An Elder Scrolls: Oblivion thead

PeterNem · 4 Apr 2006 at 12:11

Are you a member of the theives guild? I think the easiest way would be to speak to your theives guild contact and ask about clearing your bounty (they'll do it for half the actual cost).

I've joined the theives guild pretty much just so I can use this service if I ever need to.

philstanbridge · 4 Apr 2006 at 12:12

PeterNem said:
Are you a member of the theives guild? I think the easiest way would be to speak to your theives guild contact and ask about clearing your bounty (they'll do it for half the actual cost).

I've joined the theives guild pretty much just so I can use this service if I ever need to.

Oh dear I dont know lol.. I havent been invited to join any guild AFAIK?

PeterNem · 4 Apr 2006 at 12:14

You have to be fairly proactive about joining guilds, if you take a look at the first post in this thread (http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17554956) I've made a brief note about how to join each of the major guilds.

Sweetloaf · 4 Apr 2006 at 12:17

philstanbridge said:
I can only dream of getting my character to that sort of level /\

I've run into a little problem - I've stolen some kit and had to kill off a guard - now whenever I venture back into the towns I get arrested straight away - is there a way round this other than fighting? (I have only got 200 gold) I'm not very good at it.

Serve your time?

philstanbridge · 4 Apr 2006 at 12:21

Sweetloaf said:
Serve your time?

But then you can lose your kit?

Davey_Pitch · 4 Apr 2006 at 12:32

philstanbridge said:
But then you can lose your kit?

Only your stolen kit, if you have any.

VeNT · 4 Apr 2006 at 12:43

can you be in more than one guild at once?

Fx-Overlord · 4 Apr 2006 at 12:47

VeNT said:
can you be in more than one guild at once?

Yes!

Davey_Pitch · 4 Apr 2006 at 12:47

VeNT said:
can you be in more than one guild at once?

Yes, you can be in all 4 at once, and have active quests for all 4 at once.

VeNT · 4 Apr 2006 at 12:50

so dark brotherhood, blades, fighters, theives, mages ALL AT ONCE?

GET IN!

weeble · 4 Apr 2006 at 13:05

Certainly can be in more than one guild - I'm currently in the Fighters, Thieves and Dark Brother. Just got to be a bit careful sometimes...

Mercutio · 4 Apr 2006 at 13:12

philstanbridge said:
I can only dream of getting my character to that sort of level /\

I've run into a little problem - I've stolen some kit and had to kill off a guard - now whenever I venture back into the towns I get arrested straight away - is there a way round this other than fighting? (I have only got 200 gold) I'm not very good at it.

I've gone with a VERY evil character, cat-burgalar, pickpocket, assasin and archer. Have worked out the guard + jail/bounty system rather well.

If your arrested ANYTHING on you that was stolen (red hand icon) gets claimed but if you look around the prison when you get released you should be able to find the chest with your stuff in.

There are ways around this though - unless you serve time in jail anything you leave in a chest/crate/cupboard will be there when you get out. If the guards want you and you have stuff on you ALWAYS resist arrest. Keep running away from town and keep trying to wait. Once it lets you wait (once the guard has given up chase) head back into town - so long as you dont talk to a guard they wont bust you. Dump all your stuff in a chest then go pay the bounty.

In your case you have the problem that you killed a guard - they makes town guards act differently - they will approach and try and arrest you on sight. If you cant cover the bounty the only way to keep hold of stolen items is to lock them away in a house you own (yet to test if it works with houses I have the key to - killed a few home-owners along my travels and pocketed their keys). If you go to jail any containers you dont own are reset (as far as I know so far).
Another thing to note is if you join mage/fighters guild most of the items in guild houses are fair game and arent classes as stealing if you lift+sell them ("working" a house properly is much more rewarding however - with good security skills you can empty a house + pickpocket its owner without waking them - knowing when they get a visit from their lover/get up to do their own naughty deeds makes things much smoother tho.)

If you get stuck for things to do:
1) Travel along the yellow road out of the imperial city, it crosses a wide-ish river at one point, just after that (it might depend on level) theres 2 oblivion gates.

2) Kill a peasant completely at random, without a mission goal or provocation and have a nap.

3) Get arrested in the Imperial City.

Currently living my life as a vampire - the strength gains etc are handy but dodging sunlight can get to be a pain. As the vampirism grows the stronger you get but the quicker you die in the open in daylight

Might go get cured one day but currently gives me a definite edge (wait 48 hrs before fighting anything massively hard - gives you about 8 points strength and agility gain due to vampire effects).

It IS a very good game for playing in your own style. Make the games landmass about as big as morrowind and keep the current engine+AI and a killer of a MMORPG could well be done - would need a little of the crafting elements etc too though.

PeterNem · 4 Apr 2006 at 13:15

Mercutio said:
If you get stuck for things to do:
1) Travel along the yellow road out of the imperial city, it crosses a wide-ish river at one point, just after that (it might depend on level) theres 2 oblivion gates.

I *think* the main gates are in set locations, but the other gates pretty much spawn randomly, so they may not be there for other people.

MoratJG · 4 Apr 2006 at 13:17

VeNT said:
so dark brotherhood, blades, fighters, theives, mages ALL AT ONCE?

And 'The Order of the Virtous Blood', but I have only had one quest from them so far.

weeble · 4 Apr 2006 at 13:21

Mercutio said:
yet to test if it works with houses I have the key to - killed a few home-owners along my travels and pocketed their keys.

Doesn't work stashing stuff in these houses - I got the keys off the paranoid bloke to his house and tried to stash my stolen chainmail armour there - said you can't store items while trespassing.

Can I high tail it off to a fence, sell the chainmail and buy it back unstolen?

Mercutio · 4 Apr 2006 at 13:28

weeble said:
Doesn't work stashing stuff in these houses - I got the keys off the paranoid bloke to his house and tried to stash my stolen chainmail armour there - said you can't store items while trespassing.

Can I high tail it off to a fence, sell the chainmail and buy it back unstolen?

Yeah I got the paranoid guys key - fair enough, hadnt done much with it yet, as far as legging it to the fence goes that definitely works - have done that with a few magics i've pilfered that were worth keeping.

We think its worth turning this into an "in game" tips, fun locations or start another for it? One nice spot i've found (well my most recent and the one im happiest about). The same road that had my gates on them - theres a mine there called "Barren Mine" with a few goblins outside. I let the horse/nightmare (dark brotherhood) tank em for me while finished with the bow, theres another 2 goblins inside + a named one and a shaman - got all these down. At the back is about 10k gold worth of mages staff

oweneades · 4 Apr 2006 at 13:46

How do you get the keys to a house in which you have 'accidently' killed the owner?

I done it in the place beginning with C (top right on map) but I havn't come across the keys.

PeterNem · 4 Apr 2006 at 13:53

Mercutio said:
We think its worth turning this into an "in game" tips, fun locations or start another for it? One nice spot i've found (well my most recent and the one im happiest about). The same road that had my gates on them - theres a mine there called "Barren Mine" with a few goblins outside. I let the horse/nightmare (dark brotherhood) tank em for me while finished with the bow, theres another 2 goblins inside + a named one and a shaman - got all these down. At the back is about 10k gold worth of mages staff

You need to remember that the contents (both loot and monsters) of a lot dungeons is totally random, so other people going to the same location could have a totally different experience.

Mercutio · 4 Apr 2006 at 14:10

oweneades said:
How do you get the keys to a house in which you have 'accidently' killed the owner?

I done it in the place beginning with C (top right on map) but I havn't come across the keys.

Generally keys are on the owners body. I rarely go out of my way to slay an innocent (its not very professional after all

) but when i have they generally on the owner. Work out which the master bedroom is, kill em in sleep (x6 sneak attack for the win) and keys should be on them

Will try and bare in mind on random dungeons etc.

Another tip I would give then (random one) is to find and keep 1 or 2 oblivion gates for harvesting, theres a few handy plants in them and a couple of the monster drops are good in alchemy too.

weeble · 4 Apr 2006 at 14:16

oweneades said:
How do you get the keys to a house in which you have 'accidently' killed the owner?

I done it in the place beginning with C (top right on map) but I havn't come across the keys.

I've just found the keys on their bodies (spacebar, not sure about consoles) though.

Question abouts mods: do you have to have a fresh save for them to work, or can you install them on your current save? Or do you have to start a fresh character?