Another Advantage to Having Both Farms

[lavender_rose]

No this isn't another "Highwood or Millstone? I Can't Decide" entry. I've long accepted that both farms have their positives and negatives. Plus from character standpoints, Aeronwen likes Millstone, Neldor likes Highwood. I just realized that the twins have not expressed a preference, but Auntie Laiwyn has indicated quite strongly to me that she prefers Water Lily Cottage as her home rather than the Fisherman Cottage.

Actually, scratch that about the twins not expressing a preference. Calonir likes Highwood, the more "flashy" farm that's near a large town, while Cariel likes Millstone which is tucked away in a hollow and surrounded by a flowering forest.

Where was I? Ah, the issue with cell respawning. As Oblivion players know, one has to stay out of a cell for 72 game hours for it to respawn. This means that unless the family is away from Highwood for three days, the garden around it will NEVER respawn. With the Millstone garden it's easy to get those crops to respawn; the garden is in its own cell. The characters just stay out of there for three days after they harvest everything. Three days later the garden is once again bursting with fruits and vegetables.

Respawning is also an issue regarding the livestock. If the family wants new sheep, pigs, cows, they have to go away for a while after slaughtering the stock.

The Trade and Commerce store gives the characters an additional reason to travel back and forth between farms and allowing each farm's stock pen and garden to "rest".

So, I'm not fighting my love for both mods. I'm going with it. ;)

On another note, I'll need to talk to my husband and see if we'll get around to installing Skyrim this autumn or winter. It's really hard resisting the urge to write, but I don't want bother with it if I'll be playing Skyrim (a game that has children/family features built into it) in the months to come.

Comments

[darth_eldritch]

Such weighty decisions. Why not have both.

I'm thinking of running Skyrim again in the future, on my newer computer. Just to do the Dragonborn DLC quests, if not anything else- that's the one with Neloth and Hermeaus Mora.

To be quite honest, without the DLC Skyrim was boring. (The GOG download has it all, and probably the Creation Club content that includes the Morrowind nostalgia stuff, and Dark Seducers and Saints- Oblivion Shivering Isles nostalgia. I haven't played that content yet, so I can't say for sure what it is about, but I think it has some OMG the ever loving Tribunal stuff in it. Sigh.

I would love to see more of a focus on the three Daedra, Azura, Boehia, and Mephala stuff, and acector worship aspects.

Fortunately, though, there is a great mod to take care of Skyrim's respawning bug for plants. And you don't have to stay out of the cell, either. Wiseman303's Flora Fixes - Revamped It is the Special Edition version- GOG Slyrim is the Special Edition/Aniversery.

[lavender_rose]

but I think it has some OMG the ever loving Tribunal stuff in it. Sigh.

Oh gosh, can't we ever get away from the Tribunal? :/

Something I really find frustrating is that you have to watch which versions of the Skyrim mods you download since not all mods will work with whichever version a person is using. Tokkimoon's Adoptable Children mod for example has only one version and I don't know if it's the one that works with the version of Skyrim that my husband purchased.

[darth_eldritch]

The Gog version is either Skyrim Special Edition (SSE) or Anniversary. So you have to download most mods from the Skryim Special Edition Nexus.

Fortunately most Skyrim LE mods are easily ported, if they do not require the script extender. I had ported a few mods myself and they worked just fine when I tested Skyrim SSE.

I'll have to look at Tokkimoon's Adoptable Children later on to see if it can be ported to SSE. But I still play Skyrim LE.

[lavender_rose]

Thanks for clearing that up. For some reason I though the Gog version was the LE. It's a shame that there are different versions. While browsing the mods I saw a lot of comments from people saying they were disappointed that many of their favorite mods no longer work.