Hack-Man Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion Blog
 last updated: 2007/05/20
Name: Hack-Man Race: Nord Birthsign: The Lord
  • Gold: $920,000
  • Armor Class: 85 (full Daedra)
  • Game Time: 519h 50m this includes 10h of trying to find my way out of the stupid tutorial & about 375 hours of wait from going in and out of shops
  • Days Passed: 252
  • Hours Slept: 9 "Just like in real life!"
  • Quests Completed: 130
  • Potions Made: 45,030
  • Skill Books Read: 20
  • Skill Increases: 1670
  • Nirnroots Found: 116
  • Fame: 131
  • Infamy: 15
  • Artifacts: 8
  • Oblivion Gates Closed: 9
  • Places Found: 197
  • Amount Fenced: $33,140
  • Houses Owned: all 8 (IC, Cheydinhal, Bruma, Bravil, Leyawiin, Anvil, Skingrad, Chorrol)
    Attributes:
  • STR: 100
  • INT: 80
  • WIL: 100
  • AGL: 100
  • SPD: 100
  • END: 100
  • PER: 100
  • LUC: 63
  • Level: 49
  • HP: 604
  • MP: 160
  • Fatigue: 400
  • Weight: 500 lbs
    		• Major skills:
  • Blade: 100
  • Block: 100
  • HeavyArmor: 100
  • Restoration: 100
  • LightArmor: 100
  • Mercantile: 100
  • Speechcraft: 100

    Factions:
  • Arena (GrandChamp)
  • Fighter (GldMaster)
  • Mage (Arch-Mage)
  • Thieves (CatBurglar)
  • DarkBro (Slayer++)
  • KntsOTWS (KntErnt)
  • Blades (KntBrother)
  • KntThorn (HonorKnt)
    		• Minor skills:
  • Armoror: 100
  • Athletics: 66
  • Blunt: 100
  • Hand2Hand: 100
  • Alchemy: 100
  • Alteration: 100
  • Conjure: 100
  • Destruction: 100
  • Illusion: 100
  • Mysticism: 100
  • Acrobatics: 73
  • Marksman: 100
  • Security: 91
  • Sneak: 100

    • Things I'm thinking about doing "soon":
  • Level up acrobat by jumping off cliffs.
  • move food from skingr to anvil; buy lockpicks in bruma.
  • move wpn/armr from anvil to skingr.
  • Get my Security LV up by picking every locked door in every town (day: ElvGrdns, nite: MktDist).
  • Level up athletics by hitting "Q" & swimming into a wall (Chey Mage Guild well should be a safe place w/water breathing).
  • Finish more shrine quests that I started.
  • Move all non-stolen loot from each of my houses to my Skingrad house.
  • Move all my food & potions to my Anvil house (again).
  • ICity/ElvGard: see if FathUle hates me.
  • ICity/Sinkhole Cave: Explore more. Grab loot, but only kill people who attack me first so I don't kill people that are needed for a quest.
  • ICity: Explore the south cave (Farback). Grab loot, but only kill people who attack me first.
  • Some of the main quest stuff that I can do now that I got past the "Weynon house bug".
  • Skingrad: Sinderion'll buy the extra nirnroots I have (10 at a time).
  • Talk to S to pay blood money to get back in Thieves Guild (she won't talk to me until Ifinish TG quest, though (which I won't be able to finish))
  • Work on Sneak Master Trainer quest.
  • Finish Dark Bro quests. Wait til I'm GrayFox so I don't get infamy points.
  • Move cheese from Skingrd/Bravil to my Anvil house & make potions.
  • Anvil: sell potions to Varel@Morveyn's (I invested in his shop so I can sell $1700 at a time).
  • See if I can figure out what happened to all the armor that disappeared from the chest in my Bruma house. Is there a limit on how much you can have in a chest and the rest just gets lost?
  • I turned a handle in the Black Rock Main Chamber but I didn't see that it did anything (and now I can't find the handle anymore).
    Stuff I can't do on my PC:
  • Anything in the main quest (PC crashes if I try to enter Weynon house).
  • Anything involving Anvil Castle Smithy (PC crashes).
  • Anything involving Anvil Royal Chambers (PC crashes).
  • Thieves Guild quests at or past "Lost Histories" (PC crashes if I try to enter Castle Skingrad Dungeon).
    The only things I've done to "cheat":
  • Looked online to try to figure out how to get out of the tutorial.
  • Lowered the game difficulty for three battle that I couldn't win. But I made up for it by maxing out the game difficulty for pretty much everything after the first 150 hours of gameplay.
  • Gave myself 2000 lockpicks.
  • Toggled the bit so I don't need to find a bed when it's time to go up a level.
  • Gave myself back the 4 nirnroots that disappeared when I put them in a chest.
    Useful web pages:
  • Elder Scrolls Page
  • Unofficial Elder Scrolls Page
  • UESP:Quests
  • UESP:Factions & UESP:Guild Ranks
  • UESP:Horses
  • UESP:Merchants
  • UESP:Places
  • UESP:Items
  • UESP:Creature List
  • UESP:Houses for Sale
  • UESP:Maps
  • UESP:Performance Tweaking
  • SearchSpells
  • SearchEquipment
  • Better Interactive Map (toggle for OblivionGates, Forts, etc)
  • Specific maps: Navigation, IC Market Dist, University, IC waterfront, Anvil docks, Bravil, Bruma, Chey, Chor, Ley, Skin
  • TBD
    Trivial crap:
    Started Playing: 2006/04/19

    I didn't play at all between June 2006 and March 2007.



    Each major city should have an old hag selling:
  • Clock (10 lbs) for $1000 - displays what time the game thinks it is onscreen at all times
  • Alarm Clock (10 lbs) for $2000 - same as above, but you can set it to remind you to do things at a certain time
  • Wristwatch (0.1 lbs) for $10000 - lighter version of "clock"
  • Wristwatch w/alarm (0.1 lbs) for $20000 - lighter version of "alarm clock"
  • Travel Agent - tell you how long it would take to get to any destination (by clicking on main map) if you left now
  • Black wide pants (0 lbs) for $1000
  • Dark shirt (0 lbs) for $1000
  • More chests for your house in that city for $10000 each
  • Magic beads :-)

    Stuff I like compared to Morrowind:
  • horses (even though they die too often and the controls suck)
  • can buy several houses early to store stuff
  • don't have to wait 24 hours for the NPCs to regenerate their gold
  • "fast move"
  • unlimited space in each container (except that it seems to "lose" things if you put too much in)
  • they pretty much hold your hand through each quest with the red and green arrows at the bottom of the screen
  • all kinds of little things

    Stuff I don't like compared to Morrowind:
  • can't resize the pop-up windows, so you're stuck scrolling through pages and pages of crap that would all fit on one screen
  • there's no cool map in the corner when I move around
  • no way to see your stuff AND their stuff on the same screen when you're buying/selling
  • can't hold ctrl/shift to tell it one/all to avoid the stupid slide bar
  • can no longer do the trick of buying all the crap an NPC has just so he'll have lots of gold so you can sell him something expensive
  • only 9 cities
  • no levitate (but I see how it would make certain things too easy)
  • no teleport spell (set/mark)
  • no teleport between Mage Guilds
  • can't move candles or lamps to better illuminate dark rooms
  • the stupid speechcraft "wheel" thing
  • items disappear from chests in my houses, and occasionally reappear after a save/quit/load
  • all kinds of little things