Please muzzle the bankers

soulclaw

I really don't need to hear the bankers canned speech every time I open their interface, it really gets old when bouncing from personal to guild bank and back while dealing with all the crafting clutter.

If I have to hear the line about borrowers and lenders too many more times I will kill the banker in Daggerfall.

Rhime

I believe there is a mod for that..check it out at esoui.com

merfpmerfinton

It's better than the guards who warn you not to cause trouble, even though you just single handedly saved the entire town

LIQUID741

merfpmerfinton wrote: »

It's better than the guards who warn you not to cause trouble, even though you just single handedly saved the entire town

I loved this..but honestly, I bet there is a high turnover rate with all the corruption going on with the stories...so they just might not know who you are. Or they are union, and too lazy too care...

Sarenia

As a workaround, you could use the ESOUI addon called "Borrower and Lender" which optionally mutes bankers and/or repeated dialogue from environmental NPCs.

Seraseth

Rhime wrote: »

I believe there is a mod for that..check it out at esoui.com

http://www.esoui.com/downloads/info225-BorrowerAndLender.html

soulclaw

thanks for the addon!

AlienSlof

That's a must-have!

Islyn

I like it! I vote add more!

Trouvo

oh my god yes please

HotToddy

Hilarious! I immediately hit 'mute' when I go to the bank in Daggerfall. Terribly annoying. I think what's worse is the poor way that the banks have been set up with a 'teller' in the middle of a 'mob' of players. Don't get me wrong - you'll probably always have a crowd at the bank, but there's got to be a better way to 'unclutter' the space.

Maybe give folks the option of an 'instanced' personal bank vault. Oh wait... maybe implement personal housing like in Skyrim?

bkpiazzab14_ESO

"I swear on my mothers egg tooth"....ugh.

RiverWalker

"fivefold venerations upon you..." GAH!

a-freaking-men.

also, ffs,... make the tax collector NPC in the bank in Vokel Guard either non-colliding or stationary. this patrolling, obstructing, bulldozing pillar of in-the-way, is seriously annoying.

honestly, I would think it could be made so the NPC's don't play their speech thing more than once every 5 or 10 minutes. ... that wouldn't be that bad.

XquixoticalX

Amen. I mute every time I bank in Daggerfall. Also I hate the CLANK CLANK CLANK when using a Blacksmith station. It makes me want to seriously murder babies, so grating. Must mute there too.

Re: mobbed bankers, I love the bank in Wayrest. There's a second teller in the main room that nobody goes to for some reason. Usually just me and one or two others at him.

SDZald

At least let their dialog be random. Of course its no worse then having to hear "I like to know who he is so I can buy him an ale" over and over as I am working at the Blacksmith station in Daggerfall.

k9mouse

I like the "can talk" the bankers do really. If I do not want to hear them for any reason, just mute the sound for a bit. In my case, I used head phones when I play games, so I just talk off my headphones when I want to "mute" the sound and put them back on to hear it again.

They are no worse then the "can talk" of the guards in Skyrim. I got so used to them, I do not ever hear them any more *sometimes) I did play Skyrim 3,219 hours BTW. So I do know their lines by heart too

Voice acting brings a LOT to the game and really enjoying it. So bring more into it.

Thesiren

Yeah, the Daggerfall one is by far the worst. Most of the others I can stand. But then again, that orc at the forge in Daggerfall is pretty bad too; they both go on and on.

Sanspoof

Have to admit, I had a good laugh (internally) when I saw who the banker in Hollow Town is.

jeisenhauerub17_ESO

The last time I tried that mod it muted all npc speach, even for quests. Hopefully its been updated.

howhow

I saw this subject and immediately understood what the thread was about - the talking from the bankers is really really annoying. Admirable that someone has produced an add-on to address this, but I'd rather the games designers take on board the opinion of the players and offer a suitable facility to everyone without the need to start installing add-ons.

Sorpaijen_ESO

I use Borrower and Lender mod and it IS great. I worried at first (and still do, sorta) that the way it mute generic speech might make me miss out on something --- it will play it ONCE but thereafter, block that same dialog line from the same NPC.

Like, I don't know what would happen in the case that the NPC would say, "Look out, come over here to be healed!" once and then after that I'd never hear that cue again. There's a Daggerfall mission where these Elementals do that --- call out warnings or instructions to you. Unfortunately for ME, they were speaking GERMAN at the time, so I had to actually read the (English) chat window to see what they were saying. Borrower/Lender doesn't change the chat window, so you COULD always see "chatter" there.

tallenn

On a similar note, the "chatter" overall in this game is really disappointing. You hear the same quips over and over again. It makes the world feel very much scripted, rather than alive.

I've definitely seen other games do MUCH better in that regard.

psychounz

Sorpaijen_ESO wrote: »

I use Borrower and Lender mod and it IS great. I worried at first (and still do, sorta) that the way it mute generic speech might make me miss out on something --- it will play it ONCE but thereafter, block that same dialog line from the same NPC.

Like, I don't know what would happen in the case that the NPC would say, "Look out, come over here to be healed!" once and then after that I'd never hear that cue again. There's a Daggerfall mission where these Elementals do that --- call out warnings or instructions to you. Unfortunately for ME, they were speaking GERMAN at the time, so I had to actually read the (English) chat window to see what they were saying. Borrower/Lender doesn't change the chat window, so you COULD always see "chatter" there.

I had Borrower and Lender for a while but recently removed it because it was cutting out sound from non-vendor dialogue. It would happen during an NPC chat window, which wasn't a big deal because I could read the text, but then it started happening during the 'watch the scene' parts and I had no idea what was going on >.>

If they're not going to muzzle them completely, at least give them a BIT more to say, though admittedly, Skyrim didn't have much in the way of variety, either.

"Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeverything's for sale!"

Edit: Also, perhaps some instancing at the banks? XD Those mobs of 50+ people are inSANE. Apparently Tamriel hasn't learned the Disneyland style cordoned off lines XD

Moyana

But ... they have troll security, didn't you know?

Zershar_Vemod

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Rotherhans

psychounz wrote: »

I had Borrower and Lender for a while but recently removed it because it was cutting out sound from non-vendor dialogue. It would happen during an NPC chat window, which wasn't a big deal because I could read the text, but then it started happening during the 'watch the scene' parts and I had no idea what was going on >.>

Crap, me too.
I had noticed odd pauses in some quest NPC speeches on Bethnik, though the visions could be heard without problem.
Would be a pity to uninstall it.
Was using version 2.3 with only the banker muting toggled.

Naguur86

Rubbish!

vyndral13preub18_ESO

My 5 year old walks around the house going, 'Hear ye, Hear ye!'

Rotherhans

Aww how .. cute ..

howhow

Having just had to listen again about borrowers and lenders, it actually leaves me with the feeling that the designers are just being too arrogant in assuming that I, the paying user, actually "should" be hearing the same phrase over and over and over.... It's not a bug, but I really don't think anyone can honestly say this is a piece of good design.

Seraseth

The borrower and lender addon has 2 different toggles. 1 is just for bankers, the other is for hearing ambient voices. I only use the banker one.