According to this wiki of Skyrim console commands, you can select the NPC in question (generally using your cursor) and enter the command IsEssential which will return 1.00 if they are, in fact, essential. Related functions: To check whether an NPC is essential to begin with, select him/her in the console.
The Illusion of absolute freedom is a powerful thing.My mother always said: 'If you wan't space, move to Utah!' (To quote a movie, I know not the name of)The same can apply to video games: 'You want freedom, play Just Cause 2.' I'm not sure how that's constructive or how that even fits with the first statement but there you go.Pff.
Morrowind had no 'essential' flag. If you wanted to kill someone, BOOM. They were dead in a hailfire of.fire. If you killed someone vital to the main quest, the game just gave you a message saying 'Bro, you fucked up. You fucked up big time.' But you could still keep playing. Just couldn't finish the main quest.
The Illusion of absolute freedom is a powerful thing.My mother always said: 'If you wan't space, move to Utah!' (To quote a movie, I know not the name of)The same can apply to video games: 'You want freedom, play Just Cause 2.' I'm not sure how that's constructive or how that even fits with the first statement but there you go.Pff.
Skyrim Setessential Console Command
Morrowind had no 'essential' flag. If you wanted to kill someone, BOOM. They were dead in a hailfire of.fire. If you killed someone vital to the main quest, the game just gave you a message saying 'Bro, you fucked up. You fucked up big time.' But you could still keep playing. Just couldn't finish the main quest.Or better yet, since its 2011.just make the main quest adapt to the loss of a character.
Now you just have to figure out what needs to go down by yourself, or you skip unnecessary things; like the whole Civil War thing if I'd gotten the ability to assassinate Ulfric. The Illusion of absolute freedom is a powerful thing.My mother always said: 'If you wan't space, move to Utah!' (To quote a movie, I know not the name of)The same can apply to video games: 'You want freedom, play Just Cause 2.' I'm not sure how that's constructive or how that even fits with the first statement but there you go.Pff. Morrowind had no 'essential' flag. If you wanted to kill someone, BOOM. They were dead in a hailfire of.fire.
If you killed someone vital to the main quest, the game just gave you a message saying 'Bro, you fucked up. You fucked up big time.' But you could still keep playing.
Just couldn't finish the main quest.' Buh, buh.bu.No one will play our game if we let them break it!' The fact that you can press 'New Game' and rebreak the same game is the most alluring thing about morrowind.
That's the site you want. Specifically the command will besetessential base ID base ID = jarl's number (from hereex.
Jarl Korir (winterhold) is 0001C1B51/0= 1 - immortal0 - mortalSo to set the winterhold jarl as mortal you would theoretically (I haven't done this, but the site is trustworthy) dosetessential 0001C1B5 0It is worth noting the following warning posted on the site though:'While it is fine to change an NPC to essential yourself and then decide later to make them mortal again, you should never set an NPC that is essential (immortal) in the vanilla game (i.e., before modifications) as mortal. If they're already essential, don't change them. Certainly do not save the game if you do. If an originally essential NPC dies it will undoubtedly break whole quests, entire questlines, or perhaps even the entire story, and you'll be forced to reload a previous save.' The Illusion of absolute freedom is a powerful thing.My mother always said: 'If you wan't space, move to Utah!'
(To quote a movie, I know not the name of)The same can apply to video games: 'You want freedom, play Just Cause 2.' I'm not sure how that's constructive or how that even fits with the first statement but there you go.Pff. Morrowind had no 'essential' flag.
If you wanted to kill someone, BOOM. They were dead in a hailfire of.fire. If you killed someone vital to the main quest, the game just gave you a message saying 'Bro, you fucked up. You fucked up big time.' But you could still keep playing. Just couldn't finish the main quest.Oh the fond memories of Morrowind.
snipDo us a favour. Boot up Skyrim, and go to a major city. Set everyone nonessential, the UESP wiki should have a list of residents and their actor values. Spawn in an ancient dragon. Congratulations, you have now discovered why Skyrim has so many essential NPCs.Taking an action yourself, and suffering for it is one thing. Having the random number generator just plain fuck you over? Not fun at all.Seeing as how a dragon can't actually spawn into any of the major, major cities, the only real way to break any of the major quests by accident would be to have a dragon kill one of the Blades or your side's Second-In-Command.Besides, most of the essential NPCs are tough enough where if you're any good at fighting dragons or anything else the dragon will die before the NPC.At least make it so that they're immortal to everything but your attacks.
I have a simple request: does anyone know the Console Command to remove the Immortal/Esstenial tags from the NPCs in the game, thereby rendering them all vulenrable?It really gets under my skin that somehow the Jarls and leaders are spared from my murderous rage somehow, or that there is little danger in mis-casting a spell or something.I was really pissed when I found out I just can't assassinate all the enemy Jarls and leaders to end the war.why wasn't this a built-in option?here the fix to your problem. Seeing as how a dragon can't actually spawn into any of the major, major cities, the only real way to break any of the major quests by accident would be to have a dragon kill one of the Blades or your side's Second-In-Command.Besides, most of the essential NPCs are tough enough where if you're any good at fighting dragons or anything else the dragon will die before the NPC.At least make it so that they're immortal to everything but your attacks.Uh.
That's not true. I've had dragons land in the middle of Solitude more than once.OT: There's probably a console command, but I wouldn't do it if I were you. The game isn't set up to accommodate any essentials dying, so lots of quests will break in very glitchy ways if it happens. At least wait for a mod that will probably come along and fix most of those problems. I have a simple request: does anyone know the Console Command to remove the Immortal/Esstenial tags from the NPCs in the game, thereby rendering them all vulenrable?It really gets under my skin that somehow the Jarls and leaders are spared from my murderous rage somehow, or that there is little danger in mis-casting a spell or something.I was really pissed when I found out I just can't assassinate all the enemy Jarls and leaders to end the war.why wasn't this a built-in option?I feel your pain.
Skyrim Console Commands
You can probably guess how I felt when I first reverse-pickpocketed enough poison into Maven Black-Briar to down a mammoth, and the bitch just took it. I'm slowly building up a head of rage against the Thieves' Guild (even though I'm a member), but I suspect they're all unkillable, as well.I mean, I guess I can understand the reasoning behind immortal NPCs, but. So frickin' many of them?! Most of the ones I've come across that are actually worth assassinating simply won't die. It was a brief hallelujah moment when I slit Thonar Silver-Blood's throat and it actually worked. The Illusion of absolute freedom is a powerful thing.My mother always said: 'If you wan't space, move to Utah!' (To quote a movie, I know not the name of)The same can apply to video games: 'You want freedom, play Just Cause 2.'
I'm not sure how that's constructive or how that even fits with the first statement but there you go.Pff. Morrowind had no 'essential' flag. If you wanted to kill someone, BOOM. They were dead in a hailfire of.fire. If you killed someone vital to the main quest, the game just gave you a message saying 'Bro, you fucked up.
You fucked up big time.' But you could still keep playing. Just couldn't finish the main quest.if you knew where keening sunder and wraith guard were you could grab them, go to dagoth 'ur and kill him anyway. I have a simple request: does anyone know the Console Command to remove the Immortal/Esstenial tags from the NPCs in the game, thereby rendering them all vulenrable?It really gets under my skin that somehow the Jarls and leaders are spared from my murderous rage somehow, or that there is little danger in mis-casting a spell or something.I was really pissed when I found out I just can't assassinate all the enemy Jarls and leaders to end the war.why wasn't this a built-in option?I feel your pain.
You can probably guess how I felt when I first reverse-pickpocketed enough poison into Maven Black-Briar to down a mammoth, and the bitch just took it. I'm slowly building up a head of rage against the Thieves' Guild (even though I'm a member), but I suspect they're all unkillable, as well.I mean, I guess I can understand the reasoning behind immortal NPCs, but. So frickin' many of them?! Most of the ones I've come across that are actually worth assassinating simply won't die.
It was a brief hallelujah moment when I slit Thonar Silver-Blood's throat and it actually worked.Yeah, Skyrim went overboard with it. Oblivion just made main quest NPCs essential which made sense.
It seems like everyone in Skyrim with a named side quest attacched to them is essential, like Thonar until you do his quest. It is unnecessary, immersion breaking hand holding. It makes essentials double over in pain then stand back upCurses, foiled again!Well, if modders could remove immortality from children, I bet they'll be able to do it for Essentials.Actually, children were suspiciously easy to make mortal in a totally we-can't-get-this-game-rated-otherwise-but-yet-we-think-you-should-be-able-to-kill-them sort of way. They simply belong to a child race along with one of the playable ones, and this data is one of the very, VERY few things that shows up if you load the Skyrim file into a Fallout 3 editor. Alter that child race so it's mortal and poof!
Every child in the game suddenly pops up on the Grim Reaper's radar.Essential characters, on the other hand, have their essential status applied to each and every one individually making it much more time consuming to alter them. Or better yet, since its 2011.just make the main quest adapt to the loss of a character. Now you just have to figure out what needs to go down by yourself, or you skip unnecessary things; like the whole Civil War thing if I'd gotten the ability to assassinate Ulfric.I'm not sure it being 2011 makes that 'just' much less nightmarishly difficult to program.;)Actually, it makes it even more nightmarish. You see, in a text adventure, you could set up a random name generator and simply generate a new NPC to take over every role, just copy pasting the dialogue.
With newer, animated games, you'd have to create a skin, made up of textures, and for more advanced animations, movement, and finally motion capture. Then for modern games, you'd have to record dialogue. Now, all of this is possible in say Skyrim, but it is much more difficult, especially if you want the voices of the successors to be different, and if you want to procedurally reference killed characters, and especially if you want to include the NPCs before they ascend to their position. You could randomly spawn a new second in command every time the last one is removed, by being promoted or dying, but then it gets kind of ridiculous if you abuse that by killing them over and over.If you want the quests to reflect multiple options, (Like assassinating the Rebels or Imperials out of quests) that's also made harder by facial animations and voice acting.
You have to write, record, and animate the entire thing. If you have, say, 10 hours of plot (Voiced and written, not necessarily gameplay) in the game, and then you decide to give each story element two alternatives, making 3 times the stuff, you quickly increase the amount of work. Suddenly, you've 30 hours of stuff to set up and record. Add to that procedural stuff, you doing amusing stuff like assassinating the leaders, and you'll have to account for that too.
That's part of the reason why, with the increased quality of graphics and voice acting in RPGs, the choice and freedom is ever-reducing. Don't get me wrong, I'd love this stuff, but the choice seems to be a decision between prettiness and freedom.
You might try this: Go to this page: way down is a list of purchasable horses that lists the base and ref ids for them. I hope that might help.If that doesn't work, you might try a different approach. Open the console and click on your horse to bring up their refid. Then type in the command:ModAV Health 10000That command will give the horse an extra 10K hitpoints rendering the horse pretty close to essential.Posts: 3410 Joined: Sun Feb 04, 2007 8:29 amDisplay posts from previous: Sort.