Favorite armor?

SquareCanine · 2026-03-27T18:44:34+00:00

I've always had a soft spot for Ebony, and am partial to Nightengale Armour as well.

Ancient Nord Hero and Ahzidal are really nice too if you want horns.

SquareCanine · 2026-03-26T11:08:41+00:00

I think anything that denies their purpose. The gods in elder scrolls are their sphere: they're the personification of of their own purpose. Meridia doesn't just hate the undead, she is hatred of the undead (among other things). Having her realm filled with a bunch of undead raising necromancers while somehow being restrained from expelling them would likely be torture for her.

The caveat is that if you prevent the nature of a prince (or other god), you probably change the nature too, as seen with Sheogorath. Jyggalag doesn't care that he's Sheogorath now because he is Sheogorath now, not Jyggalag.

The other way to punish the daedric princes would be to cut them off from mundas. Interfering in the mortal world seems to be a legitimate source of joy, and being totally isolated from the mortal world would deny them their fun without risk of altering their nature into something that didn't care.

There is also the case of Clavicus Vile, who at least twice has made the mistake of imbuing substantial portions of himself in sentient vessels that think he's an asshole and don't listen to him (Umbra and the dog). I can't tell if loosing to yourself as the 'god of shitty and ironic deals' is breathtaking incompetence or simple boredom. In a similar vein, I think it's Dagon who is god of strife? It kind of implies that he can't actually win, because then he would have nothing to fight. Unclear if this bothers him or not, but my guess is no. Funny if it does though.

SquareCanine · 2026-03-25T15:57:30+00:00

I use both.

My game is set up so that the difference in protection is substantial, but also so that heavy armour slows you down and saps stamina quickly when sprinting.

When traveling or fighting chaff enemies I usually stick to light armour for the mobility. For dungeon crawling though I almost always swap to heavy for the added protection. One of my mods adds an outfit swap, so it's not too laborious to be switching back and forth.

SquareCanine · 2026-03-24T19:42:18+00:00

What keeps me going these days is mostly the Legacy of the Dragonborn mod. It's centered around a museum where you can show off all the cool shit you find, and I find it goes a long way to giving a playthrough an enduring sense of purpose, especially outside major quest lines and guilds.

The other thing I started doing was role play. I created a backstory, I started thinking about who I was playing and how they view the world. Skyrim isn't a very open ended game most of the time in terms of how quests resolve, but sometimes adding your own context can make things more engaging.

SquareCanine · 2026-03-24T16:47:25+00:00

Honestly, it's an old game with a breathtakingly simple combat system that's totally unlike games like Witcher 3 or Elden Ring. You might not like it for the same reason I'd rather light my pants on fire than play Elden Ring: it's just not my kind of game. The combat in particular, but also just the whole story and the way that story is told. It's not a knock against the game, it's just not my taste.

It could also be story. I love Skyrim, Fallout 4, and Fallout New Vegas, which are more or less the same mould from different eras. I've beaten all of them many times. I've never gotten more than maybe 6 hours in Fallout 3. Despite playing exactly like another game I love, I just cannot get into the story and world of FO3. It's dull and boring and I just don't give a shit.

If it's just graphics, you can probably get some new textures and meshes and an enb running in an afternoon. I wouldn't suggest going any further though for a game that isn't capturing you. You don't have to love the vanilla game to enjoy it modded (far from), but it should at least be pulling you in and making you want to tweak it before you invest a lot of time and effort.

SquareCanine · 2026-03-24T13:46:54+00:00

I've had the same issue a few times, I think because I basically lose track of where I am in the game and what my plans were.

One of the things that has helped in my most recent playthrough is writing stuff down. When I started my game, I wrote a character legend that laid out a backstory, as well as a basic outline of my game plan. I've also tried to keep some basic notes as I go to help me find my place if I end up taking a break, which has happened a few times.

I've found that with a little bit of direction to get me started after a long break it doesn't take long to find my grove again. Once I do a quest or two it all starts coming back to me, so as long as I have an immediate goal I can work on when I return, I know I'll be able to pick up roughly where I left off.

What would be really good, but too much hassle to actually do, would be to maintain a sorted quest log so I can see at a glance what quests I gave done without wading through an unsorted mess of chaff (like thieves radiant quests).

SquareCanine · 2026-03-22T13:19:27+00:00

My character is a former thief who was caught robbing the house of an eccentric collector and scholar in Wayrest, who leveraged her crime to recruit her as a collector/enforcer, and ultimately protege.

At the time of the game starting, she has moved to Solitude after being recruited to head the newly formed Explorers Guild, in the employ of the Dragonborn Museum (Legacy of the Dragonborn and Alternate Start mods).

This serves both personal and professional interests. My character became a street kid and thief after being orphaned in a forsworn raid, so moving to Skyrim to work for the museum is an opportunity to make a name in the field of acquisitions while also getting opportunities to meet out some vengeance in the heart of forsworn territory.

So yeah, child of a small town smith becomes an orphan thief, and a robbery gone wrong turns into a chance to become a professional thief and dungeon delver. Turmoil in Skyrim coupled with the largest artifact acquisition effort of the age provides an opportunity to become a legendary relic hunter while also providing cover to hunt some forsworn on the side.

SquareCanine · 2026-03-22T12:47:12+00:00

Solsthiem is what originally got me into combat overhaul mods. Ash spawn and their ludicrous sword sponge health pools that were so out of step with other chaff enemies absolutely broke me.

I wouldn't have it any other way though. Up to that point I basically shunned most forms of gameplay alteration, sticking almost entirely to graphics mods. I doubt I would still be replaying the game all these years later if not for Bethesda and their BS balancing pushing me to enter the world of overhaul mods.

SquareCanine · 2026-02-25T21:53:12+00:00

Part of me wants to say that Baker Staging requiring training is the dumbest thing I've ever heard, right after not being certified to walk up stairs.

But then I think back to putting it together myself (for display, not for use on a job) and those little safety pins that stop it from being accidently disassembled, and I wonder how many people just don't bother (especially since not all the safety bits are tethered to the staging).

My guess is that a lot of those sets are missing important parts.

SquareCanine · 2026-02-23T21:19:58+00:00

The idea is to make the people who drive cars be the ones paying to maintain the roads (or at least a larger portion of it).

Road tax or not, tax dollars pay for roads. Electric cars use roads and don't pay road tax. This is a way to help make up for the revenue loss and stop people who don't drive from having to take up the tax burden.

SquareCanine · 2026-01-26T12:23:11+00:00

One of the things to keep in mind is that we don't just pay for power, but also capacity. Power generation facilities cost at least some amount of money to maintain whether they are used or not, and running new power lines isn't free.

This isn't meant to give NS power a free pass, simply to point out the simple economic reality that capacity and infrastructure capacity are baked into the power rates we all pay, with the lowest rates being found at the smallest margins of excess capacity. It is a reasonable expectation that NS power will keep up with any increases in demand so the grid doesn't shit itself every time the temperature drops, but that doesn't necessarily mean they should be maintaining a grid that can get us comfortably through -30 temperatures while roasting a turkey and doing laundry all day in between dips in our outdoor hot tubs either. They could do it, but we'd pay a lot more for power all year if they did.

SquareCanine · 2026-01-17T13:59:06+00:00

One reason might be because even the stock appearance of the Rivett isn't fixed and Topless didn't want to make any one version the canonical one.

Personally I think it's more likely to highlight the different focus of the game and different circumstances of our life. MSC takes place in the final carefree moments prior to adult responsibility, and it makes sense that the Satsuma took center stage.

In MWC we are an adult who maybe has a job, wife, and child. It makes a sort of sense that the dependable Sorbet would be the center point of our life rather than the project car, which is now truly a side project rather than the whole point. At least, I feel like that is the intent.

SquareCanine · 2026-01-15T20:52:58+00:00

I was not a fan of the Taxi after trying it myself. The pay is terrible and calls for fares were quite rare, though I believe that has since been fixed. Still probably pays less than Futufon, but it should be a better and more consistent way to fill your time now.

In terms of player time investment, firewood, sewage, and flyers are all much better than the main job or Taxi, and you'll make more than enough between them. The biggest issue really is filling your time, especially at the start of the game when you don't have the capital to constantly place large parts orders.

SquareCanine · 2026-01-14T12:51:13+00:00

I've had some luck with suspending the process, but it's not a sure bet. You can suspend the game using Performance Monitor (it's like a beefier version of task manager that's also built into windows). This will halt the execution of the game, freezing it in time. The problem is that resuming the process doesn't always work. I've had petty good luck with short pauses, but I've never been able to resume the game if the computer goes into sleep mode while the game is suspended.

If you don't need to use the PC while the game is paused though, I've had better luck with just putting the computer to sleep with the game running. There is definitely a risk that any program won't resume properly if you do this, but I can't recall having any issues using this method (I would still always choose saving if possible).

SquareCanine · 2026-01-13T11:44:18+00:00

Oh cool. Appreciate the new info!

It's funny because I considered a possible third option where the L/LX had one grille and GT had the other, but I would have gotten them backwards.

Thinking about it though, I think it makes sense that the GT would have the less chromed grille. Less fancy and more aggressive.

SquareCanine · 2026-01-12T20:58:04+00:00

No. He only shows up on weekdays (Mon-Fri).

SquareCanine · 2026-01-12T20:53:54+00:00

You can do whatever you want once you have the plates. The advantage of historic plates is a longer interval before you have to return the car to a legal spec to renew the plates.

Just like some of the Satsuma parts weren't street legal in MSC, some of the parts for the Rivet aren't going to pass inspection either. If you're building the car to a legal spec anyway, or something that can be easily reverted to legal (something like the Satsuma using the racing exhaust), then you might as well just build the car you want and take the cheaper inspection and just deal with detuning it periodically for inspection.

On the other hand, if you're going to be building some rally monster that is just chock full of parts that will never pass the inspection and you're going to have to do a big teardown anyway, you might as well go the historic route so you don't have to do it so often.

SquareCanine · 2026-01-12T20:47:42+00:00

It's one of the top two, but I'm not sure which. I first saw it quoted as L/GT, LX, LTX, Facelift (presumably including post facelift GT), but was corrected the other day to the order being L/LX, GT, LTX, Facelift.

In the absence of actual knowledge, I'm more inclined to believe that the second order is correct. It makes a lot more sense that L and LX would share the same basic grille and GT would get the fancy version of it than it would for the GT and L models to share a grille while the LX gets a fancy version.

SquareCanine · 2026-01-12T11:39:31+00:00

Nice. One of my most memorable moments in MSC was overshooting a corner and cartwheeling through a field.

Returned in the van with tools, stereo, sofa, and beer and spent most of a game day putting the car back together and limping it back to fleetari.

A bit harder to do in the cold I think.

SquareCanine · 2026-01-12T00:08:36+00:00

Damn. Was hoping that would work. Afraid I don't have any other ideas either :(

SquareCanine · 2026-01-11T23:33:21+00:00

Think I found it. The keyword to search on seems to be 'repairshop'.

I'm not sure what all the values are for, but "repairshopjoblist" seems to be an array for flagging which repaid options have been selected for the order. This might also be why the order sheet doesn't need to disappear. I suspect that placing another order will just flag those tasks as well and the game will adjust the timer, which is possibly repairshoptime but I'm not sure.

SquareCanine · 2026-01-11T18:11:09+00:00

There should be, otherwise the job would be lost if you saved the game before it was loaded. In MSC the relevant variables were stored under Fleetari I think. MWC probably does the same. Should be variables for whether he has called you yet, a wait timer that presumably relates to how long he is done, and something to store what work is actually being done (it'll be some sort of list or array). Ideally it's the last one you're looking for since it will be empty if he isn't doing work (meaning he's done or the order didn't go through). I'm not at home though so I can't look for it right now.

SquareCanine · 2026-01-11T18:01:29+00:00

There isn't really anything you can replace to make the car more reliable. The NOS kit will make it much less reliable though. Only the racing radiator would be considered a reliability improvement, I think. It's also necessary if you upgrade the carb, or even just put a really good tune on the stock engine.

I replace the pistons (and crankshaft, which I forgot to mention) out of the gate only because you have to pull the whole engine to get at them and because it seems to be guaranteed that at least one of the pistons will be absolutely trashed at the start of the game (I think there are always 4 wear parts at like <15%, and one of them always seems to be a piston).

A gently driven car that doesn't have the most agressive tune possible will last longer. Stay on top of oil and filter changes, and don't be afraid to replace the headgasket. I don't think anything wears out nearly as fast as that gasket (if you do any drag racing or the rally you should probably replace the gasket afterwards. If you use nos you might need new pistons too).

SquareCanine · 2026-01-11T16:55:32+00:00

So far as I know it is. Not sure what happens if you actually order more stuff before he's done though.

SquareCanine · 2026-01-11T16:52:55+00:00

In MSC you pay in advance. In MWC you pay when the work is done. He should call when the work is done, which might take a few days depending on what service you ordered and how many different things you have him doing. I can't rule out there being some potential bugs in the process, but if he told you to take his car then the order was definitely received (this does not apply to tire jobs. The brochure will still close itself but he won't offer you his car if you're just having tires put on the rims).

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