Avoid Smithing
Avoid enchanting
Delay Main Quest chain

I'm going to have to be blunt and say I'm very disappointed in Bethesda's decision to use Steam to distribute and required to play it. Although I've been given a copy and tried to play it, I am so unhappy with the whole setup I am probably never going to touch the game again. And unfortunately the key is permanently attached to me, so I can't even give it away or return it. Shall I just burn the disc now, or start using it as a coaster?

Plus requiring steam, if for some reason you don't have internet access (and I may not on a machine I would want to play it on), you can't play it at all. Poor decision. Plus I HATE DRM!

So true. Evaliir Srinna of the College of Winterhold is curous about the Companions but hasn't spoken to the leader or joined them. She's never joined a Thieves Guild or the DB either. She wonders what they do but isn't curious enough to join because it's just not her way.

So this means that after 250 hours of play and not even being close to being done, there are 3 other parts of the game she'll never even see. I wonder how many more hours those encompass? Wow...what a huge freaking game.

Don't rush through quests
Don't power level professions (e.g smithing, enchanting)
Make decisions based on what you think your character would do
Only fast travel if you've done too much running around recently.

Not necessarily? They won't attack you as long as you don't mess around like a bull in a china shop. They warn you adequately when you come too close, idem for the mammoths.

Eh? Wait, what? Seriously? They do warn you in time about that, do they? Pretty please? *sweat*

As far as I've heard, some minor quests can fail if it concerns exploring in a cave.

Anything particular when you play with an elf race (especially a high elf)? I'm planning to play with a high elf specialized in illusion and destruction next. ^^ (I know about the imbalanced destruction school, so no need to tell me about that)

I'd say money gets pretty easy to you, not really needed to get even more. Unless you want to play godlike of course. Plus, the most interesting armor and weapons can't be bought.

unless you're in a draugr dungeon with lots of delicious traps. Took a while, but the vamp master had no choice but to succumb, heh heh heh.


Something kinda related: http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20111123 xD

Huh? Steam only requires internet to 1) activate your product, and 2) update it. You can easily play it offline, if you're willing to check the settings for a bit. I already played it offline, so it does work. The only sad thing I've noticed about it is that you can't add your own music to the bgm anymore, like you could in Morrowind and Oblivion. I'd love to hear some Two Steps From Hell in the background, especially "United we stand, divided we fall" while a dragon attacks. I've been looking forward to that for so long. ;_;

Yeah, my character won't join the brotherhood either, 'cuz she's just not that type. I'll leave that to the high elf spy I'll be creating next. That one will be designed to create havoc and chaos, so the civil war at Skyrim will be on its peak when the Thalmor come to conquer it, heh heh heh. Iizlovaas (my character now) isn't even using imperial weapons, 'cuz that's against her principles. She prefers ancient nord weapons.

On-topic with the thread:
Erase the map marker (by clicking the respective quests off. More searching, using you sense of logic, and puzzle solving!).
Take your sweet time.
Don't stick to roads.
Npc's dislike Unrelenting Force (had to appoint it to a different key, because I accidentally hit it too many times)
Keep distance from partners (unless you want to kill them)
Better yet: Keep partners at home (in the kitchen if you can)
Sabre cats aren't pets.
In battle, Use your surroundings (i.e. rocks, or a giant camp, etc.) (blah, I sounded like an orc when I tried to make it a four word sentence ).
Markath is a frigging labyrinth. O_o
Guards give valuable information. (Sometimes. And I'm not talking about the arrow to the knee etc., I'm talking about their warnings of certain places. Stay put and listen, and your map will be updated.)

You're enjoying it yet?

Be careful with autosave. It saves in the same slot so it overwrites a previous saved game. Eventually there's a chance it can corrupt the saved game. Saw a moderator's comment a few weeks ago about this saying they're looking into that.

Also, hope you like caves/dungeons, they have a lot in the game, and they're great.

4 words or less version:

Use multiple save slots.

You can only "exploit" them if you figure out how, and doing so would make you godly. If you use all three crafting skills normally, you can't exploit it.