The Elder Scrolls: Oblivion

[Slyspy]

That reminds me, that's another thing that makes no sense.

When the guard who was killed by a skamp and who I then looted, ended up resurrecting after a certain number of weeks of abusing Martin past, I was forced to re-kill that guard because there was no command to make him "Wait here" away from the Martin abuse. The guard would always interfere in the abuse thus forcing his re-death from me.

Re-killing the guard made the Dark Brotherhood appear to me for murdering him. But I can't have murdered him because: 1. The skamp already murdered him weeks earlier <and> 2. He will be resurrected good as new (actually better than new if I were to loot him again!) in a couple more weeks.



This is incorrect. Nothing in terms of weapons or armor or items level with you. Hence by default if you get good weapons or items or armor at a low level, those items are permanently fubared unless you correct it with a third party mod with which the mod maker has manually added in every item you need unfubared (hence this is prone to exclusions that may leave your items fubared), or possibly via the cheat console (not sure if that works for everything).

Nothing in your possession levels with you true, but most of the loot is scaled to your character. So at level 20 you will indeed get "good loot" but, relative to the word around you (which also scales) it will be no more effective than the early equipment was in the hands of your low-level character.

This does cause a problem with some unique items. You get them at level 5 and they'll stay at that level, becoming less powerful than mundane items you'll find at high levels. If this bugs you then you can get a mod that levels these items as you level. Check my mod list earlier in the thread.

To be honest Nav all of your criticisms can be overcome (or maybe just patched over) by mods. If you run Oblivion on a PC you are doing yourself a disservice by not using mods.

Oh, and the thing with the dagger? He won't pick it up because you have, in a minor way, broken the game by doing something you are not supposed to do.

Edit:

Whoever said Alchemy was a junk skill has never tried it - potions can enable you to win any fight.