Just curious. :D

I'm using the official mod, plus a couple of others. My current favorite is House D'Orthay, which creates a great place for you to store your goodies on an island off Seyda Neen. Unlike some of the house mods I've read about, it *doesn't* give you high level items, or vendors or anything else that's a basic cheat.

What it does is give you two major things: an equipped alchemy lab and a series of unique containers to store your reagents in - that are arranged alphabetically on shelves. Woohoo! I'm doing a lot more with potions this time around, so I'm completely in love with this house!

There's also a teleportation system, but with the exception of getting to/from Seyda Neen, you have to visit the other towns and find an object before the device will work for that town.

There's one monster on the island, but the whole swim to the island and the monster are doable for even a level 1 character, IMHO.

And if anyone's having trouble getting their mods to work (the ubiquitous error message saying that the plug-in is looking for a file that's been changed), I found a great set of instructions for updating the plug-ins post-patch:

http://home.austin.rr.com/shakti/mor...chupdating.htm

It's really a simple fix, requiring a couple of seconds of work in the Construction Set.

i wouldnt say giving you high level items of vendors is a cheat [img]tongue.gif[/img] , as has been discussed before, lack of decent vendors isnt really plausible for the morrowind world, afterall if you got a weapon worth 125,000 and the best vendor (non creature ie crab or imp) can only offer 4000 odd thats a bit silly really, i wouldnt consider it a cheat to bring in a vendor with 50,000 gold, id say that improved game balance.

and as for items, if you are guildmaster of a house then you have worked long and hard for that position so IMO are deserving of at least a few high level items, RP wise this works too afterall you get the pick of an entire houses loot.

IMO for a plugin house you should get -

- a series of good quests to become guildmaster
- some specialist house eq that looks nice and gives some bonus but isnt overpowered
- if you become guildmaster a decent item or the pick of the best house items you find in a previously locked or inaccessible room
- a cool personal fortress to build and store all your bits n pieces in.
- a very good vendor who buys well in whatever the house specialises in, offers you very good prices and has a reasonable quantity of gold on him.

^^I see your point, but it's a tiny trifle overkill for me.

The House D'Orthay is nice for low-level characters (a level 1 character could get there).

You can use Creeper as a pawnbroker, and he'll both buy stuff from you and sell it back to you at what you got for it.

I agree with you in one sense about the fancier dwellings, but generally by the time my character is *that* high-level, I'm already lousy with good stuff. :D Plus, most of the best stuff in the game is "found" stuff anyway. I don't need a vendor for it.

I like House D'Orthay because it's good for the beginning of the game, and it doesn't spoil everything for entry-level characters by handing goodies to them on a silver platter.

I have several other plugins I like that I'm not using this game (one for when you're Archmage, and one for when you head up House Telvanni). I like them both, but when I'm playing a mage House D'Orthay is my hands-down favorite.

OTOH, the beauty of this game is that you can make or use more elaborate plugins if that's your taste. ;)

[ 01-10-2003, 12:02 PM: Message edited by: Rhea ]

I never heard of that house, maybe i'll plug it in. I do have a Vivec residence, and also one in Balmora.

I suggest using the armor mannequin mod, or any of its variants: high level charachters tend to have tons of great armor lying around, and a well placed mannequin adds much to the style of whatever posh castle you have.

Also I suggest playing the FTG (five toes guild) mod: the quests are balanced for medium level characters and really fun to play. Also, you get a new small house and a coupla vendors with 80k each. New great items, too, balanced as well. Too bad morrowindfiles is down.

It's not down B part, check for yourself. :D

www.morrowindfiles.com

Er, I tried MorrowindFiles for the first time today, and for most of the downloads it came up as 'Page Cannot Be Found'. Is this normal?

i have heard the one with the Tower and liche was pretty good

Same happened to me, this is not normal. I guess the site has some problems after all. Try again tomorrow, or after a few days. Normally they all work.

when I'm feeling "bored", I go to morrowindfiles.com and download Children of the Night mod for some emmmm...* cough cough *....emmm...entertainment.

[ 01-11-2003, 10:23 PM: Message edited by: Kakero ]