Asking for advice

[mareares]

Hey. Sorry to bother you but I wanted to know something about Skyrim mods and replayability. I played the game years ago and completed it and I liked it but never used any mod at all. I opened an account in loverslab this year cause I play Sims 4 and installed mods for the game and I loved it and then recently I read skyrim mods were good and I searched and saw amazing screens from the users of amazing bodies in the game. My question here is how far can you go with the mods, I mean can you create stories inside the game and improve the relationship with the npcs?, can npc have a realistic interation with you? Or it is just the same game with h content and graphic improves? My goal is to find a game like sims 4 which give you the opportunity to have realistic relationship with the characters, for example if in Skyrim you could have the possibility to have a girlfriend and she can do things (buy, work, find friends, visit places..) meanwhile you keep playing and do your things and not just how it was made in the game which was "I´m your girlfriend and I will serve you cooking for you and nothing more and I do nothing while you are out of the house". One thing that bothers me its that in a lot of games you can have friends, girlfriends, boyfriends and so on but they are empty programming code who do just one or two things and nothing more and I don´t feel it too realistic. I understand Skyrim is not Sims 4 but I create this post to answer how far can you go with the mods in this aspect and also if you can improve the game creating stories not related to sex or love,  I mean if you can do fun things which in the vanilla game you couldn´t.

 

I want to add that I only have the Skyrim base game and not the LE or SE game (I read SE is update from time to time and can create conflict to the mods¿?) Is it worth to buy the SE?.

 

Sorry for my rustic english and I hope someone can answer me.

[Gukahn]

Oh boy, your are in for a treat if you take a couple of days, maybe a week or two to set skyrim up correctly.

I don't know much about Sims modding, but as far as i saw, whenever someone switched from sims to skyrim, they run into some troubles (nothing that can't be fixed with some reading and learning by doing it, don't worry.)

 

So for your first questions, really realistic relationships.. I would say that's not possible in any game but if you install the right mods, you can simulate much of it.

For example, there is a new Serana Mod, called Dialogue Addon. Don't let the name fool you, it's so much more then just a Dialogue, gives here basicly a new voice (professional actress as far as i read.) and a whole new personality, far more fleshed out but not for everyone's taste. Yep she can become your girl/wife in the long run and has many things to say. A bit fast in the relationship progress but as you play dawnguard you develop her relationship with ya. Has a Loverslab Patch (and nobody got more Overhauls then her so you should be able to find a apperance replacer that suits your taste easily.)

Other alternatives you could look out for is relationship dialogue overhaul, never used it but it seems to be good.

For the whole AI to make it a bit more alive (but still repetetive as for all games.) Is Immersive citizens.

Couple that with mods like interesting NPC`s which adds a ton of content, super cool npc´s with interesting backstorys, quests and lore and you got yourself a bit of a nice roleplaying game with voice actors far superior then the vanilla bunch. Some of them talk about things involving their storys, some rather talk about the history or lore of the game or add a new perspective to quests and the world view. Very nice indeed.

 

You should get yourself either LE or SE, the base game won't  get you far, many mods need the DLC`s and if i remember right, sexlabs framework need them too.

As for SSE. IF You wanna go with it buy it now and install it right away, set your steam launcher to only update the game while you start it, you will only launch it later with SKSE anyway so it will never update. The reason i say it is the anniversary bullshit Beth pulled out of their ass, we don't know if it will break things and it's a forced update as far as my infos go. Modding LE is a bit more complicated, SE excuses failure more but both are good in their own way.  (and the question LE vs SE always starts a crusade so.. Let's not do that.)

 

(for the, Wife goes on trips or such, you might have just to let your mind think she does. As you said it's not sims, you wouldn't see it anyway.)

[Shadowbroker3495]

Skyrim is probably the game with the most mods so you have quite an experience to enjoy.

 

LE vs SE is a minefield subject. LE is from 2011 32-bit, SE is from 2016 64-bit. Some neutral facts.

 

As Gukahn already said in previous post. Don't expect AI level conversations and relationships. Mods try to simulate life as good as possible. 

 

LL mods offer simulation of the erotic aspect of life in many different ways.

 

17 hours ago, mareares said:

(I read SE is update from time to time and can create conflict to the mods¿?) Is it worth to buy the SE?.

If you make sure to only install the right version of mods, there should not be major problems. If you use Skyrim SE then don't install LE mods and vice versa.

 

But all modders experience problems sooner or later. If you follow a guide you should be spared for most beginner problems. Also remember to read comments (mod Support thread here at LL, POSTS tab at Nexus) before downloading and installing mods. Some mods may be inherently buggy and other mods may not work properly when combined with some  specific mods.

 

[coolfreaky]

just to add to Gukahn  and to Shadowbroker3495  

 

i would wait for the Anniversary Edition  and see what is happening ?

[ttts1]

I would strongly suggest downloading LE or SE now.  As @Gukahn mentions, Anniversary Edition could break all mods if they update LE/SE as well.  Many mods rely on SKSE to work, and who knows how long it may take to update SKSE.  And mod creators can't even look at how to fix their mods until SKSE is updated so they can see how to fit their mods into SKSE changes.  That could take months, and if the creators aren't around anymore then they may never get fixed. 

 

Better to be safe than sorry and have a backup version outside your Steam or other distributor's folders.  That way if the AE launch brings changes that break LE/SE, you have a working version.  If not, you're unlikely to be able to get a working version and will be stuck without mods in the worst case scenario. 

[Swiftstep]

Take a look into this mod.

Skyrim has no households like the Sims has. The person you play does everything. NPCs are NPCs - there are hundreds of replacers, but focus is on an interesting character via story. Can an NPC improve your home by crafting? Not that I know of. Can an NPC collect herbs you can use to level alchemie? No, never heard of it.

 

Only chance you got is Proteus. Create your own pair of PCs and share the burden - you playing them, but a herb-picker will not have to be a heavy armor wearing brute.

More RP, but all the fun you can ask for.