Well, if you're not even going to be around to do all the grunt work, you might as well take the next step and use console commands to set everything to 100. (I would ask if you're on x-box or something else but you said "C" and not "X" or square, or whatever other buttons different consoles use.)
I think that's where we see the full spectrum running from "cheat" to "not cheat". If you're having fun, who cares where you stand on that line... but for me, the difference between a creative game exploit and full cheating can be determined based on one thing: If the game world was the real world, would it still make the slightest bit of sense?
+ If you're talking to someone and their face turns inside out... that makes no sense. Console commands make the world right again, so it's alright to use it in a case like that.
+ You really wish you had some money... and suddenly you have a hundred thousand more than you did a second ago. Knock it off with those cheat commands, buddy.
+ An ancient foe trapped some people inside a block of ice using magic. You can hit them forever and they don't die... but you still get some great training experience. Sounds normal to me.
+ Creating a spell to damage your own armor, then repairing it the old fashioned way just to get practice at fixing armor. Not only does that sound normal... it sounds like something someone might actually consider doing in the 'real' world. (like taking your gun apart and putting it back together really, really fast for the fun of it... if you're a crazy soldier-type)
+ Running down the street, jumping as high as you can as you go... looks kinda goofy but it happens. It's called excercise or cross-training. Not my thing, but it works for some people, I suppose.
For a real stretch of the imagination, you could consider save points to be a cross between dream sequences in a movie and meditation or planning/visualization. You stand at the cave entrance and imagine yourself entering the cave and all the things that could possibly go wrong. You're not really getting your @$$ handed to you by that Minotaur Lord over and over, you're simply trying to think of what
could possibly happen when you enter that cave. When you finally go in there for real, you're fully prepared and you
somehow manage to survive. Good job!
Just my two Septims on the subject.
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