Don't get me wrong, I absolutely love this game, and I play it almost everyday, but I can never seem to put more than 25-35 hours on any single character. I've finished all the faction quests and the civil war quests on different characters but never the main quest. At some point I always feel an unbearable urge to delete my character and start over, even if I thought I had finally made my perfect character.

I've tried warriors, rangers, archers, rogues, mages, necromancers, hunters, etc., but I'm always ruined by my severe case of restartitis. Is there a cure for this dangerous disease?

why delete the charcater? just leave them cluttering your save list and bring them out when you feel like playing them? You should totally keep all your characters around for when you feel like that playstyle.

Design a backstory and role play your characters existence.

Usually interesting existences are better... "Farmer" gets old fast...

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There is a cure for restartitism.


It's called makeupyourmindism.

I had this disease for the first two months of the game's release. For me, I kept restarting my characters because I kept making them OP (currently playing on Adpet for replayability reasons). Fortunatley, I've been cured of this disease since Jan 2nd. I've finished my first playthrough on a Breton Mage with over 150 hours logged in and now I am doing a Khajiit Assassin right now. This is going to followed by a Nord Dual-Wield/Two-Handed Hybrid and an Argonian Mystic.

If you're problem is creating OP characters, don't use Enchantments, use Armor based on your level, and raise Smithing/Alchemy/Enchanting (For Mages) in correspondance to your level.

Also, Roleplaying always helps!

I do this too, I think it's a result of being unable to switch your play style after 25-30 hours in the other TES games you could just switch up if you felt like it but now with perks you really cant.
I mean if I started as a Thief and then wanted to be a mage I'm pretty much boned because you need to max out those mage trees for them to be of any use. I could be wrong this is just my opinion.

I'll tell you how. Play dead is dead. It's wickedly fun. I've made many characters, and though most have died, I was satisfied with each because it was as if they lived a real journey through Skyrim had had a real death.

Answer this...Are you enjoying yourself? If so ten you are not diseased you are blessed. Keep on keeping on and enjoy your game/s. You could keep them in a "Cloud Save" that way your in-game saves are kept clean. Or just say good bye and start a new.

The thing is, I do role-play. I'm very big on role-playing in this game. I oftentimes find myself writing detailed 20-30 page back-stories for my characters before I actually create them in the game world. I also play dead-is-dead quite often, maybe not for a character's whole playthrough, but say I was bored one Tuesday afternoon and decide that if my character dies today, he dies for good.

I am enjoying the game, and I do feel like I am getting the full experience out of the game, but at some point I always feel like it's time to move on to a new character. Maybe it is the fact that they become OP? I'm not really sure. I'm just trying to find a way to get 150 hours of enjoyment out of a single character.

I find making more than five characters at once can get confusing save wise, and remembering which one you are playing as. Also, You can do the faction quests in like, 35 hours, but that is no reason to stop playing, keep exploring, do the smaller quests, some of them are interesting, do some of the side activities in spare time, in other words, role play

If the OPing thing is an issue, play with no perks. I promise you will not get OP'd.

Do you enjoy playing a character for 25 to 35 hours? If so, I see no need to worry. For me, the early levels of most games are almost always the most fun. Plus, I tend to enjoy making new characters. In Oblivion I never got a character as far as level 20 during the entire five years I played the game. But I enjoyed playing every one of those characters. I wouldn't do a thing differently if I had it to do over again.

Don't feel that you have to play the way anybody else plays. If you're happy doing what you do, keep doing it. You're not required to stick to one character.

I hated how limited my character was with perk, so I stayed lvl 1 and played with no fast travel at all (even carriage).

I also spend quite some time on my race and face. My restarting problem was finally fixed.