How to make Skyrim gameplay last longer and enjoyable (with out mods)

[Justice]

One of my basic things for that is too not rush with main quests and power skilling. Try to do something else while doing some quest and return back to it. Exploring, doing minor quests, mining, picking ingridients, fight enemies and etc. Try to balance your character and don't make them overpowered with known enchatment and smithing tips and guides (tl:dr don't make your character overpowered).
The other things is to find interesting books and explore lore with it. You would not even imagine what amazing mysterious and stories are hidden inside of them! Me, personally is very interested in Dwemers history and I think know what happend to them!

And most importanly DO NOT FAST TRAVEL if you don't really have to. You will disscover so many places, peoples, enemies and interesting/weird events or even discover absolutely new secrets. Traveling on your foot (or horse) around the world is also a part of your journey as well and can be not less important or fun.

Anyways, what do you think? What is your method besides mods?

Happy Skyriming! =)

[Trigger]

♥♥♥♥♥ Eyes Caravan...is the name of the mod and it's awesome, it's a complete home on wheels, even comes with a horse named Thuse

[5n4k3d0cToR]

Havent even finished the main quest meself, despite playing for a while...its all about side quests , explo, crafting etc imo...
GOod post mate.

P.S

Its a shame that the horse dies so easily...

[Justice]

Trigger původně napsal:

♥♥♥♥♥ Eyes Caravan...is the name of the mod and it's awesome, it's a complete home on wheels, even comes with a horse named Thuse

*with out mods*, *besides mods* does those words don't ring a bell to you?

[Trigger]

install Convenient horses, and set to essential in the MCM

[Skyrimnut]

What do I do when I'm not playing with mods, which I still do by the way. I run a modless game on my laptop.

-no crafting, or limited crafting. Exploit what?
-no fast travel
-roleplay logically; eat, sleep, try not to do 10 quests in one day.
-build a character that has a decent background story and stick with it
-establish the morality of your character early on. If he's a thief, then by golly, have him steal right from the getgo. Even if he's caught and needs to serve some jail time.
-play a race against type
-make goals for your character
-sometimes its ok not to be the dragonborn. Head where? Whiterun? Nah, don't feel like it.
-get one of the stray dogs

[Zsrai]

With or without mods I try to create a character, not just a spread sheet:

- Create at least a character/background sketch; motivation, skills (usually choose 5-7 to actually level and perk heavily), quick & dirty back story. This means not joining every faction.
- Only choose up to 1 crafting skill to focus on (keeps the OPness down) and not grind it.
- Don't Fast Travel all the time. This is where I strongly suggest Better Fast Travel, as it adds more carriages AND the ability to disable Fast Travel entirely in the MCM.
- Try to be on a "real" schedule; eat & drink occasionally, get a solid 8 hours of sleep per night (for me, usually 10pm-6am).
- Don't loot everything under the sun; try to limit your loot to things you could actually carry back to town. I tend to loot a lot of daggers, septims, potions, etc. Small things that can be sold easily, not a couple sets of Heavy Armor that you somehow haul around.


- With mods it's easier to not be the Dragonborn at all, which can almost set you up for more of a short and sweet character "episode" rather than a full blown, level 81 OP character run. I mean something like having your end goal be finishing the Dawnguard side of Dawnguard; be whatever your character is until 10-20, probably doing some of the vampire related side quests, then join up with the Dawnguard, kick ass, and be done around 30-35. You can do the same with a character that is ONLY the Dragonborn, or only cares about killing Forsworn for the Jarl of Markarth, etc. I tend to do these types of characters a lot, as they allow for focused gameplay and cuts down on the grindy boredom of killing everything in Skyrim.

[5n4k3d0cToR]

Trigger původně napsal:

install Convenient horses, and set to essential in the MCM

Thought the OP said no enhancements/mods?.,..

[Whales]

Bards questline, go do it.

[Vita, Mortis, Careo]

Let me tell you just how much self restraint it has taken not to reply with some Viagra reference.

[Zsrai]

Silvermane původně napsal:

I like to shout in the towns until the courier delivers a letter from a friend that tells me the location of a word of power. Then I go a questing for it. This causes me to hit a lot of dungeons in random order with a good reason to go there.

You do know that you can get locations for Words from the Greybeards without putzing around in town, right?

[Shrapnel]

Trigger původně napsal:

♥♥♥♥♥ Eyes Caravan...is the name of the mod and it's awesome, it's a complete home on wheels, even comes with a horse named Thuse

I use Dragon killer cart myself, that mod alone has extended my gameplay because of all the craftables I want to make from it. Their both equally good but in different ways.

♥♥♥♥♥ Eyes gives you everything pre-packaged, DKC has all the same options you just have to craft them yourself, which gives the added benefit of placing them where you want in your camp. I install them both but use DKC cause I'll gladly pay 4k septims for a horse with infinite stamina

[Silvermane]

Zsrai původně napsal:

Silvermane původně napsal:

I like to shout in the towns until the courier delivers a letter from a friend that tells me the location of a word of power. Then I go a questing for it. This causes me to hit a lot of dungeons in random order with a good reason to go there.

You do know that you can get locations for Words from the Greybeards without putzing around in town, right?

Yes, but travelling all the way to High Hrothgar is more trouble than using Whirlwind Sprint in whatever town you happen to be in.