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Hi! New fan and possibly a helper?

Submitted by Gothelittle Rose on

I'm a fan of Morrowind, Oblivion, and Skyrim. I just tried out Morroblivion yesterday, after waiting and watching until it reached the point where I felt I could handle the installation. I'm impressed and very happy with what I've seen so far!

I think I might be unusual among fans in that I really do love all three games equally. I do believe that Morrowind was lacking in graphics, but beautiful in its own right. I love the gameplay of Morrowind and Skyrim for its 'sharpness', so to speak... its lack of tameness. Oblivion is so beautiful that I load it up to wander in the Imperial Reserve in late February, when my outside world is grey and slushy.

I'm not very skilled in the area of modding and never went further than a little elementary scripting in Morrowind and making my own player house. (I created a "Hobbit Amulet" that, when first put on, transported the player home - I did this so that I could load up on junk at the mouth of a dungeon and drop it just inside my front door.) I also recolored textures and did some very minor alterations to them.

I am good at noticing small details, though. I'm willing to offer what I've noticed for people who know what they're doing to fix, and I might be able to help with what little I know how to do. For instance, I could probably alter NPC faces, or set ownership on objects.

I would not want to make Morrowind more like Oblivion. I want it to be itself in all its beauty... but with a better graphics engine. It looks like this is exactly what you guys are doing.

Oh, as for who I am... I'm a New Englander married mother of three. Before I left my previous workplace to homeschool my kids, I was a software engineer and occasional community college adjunct professor (in computers, of course).

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Hi there!

If you are interested in helping, we always need people to help fix bugs, or at the very least, write new bug reports / confirm existing bugs. 

The easiest way to do this is keep a notepad on your desk (either a real one or an ipad or whatever) and write down problems when you see them while you're playing.  Then later, you can report the bugs in the bug tracker.

There are also longer-term, larger projects, such as adding AI schedules to NPCs.  This has been mostly done in Seyda Neen, Balmora, Maar Gan, and Caldera.  But there is still a lot to do.

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If Seyda Neen's AI schedule has been done, then you've probably already fixed the Fargoth problem. His quest is a good quick way to start picking up some funds, but that little fetcher wanders off somewhere and I can rarely find him to return his ring! In Morrowind, if I remember correctly, he approaches you directly... if not, then at least he's right there when you exit with your papers.

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Yeah, adding AI does make the game a lot more challenging, because people aren't always where you expect them. 

Then again, Oblivion and Skyrim both have this same issue / feature, and it's more realistic that way than just having a person stay in one spot all the time.

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Oh I agree with that, and for the most part I think it's a good thing. But the Fargoth quest didn't really work very well for me.. actually, it didn't seem to work at all.. and having to start out to hunt him down was rather annoying. Perhaps in the future, someone could have a look at him, maybe have him seek you out to get his ring back?

I hate to sound like I'm complaining. :) I'm picking up little things across Seyda Neen and Balmora. Only little things. It's awesome and very playable. It's just a matter of, well... polishing it up.

These are little things. Should I start listing them in a thread somewhere, or enter them as separate issues or something?

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Separate issues is much easier to track and fix than a big list of unrelated issues.  

If they are all problems with the same single quest/NPC/item, then one issue is easier.  Thanks!

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Roger roger! :)

I'll warn you though, I used to be a quality engineer. Errors find me, because I stress-test things...

Where would I go to learn how to help out, if I think I can fix one of these issues myself?

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