Daelon DuLac
How do you backstab a Dragon?
Having recently begun playing Skyrim again, I am trying to be more prudent in purchasing properties and building homes across the Provence.
As I am trying to avoid the frantic running too and fro of my prior runthroughs and simply living a life in Skyrim rather than "playing the game" as I have before, I am wondering how, in what order and with what methodology y'all are purchasing properties in the holds.
Obviously, I love to own all the available properties and homes, but I am trying to avoid the whole: "Make as much cash as possible as quickly as possible, just so you can buy things" mindset.
So I've been going about raising the needed cash in the given hold to complete one home at a time (the purchaseable ones - example: making sure to have about 7,500 septims available when I work through Whiterun so that I can purchase Breezehome and furnish it, even if it means one room at a time) and simply purchasing the properties as the become available (Hearthfire) and only building the small home and then returning to them periodically when I have the raw materials available and/or the cash to purchase them.
Honestly it seems to be working and is much more of an RP thing now. The frantic running about for raw materials and building and creating absolutely everything immediately is over. I even make sure that I choose a steward from my available followers that would make sense (i.e. Faendal or Sven for Lakeview, since they know the area well as residents - there are no followers in Falkreath, unfortunately) and let them decorate the house (again only when I have the cash - even if it means only doing one room at a time).
I figure that I am an adventurer (or the Arch-Mage, Listener, Harbinger, Guild Master, Vampire King, etc...) and have other expenses and responsibilities to deal with (equipment, ingredients, upgrade materials, etc...) and will rarely have the time to be visiting all these properties anyhow, so why rush it.
While it's nice to have places to store my stuff, unless I'm selling it, I am finding this method more relaxing and much more in tune with my RP.
Any thoughts?
What about marriage and adoption? Somehow it just doesn't seem right, given the early lifestyle of the Dragonborn to partake in either. It hardly seems fair to them. I suppose marriage would be fine for a human as there are plenty of marriable "adventurer" humans, but, in the case of an Altmer - all the marriable Altmers (they are all female, aren't they? There are no marriable male Altmers?).
I know it sounds racist, but, why would you marry a totally different species? Let alone adopt children of a different species?
In other words, my new Altmer mage will have some kick a** homes and properties but she will be a very lonely High-Elf. I am going to make the effort to hire elves as my stewards though. I can't avoid the human house-carls, but, at least I can make the effort to hire mers in one way or another. Heck - even Orcs - they are mer, after all.
As I am trying to avoid the frantic running too and fro of my prior runthroughs and simply living a life in Skyrim rather than "playing the game" as I have before, I am wondering how, in what order and with what methodology y'all are purchasing properties in the holds.
Obviously, I love to own all the available properties and homes, but I am trying to avoid the whole: "Make as much cash as possible as quickly as possible, just so you can buy things" mindset.
So I've been going about raising the needed cash in the given hold to complete one home at a time (the purchaseable ones - example: making sure to have about 7,500 septims available when I work through Whiterun so that I can purchase Breezehome and furnish it, even if it means one room at a time) and simply purchasing the properties as the become available (Hearthfire) and only building the small home and then returning to them periodically when I have the raw materials available and/or the cash to purchase them.
Honestly it seems to be working and is much more of an RP thing now. The frantic running about for raw materials and building and creating absolutely everything immediately is over. I even make sure that I choose a steward from my available followers that would make sense (i.e. Faendal or Sven for Lakeview, since they know the area well as residents - there are no followers in Falkreath, unfortunately) and let them decorate the house (again only when I have the cash - even if it means only doing one room at a time).
I figure that I am an adventurer (or the Arch-Mage, Listener, Harbinger, Guild Master, Vampire King, etc...) and have other expenses and responsibilities to deal with (equipment, ingredients, upgrade materials, etc...) and will rarely have the time to be visiting all these properties anyhow, so why rush it.
While it's nice to have places to store my stuff, unless I'm selling it, I am finding this method more relaxing and much more in tune with my RP.
Any thoughts?
What about marriage and adoption? Somehow it just doesn't seem right, given the early lifestyle of the Dragonborn to partake in either. It hardly seems fair to them. I suppose marriage would be fine for a human as there are plenty of marriable "adventurer" humans, but, in the case of an Altmer - all the marriable Altmers (they are all female, aren't they? There are no marriable male Altmers?).
I know it sounds racist, but, why would you marry a totally different species? Let alone adopt children of a different species?
In other words, my new Altmer mage will have some kick a** homes and properties but she will be a very lonely High-Elf. I am going to make the effort to hire elves as my stewards though. I can't avoid the human house-carls, but, at least I can make the effort to hire mers in one way or another. Heck - even Orcs - they are mer, after all.