make the carriage sprint when monsters are near and give it unlimited stamina so it can always outrun anything that would decide to attack.

Having to stop for combat would defeat the purpose of a carriage ride IMO.

I would think so, although it might take quite a lot of work to get it to work well; and it's not really the kind of thing you'd use unless it did work well.

As for the tipping over; I didn't do anything to the speed, the horses were going pretty slow so I suspect it's that it's not really weighted properly; though it could be more the horses tendency to stray from the path a bit, you would have to be quite careful with forcing their paths. Either way travelling with the carriage upside down kind of breaks immersion...

Bump, as I can't see any current discussion active and the CK is out.

I support your avatar, best one i've ever seen. Real carriages would be awesome aswell.

A lot of the dialogue needed for this is already in the CK. It's under 'DialogueCarriage' or something similar. Was probably going to be in the game anyway but was scrapped.

I have some ideas to throw out. When you hire a carriage, you could be given the option of several prices. The cheapest one will be for just you to ride, a medium one will be for both you and your companion and dog to ride, a deluxe option will be for some hired armed guards to ride with you for protection. The more you pay, the safer your travel. Weaker wildlife like wolves should scatter when they see your carriage, but stronger one like trolls or dragons should still attack you. I would also like it if you can shoot wildlife with arrows while in the carriage (like you could in Red Dead Redemption). Another change that could be considered, would be that you can come across an occasional carriage traveling the main roads if you are out and about. That way the world will feel like a more civilized place, with NPCs going about their business, travelling between cities for their own reasons. If this carriage has empty seats, you could pay to hop on.

Yup! abot made some really awesome mods for Morrowind!

Another snippet of evidence that Bethesda at least thought about doing this- All the (main) roads seem to be designed to be passable by carriages, ie no steps. This was not the case in Oblivion.

Yeah, while we're at it let's do away with the ridiculous encumbrance restriction shall we?

'Hey Ferb, I know what we're going to do today. Hey, where's Perry?'

Yes, I just quoted Phineas and Ferb, yes I find it funny. Yes, I'm going to look at carriages this weekend.

And did you?

yes they had a lot of items ready to be placed in game , but those items where removed to streamline the game for consolles .... scrap the game jam , all those stuff should have been already included in the usd or euros you spent to get the game to make a complete game ....

you remember when Tod was saying the game had dynamic snow? Now then he publicized the dynamic snow as a one week created feature of the game jam, then he says he doesn't know if this feature will appear for payment or not ..... does it tells you something?

Yep, this was actually done recently by a Morrowind modder already. We can only hope that we get some similarly talented coders from the MW or OB modding communities (or new blood) making mods like this for Skyrim. Some of the good old modders are starting to test the Skyrim waters; with time, we might see some really great mods.

I support this idea.

This and mounted combat are the main features im waiting for.

Any progress at all on this?

I just posted my Real Carriages mod to Steam Workshop. It illustrates the main reasons why this didn't ship with the game:

a - save/load doesn't work with the carriage
b - there's a huge amount of work to set up patrol routes that keep the carriage from clipping into obstacles along the way, and the physics of the carriage itself leaves something to be desired - it's much "lighter/bouncier" than you would expect

That said, I still find it fun and relaxing to just tour Skyrim by carriage. Have fun with it, and feel free to mine it for ideas.

Thank you so much! Much appreciated

Limitations aside, Real Carriages sounds great! I'm definiterly going to try this. Thank you very much, Maturin !

I did. But unfortunately someone already beat me to it and I didn't do anything with them.

Excellent. I just came to post that here, didn't realise it was a dev though. I'm curious to see what happens when you run into enemies.

Thank you very much!

But where's the link to the Steam Workshop...

Took me a bit to find this... really wish the workshop actually had a search feature:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=13790

Is there anyway to put this up at nexus?