[Spoiler] On Hogithum
So I finished On Hogithum - which is a new quest in 2.0 - after non trivial amount of work. I don't want to give too much away, but here are some of my thoughts:
The fragments are incredibly difficult to find, even if you know what locations they are supposed to be in. One of them I knew about where it was with context from the report, looked for 30 min, and had to look up the cell. After that, still took 5-10 min.
I don't really understand the reward. It doesn't seem practical at all. I understand the flavor of it because I read the book, but does the reward exist just for flavor, or is it actually useful and I am missing something?
Tried to not give too much away with this post, still worth doing at least once for the fun of it.
Posted Apr 10, 2018, 5:26 AM UTC
Hi, your feedback on the quest matches our assumptions due to lack of feedback on it so far and we already planned to make the fragments easier to find in 2.0.2. :)
As for the reward: This quest indeed doesn't give you a "huge" reward in terms of gameplay effects, but you get a lovely poem from u/ludovician and the recipe you get has quite distinct properties from those things you can normally buy.
That's what I thought, I just wanted to make sure it was there mainly for 'flavor' (hahaha im so funny! - for those who haven't done the quest, you'll get this joke eventually) and I didn't miss anything. And honestly getting a big reward isn't a huge deal since by the time you are able to find all of the fragments, power likely isn't a problem anyways.
If the fragments aren't already static, I would probably make them so similar to the stones of barenziah. One of the fragments I struggled to find was either blown away from the correct spot, or just in an odd location I would have missed if I didn't know it was in said tower. I did enjoy the quest otherwise!
That's a good idea; I'll take a look at making them un-blowable-away.
As of 2.0.2 they're all in much more visible places within their respective dungeons, and as a bonus, I learned how to use the Creation Kit so I'm modding a bit now as well as writing. Hurrah!
Here's the story about this quest:
Ludovician wrote this poem which reminded me of my forgotten Skyrim gaming nights (with 3 beers down etc). So I decided to write a quest to honor it. I was lucky to find some cut dialog which fit perfectly into the whole thing and I was quite satisfied with it. I wanted everything to look great in it, even formatting the text on the fragments using special "small" line breaks to simulate line-height and I took extra care to remove orphaned words at the final book.
I've given a lot of love on this poem, even though some technical issues proved to be more difficult than I had anticipated.
You make it sound as if you did everything except write the poem.
That's neither true nor fair.
I think everything I've written is true but it was a year ago, so I'll ask you to turn on public permissions on the relevant RRO issue to see what's "not fair" about my posting.