Family ties (January 2025)

[DeepBlueFrog]

Your armor is using slot 53... this is used by Devious Devices for Cuffs I believe.

 

Is your test character wearing nothing else than this armor?

[Shi-ku]

I have all the devious devices underneath options turned off. Also when I switch to a vanilla race the piece of armor will appear. 

 

Yeah currently, just testing that one piece. I'm stumped as to what could be the problem. Been searching all weekend for tutorials on what to do but so far no luck. 

[HerculesCow33]

Heyyy any news?

[Tiruil]

Just poping in to say that i dont mind the waiting, so long as you're healthy in the process too

[LenaLachrymosa]

I heard about this mod for a long time, but only now I'm seriously considering using it.
The only problem I have is that I'm using Protect your People - PyP - Better NPC Protection mod ( https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/84394? ) and I'm wondering about a potential conflict between this two mods

Edited November 14, 2021 by LenaLachrymosa

[DeepBlueFrog]

38 minutes ago, LenaLachrymosa said:

I heard about this mod for a long time, but only now I'm seriously considering using it.
The only problem I have is that I'm using Protect your People - PyP - Better NPC Protection mod ( https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/84394? ) and I'm wondering about a potential conflict between this two mods

 

I never used that mod and I can't assume how it works, but Family Ties isn't changing any NPC so you should be safe with it.

 

[HerculesCow33]

1 hour ago, DeepBlueFrog said:

 

I never used that mod and I can't assume how it works, but Family Ties isn't changing any NPC so you should be safe with it.

 

Hi DPF, so when will the mod continue to be developed?

[DeepBlueFrog]

14 minutes ago, HerculesCow33 said:

Hi DPF, so when will the mod continue to be developed?

 

I have a few major constraints right now:

 

1- Finding the right amount of time given my work load (from Work)

2- Finding the right inspiration between Family Ties, Sanguine Debauchery + main story and a few loose ends in SexLab Stories

3- Finding solutions to some issues with what I am trying to do with the mod - mainly:

- assign Relationship FormID by script instead of inside a .esp file.

- allow the player to plays as an Elder race character

- simulate seasons convincingly to give a sense of passing time

 

I will have more time at the end of December.. we will see if Family Ties comes up on top

[HerculesCow33]

8 minutes ago, DeepBlueFrog said:

 

I have a few major constraints right now:

 

1- Finding the right amount of time given my work load (from Work)

2- Finding the right inspiration between Family Ties, Sanguine Debauchery + main story and a few loose ends in SexLab Stories

3- Finding solutions to some issues with what I am trying to do with the mod - mainly:

- assign Relationship FormID by script instead of inside a .esp file.

- allow the player to plays as an Elder race character

- simulate seasons convincingly to give a sense of passing time

 

I will have more time at the end of December.. we will see if Family Ties comes up on top

I've been waiting for this mod for a long time. I hope it comes up on top

[DeepBlueFrog]

I am working on a feature for Family Ties to better mark the progression of time and aging of the player character - Seasonal weather override.

 

This feature is optional, with a checkbox in MCM to turn it off.

 

What it does is divide your allocated number of days in a year into four seasons.

When you change cell location as you move around, the mod will add a chance to override the weather with a more appropriate weather type of that season.

 

In other words, sunny, clear weather is more likely to happen during the 'summer' season, rain and fog are more likely to happen during 'spring and fall' seasons, and snow is more likely to happen during 'winter' season and that, regardless of where you are in Skyrim.

 

I am not handling ground cover or foliage effects simply because it is next to impossible to do that dynamically in a satisfactory way. I know some ENB mods add snow on the ground during snowfalls. Those mods should be compatible with this feature.

 

I won't be spending too much time on this aspect of the mod. It is more for flavor than anything else. And also a way for me to get started with updates to Family Ties.

 

[HerculesCow33]

Great news DBF! Thank you!  I don't think it's worth wasting your time on this feature. Maybe some incest quests are can come..

[DeepBlueFrog]

4 hours ago, HerculesCow33 said:

Great news DBF! Thank you!  I don't think it's worth wasting your time on this feature. Maybe some incest quests are can come..

 

It is not at all a wasted of time. 

 

I got the idea playing Medieval Dynasty and it gave me a good sense of passing time to have actual seasonal changes in the weather.

And since Family Ties already has controls to set a time scale for 'aging' the player, it made sense to add that feature here.

 

It is already tested and working well. If feels great to have mostly rain in Spring, sunshine in Summer and fog in Fall regardless of where you are in Skyrim.

 

It is such a simple idea, I wonder why it isn't part of the original game.

As far as I can tell, weather in Skyrim is mostly regional, with a few random variations. 

[Pudpud007]

Hey, nice simple mod. I like this. Is it possible for a player Redguard or Nord to be a child of Rustleif in Dawnstar? His wife is a redguard, and Rustleif is a nord. Also the wife is pregnant. I kinda wanna be the big brother in that family. 

 

Peace out!

[DeepBlueFrog]

1 hour ago, Pudpud007 said:

Hey, nice simple mod. I like this. Is it possible for a player Redguard or Nord to be a child of Rustleif in Dawnstar? His wife is a redguard, and Rustleif is a nord. Also the wife is pregnant. I kinda wanna be the big brother in that family. 

 

Peace out!

 

As it is right now, the choice of start is up to you. There is no race check anywhere.

Just use the right esp for the Dawnstar family and that should be enough.

[1337DragonWolf]

This is a great concept, one that would make me consider brushing the digital dust off of my Skyrim copy! I was wondering if there could be daily "chore" quests added. Like, for example, as Carlotta's eldest daughter/son:

• She gives you a money purse and asks you to request new cooking utensils from Adrianne, who offers to let you keep the purse if you take the time to help her smith/improve weapons/armor, after which she sends you home with the promise that Mom will get her utensils tomorrow (or later if she has a backlog [that you didn't help with]).
• She asks you deliver a list of requests and a purse of coins to Arcadia, who (just like Adrianne) says you can keep the purse if you help her with making potions and (a bit more hesitantly, or later after you've shown to be competent) poisons, after which she sends you home with the promise that Mom will get her stuff.
• She hands you a bow, arrows, dagger, and paralysis poisons to hunt a game animal outside the city gates (that the mod spawns, to make sure things go smoothly). After you kill the animal, she takes the bow and dagger back, thanks you, and tells you Anoriath will go and take care of the animal, and deliver what he doesn't take for himself for field dressing the deer. She gives you a kiss, tells you she's proud of you, and sends you on your way.

Just throwing it out there. I don't know.

[DeepBlueFrog]

On 12/28/2021 at 6:16 AM, 1337DragonWolf said:

This is a great concept, one that would make me consider brushing the digital dust off of my Skyrim copy! I was wondering if there could be daily "chore" quests added. Like, for example, as Carlotta's eldest daughter/son:

• She gives you a money purse and asks you to request new cooking utensils from Adrianne, who offers to let you keep the purse if you take the time to help her smith/improve weapons/armor, after which she sends you home with the promise that Mom will get her utensils tomorrow (or later if she has a backlog [that you didn't help with]).
• She asks you deliver a list of requests and a purse of coins to Arcadia, who (just like Adrianne) says you can keep the purse if you help her with making potions and (a bit more hesitantly, or later after you've shown to be competent) poisons, after which she sends you home with the promise that Mom will get her stuff.
• She hands you a bow, arrows, dagger, and paralysis poisons to hunt a game animal outside the city gates (that the mod spawns, to make sure things go smoothly). After you kill the animal, she takes the bow and dagger back, thanks you, and tells you Anoriath will go and take care of the animal, and deliver what he doesn't take for himself for field dressing the deer. She gives you a kiss, tells you she's proud of you, and sends you on your way.

Just throwing it out there. I don't know.

 

That's in my list of ideas to develop for Family Ties.

 

The main mod will have a few basic quests to interact with your family.

The incest side of it will be included in SexLab Stories to make it optional and keep SexLab out of the main mod.

[LenaLachrymosa]

If I use JK Skyrim that change towns, villages ect then esp from this mod will overwrite ( edit ) Dragonborn Bridge settlement ? 

[Highborn]

5 hours ago, DeepBlueFrog said:

 

That's in my list of ideas to develop for Family Ties.

 

The main mod will have a few basic quests to interact with your family.

The incest side of it will be included in SexLab Stories to make it optional and keep SexLab out of the main mod.

I think the basic quests are something that would enhance this mod a lot, since the NPCs act mostly as they don't know you.

 

Hope you'll start working on it again. 

 

 

[1337DragonWolf]

7 hours ago, DeepBlueFrog said:

 

That's in my list of ideas to develop for Family Ties.

 

The main mod will have a few basic quests to interact with your family.

The incest side of it will be included in SexLab Stories to make it optional and keep SexLab out of the main mod.

Kisses from your mommy aren't necessarily incest! lmfao

[DeepBlueFrog]

1 hour ago, 1337DragonWolf said:

Kisses from your mommy aren't necessarily incest! lmfao

 

I didn't mean that... kisses from mom will be part of the main mod.

Stories will have more explicit incest content for those who want to go down that road.

[DeepBlueFrog]

3 hours ago, LenaLachrymosa said:

If I use JK Skyrim that change towns, villages ect then esp from this mod will overwrite ( edit ) Dragonborn Bridge settlement ? 

 

I use them too and I haven't found any issue with Stories.

[1337DragonWolf]

4 hours ago, DeepBlueFrog said:

 

I didn't mean that... kisses from mom will be part of the main mod.

Stories will have more explicit incest content for those who want to go down that road.

Uhuh. Suuure. lmfao

[LenaLachrymosa]

After 2 or 3 days, I practiced magic into my own imaginary story. While practicing the summoning Familiar (wolf) and casting the Mage Light spell, my brother started telling me to leave the house because it was already late in the morning. I don't know why this happened, at the moment I can't sleep in my bed anymore. A bit sluggish as the mod takes me two .esp slots in my mod list.
Should it be like that? Because now I am treated as a stranger "in my family home"

 

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Wont even work if I load game from day before. I think I remove this mod

Edited December 31, 2021 by LenaLachrymosa

[DeepBlueFrog]

1 hour ago, LenaLachrymosa said:

After 2 or 3 days, I practiced magic into my own imaginary story. While practicing the summoning Familiar (wolf) and casting the Mage Light spell, my brother started telling me to leave the house because it was already late in the morning. I don't know why this happened, at the moment I can't sleep in my bed anymore. A bit sluggish as the mod takes me two .esp slots in my mod list.
Should it be like that? Because now I am treated as a stranger "in my family home"

 

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Wont even work if I load game from day before. I think I remove this mod

 

I tried different strategies to make the player allowed in their family home, but something is still missing.

 

The second esp is necessary because relationships in Skyrim cannot be scripted. Without a separate esp with the relationships defined, I would have to define these relationships in the same esp file, which means the player would have 10 mothers (one for every family defined).

 

I am hoping to eventually sort these issues out but that will take either time or extra help.

[LenaLachrymosa]

No worries. From my point of view, you are one of the best mod developers not only for LL but also for the NexusMods website.
I uninstalled the mod, but it doesn't mean that I want to say something bad about this mod, because it is not. I just love playing Skyrim, I guess I'm addicted because every moment I spend in front of the computer, I want to spend in Skyrim. It's because of people like you that I want to play, play and play Skyrim again.
One day I will come back to your mod, but for the moment I uninstalled it, because .... as I wrote before, I have to play Skyrim: D
Thank you for being, thank you for making my Skyrim better with each of your mods. Thank you for your input and hard work. I wouldn't have gotten 11,400 hours in this game if it weren't for you and the mods community.
Forgive my poor English in school, I learned French and German.

Happy New Year mr. DeepBlueFrog

 

Spoiler contain only screenshots - high mb weight - if you use mobile or limited monthly internet usage on on your device. Spoilers "rather" do not show dirty threads )

 

..And remember my English is really, I mean really bad...watch out for sore eyes....you have been warned

 

What my name is and where I am from is not important, but important is what I want to convey. Once upon a time, in a distant galaxy on one of the blue pearl planet, surrounded by two moons, there lived a young girl. and it was not an ordinary girl, her name was Imogen ( Name of player character) ask her mother for spell book ( Familiar ) to let hetr start studing magic.

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Imogens ern some septims for working at Inn serving drinks ( but not all customers are co-operative ) and play on instruments 

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Imogen, as an ambitious person, helped her parents as much as she could. Especially when growing vegetables and harvesting them. She used magic to make weights grow faster and be more nutritious.

 

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above all, she wanted to be the best Mage in Tamriel. Unfortunately, her family's financial debts and the status of the society she came from did not allow her to receive a proper education at the College of Winterhold.

 

Nevertheless, with the hard-earned money in the inn and help in the farm, the girl managed to convince Styrr,the priest of Arkay that works in Solitude in the Hall of Dead.
Imogen, who worked in the Hall of Dead from morning till late at night, became more and more interested in life and even more in death, where the girl started asking quite unusual questions: Styrr; Is death really the end, or is it the beginning of something unknown to us?

 

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Concerned by his reasoning and aware that Necromancy in Skyrim is forbidden, he wished to use Imogen's help more and more frequently.

 

Soon, quite accidentally, Imogen "met" Sybille Stentor from Blue Palace, or rather accidentally ran into her, which, for reasons unknown to Imogen, sensed in her what a powerful magic is hidden in Imogen.
Sybille was never interested in educating novices, but she saw in Imogen a great amount of detemination, perseverance and the power of magic hidden in her ...Sybille decided to introduce it to the secrets of magic to Imogen .. for a small fee, of course.

 

Receiving invaluable teachings from Sybille and studying spellbooks in secret, even from the family more or less consciously of their deeds.
Nocturnal readers that she could read in secret, far from any unwanted glances of third parties, Imogen cast spells of light that helped her studying at night, which her mother herself had actually taught her. More than one college mage would burn his hands with the fiery glow of the Magician's Light in his hands ... but not Imogen.

 

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During the day, however, without being under the corrupt (not yet aware of Imogen) wing of Sybille, she studied with her mother, who also put great effort into educating her daughter.

 

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With each passing day, Imogen felt the need to visit Sybille at the Blue Palace more and more ... especially at night ... Voices that pushed her to meet her.

 

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One day, even with as much dormant magic as Imogen possessed, she couldn't predict what would happen the next day ... Or maybe I should have told the night .........

 

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Would-be necromancer due to ..... Thank You Bethesda

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You cannot sleep while being aked to leave.

 

.... To be continued ?

 

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Thank you DeepBlueFrog... I wouldn't do it without your mod

 

 

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Regards

Unknow Necromancer ( sources unknown tales of the elder scrolls V - The Prologue ) 

 

I wrote this "story" in preparation for the New Year party ( make-up, nail painting ect ) so it's more of a joke. Nevertheless, I wish you all a lot of health (how much needed in these moments) in the new coming 2022. Happy New Year

Edited December 31, 2021 by LenaLachrymosa