The Most Tedious 'Chore'

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Sun May 30, 2004 10:50 am

Okay kids, so as you progress through the world of Morrowind and live your life adventuring and otherwise evading real life necessities, which task in the game do you find the most tedious?

For me it is the sorting of alchemy ingredients into their appropriate containers every time I return to my base following a mission.

i4v02v95i5p09k9 · Post by **i4v02v95i5p09k9** » Sun May 30, 2004 1:05 pm

Im with Wench on this one, it takes me at least 6 game hours to properly sort them in my house.. I have like a dozen crates, half a dozen Urns, ungodly amounts of sacks.. I swear to god I have like at least a million units of Saltrice.. Of course after im done sorting the Misc. I get to sort the weapons, the armor, the soulgems, the keys, the papers, the books..

blake · Post by **blake** » Sun May 30, 2004 1:14 pm

too organized for my taste, i have all my crap strewn about my house floating in the air or whatever.... It resembles my room in rl go figure im rping myself...

Aqua-chan · Post by **Aqua-chan** » Sun May 30, 2004 2:40 pm

My most tedious chore is trying to recall transportation routes to get from Point A to Point B. Just this morning I was having one of these problems.

"Alright. From Seyda Neen I can get to Ahemmusa camp by taking the Silt Strider to Vivec, a boat from Vivec to Tel Branora, another boat to Sadrith Mora, go on up to Tel Mora, and hoof it North-West..."

I wish somebody would just hurry it along with automobiles already. Or horses, at least.

Dark Master · Post by **Dark Master** » Sun May 30, 2004 3:08 pm

The most tedious quest I've been given is the fighters guild's mission to Vas, but the most tedious element of Morrowind is probably having to walk early in the game when you're very slow. It hacks me off.

Winters · Post by **Winters** » Sun May 30, 2004 4:09 pm

The Sanctus Shrine Quest for the Temple, god that one was boring

Locutus · Post by **Locutus** » Sun May 30, 2004 5:03 pm

for me its the vivec cantons.jeeez its boring to go around once u know wheres what

beornica · Post by **beornica** » Sun May 30, 2004 7:08 pm

Definitely for me it's being an errand-runner for the Telvanni. "Go get me some muck - okay, now I need some kwama cuttle - okay, now I'm making this new spell, so i need some netch leather..." Oh god, it just makes me want to give myself a friggin lobotomy, it's so boring!

beornica · Post by **beornica** » Sun May 30, 2004 7:10 pm

Actually, I find that anything having to do with alchemical ingredients and the aquiring of them is unbelievably boring....

blake · Post by **blake** » Sun May 30, 2004 8:00 pm

i agree, silly ajira always wants me to get her stuff

Anonononomous · Post by **Anonononomous** » Sun May 30, 2004 8:35 pm

That's why on your second run through you just pick up the things you need on your way from Seyda Neen to Balmorra. Saves a lot of time. I also picked up the Dwemer Tube fir Edwinna earlier.

fable · Post by **fable** » Sun May 30, 2004 8:46 pm

There's an automatic alchemical sorter mod out there. It's part of a machine that you have to pay in order to sort and prepare potions. I think it may be tied to Artuzu's A Better Place to Stay, but I'm not sure--I've not tried it out. You can find it, and information about it, here. I'm not interested in Artuzu's home mod, since it's a huge warehouse, but the alchemical mod sounds like fun. Still...to be truthful, I prefer making my own potions, even if I dislike putting away ingredients. And that's no way I'm going to pay any machine to do either.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Sun May 30, 2004 10:12 pm

I think I've seen that sorter mod, and I've been tempted, but I'm not interested in Artuzu's either.

Aaargh! The dilemna of it, I really enjoy potion making and coming up with different recipe concoctions, not to mention that the homemade varieties are usually better, but sorting the ingredients reminds me vaguely of preparing taxes in RL...

Dark Master · Post by **Dark Master** » Mon May 31, 2004 5:04 am

I generally just mix the potions either straight out of my inventory, or pick up a pile of them from the floor and mix them that way. In my base area I'll have a pile of 6 of this, and 4 of that, and I'll take whatever I need into my inventory and pick it up before making the potion - I don't bother sorting them really, is it actually necessary?

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon May 31, 2004 7:18 am

It's not necessary, but when you have a hundred piles, it gets annoying.

It's much easier if you can go to jars sitting in order on a shelf, A to Z, and click to get a quantity. Several housing mods over this much, at least, but that still means when you enter the house you have to put away all the herbs you've acquired.

owlsight · Post by **owlsight** » Mon May 31, 2004 10:00 am

What irritates me most about the game is I am constantly lost. Probably because I'm new. But everywhere I go, I'm lost. And to make matters worse, there are the quests that are not located in towns. Go to such and such mine southwest of this town by the river, blah, blah, blah. I have a hard enough time in the towns. I got the strategy guide for the maps, and they don't really help me. I think the maps suck. So for me, I hate traveling.

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon May 31, 2004 10:13 am

Originally posted by owlsight
What irritates me most about the game is I am constantly lost. Probably because I'm new. But everywhere I go, I'm lost. And to make matters worse, there are the quests that are not located in towns. Go to such and such mine southwest of this town by the river, blah, blah, blah. I have a hard enough time in the towns. I got the strategy guide for the maps, and they don't really help me. I think the maps suck. So for me, I hate traveling.

That's actually one of the attractions for me.

I love the fact that the place is so huge and filled with incident. I can roam, get lost, and enjoy myself in the details. But that's just me.

There are some pretty good mapsites available, but obviously while you're not playing. I do think Bethesda could have done a far better job of supplying maps--some placement of objects is off from where they actually are.

owlsight · Post by **owlsight** » Mon May 31, 2004 10:58 am

I don't mind exploring and roaming around. It was great fun in BG1, even though I frequently got in over my head, which adds to the challenge and therefore, makes if more fun. If I didn't die hideously, repeatedly, that is. LOL

It's when I'm trying to find something that I get really, really irritated. Why is every quest located outside of town??? I've been looking for the egg mine for the second Fighters Guild quest for days without any success. And boy, those cliff racers are irritating. Oh well. I gained a level while wandering around completely lost, so I guess it wasn't a total waste of time.

Anonononomous · Post by **Anonononomous** » Mon May 31, 2004 9:57 pm

Alt-Tab.

fable · Post by **fable** » Mon May 31, 2004 10:56 pm

Only works decently if you've got MW running in a window. And even then, it crashes more often than not, for me.