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We're in the frozen north, the land of the nords. Sure, they'd be generic and overall inconsequential, save that they would add that much needed city-feeling to the towns. There should also be buildings to house them, they don't even need to be enterable. There should be npc's swarming the streets, even generic ones. The problem with Solitude, however, is that the great streets are empty. Solitude does a great job of looking huge although it's not that big. They don't just spring to life in the barracks, and live in it for the rest of their lives. They have to have families somewhere, they certainly have to come from somewhere. I mean, where do all of the guards live? They make up about half of the population in any given town. Anything to give these people an actual place to live. There could even just be more, bigger inns. But at the same time, I think we need a lot more of the generic, dime-a-dozen NPC's just to roam around cities and the like, as well as more buildings to house them. Kat Lehmann Posts: 3409 Joined: Tue 6:24 am

That said, I do miss individual specialization shops that sort of make a city more unique. Solitude, which has more of a cosmopolitan nature would be more modeled on the cities down south. The only city there in a realistic sense is Solitude which is the Imperial capital.

In a country such as Skyrim "cities" are just glorified forts.

P.S sorry for the wall of text but I thought if I explained where I lived it might help my case. The cities do not need to be bigger because it would not be realistic at all. Think in the wintertime when the passes became snowed-in trade would cease till spring thaw. You wouldn't have more shop owners because the population just isn't there. Communities had to be self sufficient or else they wouldn't survive. For some they would not even have made it. They nailed what life is like in small communities especially in a medieval fantasy setting, they captured the isolation and self sufficient way of the nord perfectly.Try and remember for RPing sakes that to go to riften would take months for these citizens. The fact is Skyrims environment is so realistic that when I first saw the scenery minus the mountains I could have sworn it was my backyard lol.