Divorce and child adoption

Post » Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:31 am

Well then you must be extremely dedicated to playing one character!

Is your character female, I think you said? If so, I assume you want adoption rather than having nine in-game months of sitting on your pregnant rear end, and not adventuring?
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Post » Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:29 am

Well then you must be extremely dedicated to playing one character!

Is your character female, I think you said? If so, I assume you want adoption rather than having nine in-game months of sitting on your pregnant rear end, and not adventuring?

True :D

And well , I change my characters every two days ! ( I need to establish a very stable one )

For example , the Female I was making , I will run her AGAIN for the third time tomorrow , simply because I didn't like appearance , I forgot to add something in the RP , Etc..

I really hope this one will last much longer , can't say ..
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Post » Mon Jul 09, 2012 5:18 pm

Oooh, character creation OCD. That never ends well.

But now I've started getting curious about the possibility of better spouses. Can't have a boring wife; that spells doom for a marriage.
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Post » Mon Jul 09, 2012 4:06 am

Now I'm really curious about this, and thinking about what might be possible with the CK. Is anybody else like me, kinda thinking that marriage in the game seems awfully bland, but might look into it if there were some colorful spouses whose behavior varied by your actions? As in, make them an NPC to really interact with in some sense?
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Post » Mon Jul 09, 2012 2:42 pm

Go ahead the post in the mod thread maybe somebody would make a mod for this. It would take Skyrim to another level of Role Playing. Nice idea. Are you a modder?

http://www.gamesas.com/forum/183-skyrim-mods/
no nt modder ps3 user
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Post » Mon Jul 09, 2012 8:12 am

I just want to adopt babette so i can have a vampire daughter and we can hunt mortals at night like a real family :D
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Post » Mon Jul 09, 2012 1:45 am

Now I'm really curious about this, and thinking about what might be possible with the CK. Is anybody else like me, kinda thinking that marriage in the game seems awfully bland, but might look into it if there were some colorful spouses whose behavior varied by your actions? As in, make them an NPC to really interact with in some sense?

I'm with you in this regard.

If Ysolda can be spruced up, hells yeah. Need some variety in this marriage. :P
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Post » Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:41 am

I'm with you in this regard.

If Ysolda can be spruced up, hells yeah. Need some variety in this marriage. :tongue:

I won't marry at all ( doesn't fits my RP , the Were-Bear husband died )
I just want to adopt children !
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Post » Mon Jul 09, 2012 5:11 pm

It would be cool having your son or duaghter running around playing as his or her father the dragon born.
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Post » Mon Jul 09, 2012 12:37 pm

QUOTE: Nine months is a fairly long time in-game, and eighteen years (or fifteen or whatever) is a REALLY long time in-game.

That's why I don't support the idea of producing natural children. It's too complex a system, for too little gain. Also, what if you're a Khajiit or Arginian, which are not interfertile with any other species, or if your tastes run to someone of the same gender? Marriage is enough, and it's totally optional. Adoption, contrastingly, would be a very simple addition, requiring only a few additional lines from Grelod, Constance, and each adoptable child. Seen below:

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QUOTE: Well the question about Honorhall Orphanage would be, would you be able to adopt while Grelod the Kind is still in charge, or only after she is dead and Constance Michel takes over. It would make sense that it is only possible after Grelod is dead, but then that kind of forces you to start the DB quests just to adopt.

Not necessarily. Here's an example of how an adoption would proceed with either of them:

GRELOD IS ALIVE
DRAGONBORN: "I'd like to adopt one of your children."
GRELOD: "Why in Oblivion would you want to adopt one of these useless little guttersnipes? I won't allow it."
DRAGONBORN:
[Persuade] "You obviously can't stand them. I'll take one of them off your hands for you."
[Bribe] "How about an 'adoption fee' of 100 septims?"
[Influence with Jarl] "I'm in tight with the jarl. Maybe I should talk to her about how you're treating these kids."
GRELOD: "Fine, take one of the brats. Take them all, for all I care. Talk to Constance about it."
(go to "ARRANGING THE ADOPTION")

GRELOD IS DEAD
DRAGONBORN: "I'd like to adopt one of your children."
CONSTANCE: "I understand... however, I haven't forgotten what you did to Grelod. Tell me why I should entrust one of my children to you after that."
[Persuade] "Grelod was a cruel, evil woman. I did what I did to protect these children."
[Influence with Jarl] "If you wish, Jarl Leila/Maven will vouch for me."
(No bribe option is available)

ARRANGING THE ADOPTION
CONSTANCE: "Very well, but I must ask you some questions. Are you married?"
DRAGONBORN: "Yes."
CONSTANCE: "Do you and your spouse have a home?"
DRAGONBORN: "Yes, we live in..."
[Breezehome, in Whiterun./Honeyside, here in Riften/etc.]
CONSTANCE: "Very well, then under Riften law, you are qualified. Which child would you like to adopt?"
DRAGONBORN: [says name of child]
CONSTANCE: "All right. Why don't you go to him/her and tell him/her the good news?"

Each child could have his/her own response to the news, of course. After speaking to the child, the Dragonborn and the adopted child are automatically transported to the house where they and their spouse dwell. And after that, it's simply a matter of adapting the child's dialogue: "Daddy! I'm so glad you're home.", that sort of thing.
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Post » Mon Jul 09, 2012 12:45 pm

My idea for spouses would alter the way I see them being right now. I haven't had a character get married, but my impression is that you have to do something, some little quest to get these people interested in the first place, then you wear an amulet of Mara, talk to the person, a conversation topic offering marriage becomes available, you ask, they accept, you go do the wedding thing - and then there's really nothing further required. You can live in the spouse's house, or your own house, and they give some money over once in a while from the profits of whatever their business generates. You can sleep in the same bed and get a lover's comfort bonus.

What there really needs to be is varying spouse attitude based on your actions and whatever their personality requires. As I suggested earlier, say your wife tends toward frigidity, so no happy happy spousal fun-time/lover's comfort for you, unless you periodically do something to thaw her out and get her back into bed. Maybe she just likes pretty things and the occasional bit of jewelry gets her in the mood. Or, maybe she works every day in the family store, so if you give over some stuff to sell, or even go forge or craft some things for sale, or maybe you need to clear out some constantly-accumulating clutter in the back room. Go do that, and she goes from the cranky wife telling you to sleep on the couch to the loving wife nibbling on your ear.

Or maybe conversely, the wife just needs a workout in the bed fairly regularly. Get preoccupied with other things, adventuring or whatever, and don't touch her for a week or so, and she starts getting cranky and belittling you. So then the fix would be to take her off to bed that night and work up a sweat. Next morning she's happy as a lark and calling you mushy sweetheart names.

Or maybe there could even be more complex things necessary. Maybe the wife says she's never been to the hot springs and really wants to go. So the two of you have to head out there and go swimming. Or maybe she just wants to go off to another city and stay in an inn just for the novelty of it. Maybe she wants a horse, or if there are marriageable people out among the farms and the like, maybe she wants a bow to keep around the house while you're adventuring, just in case of a burglar.
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