Thanks AnneG, I never mod games so I'm pretty useless for this part of the conversation.

Have fun, Andrea, and

Annie--LOL!! I think mine is too. I'm always talking about leaving someone and looking for someone else now, and my RL hubby just looks at me like, "Hmm....hope she's not planning that in real life!" LOL

Oh btw guys, I was looking for more mods tonight and someone has made a "better" Farkas AND Vilkas. Lord, he did a great job---the guys are GORGEOUS! I might have to go re-marry mine just so I can see that new face of his all of the time. LOL

Tracy, still having lots of fun, wishing she could jump into the computer and live there for real.....sigh

If I could mod I would make the crosshair larger and red in color. The UI makes it hard for me to target enemies and the crosshair gets lost in the whirl a lot.

Me too, Debra! I would like that!
I have some issues with the game slowing down on me suddenly, and I am unable to conrol movement as I would like. I am so used to playing WoW and find it hard to get used to how the mouse is used for this game. I don't remember Oblivion or Morrowind being so difficult. Any help is much appreciated.
Andrea

Andrea, have you looked in your settings to customize? I kept forgetting to scroll down the list of options when I first started playing. Well, actually, I didn't forget, I just didn't know.

Okay, next time I'm am SO going to install some mods and really spend some time working out which characters are marriagable.

I'm just a little leery because I'm playing on Vista and I never know whether things will install properly. I don;t know how to trouble shoot in Vista. Yet the laptop itself is so good for gaming I can't replace it.

Question - how does one download and install one of the mods? I "subscribed" to one of the mods on the official site, but it has not installed, obviously.

Hagatha---you absolutely should, mods are SO much fun! btw---I'm playing on a desktop running Windows 7, and so I'm not sure if anything might be different as far as mods go, but with mine I just download manually from the Skyrim Nexus site to my Downloads folder, then use Winzip and click on "1-click unzip"and once the files pop up, i click on the file name (the .esp file usually) and drag it into my Skyrim data folder. (steamapps/common/skyrim/data) Then when you pull up the game you can click on the Data Files tab and click on that mod to make sure it appears in the game. (For some odd reason with mine it's been doing that automatically, so unless I "uncheck" something in my Data Files list, every mod I've installed will play.)

Anyway I hope that helps and that you find some great mods to play!

Tracy, who's now eager to either have someone make a mod where you can have more dialog and an auctual "courtship" of somekind, OR to learn how to use the Creation Kit herself. (i'm a little intimidated by it so I'm hoping someone else will make one, but on the other hand, it would be so great to have the characters do and say what I make them do and say. POWER!!!!!) LOL

Hi Skyrim friends!
I downloaded the SkyUI mod and am getting an error in game that says I needed the script extension (I think). I found it and tried to download it, but keep getting the same error message in game. So I've done something wrong. Anybody have an answer?
Andrea

luv2travel, you are having my problem exactly. When fighting, I end up looking at the sky or between my legs while trying to turn and face the enemy I've had to put it in god mode while doing some fights so I don't die. I could hit them if I could get arranged fast enough.

luv2travel, when you start up Skyrim are you using the Skyrim Script Extender Launcher? You have to or else Script Extender won't run. You can't launch it the old way through Steam anymore.

Tracy, I saw those Farkas, Vilkas makeovers. They did a good job, whoever they are. They also did a vampire Marcurio makeover as well. He looked pretty good. I know there's got a few people working on overhauling the marriage system or providing us with more marriage prospects.

Thanks AnneG! Where do I find the launcher? I was trying to get in game by using Steam. I didn't know I had to do it differently.
Andrea

Hopefully yours should be the same as mine. Mine was in the Skyrim folder itself.

C:/Program Files (x86)/Steam/steamapps/common/Skyrim

There should be a file in there called SkyrimLauncher.

Cool AnneG. I can't wait to have more conversation options and maybe some actual dating before getting hitched to a total stranger! LOL

Have to check out the vampire Marcurio btw---that sounds fun. And btw, I was talking with both Farkas and Vilkas last night (separately of course! lol) and I'd forgotten that they have different voices. Wow. I LOVE Vilka's voice, so I might steal him from you if you don't mind.

SIGH So many men, so little time! (or at least I hope there will be so many men....there are so many promising mods so far that I think that we're either going to have alot more men to choose from, OR the ones that exist will be given really nice makeovers!LOL)

Tracy

Thanks again AnneG!
Andrea

Okay, I've got three mods installed; the one that makes the horses go faster, the ones that shows you markers for all the Barenziah stones (I know, I know, but I got stuck on the last two) and the ones that is supposed to improve merchants the more you trade with them. The horse one is great, and I'll try, next game, not to quicktravel so much. Now I have all the stones, so I'll finally get to see what happens.

I must say, the Guild quests seem never-ending, and I haven't even bought (or even found) all the houses yet. And that's with an unbelievable 247 hours clocked already. Next time I'll be more quest-focused and less exploration-fixated.

Where is the safest site to download mods and are they for the retail disc version as well as the downloaded version?

Kazz, a few pages back AnneG posted This Site as a good place to get mods.

And Debra posted This Link to PC Gamer's list of mods.

and have fun.

Also worth mentioning is the brand new Skryim Steam Workshop. It's brand new so I've hardly thought about it since the Creation Kit came out. I just used it today for the first time and it seemed to work just fine. People can make and upload mods to it and people can browse through those mods. If you find one you like, click the Subscribe button and the next you start the game, Steam automatically downloads and installs the mod for you. It could be worth a try for anyone leery of the Nexus site. In your Steam library on the Skyrim page, you'll see a Browse the Workshop button and it'll take you right to it. I'm thinking I might upload one of my houses to it, just to see how it works.

Thanks AnneG

Thank you very much for your answers. I have been wondering about that Nexus site. I will pass and use links given here.

Hi all!
I'm still having a problem with the Script Extender thing for SkyUI, and since I love SkyUI I really want to solve the issue. I can't figure the thing out and am ready to throw a fit!
I wish Nexus was as easy to add things to Skyrim as Curse is for WoW. L4L, do you know what to do? Adding mods is like adding add-ons to WoW. Some of them are a big help to the game. I think that the extender should be added automatically when you download SkyUI.
Any help would be appreciated.
Andrea

Andrea, do you have the Nexus Mod Manager installed?
If you do, then you can go back in and uninstall the SkyUI mod and reinstall it. The Mod Manager will put everything where it should go.
If you have the mod manager did you enable the SkyUI in it by first highlighting SkyUI and then clicking on the little icon that looks like a puzzle piece in the mods section with the green arrow pointing to the right?
If you don't have the mod manager here's the link:
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/content/modmanager/
Do you have the latest version of the script extender? http://skse.silverlock.org/download/skse_1_04_10.7z

I don't know if any of this will help you, but maybe you can try these suggestions if you haven't already.
P.S After reading your post over again, it seemed to me that you don't have the extender downloaded.
Sky UI and that extender are separate from each other and you have to download each one for SkyUI to work.
OK I hope this is my last edit!
This is the page I downloaded SkyUI from and it has lots of information on the mod and how to download it. Plus if you still have problems you can contact the author of the mod from that page:
http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=3863
Fingers crossed for you!

Thanks Debra

Andrea, I don't use mods in Skyrim so I am not a good source of info on that issue. Thank God for the members that can help.

Thanks Debra!
I have SkyUI downloaded just fine. It's just the extender that is giving me problems. Wish it went in at the same time.

Hey everyone. I was just wandering around Skyrim last night and there are always little moments that pop out that I always want to mention, but forget to. Well, it happened again this morning too, I just have to shake my head. You know the guy in Solitude who goes, "Fletching suits me" ? Everytime he says that I want desperately to reply with something snarky like, "Did I ASK you if fletching suited you?" or "Thanks for sharing that. Did you know that I prefer being a warrior to being a mage? I find that slicing up people is much more fun than just casting spells on them!" LOL!!!!

Wouldn't it be great if someone made a mod that allowed us to respond to these unasked-for comments? I would SO LOVE THAT!

Tracy, feeling silly this morning and realizing belatedly that she's half in love with Balimund! (sorry Annie--LOL)

PS Regarding Balimund.....now that I have the console codes to "unmarry", I've been tying the knot with a few other dudes just to see what it's like, and I married Balimund last night only to realize that he abandons his forge and lives in my basement, supposedly having a "shop" there. I want a mod that makes him stay where he is and do his thing, then he can come home to me after work! I actually requested this on Skyrim Nexus so we'll see if anyone takes me up on it.