Aging : V

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:52 pm

hi,
I was thinking about aging! how would it be if there was aging in game? you would getting old and would died! like what we see in "The Sims" game.
then you would have a limit time to do things. you should choose what to do. like real life. you should choose the quest and make a list of important and less important quests! then the NPCs would getting old too. you should do their quest before they die!
isn't it nice?

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:35 pm

The game doesn't progress that fast. The average game probably runs about three in-game months to half an in-game year. Not a lot of time for your character to die of old age.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 8:14 am

My timescale is set to 5 and atmost my runs last about 120 days and thats with an average of 10 hour sleeps per day. Even if your timescale is vanila i doubt you would be able to play long enough to notice aging, unless you do nothing but sleep for numerouse real life hours.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:20 pm

My timescale is set to 5 and atmost my runs last about 120 days and thats with an average of 10 hour sleeps per day. Even if your timescale is vanila i doubt you would be able to play long enough to notice aging, unless you do nothing but sleep for numerouse real life hours.

Cartman, you know :biggrin:

; I actually mean changing the timescale!

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:35 am

Can't say I'd like aging very much in a TES game, and considering the time-scale issue brought forth by two posters, you wouldn't really notice much aging. Perhaps if the game was linear and more on rails (Fable The lost Chapters status), then yes, aging would work.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 4:05 am

Cartman, you know :biggrin:

; I actually mean changing the timescale!

You would need to change to be unbearably fast which will probably stress the engine and cause a lot more crashes. The game wasn’t designed for that so it won’t respond in anyway which will add to the lameness. Watching the sky will be 100x more fun but that’s about it.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 1:11 am

Thats a feature im glad devs didn't put in because like other posters said, you wouldn't age much in less then a year so it would be a waste of time they used to make sure we had other cool features.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 5:07 am

I don't like having a time limit when playing a TES game. These sort of games should never have a time limit. If it was long enough then maybe (that's what she said). If I only play as my mage character now for the next 5-6 years and he dies I would be pissed. I wouldn't be able to play him again. Don't think it would work, but good suggestion.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 4:59 am

If they would put in a way to change your characters appearance on the fly, you could just age yourself whenever you felt like it. If you so desired to die of "old age", you'd just delete the save.

The Elder Scrolls and "limit" just dont seem right to me, though.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 11:25 am

No. A TES adventure is supposed to just last a few months.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:46 pm

If you age, then the world and environment around you would have to age as well, and Skyrim already has consistency issues with the way the NPC's evolve in regards to your character, this would be an area where it could become even more silly and obvious.

10 years later...

"Have you been to the Cloud District yet??"

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:01 pm

10 years later...

"Have you been to the Cloud District yet??"

like!

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:42 pm

No.... no, TES does not need this..

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 2:52 pm

guys, just think of it! I am not the manager of BS company!
look; we all die.ok? we can be an important man. but we will die anyway!
I think they can build that but make it in a way which the player can choose to on/off the aging mode!

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:55 am

guys, just think of it! I am not the manager of BS company!
look; we all die.ok? we can be an important man. but we will die anyway!
I think they can build that but make it in a way which the player can choose to on/off the aging mode

Leave stuff like this to modders. It has no place in TES.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 3:39 am

I agree with the others. I do not think that agine would work in this game.

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 12:46 pm

no one agreed???
I am doooooomed!

» Sun Jun 10, 2012 4:42 am

no one agreed???
I am doooooomed!

Yup.