The guy that you give money to go to and from Solstheim? It costs 250 each trip, but the first trip is free, and after that you can just fast travel between the two places at no extra cost.

Why make you pay when it's easier to do it for free?

The same reason you pay the carriage fee's-
Bro needs to earn a living and it's an RP friendly alternative to teleporting.

Believe it or not, some don't like Fast Travel.

This.

Some of us heavily RP, and there are times where you don't want to hoof it all the way to your destination. Heavy RP'ers dislike Fast-travel because of the whole "teleporting" issue and having it break your immersion in the RP.

So therefore; we have carts that cost 2--50 Septims, a boat ride that costs 500 to get dropped off at the spooky castle, or a 250 Septim boat ride to Solstheim. For those who try to inject more realism into their game, this is the way to go.

Besides, if you don't fast travel, you find some of the neatest [censored] in the game tucked away and hidden in the Skyrim wilderness.

Well I actually do RP heavily as well. I get very political with Skyrim, which is funny. I've never even played any previous ES game, but I'm so invested in this one.

But I still make use of the Fast Travel system often, because I'd rather not waste my valuable time like that. Though sometimes I travel on foot. In fact, I have indeed payed the guy for passage to Solstheim on some occasions for RP/immersion reasons. But still, 250 is a steep price. 100 is more reasonable.

It's a long boat ride. lol

And from my experience, all of the Elder Scrolls have captivated me like this. I just get so drawn in that I end up creating an alter-ego without really even thinking about it.

It was like this with Daggerfall (my first Elder Scrolls), Morrowind, Oblivion, and now Skyrim.

That alter ego has personality quirks, habits, set sleeping times, etc. With games as massive as the Elder Scrolls are, that pack in as much content as they do... it's just easier to take everything in through the eyes of your alternate personality.

Agreed, FT does break the 'in the story' feel of it.

Now I'll be the first to admit, one of the few times I will actually FT is going up the throat of the world... just to save a tiny bit of time. Only other time I utilize FT is if I get 'stuck' somewhere or I've 'lost' my follower.

Just running through the fields/mountains and spawning random encounters is probably the funnest part, and the immersion is lethal.

Yeah, I play on the lowest setting (Novice, I believe). Because Skyrim combat is very... bland. Just hit-hit-hit until it dies. If it needs to be more complicated, maybe shield bash it or use a potion or healing spell. So I prefer playing on the lowest setting so I get less of the button-mashing combat and have more focus on the story and atmosphere of the game.

Not that I don't enjoy random encounters. They're interesting little events, like the Netch hunters I just posted about.

Roleplaying, and just because. Also, my character is at the "ludicrously rich" stage, and 250 gold is like pocket lint at this point.

To spend my

1, 375, 000 gold, or something?

But yeah, I still just fast travel lols.

I invested in the perks that make you find gems, before dawnguard, when fairly low level.
If I'd known what I know now, the first points I would have put in would have been that
tree and the tree for getting more when selling/giving shopkeepers more cash.
Once invested in them fully, its just kind of nutty.

Then I got bored, before dawnguard, and went around getting gems and doing
"Money Laundering."

I think I was insanely low level, the last time I soul siphoned. This is because part
of my laundering process was always buying out all gems with any souls, to then
in turn sell the npcs my gems; My home in Markarth, as well as other old homes,
still have tons of grand soul/soul gems in barrels.

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I wish you could:

1) Pile gold in big piles on the floor, like I found it in some places in this expansion
(rather than just how you can put some in a barrel.)


2) Buy a REAL house, not the buggy thing that hearthfire sounded like for the xbox360

You guys made me not even buy that "expansion", which made me glad since the Raven
Rock house is really what I've always wanted (once I stuck lit torches underneath nearly
everything, including the armor mannequins. Now the place looks SPIFFY!)


3) Buy more cool looking horses, with armor or junk, that can be used in the Dragonborn area
(why does shadowbane not travel there anyway? weird... Maybe its the same reason my
original Forsworn awesome dual-wielding ravager lady could not, she explodes on the boat
every time I tried.)


Its just weird that for a game you could make so much gold in, you have so little to spend it on
(though very low level I was always scrounging.)