Then there should be ground lots where you, the player, can decide what should be there. Be it a blacksmith, a general trader, an alchemist, a fletcher, a clothes store, a residence, a farm, an inn, and whatever I've forgotten could be added. Whatever you put there should affect what the city turns into. Like, if you add just shops and one inn, it'll be a trading hub and spawn more trading caravans. If you add residences, it'll become a NPC heavy area with a lot of side quests. If you add farms, you can own your own and make a steady income, etc.

And if you add just inns, well, consider Las Vegas of Skyrim.

Due to its strategic location, Helgen might be suitable for a customhouse where people coming from Cyrodiil have to pay a toll to enter Skyrim.

That was in Assassins Creed II, in Brotherhood you rebuilt Rome. Unless I'm mistaken.

I'd also like to rebuild Helgen, it would be cool if you could be the "Mayor" or something.

I was asking just because of the discussion earlier in the thread about who should govern Helgen,

I think it would be great when you finish Civil War questline in a position of Legate/Storm-Blade and you will be given a message delivered to you by courier (due to lack of recorded voice acting) ordering you to help rebuild the fort and become its "leader"/ ordering you to set up a camp there and build a new fort on the ruins of the old one for the Stormcloaks (alse ending like a "leader")

Yea, that's a reminder that Beth just loves destroying entire cities and leave them burn for a few years waiting for modders to do something about it !

why not years later dlc that lets you see the changes you made over time by how you side with in the war

Seems like a classic that bethesda ruins a big city just to let modders make a huge mod to make it rebuildable.

That's just it... You forget. It's just a gimmick.

I like that idea a lot, actually.

why would you want to be be able to run such a small town, i would not buy that DLC, beth should be worring about all the things wrong with skyrim, THEN think about DLCs

Thats the big disappointment about skyrim. Is that the jarls don't do [censored]. They just sleep (do they even go to the bathroom?) and sit on their thrones all day and do nothing.

to bring some life to them, i suggest you hit them with a wabbajack.

Because it would still BE your town. Room for a market, some stores... there's already an Inn...

It would be kinda cool.

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I would have to say this is one of Bethesda flaws when it comes to the ETS.

There are quite a few games out there that a village, a town, a city is destoryed but after a certain point in the game it reverts back to what it was or the player can help rebuild it.

In Oblivion, Kavatch was desytroyed and so many players were pissed it could not be rebuilt. Then Skyrim comes along, Helgen is destoryed and you would assume Todd and his team would take the advice many players wanted to rebuild the city-nope.

While destorying a city is good for the story, leaving it a smoking pile of rubble just annoys the player (raises hand). I would gladly give the Jarl any amount of coin he needed to rebuild the place.

I really hate it when a place is destoryed and it stays that way. This is not a book or a movie, this is a game, the option to rebuild a city, a village should always be avilable to the player.

Todd, seriously stop living in the 1980s of gaming and get with the times! I as a fan of the ETS games is tired of seeing a place destroyed and nothing can be done to fix it even though I have more then enough gold to do so.

Helgen would be a nice place to rebuild the blades back to their formal glory. They can have economic system to have money to hire soldiers in refitting, as they grow the Thalmor start attacking them. Even bring back worship of Talos, But maybe it's just me thinking the guy talking in White run in front of Talos sounds like the prophet in the Knights of the nine DLC that was in Oblivion.

It'll be the same as Kvatch. You'll never get a chance to repair it without mods.

i'd love to be able to rebuild helgen. not be a jarl or anything like that.

They could make it the 10th hold. Not to complicated

Re-writing lore isn't very popular.

You rebuild Helgen. This becomes your main flagship city. Your then goal is to take neutral territories, fortify and stock them, build and maintain an army, and take territory. In the process, you can make alliances with Jarls or fly solo and be against everyone. Each city has a realm they hold. The territory they control is color coded. You will need to attack and defend territories. Courirers will give you a note when certain territories are under attack so you can allocate forces there. To influence these battles you can take part in them as well, particularly battles for the cities (Windhelm, etc.)

Yes this goes against whatever loregarble there is, but pretty much ensures an infinite game with a point to explore and acquire gold.

Helgen reminds me of SPOILERS; Kvatch from Oblivion.