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rightfuture

[REQUEST][DISCUSSION] Idea - Community Collaborative Healing Project - I think we need to bring the community together.

This is a thread to openly discuss a collaborative focus and potential project to bring the community together.

I believe we need a project we can focus on and accomplish. I also think it should be something that could bring players and even the best modders together.

It doesn't have to be huge, but substantial, and slightly challenging, but possible. It just has to be something we can find value in working together on, and something that can be relatively successfully without becoming too big, or insignificant. We all need a meaningful win.

We need something we can focus on, so we can learn to come together, instead of fading or falling apart. A project could give our community a purpose and a positive voice. We need some collaborative teamwork for the love of Skyrim that involves the community!

What do you think?

Posted Apr 29, 2015, 3:22 AM UTC

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lgthanatos•

campfire framework mods

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rightfutureOP•

A lot of great potential here - especially around the survival theme, but even though it is a significant portion of the community, it leaves those who don't like the challenge/hassle of survival mods out of the equation. It should of course involve the creator of the mods involved. It could also inspire people to build mods off the framework for the project.

I think we need a community involved project bringing people working together.

Do you have any ideas you can build around that? Maybe a questline involving traveling through wilderness or exploring a new area under Skyrim or in the sea? Using the campfire framework could be a the basis of a questline campaign of sorts - maybe the Dragonborn needs to travel with a caravan to unravel a mystery?

This is all about the best idea we can come up with as a community. Call it a challenge!

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lgthanatos•

?????????

it leaves those who don't like the challenge/hassle of survival mods out of the equation

Yeah just like boss battles or quest mods or house mods or armor/weapon mods or perk mods or etc etc etc leaves out anyone who doesn't care about those features either.

Also, the campfire framework while allowing functionality that survival/hardcore mods benefit from, has nothing to do with them in and of itself. It is not a needs/warmth mod.

I also thoroughly disagree with any concept of 'one huge mod made by the community'. It won't work and would be a nightmare to manage by whoever spearheads it. At best it would be "___'s mod that uses a lot of community resources".

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rightfutureOP•

That is why I said it shouldn't be huge. Just significant enough to give an effort and pose a challenge.1 a small mod an individual could do themselves isn't exactly a community effort

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Scafremon•

Great idea!

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Blight_Wolf•

Okay, you mentioned the sea, and immediately my mind went Atlantis. So: some contraption/construct/magic/whatever sends you to either A. An oblivion plane by a lesser Lord B. A Dwemer "city of progress" that never progressed to the finish. Under the ocean.

It could fit almost anything under the umbrella: new quests, new weapons, new materials (it's either A city where the dwemer were pushing the boundaries of their science and magic or a realm owned by an entity we've never met) new armor, new books, new people, new creatures, all of it.

It can start out as a big hub area where the city is finished/isn't corrupted/whatever where it acts kinda like a small town. There can be a fair number of run down "house" areas which can be filled with NPCs you save from/invite to the city, and clean and upgrade. It would give a sort of feel and lore to an area and let people work within it.

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rightfutureOP•

Reminds me of a dwemer punk reverse bioshock location like Mzark. The neat thing about creating a city is that people can build around each other's ideas. all we need is build a city together as a community. It can be as small or as big as people want to build on it. Like with Beyond Skyrim, we would just need to pin down some rules/claims so people could build around and upon each other's ideas without much conflict.

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kontankarite•

So... Rapture? Cause I got a nasty idea for a freaky god damned monster. Some kind of Werewolf/dwemer mechanism fusion, or even thought this sounds kinda silly, but some mechanized Horker mutants. Some Dwemer scientists just go straight HAM on magic and science and dabbles in shit that not even a necromancer would touch. It should be atmospheric as fuck.

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Khekinash•

Like the movie Tusk!

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Blight_Wolf•

Rapture would be an awesome basis for some of it, if you went Dwemer. I'm thinking you can have both the "clean, efficient, 'pure'" stuff as well as some deep dark nastiness. Because as we all know, science can be done responsibly and morally, or you can find a cave and do some Nazi crazy stuff.

I'd like to have it be flexible enough to have a bright happy surface where they're "curing cancer" or whatever the equivalent is and a seedy Machiavellian feel elsewhere, where they're like keeping Dremora in cages and torturing them to see what hurts them worst or some such

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kontankarite•

Well what if there is a group of dwemer who are commited to bring back the Falmer? I mean, out of some historical obligation as recompense for the things that happened to them. And of course, this leads to some really revolutionary Restoration magic such as getting close to figuring out how to bring the dead back to life instead of reanimating corpses. And there's a lot of hope there. But then you have one dwemer who was probably into necromancy and technology who thought that avenue was just quicker and more efficient for the same goal. And yeah... now you have ideological conflict and magic/science gone wrong. Yo, this could be a thing!

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rightfutureOP•

A new city sounds like a great idea, a full dwemer city under the sea or deep beneath Blackreach would be a great focal point people could build on as they choose. it would be best to be in a central /popular area of Skyrim that people would want to visit.

If we pick something like a new city people can team up and build on it as they choose. This could be a great community built monument.

I'm not trying to dictate q project, just point us in direction we can work together on that's not too big or small.

So we have a quest writing contest that can be built on, a possible under water ocean city, an Eye of Magnus/time travel type quest line extension, building on the campfire franework, or a deep under blackreach city as some starting ideas so far.

Let's be positive everyone and dream a little here. :) This is a community project to inspire us: we have to make some worthwhile effort here between modders and supporters for the sake of the community.

Maybe we should start with a contest to come up with a good project?

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ElianoraSkyrim Real Estate Agent•

One big thing that each of us can do is stop fucking arguing over this issue in Nexus file comments. Gods I wish people would just shut the fuck up.

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rightfutureOP•

These are great ideas. I like what contests are doing for our community.

I think we need something that we can work together on. Something a little more substantial and significant that requires us to make an effort to achieve.

We need a project or a big enough mod that we can work on as a community. Something that can bring us together but not tear us apart. I think it needs to be ambitious enough that we need input from people at different levels, but also small enough that it is possible to finish it within several months. We need a reason to bring people together in a way we haven't yet.

I think it is something we have to come up with as a community. Something we can all participate in - even players, that is meaningful to both modders and people who just play. We need something that will bring the community in just to be possible.

This way it can be an accomplishment that we can all be proud of.

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RyderHiMEWindhelm•

Fallout Overhaul for Skyrim.

Steampunk/Dwemer Overhaul for Skyrim.

Modding tutorials for blonde girl gamers who can't find male followers she likes and really wants to make her own but continues to fail miserably.

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kontankarite•

You're basically talking about Advanced Skyrim Overhaul.

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rightfutureOP•

The fallout overhaul, or a legitimate scifi/game crossover would be interesting. Anyone remember the AD&D dungeon to the Barrier peaks. Done right it could be popular and not take you too far out of Skyrim.

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myfreindsnameistim•

I think that it should be a contest related to books, or writing. Like,for instance, having a short story contest where people take their characters back story, put it in a book, upload it in a selected spot, then put up as a single mod on nexus. This could be then downloaded by members of the community, they can read them through, pick their favorite ones, and vote on them. I guess that the only reward we could promise the winner is fame, but in a modding community, having your name known is worth it in and of itself.

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rightfutureOP•

We could definitely involve writing, and challenge people to come up with better content, but I think it should involve people at different levels. We need something ongoing that is more of a project, than a simple focus - I think.

Maybe it could involve writing quests, and extension of a main plot line for skyrim (like the Eye of Magnus/Time travel quests), or something like a whole new community sourced questline?

This is a good start to coming up with ideas. What else do you all think? This is about what the community can come up with.

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rocktheprovince•

Maybe implement special flairs as a prize?

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Verilazic•

After the recent uproar over Valve's experiment, I'm inclined to go over to the TES Renewal Project and offer to help out there however I can. I'm less interested in reading the crap that's been thrown around over the last few weeks in the more public discussions.

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FhaarkasWindhelm•

My long-time fantasy is seeing a Skyrim enlargement (expansion? upscaling?) project, similar to Oblivion x2. It always irks me to see how unmajestic Throat of The World is.

There was some discussion on it some years ago but sadly it looks like the interest just waned over time. If there's a project that would take the whole community for it to happen, this is it.

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Jack_HatMorthal•

Maybe we should encourage people to support current projects like the mods that go beyond skyrim and such. as well as modders who have built great mods we can't live without.

I honestly dont feel like the community was damaged. I feel like it got stronger. we now know just how big and effective we can be when something like paid mods tries to happen. People said it was going to happen no matter what. piracy groups formed, multiple petitions, hundreds of videos. We ready to go to war, but then Valve backed off.

Really, it's going to be up to a handful of certain modders to determine their next move or else the community might move on without them. If only the gaming community was like this then maybe we wouldn't $10,000 worth of DLC for 30 dollar games or thousands of subpar indy games anyone can make following a beginner's tutorial mixed in with decent games on steam.

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rightfutureOP•

A current project wouldnt be a new project that the community can rally behind. We need to build something together. A token but significant enough project (in my opinion. Not huge or too small - just right.

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