Upgrades for your Horses?!?

[americanman_4_life]

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I was wanting to know if the Horses in the game have upgradeable options?? Not so many options as the Character does, but HELL... the horse fights off its own attackers and takes care of the Character as well... I havn't seen any, but why not!!

Just ideas... Following Ideas for upgrades can be selected by character/player at any Horse Corral, if the Horse earned its own upgrade... similar to character needing a bed/bedroll to upgrade level. Also, in field, beside spells to protect/heal horse that Player can cast, player can also provide food for horse... sense we carry it any way. When looking in inventory, what ever the first selection of the food item is to benefit character, can also benefit Horse when eating, though some not available... Horse not able to cast spells. So if player drops apple in front of horse, than Horse can restore fatigue when eating it. Other food options would be restoring endurance, health, strength, etc.

Upgrades can look like; Upgrade strength, health, attack. And just becuase its a fantasy game, for sh!ts and giggles... when the horse reaches a high enough overall level, it can cast a few certain spells that you have tuaght it... Resurrect other (character, you), Heal self/other, Protect self/other, and maybe a few others.

Also, buying armor for the horse, as well as maybe saddlebags. Increase storage space for character, by adding space to saddlebags as the Horse increases its strength. Instead of the character only taking half its load from dungeon all the way to city, than return to dungeon how ever many times needed to gather rest of stuff... only go to horse, dump junk in saddlebags, and return to dungeon. Of course, armor being included for horse, giving it greater survivability.

Just some thoughts. Maybe they can include it. Maybe not. Of course, Oblivion being 3-4 years old now, I doubt they will do for Oblivion, but still being so popular, and taking so long to play through, maybe they should. If not, with other improvements, the next chapter in Elder Scrolls can include this...

[americanman_4_life]

And a thought came to mind... aside from player in essence raising this horse for its travels... they should make available the ability train a wild animal. For instance, a wolf can become a wild pet. But every race selection for character, comes with ability to tame a different animal. So not all characters can tame a wolf. Each character has a different tame animal ability, but make a skill it needs to learn, like any other skill. Any tame wild pet still can't enter cities with character, but doesn't stay just at gate or corral like horse does. The wild pet wonders area around city, able to take care of it's own needs while your occupied. When you exit city, have option to call for the animal, whistle or what not, and depending on your skill level of taming, determines how long it takes before coming to you, but shadows you everywhere you go among the lands, have similar upgrades like horse.
Again, just a thought.

[Meepus Moopus]

Originally posted by americanman_4_life:

Of course, Oblivion being 3-4 years old now, I doubt they will do for Oblivion

Actually, Oblivion is 7 years old. And besides, there are countless of horse mods out there, I'm pretty sure most of what you suggested has already been done. Well, maybe not horses casting spells, but still.

[americanman_4_life]

I was off on my prediction, but I didn't ever look at specific facts to list the correct age of game title. Anyway, thanks for correcting me. As far as mods, I didn't know it was possible for mods for this game. I seen comments requesting a mod creator, so I didn't look into any mods.

With that said... are there any mods for Horse improvements?

[JrB908]

Originally posted by americanman_4_life:

I was off on my prediction, but I didn't ever look at specific facts to list the correct age of game title. Anyway, thanks for correcting me. As far as mods, I didn't know it was possible for mods for this game. I seen comments requesting a mod creator, so I didn't look into any mods.

Huh ! What !??

Oblivion Nexsus Top 100 most endorsed files of all time[oblivion.nexusmods.com]

Originally posted by americanman_4_life:

With that said... are there any mods for Horse improvements?

Zira's Battle Horse Shop[oblivion.nexusmods.com]

Zira's Horse Compilation Modpack[oblivion.nexusmods.com]

Are two that came up at the top of a quick Google search, I'm sure that there are many more out there if you go looking, enjoy.