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I vant to suck your blaaad!
Posted: May 1st, 2006, 13:10
by Dog Pants
I've serched the manual and I can't find any way to wait (accelerate time). There's a stat for 'hours waited' so I assume you can do it somehow. The reason I ask is because I've been turned into a vampire, so I have to spend all my days indoors. That's okay when I'm in (or near) an inn, but at the moment I'm stuck in the Arcane University and I really can't be arsed waiting 40 minutes of so for the game time to pass and night to fall. Again.
Anyone know?
Posted: May 1st, 2006, 13:47
by Bob47
press t i think
Posted: May 1st, 2006, 13:48
by Lee
Bob47 wrote:press t i think

This, I actually stood around waiting for some quests until i discovered that...
Posted: May 1st, 2006, 13:54
by Lateralus
Press t to wait, and it will restore your health, fatigue and magicka to max, after only 1 hour. Max wait period is 24hrs I believe.
Posted: May 1st, 2006, 14:52
by Bob47
you are correct you can wate one full day if you want but i dont see why you would want to
Posted: May 1st, 2006, 16:15
by Sticky Label
You use the wait button?
I bet you use the quick-travel function, too!

Posted: May 1st, 2006, 16:42
by Dog Pants
I use the wait button now while sitting staring at a wall waiting for the sun to go down. Call me a lightweight, but doing that in realtime doesn't enhance my gaming experience.
Being a vampire sucks, if you'll excuse the pun. I'm now stuck in a witch's house. I can't go outside because the sunlight kills me, I can't stay inside because she's attacking me due to me walking in on her while she was asleep. I'm a fucking vampire, and she sleeps until 9:00 in the morning so how am I supposed to meet her? Top top it all, my last save point is two game days and several hours play back. I'm not very impressed.
Posted: May 1st, 2006, 17:46
by Chickenz
Dog Pants wrote:I use the wait button now while sitting staring at a wall waiting for the sun to go down. Call me a lightweight, but doing that in realtime doesn't enhance my gaming experience.
Being a vampire sucks, if you'll excuse the pun. I'm now stuck in a witch's house. I can't go outside because the sunlight kills me, I can't stay inside because she's attacking me due to me walking in on her while she was asleep. I'm a fucking vampire, and she sleeps until 9:00 in the morning so how am I supposed to meet her? Top top it all, my last save point is two game days and several hours play back. I'm not very impressed.
hahahaha, i too discovered that whilst cool for all of 10 mins purely for detect life and nightvision the enjoyment wheres off and it becomes a complete ball ache to do anything as a vampire
Posted: May 1st, 2006, 19:15
by FatherJack
Bob47 wrote:you can wate one full day if you want but i dont see why you would want to
This is how I firtst discovered the feature - I wiated a few days until the weather was nicer before redoing the quest when you swim around and kill the bitey fish. Not much fun in the rain.
Dog Pants wrote:Being a vampire bites, if you'll excuse the pun. I'm now stuck in a witch's house. I can't go outside because the sunlight kills me, I can't stay inside because she's attacking me due to me walking in on her while she was asleep.
You need an Umbrella of Shadow, or a potion of Protection of Sun Factor +10

Posted: May 1st, 2006, 20:52
by Bob47
why dont you get a cure for vampire if you dont like it

Posted: May 1st, 2006, 20:53
by shot2bits
if you feed you go back to the level 1 vampire thing and you can go out in the light
Posted: May 1st, 2006, 21:08
by Chickenz
Bob47 wrote:why dont you get a cure for vampire if you dont like it

its not that simple, it takes ages to do any of the tasks when you have to wait, sneak and feed to stay alive.
Posted: May 1st, 2006, 21:33
by Sticky Label
I'm rather puzzled by this whole vampire thing, actually. I accidentally got infected at one point, luckily just after saving. I thought it would be fun to stand in the centre of the temple district and see my character evaporate, a bit like the blonde guy in Riddick, but as far as I could tell, the sun had no affect on me whatsoever. I put this down to the devs wanting vampire'd players to be allowed to go outside a little bit, and the fact my character was dark-elf, and so resistant to fire. Maybe mine was bugged.
As I said before, there's a guy near the temple in the city with all the dry bridges who'll start you on a "cure for vampirism" quest.
Posted: May 1st, 2006, 22:35
by FatherJack
Isn't there like a 3 day period or something before you become a vampire proper?
Posted: May 1st, 2006, 23:15
by Sticky Label
Yes, but I had deliberately slept those three days away just for that specific goal.
Posted: May 1st, 2006, 23:21
by Joose
As far as I can tell, you dont initially have any problem with the sun. But you need to keep yourself well 'fed', or you start getting more vampirey.
Posted: May 2nd, 2006, 0:43
by Sticky Label
That's a bit boring. Is it possible to drink the blood of monsters? I'm thinking minotaurs and spriggans. Spriggans because that would be so ridiculous.
Posted: May 2nd, 2006, 7:23
by Dog Pants
Bob47 wrote:why dont you get a cure for vampire if you dont like it

Sticky Label wrote:As I said before, there's a guy near the temple in the city with all the dry bridges who'll start you on a "cure for vampirism" quest.
The witches house I was stuck in (I've gone back to a previous save

) is the second stage of the quest to get yourself cured.
shot2bits wrote:if you feed you go back to the level 1 vampire thing and you can go out in the light
Joose wrote:As far as I can tell, you dont initially have any problem with the sun. But you need to keep yourself well 'fed', or you start getting more vampirey.
That's very useful to know. I know just the person I want to bite too.
Sticky Label wrote:That's a bit boring. Is it possible to drink the blood of monsters? I'm thinking minotaurs and spriggans. Spriggans because that would be so ridiculous.
You can only feed on someone when they're asleep unfortunately.
Posted: May 2nd, 2006, 10:21
by Bob47
if you feed corectly you can wipe out a whole town and no one seems to care

Posted: May 2nd, 2006, 15:16
by Sticky Label
You can wipe out a whole town without being careful, and apart from a massive bounty and infamy score, no-one really cares.