Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim

[Lungzyn]

You still can't sell stolen items to normal merchants. However, there is a perk where you can make those merchants act as though they were fences.
For placing items I can't seem to get books in bookcases to keep stand up straight, they fall over. Haven't really tried to put a random item on a shelf.
Dragging items around might be easier on PC. I can't manage to put pots over peoples heads like they do in videos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K27GuSSha0s
Maybe with practice you could get things how you want.
I still live in Breezehome though, which is a relatively cramped and small place. The biggest house is a three storey manor which would probably give you more opportunity to do stuff.

 

[StarDebut]

I can't manage to put pots over peoples heads like they do in videos - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K27GuSSha0s
Maybe with practice you could get things how you want.

I have a 360 and tried the "pot on head" trick also, but couldnt get it to work. I think it must be easier on PC.

Pinewatch is free. You just need to kill the bandit that lives there. Although your safe isnt 100% safe, I have had no problems with all my valuables there. I have purchased the house in Windhelm. Noted I could have gotten it for free if I used the glitch (but forgot about it). I tried arranged some of the items in my home and it seems that some items will stay where you put them and some items will refresh onto the floor in the center of your home (This little things are what I dislike about the game). Also there are some items in your home which you cannot pick up or move, but you can move them by hitting them with other objects, if your a perfectionist, then having a pair of antlers stuck in a corner, or a vase lying on its side, its just annoying. So I am daring not to move too much and place very little. Dumer cores are pretty sick decorations as they rotate and glow!!

I also have a dog in my home now!

 

[Doc Scurlock]

I've got the PS3 version and my save file size has reached around 7mb, which is where things are supposed to get bad when it comes to lag. I've already noticed it whenever I enter a new area and things become choppy for awhile until everything loads. I haven't had any freezes but this being a Bethesda game I'm starting to get weary of those. Hopefully, the upcoming patch deals with this stuff.

 

[DJCowboy]

I'm really starting to get irritated with this game and its glitches. I was just doing a quest and had to restart it due to my controls attack buttons no longer working (my left arm just remained up but wouldn't move). I was so fucking pissed, but when I restarted they were just fine. WHERE'S THE FUCKING PATCH FOR PS3 BETHESDA!?!?!

 

[STDiva]

I'm really starting to get irritated with this game and its glitches. I was just doing a quest and had to restart it due to my controls attack buttons no longer working (my left arm just remained up but wouldn't move). I was so fucking pissed, but when I restarted they were just fine. WHERE'S THE FUCKING PATCH FOR PS3 BETHESDA!?!?!

This game has almost become unplayable with all the glitches and lagging. Holy fuck. I just played through 3 hours of lag/choppiness, tried to do some random thieves guild quest and it glitched, so I had to revert to an old save before I accepted the quest...which was 3 hours ago. Awesome.

 

[Lungzyn]

The new patch which is supposed to fix the PS3 lag is out now, for me at least. Didn't have time to test for any differences though.
My main character got to a 13+ mb save before there were any major framerate issues.

 

[StarDebut]

my pinewatch home got resettled by the bandit the other day, I had moved most my gear but lost all my ingredients I had collected.

The dog vanished from my home, probably waiting for me at the quest location.

No problems for the X360. Its a sweet game ! Hope your PS3 patch works, most of the enjoyment is the environment, so when its laggy its going to suck.

 

[freeones_regina]

I have a 360 and tried the "pot on head" trick also, but couldnt get it to work. I think it must be easier on PC.

I play on a PC and have no idea how this is done but if anyone knows do tell!

Is lockpicking considered as stealing by the way even if you don't take any items?
I mean will guards come after you if they see you?

 

[Null8008]

I play on a PC and have no idea how this is done but if anyone knows do tell!

Is lockpicking considered as stealing by the way even if you don't take any items?
I mean will guards come after you if they see you?

I think it is. I'm pretty sure I got caught picking a lock on a merchant's stand and had the guards come after me even though i hadn't stolen anything.

 

[DJCowboy]

The new patch seems to work, haven't had any framerate issues but I did have a question about storing items. I've been storing my stuff in a chest in a random fort that I cleared out of bandits. Is this a bad idea? Can my things be stolen? I recently got married in the game so should I just move them to that house now? (I have quite a few things in there so it would take a couple fast-travel trips to get everything moved)

 

[L3ggy]

You should move them.

 

[StarDebut]

Picking up a pot and putting it on their head is pretty simple.
You'll need to pick and hold the pot, so press the key to pick up and item and hold it instead of pressing it. Then move it onto the persons head. They cant be moving about too much but if you can put it on a shop keepers head, the pot, will block his line of vision and you can take all his stuff. Aslong as every NPC in the rooms vision is blocked.

If you are lockpicking, again its by line of vision, if someone sees you in a locked home, they will commit you as a criminal and the guards will come. If you are standing outside a house trying to lockpick and someone can see you, they will submit you as a criminal. If you suceed and exit the house without anyone catching you, nobody will be wise to your game. Stick to lockpicking at night

If you want to try pickpocketing, then join an alliance (Empire or Stormcloaks) in the civil war quest, and start racking up crimes in the opponents cities. When you capture those cities, your bounties will return to 0. Just check on your quest which cities or towns you are capturing next. Save often too.

But basically try it out, save before hand and experiment.

Video for pot on head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt5aUdijAN8

 

[StarDebut]

Picking up a pot and putting it on their head is pretty simple.
You'll need to pick and hold the pot, so press the key to pick up and item and hold it instead of pressing it. Then move it onto the persons head. They cant be moving about too much but if you can put it on a shop keepers head, the pot, will block his line of vision and you can take all his stuff. Aslong as every NPC in the rooms vision is blocked.

If you are lockpicking, again its by line of vision, if someone sees you in a locked home, they will commit you as a criminal and the guards will come. If you are standing outside a house trying to lockpick and someone can see you, they will submit you as a criminal. If you suceed and exit the house without anyone catching you, nobody will be wise to your game. Stick to lockpicking at night

If you want to try pickpocketing, then join an alliance (Empire or Stormcloaks) in the civil war quest, and start racking up crimes in the opponents cities. When you capture those cities, your bounties will return to 0. Just check on your quest which cities or towns you are capturing next. Save often too.

But basically try it out, save before hand and experiment.

Video for pot on head: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rt5aUdijAN8

Sorry that was a bit of a gay post. I must be spending too much time on the internet!

 

[Ravenholm]

I have a play time of around 33 hours in the game so far and I've done very little in the way of main missions or just missions in general. I have been sticking to the minor quests in the misc section and just prowling the land and caves and farms and abandoned houses etc to see what I can loot and pillage and plunder. And to see how many bandits I can sneak up on and plant an arrow in the back of their heads and stalk the rest of their gangs and pick them off from the shadows (or from a distance) one by one. I have a mile long quest list active but untouched. I activate them and then leave them alone for a later date. I've also chibbed (killed) three dragons so far. One by the fort outside. And two attacking different towns. Oblivion was like the video game version of Jessica Alba in a bikini offering a blowjob. But Skyrim is like Christina Hendricks doing porn!. It's WAY BETTER. Skyrim also has like fifty million miles of snowy areas. Which is kind of rare to see in a game most games don't have snow areas in them. We need more games set in snowy areas. It adds a greater sense of immersion.

PS
The above post is wrong when stating "stick to lockpicking at night" you can do it in the day time most of the time as well. Just save it before you do it. Then crouch near the door in question and wait or move to a position so that the icon eye goes flat and you are hidden, the pick that lock!. It's easily done anytime of the day or night if you bide your time and wait for the right moment. The only types of door I'd advise doing at night is the ones set in really busy streets when there isn't any chance of a breather so as to pick the lock. Apart from that just go for it, but save before you do.

 

[Lungzyn]

Lockpicking at night is better for getting into houses since there is a higher chance that the people inside will be asleep and you can sneak around them.

Apparently the PS3 patch is only a temporary fix and problems eventually come back again.

This is some pretty good (albeit creepy) object manipulation right here

 

[Doc Scurlock]

:1orglaugh at this so called patch. Before the patch my game froze once in probably 20 hours of gameplay, I played 2 hours yesterday after patching the game and it froze twice during that time.

 

[DJCowboy]

So now I'm doing the "Compelling Tribute" quest where I have to go into Markarth and blackmail Raerek but I've hit a little problem. I did a quest where I had to go into the mining jail there and free the Foreswarn leader but ever since that I've had a $1000 bounty and can't get back into the city without being attacked by guards and even if I get far enough to get close to Raerek, he and his guards just attack me. The guards don't give me an option to pay off a fine and they won't take me to jail when I say I will! They always say I'm wanted for murder and conspiracy.... HELP!!!

 

[Lungzyn]

That problem has come up for a few people, I actively avoided doing the Forsworn Conspiracy because I heard something buggy about it.
Found this though, try it out...

So this is how it worked for me (seemingly randomly) after the first way didn't work for me (though it did work for some of my friends). After killing almost all of the guards in Markarth (especially make sure you kill the one in the Temple of Talos, as this is where the glitch originates. You can tell because there's a guard spawn in one of the walls of the Temple down there and no matter how many you kill, another one just keeps appearing after about 15 seconds). Then, leave the city. Go back inside and talk to one of the guards BEFORE he sees you, aka you'll have to approach him from behind as he's walking. This also must be done with only ONE GUARD in sight, as if there are others they will start attacking you while you do this. If you do it right, he should say "Wait...I know you" just like every other guard in any other city does. Play along: "You're making a mistake..." By starting the dialogue this way, approaching him from behind and not letting him run at you to order you to stop by order of the Jarl, you circumvent the dialogue glitch that has been screwing everyone over as you are now in a different dialogue. Offer to pay him, he will accept and you'll spawn, Reach bounty free, right outside of the mine! THANK GOD I FOUND THESE.

 

[Ravenholm]

Is this glitch with the whole guard thing just on PS3 or Ecks-Bocks as well?. I have the XB version. I was going to get the PS3 version but I dunno for some reason I just grabbed the XB version. Probably because it was sitting next to another game that I bought at the same time. It felt easier just grabbing both as they sat next to each other on the shelve. It saved me from walking from there to the PS3 section of Asda which was like 4 or 5 ft behind me at the time LOL

 

[CunningStunts]

Big fan of the genre... been eying this game, is it worth getting on PC?