Last updated 06 April 2011 - VERSION 2.0

Welcome to the ImpeREAL Empire - Unique Castles!



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Author's Personal Note:

Those are my efforts to create this very little mod that allows the castles of the Imperial Tamrielic Empire to have more immersion and realism!
Now, finally, they can be called castles! Feel free to rate it positively if you like it and approve my efforts to bring you a cool mod with beautiful castles:D

Love ya!



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"MOD INFO" SECTION
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As the name "ImpeREAL Empire - Unique Castles" says, this very small mod tries to make the Castles of the Imperial Empire to be more realistic, bigger, glorious, and unique in appearance! It decorates their exterior appearance, only, (does not adds or modifies existing interiors), making each castle of the Imperial Empire to be more unique than the castles of the other cities...
Just during gameplay I have decided to create this castle revamping mod as I didn't felt that the vanilla castles of Oblivion are actually looking like castles at all... I though they look more like... dungeons rather than castles in terms of appearance...
So I came here to correct it. :-)

This small mod does modifies NOTHING in the cities, except the castles and some Guard Towers. Simple



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"INSTALLATION / UNINSTALL" SECTION
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Just place the .esp file to Oblivion/Data and enable it!

If you want to uninstall it, just delete the .esp file! Simple!



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"OLD SAVES OR NEW GAME?" SECTION
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Do not worry! Your saves are SAFE!

Your game will not be affected at all!!!

Also you can freely stay near or inside the castle, save, close the game, install the mod, run the game, and find yourself in the updated castle without a need to leave/re-enter for the updates to take place!!!



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"COMPATIBILITY" SECTION
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It should be compatible with anything in the game except the mods that are listed in "INCOMPATIBILITY" SECTION (below).



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"INCOMPATIBILITY" SECTION
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The mod has just now been released, so its new and is not tested with other mods. This time the players are beta-testers! :-)
(Please do not feel hesitance to report any bugs or compatibility issues of the mod you may find! Your comments are very welcomed!)
The following mods should be not compatible as they move the cities to other cells.
The ImpeREAL Empire - Unique Castles is probably not compatible with:

-Better Cities (You have to download Bananasplit Better Cities so to enjoy both ImpeREAL Empire - Unique Castles and Better Cities, as my mod is included in Better Cities.
-Open Cities (I hope the castles are working with OC, as I have copied them in the Cyrodiil Worldspace.)



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"LOD / CASTLES VISIBLE IN CYRODIIL" SECTION
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I should like to see and enjoy those mighty and big castles when I am outside of the cities, in the wilderness of Cyrodiil, like you! :)
And, because of this, I have already added those castles of the mod in the WorldSpace of Cyrodiil, so you to be able to see them from outside, and this sure will allow you to create the beautiful LODs for them!.. :D In order to enjoy the LODs of the castles, you have to create them and is easy: Just download and use the LOD Generator and with 1 click you can create the LODs of the castles! :)



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"PERFORMANCE" SECTION
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It does adds only few things, so it should not hit performance.



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"CURRENT STATUS" SECTION
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-Castle Bravil.................RELEASED!
-Castle Bruma..................RELEASED!
-Castle Cheydinhal.............RELEASED!
-Castle Chorrol................RELEASED!
-Castle Leyawiin...............RELEASED!
-Castle Skingrad...............RELEASED!
-Castle Anvil..................RELEASED!



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"HISTORY" SECTION
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-Version 1.0: Is the final version of the mod. No more changes or new versions are coming in the future, except is something important occurs.
-Version 0.9: All castles now have their copies in Cyrodiil Worldspace! Now, finally, you can see the castles when you are in wilderness of Cyrodiil, outside of the cities!!!
-Version 0.7: All castles now have their Guard Barracks improved with flags, more windows, better and taller buildings! Also, all the Castle Wall Gates now have Iron-Bars, Increasing Castle's defences and giving more realism!



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"CREDITS" SECTION
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-Thanks Bethesda for creating the Elder Scrolls: Oblivion.
-Thanks to the friends and customers for their excellent support and encourage of me to keep the work! :D



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"SISTER MODS / OTHER MODS BY SILENTRESIDENT" SECTION
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-http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=19589



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"IS THE README FILE UPDATED?" SECTION
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The ImpeREAL Empire - Unique Castles Mod may is still in development and probably new updates are coming. The ReadMe file updates only with every new version releases, when the Description Page (in mod's site) updates every day. So if you need more recent news, you have to visit the mod's site at:
http://www.tesnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=22446