NoRegrets

play through all the way to whiterun where you buy your first house if you so choose.   talk to the black smith. many of the towns have blacksmiths but the one in whiterun has a daughter who has almost identical items as her father inside the shop.  when you buy leather from her (usually 17 pieces) her father also has the same amount.  increasing the smithing perk quick and easy.  make the hide armor and the leather armor after the tutorial she gives you.  sell the items to her or use them in your travels.  the father usually has 2k in gold.  she has about the same giving the player an opportunity to make 4k every interaction with the right amount of items.    SIDENOTE: buy items from the merchants then sell your big items to them.  increasing the merchants available gold increases the amount of items you can sell and get top dollar for.   its a drawn out process but an easy way to make money and increase skill level quickly.

if anything the loading seems to take forever but i can deal with that.  the info on the side notes and the pop ups describing the gameplay and races is informative and help on a basic level of determining the battle gameplay i would use on them.  but the question was answered.  ill be posting a number of other misc questions.  various things i cant find on google or questions of gameplay itself.  not to be a hindrance just to find what needs to be done.

when i got my 360  the console came with skyrim to be downloaded from xbox live.   so no disc.   with that affect my game play.  i see all these post of  " i got a follower after i downloaded this or that"  or i got this from doing this after downloading it.  due to me having a game installed and kept on the hard drive itself should it change the game play settings or will it be just the same as having the disc version of the game

ILL CHECK IT OUT WHEN I GET TO THE HOUSE THANK YOU FOR THE HELP AND I HOPE IT WORKS I WAS HOPING TO USE HER FOR THE MARRIAGE THING.   BUT IS THE A BETTER COMPANION THAT I COULD MARRY THAT WOULD BE A SHOP KEEPER IF I BOUGHT HONEY SIDE IN RIFTEN

OK LADIES AND GENTLE NORDS.  WHY THE HECK CAN I NOT FIND LYDIA ANYWHERE.   I HAD HER AS A COMPANION AND SHE WAS GREAT.   BUT NOW SHES NOT FOLLOWING ME, SHES NOT IN DRAGONSREACH, SHE NOT IN BREEZEHOME.  IVE DONT THE WAIT TRANSITION FOR THREE SKYRIM DAYS AND SHES NOWHERE.  IF I FAST TRAVEL AND WAIT SHE DOES NOT SHOW UP.  THE LAST PLACE I SAW HER WAS ON THE EDGE OF THE THROAT OF THE WORLD WHILE I WAS ROCK CLIMBING UP IT INSTEAD OF TAKING THE EASY WAY.  (ITS A FREE PLAY GAME AND I MAKE THE MOST OUT OF HAVING FREE REIGN)  SHES NOT IN THE CATACOMBS.  ANY IDEA WHERE SHE IS.

its a quest item in regards for the staff quest after you get into a drinking match and get drunk.  you then supposedly wreck the shop you were in and the guy with the staff runs off.  you wake up in the temple and need to fix what you've broken then find the guy with the staff