Elder Scrolls Oblivion Hints and Tips SPOILER WARNING

JimJones · 29 Mar 2006 at 08:35

Found the lass and got the book. And everything she owns and her cloths

It's nice to be able to sell all those silver weapons people keep dropping in my inverntory

Jim

PeterNem · 29 Mar 2006 at 18:54

Updated again, thanks nickbee

Last Kronin · 29 Mar 2006 at 20:34

Busy doing the thief guild quests and have just liberated the ring from the countess but for some reason i cant give it to ahdraji ( or watever that cats name is) can anyone help?

EDIT Figured it out, picked up 2 of the rings thus i couldnt give one to ahdarji so had to use a console command to drop one since its a quest item and cant be dropped the usual way.

speeduk · 29 Mar 2006 at 22:03

That gridstoload tweak is VERY buggy so be warned!

Buggy in that it makes water appear to flood an mile square area land when looking at the imperial ciry from the west at a specific point. Also water doesnt reflect/appear right in some situations.

Also check here for more performance tips.

Guys I went from 24fps in dense grassy areas and forest to 37fps!

Turn off shadows on grass (only stops your shadow casting on grass) for 5fps.

Go into the oblivion ini and change iMinGrassSize=80 to =160 for 8fps

Richdog · 29 Mar 2006 at 22:12

Excellent guide, thanks for taking the time to make it!

Gezzard · 29 Mar 2006 at 23:49

!!FREE MONEY SPOILER!!

Not sure if this is well known, but anyway here it is:-

I think this could be a bug, but to get loads of free cash, simply kill a guy called Dorian (his house is in the taloz? plaza district of imperial city)

Click his body and he has on him the key to his house and an amount of gold, but when you take the gold, it doesn't get removed from his inventory, so you can just keep on clicking it for mega gold. his body will disappear after a few days.

PeterNem · 29 Mar 2006 at 23:51

Thanks, I'll add that to the opening post tomorrow.

A question to people reading this thread... would you rather I colour coded things in the opening post so that they cannot be read by accident (similar to the above post.. I'd keep the title/queation of each section visible, then hide the rest), or are the spoiler warnings sufficient?

JimJones · 30 Mar 2006 at 09:06

I wouldn't bother colouring things. People who can read the header know there will be spoilers in here so you don't need to bother.

Jim

Apopcalyptic · 30 Mar 2006 at 11:10

If you're having trouble finding sufficient lockpicks early on in the game, leave the imperial city by the west gate (the one that goes to the waterfront). As soon as the waterfront loads, turn right and stay as close to the city wall as possible...you will find a merchant called Shady Sam who sells lockpicks (as well as Skooma and plenty of poisons). He has 30 'picks for sale at a time.

JimJones · 30 Mar 2006 at 11:43

Theres also a guy on the other side of the gates in the prison bit who sleeps outside. He has 30 lockpicks on him if you talk to him nicley while he isn't looking

Jim

Spit · 30 Mar 2006 at 12:40

Where can I get a fireball spell, I need something more powerful now than flare?

thefranklin · 30 Mar 2006 at 17:52

One fun thing I found, is when you close the gate at Kvatch, and do a few instructions after that, you get a guy named Brother Martin to follow you around.

Now you can go anywhere, and you have a free merc! He attacks what you attack, even random NPC's in houses. I took him around and did some mage quests with him. He cannot die, so you don't have to worry about his health. He will get knocked unconcious, then get up a bit later and continue fighting. He's a trooper.

PeterNem · 30 Mar 2006 at 17:55

If you want to get very far in the main quest, you'll have to lead him back to where you're meant to take him, unfortunately, you can't keep him the whole game!!

speeduk · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:12

Best mod yet for oblivion.

Pet shop added to Cheydinhal!

nikebee · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:14

speeduk said:
Best mod yet for oblivion.

Pet shop added to Cheydinhal!

lol wtf?

any screenies or anything... excuse the n00bness but what does it do... i mean... what do the pets do :confused:

speeduk · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:19

nikebee said:
lol wtf?

any screenies or anything... excuse the n00bness but what does it do... i mean... what do the pets do

They work like summons do for the conjurer. They follow you around and protect you if you are attacked etc. They also grow in size every 5 levels.

If they get lost or stuck you have a "bone" to call them to you.

nikebee · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:25

speeduk said:
They work like summons do for the conjurer. They follow you around and protect you if you are attacked etc. They also grow in size every 5 levels.

If they get lost or stuck you have a "bone" to call them to you.

haha

is the mod easy to install/uninstall?

if it sucks or gets annoying i'd hope its easy to remove

speeduk · 30 Mar 2006 at 20:43

nikebee said:
haha

is the mod easy to install/uninstall?

if it sucks or gets annoying i'd hope its easy to remove

As with most mods you just copy the file to the oblivion/data folder and then when you launch the game - select data files and select the mod to enable it or untick it to disable it or just delete the file.

I have about 12 mods running here and they all work fine.

JimJones · 31 Mar 2006 at 10:50

I have about 20 going

I did have a slight problem with the arena guy once, but I just unloaded a few mods and start it again worked fine after that. One tip is not to load any saves with new mods in the middle of a quest, also to ignore the irems may not appear box it goes once you load up a new save game with the new mods in.

Jim

elroberto · 31 Mar 2006 at 13:29

speeduk said:
They work like summons do for the conjurer. They follow you around and protect you if you are attacked etc. They also grow in size every 5 levels.

If they get lost or stuck you have a "bone" to call them to you.

Cool. Hope they sell boxer dogs!

Elder Scrolls Oblivion Hints and Tips *SPOILER WARNING*

Elder Scrolls Oblivion Hints and Tips SPOILER WARNING