Ulukai on 19/11/2011 at 10:00
Yeah, so not my favorite things in real-life, but in Skyrim I could really do with keeping track of them as the one and only horse I've bought so far just buggered off without warning, which I'd much rather it hadn't, even if it did clip-clop around like the reject offspring of a donkey and zebra.
Tips for keeping hold of horses?
And are they all 1,000 gold? Is there a Stan's Previously Used Horse Emporium I haven't discovered?
Firefreak on 19/11/2011 at 10:55
I can't help you with horses directly - as a sneaky woodelf I prefer running around on my own - but I ran across at least two horses that were without owner so far.
So, explore a bit and you might encounter one.
Dia on 19/11/2011 at 13:08
Omg, Ulu; could I tell you about horses? You bet your sweet ass I can! I've had nothing but bad luck with them from the very beginning. The horses of Skyrim are NOT the placid, docile creatures of Oblivion, let me tell you! Oh no! Whenever I dismount to try to vanquish a foe, my testosterone-laden mount shoves me out of the way and proceeds to take on the baddies himself, which usually ends up with his untimely demise if there are more than two enemies. Unless the baddie turns out to be a dragon, in which case the horse immediately turns tail and heads for the hills ..... or where ever. You can waste a lot of time searching for your horse when it bolts like that; suddenly they gallop off at warp 10, which is amazing since when you're riding them they don't seem to be able to do anything faster than a fast canter.
Usually the only way to get a still-surviving horse back is to fast-travel to any location and you'll be reunited with your hayburner friend. If your horse died, then you have one of two options: either go to one of the stables to buy another (yeah, so far they've each cost me 1000), or open up the console commands, click on the carcass of your recently-deceased brainless wonder, and type 'resurrect'. If you choose to do the latter you'll see the horse's image fade briefly, then solidify. That means that it worked and you'll be reunited with it after your next fast-travel.
After losing seven (yes, count them: seven) horses in less than 3 days, I had a temper tantrum and opened up the console commands.
Warning: horses are not mountain goats and frequently fall off mountains.
Ostriig on 20/11/2011 at 00:11
I'd say bear it out until the CS lands, once that's available a mod to keep track of where your horse is will probably follow relatively quick.
And yes, as far as I know, they all cost 1k and are completely identical aside from their colours.
Phatose on 20/11/2011 at 02:46
Not *all* of them. There is one special horse in the game for sure. An old friend, no doubt familiar to those who've played Oblivion.
Avalon on 20/11/2011 at 03:22
Special horse is best horse, and pretty much never abandons you. Ever. No matter what I'm doing or where I go, if I ever lose him, I just fast travel somewhere and he instantly pops up again where I land. I have also never seen him die, and he likes to attack the ancient dragons and frost trolls and bone deathlord guys who attack me every 3 seconds.
But, horses are not a convenient mode of travel in and of themselves (imo). I find it a lot easier to just run around on foot than to deal with trying to steer a horse. I only find them useful for getting up mountains - they'll jump when normally the game won't allow you to yourself, and a horse can sprint-run up an incline almost twice as steep as you can. I had an objective seriously 30 feet away on the other side of a mountain, and my options were to either spend 10 minutes running around the mountain, 10 minutes running to it from a fast travel point on the other side, or 10 seconds running straight over the mountain on my horse. A+
Renzatic on 20/11/2011 at 03:37
My first horse was probably my longest lived. I kept him around for a good 6-7 hours before he was killed off by a dragon.
But my second horse? I had him for maybe 20 minutes for he met an untimely death. He slipped while climbing a mountain. The splash into the pool below wasn't the fatal blow. Oh no. It was the ensuing tumble over the cascades that did him in. Turns out that horses aren't nearly as good as barrels when it comes to going over waterfalls.
At least I got a good screenshot of his body drifting down the stream to remember him by.
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http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3018396/Skyrim_11_sm.jpgRenault on 20/11/2011 at 04:29
I find it breaks the immersion something awful when you jump on your horse, and bam...third person. I can't understand why they would have changed this, since you could ride a horse first person in Oblivion.
Hanse on 20/11/2011 at 05:59
I'm not a huge fan of the horses myself, I want to be able to easily stop and pick herbs, kill something, etc, and horses make that frustrating to do.
That said, I recently acquired a few horses for free.
I was leaving Riften, and as I left, a bunch of bandits and spiders came running up the path and started a fight. The poor stable master was killed in the attack. As a result, apparently no one owns his horses anymore, and I can get on one any time I want without it being considered "stolen". :D
Painman on 20/11/2011 at 08:09
Horses served one purpose for me in Oblivion: Storage. I would never ride, but I'd explore, and once I reached a landmark I wanted to investigate, I'd fast travel to it (even though I was already there) in order to "snap" the horse to that location, once the outside baddies were cleared. Then, I'd explore the dungeon and load up the horse via a Saddlebag mod.
I won't ride a horse in Skyrim, either. I'm too much of a hoarder. How can I possibly ride right past that purple mountain flower cluster without picking some? Or mining that ore vein?
Hell, I don't even like traveling at night, because I can't see the ore veins clearly. At least I get to collect torchbugs as a consolation. :D
