How do you make your safehouses fun?

[Patryk]

Anyone here played any of Behtesda's Fallout, or The Elder Scrolls games? And with mods? Then you know what I'm talking about, having your own house, or secret hideout is really fun, especially when there's lots of fun things we can do in them.

Tell me, how do you make hideouts in your games fun?

I do it by:

- When first bought, the hideout is typically in a bad shape, and you must find people who will renovate it for a price, or by doing quests for them.

- Pretty much every object is interactive. There's either funny, short comment, or a small scene relating to that object, and of course finding useful (or not) items. (I do all objects interactive in my games, but I put extra focus on the ones in my safehouses)

- Trophies. After we complete a Story Quest, or some kind of Side Quest, we'll get fun new objects to our house, again they have fun short comment, or a small scene. Small example: After I join the local militia, I will have their uniform, or armor on display.

Things I avoid:

- Free sleeping, unless a certain pricey upgrade is bought. I always thought that paying 5 gold in Inns was overpowered, same goes for resting our whole party for free. That's why I make sleeping and restoring the whole party in our beds only after buying a fairly expensive upgrade.

 

[GRIMMJOW]

minigames, a secret dungeon(or challenge), eastereggs and a shopkeeper with unique items. that's what I am planning to do

 

[Engr. Adiktuzmiko]

I prefer the secret houses in the 3rd gen pokemon games... Coz they're cute... For the skyrim houses, I only use them to store items.

 

[Patryk]

minigames, a secret dungeon(or challenge), eastereggs and a shopkeeper with unique items. that's what I am planning to do

Pretty great ideas, I especially like idea of a secret dungeon, that could be really fun. And I was thinking about adding minigames, but I don't really know what minigames to add, do you have any specific ones in mind?

I prefer the secret houses in the 3rd gen pokemon games... Coz they're cute... For the skyrim houses, I only use them to store items.

I loved secret bases too, and I can't wait to see how cool they are in a remake. And did you tried any of the player home mods for Skyrim? I haven't tried many mods for Skyrim yet, so I can't say for sure, but in previous Bethesda games modders were making such a great player home mods, most of the times a lot better that the vannilla ones.

 

[MisterTorgue]

I have more a village you build in time.

You can do what seem like very out of the way side quests, to get a person in your village that can help build a certain building (costs different materials)

There are village only side quests, that instead of direct rewards, will unlock extra areas in your village, and more people can come along.

(There is a quest to clear out a local cave, once you do this and hand it in, the guy you did it for moves in but also makes his artefact shop available to you (the only one in the game)) - its not game changing but gives you access too other items.

Other than that, I make them nice places to explore, have good npc dialogue and interaction with your party, also it's where you can re-party up!