Skyrim...have you cheated?
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I've used the console for three things, none of them cheating. They are:
I used the 'remove item' command on Lydia to get rid of her damn bow. I would have to count the fingers on both hands the times I've died charging into combat thinking Lydia was by my side, only to find out that she opted to hang back with her bow and avail me nothing by missing the enemy or doing the most minimal damage possible. Grr. All that console command has done has turned her into a pure-warrior character like me.
The 2nd one I have done, is lowered some of my skills. I like to role play in my game, so having a pure-warrior Redguard who hasn't touched or studied magic at all in his life, have a destruction skill of 15 is highly... silly. So, with the 'player.setav' command, I simply lowered all the magic skills, alchemy skill and pickpocket skill to 0. So, if anything, this was the complete opposite of cheating.
The 3rd and final command I have done, is a couple of 'disable' commands every now and again. As previously stated, I love to role play in my game. A part of that, is seeing the roads clear for travellers. Whenever I kill something on the road, I drag their bodies to the side to keep it clear (if they were men, mer or beastfolk, I drag them out of sight of the road). Dragon skeletons, of course, can't be dragged, so they are slab-dab in the middle of often-used roads... forever. So I use that command after an in-game day or two to get rid of them. I also use the command when I come across something I killed a long time ago, and get rid of it (as role-play wise, they would have been eaten or something by now).
I used the 'remove item' command on Lydia to get rid of her damn bow. I would have to count the fingers on both hands the times I've died charging into combat thinking Lydia was by my side, only to find out that she opted to hang back with her bow and avail me nothing by missing the enemy or doing the most minimal damage possible. Grr. All that console command has done has turned her into a pure-warrior character like me.
The 2nd one I have done, is lowered some of my skills. I like to role play in my game, so having a pure-warrior Redguard who hasn't touched or studied magic at all in his life, have a destruction skill of 15 is highly... silly. So, with the 'player.setav' command, I simply lowered all the magic skills, alchemy skill and pickpocket skill to 0. So, if anything, this was the complete opposite of cheating.
The 3rd and final command I have done, is a couple of 'disable' commands every now and again. As previously stated, I love to role play in my game. A part of that, is seeing the roads clear for travellers. Whenever I kill something on the road, I drag their bodies to the side to keep it clear (if they were men, mer or beastfolk, I drag them out of sight of the road). Dragon skeletons, of course, can't be dragged, so they are slab-dab in the middle of often-used roads... forever. So I use that command after an in-game day or two to get rid of them. I also use the command when I come across something I killed a long time ago, and get rid of it (as role-play wise, they would have been eaten or something by now).
I use the unlock cheat constantly. I hate picking locks. on my first playthrough no, grind through everything. only TCL to get unstuck and others to fix buggy quests. second playthrough... my characters practicly a god. I used a script that upgraded all non combat skills to 100 and filled the perks of those skills. walk into riverwood the first time and a guard says he heard im an alchemist and wants some mead lol. so all level ups are due to combat activities and can only put perks in combat skills. I dont god mode this game so far hasnt given me a reason to in either playthrough. and I dont give myself tons of money, nothing to spend it on really.
1) Open the console (default mapped to the ~ key)Crono1973 said:
2) click on the merchant
3) Type in "additem F 5000" and press enter
The merchant in question now has 5000 more gold to buy your loot with.
Or there's a mod you can download that makes all merchants restock with 10,000 gold, that's what I did since I got tired of constantly bringing up the console and typing in that command.
Yes, because Lydia died on me and I needed her to carry all that loot out of the dungeon damn it!
Yep, I used it for something that should have been in the game in some form or at least should have been modded in within 5 minutes of release - Perk respeccing. You should be able to reassign perks in some shape or form. The descriptions on them are often inadequate and I had "buyer's guilt" a lot when I started playing. Even now, while I'm building my Mage I'm not quite sure if I want to go for Illusion magic. One one hand, I heard it's cool, but on the other hand I'm pretty sure I might as well not bother without all the perks for it. Using the console to respec my Perks allows me to try Illusion and see if I like it. If I don't I can just move those Perks elsewhere. Like I did with the Dagger Backstab perk when I realized that 15X damage isn't that great when swords have 3X the damage of daggers and get their own 6X Backstab Perk...