Yeah, I do wish the people recognized the danger and helped out a bit. I mean the dragon swatted one student across the courtyard and flamed one of the mages and they stroll around commenting on how well I'm doing as a new member. One of them sat down during the attack to have a fucking sandwich. (Well he was eating some bread but they dont have sammiches so if they did I'm sure he'd have had one.)
I had an irritating encounter with one of the random quests. No spoilers but I was supposed to assassinate someone in the Jarl's place. I sneak in to the place in the dead of night, 2am. Everyone in the hall is still just sitting around. Don't these people go to bed? I sat in the shadows (Whiterun doesn't like me so I have to stealth) for a while and nobody moved. I wait 12 hours in 1 hour increments. Nobody even moves! The guy I'm to assassinate is sitting at the table enjoying some meade. He continues to do so for 4 hours, where he decides to stand up and take a stroll around the room and then sit down and eat an apple for 2 hours. This pretty much repeats. None of them ever went to sleep, including the Jarl and his courtiers.
Annoyed, I saved and quit the game to see if it would reset their schedules. I quit the game, loaded back in, returned to the hall. They're now all standing around the Jarl in silence, including 4-5 guards and the housecarl, the court wizard, and the randomly generated 'visiting noble' who is my target.
Seriously game? I am supposed to kill someone who spends all of his time next to the Jarl and his personal guard in a city that hates me forever?
Fine.
Curious, I waited a bit longer and he finally went to bed! I was excited, he was sleeping finally after 3 days and was alone in a room. I sneak in there using an invisibility potion (had to cross in front of some guards) and close the door, then stealth over to his bed and kill him in a single hit. This is in a closed room, on a man who is sleeping, while I am stealthed. The entire hall was instantly alerted to the action and attacked me.
-sigh-