Am I screwed in the world of Oblivion?

Oh man, that is too rich.

LOL

It was a cold quiet night in the city, I was sneaking from alley to alley between guard patrols, to arrive at my destination, this old man's house. Blast! The door is locked! But I have lockpicks and start to carefully break the lock, I failed, and suddenly a patrol!

Stop you thief! The guard exclaims.

But I am no thief, I am an assassin! Trained in the deadly arts, but who's this? My friend the captain of the guard!

Let me take care of that fine for you, he says, with great joy, he makes his master happy.

Anyone else get that now, what's his name will pay the fine lol.

Sometimes your security stat goes up in jail. But equally well sometimes other stats decrease but you evidently can't afford that fine, Money is a bit strange, I've got a save after The Shivering Isles with around 120+ hours of gameplay and I haven't got that much money, around 270,000 because none of the shop keepers have more than around 1600 gp. I haven't got 100 in mercantile tho so maybe that would allow me to get more money.

nice little story but a level 4 defeating one guard, uhm...... no. maybe a level 20 with good armour to take on a few guards if you are lucky level 30 would be better.

I really don't want to go to jail. I may have killed a few guards by mistakes but unless they manage to bring me down, I am going to resist jail all the way!

I wonder if I can still finish the main quest with all that I've done so far.

35,000 gold is still too much! By the time I accumlate that much gold, I would have killed so many guards and town people that the bounty on my head is going to be way more.

I don't want to go to jail. Really. I want to see if I can still complete the main quest.

I am actually not very good in these sort of games so I set the difficulty level to low. I have to admit it is pretty fun to have a bunch of guards and town people hacking you. Just keep healing!

I think you'll have TROUBLE completing the main quest as an outlaw.
Everytime you go to a town, the guards will attack you.
Just go to jail. It doesn't matter. A couple of your stats go down, but if you're only level 4 it doesn't matter.
If you don't want to lose your character, just load from an earlier save.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Really quite basic.

ye right, at level one there is no way you could do enough damage to a guard to take him out any time soon and blocking is useless since they woill just knock you off your feet and you'll be dead in no time, i call BS on that. at that level taking out one guard would be pretty impossible no matter how good at combat you are., no shield or armour can protect you and dodging with the starting speed level ain't a good idea.

on the normal diffulty i was killing the guards at level 2...

there is a difficulty bar in the options strange - all the way to the left and a lvl 1 can beat a guard no trouble, in the middle, which is where your's probably is, you haven't got a hope in hell (i think the insturctions say they are 6x weaker all the way to the left, and 6x stronger all the way to the right)

Okay, here is where I am right now. I may have gotten to level 10 or so committed close to 200 murders. The bounty on me now is like ... let's not go there.

The good things are:-

- My armorer skill goes up really fast because I repair every single item I loot from the guards
- My Mercantile skill goes up really fast too because I sell so many items

The bad things are:

- Every town I visit I have to take down the entire town of guards
- I can't loot all the items because I simply can't carry them all at one go!
- I have to fast travel back to my new family (aka Dark Brotherhood) to sell stuff, fast travel back to the city and loot more, and vice versa ... why Dark Brotherhood? Well, at least they open 20x7. Just wake the poor fella up.
- And I realize that I am not playing the quests at all but rather spending time killing guards and selling loots.

The novelty of being an outlaw does get ... tiring, sad to say

Barring that find a character editor, give yourself just enough money to pay the fine, delete the character editor and go about your merry way. Not sure if your one of those no cheating for any reason purists.

This is tooooo funny. ROFL LOL LMAO !!!!! Thanks for this, its so funny its like stealing candy from a baby roh roh LOL

Oh, I also didn't think so. However, I started to notice something strange. You see, whenever I visit a new town, I also make sure I take down all the guards if possible (and at times accidently chopped some of the town people who attacked me side by side with the guards ... sad to say, town people don't seem to respawn). And every a couple of days or so, I would face another group of guards. Some of them I can only knock them unconcious and have to face them again, again, and again. In every town I have visited, there were corpses of naked men (and women I supposed) piling up - like 20 or 30 of them on one spot. It is actually quite a gruesome scene ... I mean ... why don't all these bodies despawn?! So, to cut a long story short, I think the guards do respawn.

Anyway, thanks! I am certainly having lots of fun! Another headache right now is that the towns don't seem to welcome murderers living in their neighborhoods. Hence, it seems no one wants to sell me a place to live. What am I to do with all the money I raised by selling gears from the guards?!

Oh well ...

The guards that you can't kill are the ones who are important for the main plot line. I'm not sure if all the people are part of the main plot line are immortal, but the guards are at least.

Any NPC that is absolutely required to finish the main questline, is immortal. I havent seen a mod for it yet, but I thought it would be cool to un immortalize all the previously immortal characters once the main quest is beaten, and add quests to become the lord of each town, and Emporer, in a bloody coup.

Bah. 70,000GP? That's nothing lol. I think the highest mine went was 2billion GP, that's with the Nocturnal Cowl of course. I'd have fun taking down the entire Imperial Legion, oh and some Palace guards as well. I'd go and decimate the entire town and move to the next one and repeat, going in a counter-clockwise fashion. By the time I reach the town I started in, all the guards are back alive! Rinse and repeat mate.

There are also times where I couldn't find any more guards to kill. So I start hacking away on my guild members. Bah, I saved the world so it's okay to kill some people. After all, if I didn't save the world, they'd all be dead anyways.

Oh mine, you are my inspiration!

I have just restarted the game with another not-so evil toon. Perhaps after I save the world, I will hack away everything I see and create my own storyline along the line of corruption ...

That's not cheating that's an ''enhancement''. I only cheat on my second play through.(usually)

Yeah, your not good at this game at all. If you are a level 30 and still cant beat a guard, then you suck. It is very easy to kill guards when you are a lower level even with the difficulty set higher because the guards level up with you which, in turn, makes them weaker.

Last night i just killed everyone in the chorrol gaurd barracks while trying the kill the draconis family member for the dark brotherhod mission. I am a level 26 and they only took down 1/4 of my health even though they knocked me down twice and when about 10 people where attacking me at once. No potions used either and my magika is glitched at 0(no i did not pick the sign of the atronark which makes me unable to regenerate my magic juice, i am a swordsman).

The guy who said that he killed guards at level 4 is not making it up, he probably killed the whole town, it not that tough. The guy im quoting just suckes at everything he does.

well i see you had a long, devoted experience in Cyrodil.