I give money to the beggars, hoping they would use it and become rich. (radiant ai for TES 6: give a beggar 10,000 and he'll be programmed to realize what just happened with his life and go buy a house or a boat and start a business)

Oh, yeah?



That drops 1 septim. If you are at a table and repeatedly do this, you'll have a stack. You can also put a higher number in, but that will result only in 1 coin worth x-amount, just like dropping any stacks from your inventory.

This is a great idea.

A horse and home.
Filled grand souls gems and empty petty lesser and common ones.

No longer using any speech skills or alchemy for easy money, not spending money on 5 training sessions is also making my character level more slowly and having the most fun on a playthrough yet (bound sword is awesome)

"Balance" + "Bethesda"?

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I'm not that good with gold!
At the moment I'm playing a Hunter type character, who is wearing the short sleeved Steel Armour (which I smithed myself).

I am only level 4 at the moment, I've just started up again, and the most Gold I've had is 400 Septims.

In my last character, I managed to save up enough to buy Proudspire Manor, but I struggled, as I tend to hold onto all the Dragon Bones/Scales, and kept them in my Riverwood house

I have no use for gold and a lot of things i find, so i just sell them, i have more gold than i know what to do with, so am thinking of definatly going on a killing spree of silence see if i can sneak kill everyone in riften maybe then if caught pay them off....and do it all over again until i am the only person alive in skyrim, except unkillable characters and those respawning lol lol mahwahaaaa (evil laugh?)

No dice. There's a big difference between dropping gold and spawning it in front of you.

With all the dungeon diving and other things, I have been able to buy 3 homes and furnish them before level 40. and just recently go the home in Solitude, so you need to make your own potions and cook your own food. there is plenty of food in barrels to make food and ingredients from the world to make your own potions. That will save a lot of money in the long run.

Um, yeah? Here:

You can have your own opinion, but not your own facts.

I mostly get my coin off those that I have slain and random loot/urns/chests.The most coin that I was able to save up is 428,000 with my Khajiit. Once you hit the 20,000 it seems as though the coin just multiply in my pocket and I end up having more then I can spend. There is also but after a while that gets old as well.

I've never been that rich in this game - that said I've never played past level 40ish and my playstyle involves rarely using fast travel and virtually never using followers - my characters go on big wanders for days on end and only loot what they can carry, so I accumulate very limited loot to sell and have to think about what to pick up - more often than not stuff my character will keep and use. I try to keep it kinda realistic in terms of looting and force myself to make sometimes tough decisions about what to take.

That said, I think an idea would have been to cap the potential of skills like Smithing, Enchanting and Alchemy and have absolutely top of the line kit as quest rewards, rare random drops and highly expensive goods for sale. It makes sense your character might be an accomplished smith, but it makes little sense they are able to outperform every smith in Skyrim as well as being head of every guild, world saving dragonborn dragonslayer and thane of every hold. It's Bethesda's obsession with godlike characters - though I guess that's what a lot of the punters actually want. But if there was some stuff only real specialists could provide for an absolte fortune, it would give something for people to save up for. There should be trained smiths/enchanters/alchemists whose abilities are way beyond the capabilities of the multi-tasking dragonborn.

... or pumps it all into his need for mead.

Anyway, I'm going to try limiting myself. No grave-robbing anymore or anything else that can be frowned upon, no stealing treasure from dragons (just suits this character), no stealing for the Thieves' Guild without replacing things with stuff of equal value, and so on. I'm already gaining enough money with my silver jewels business. Maybe even leaving some valuable trinkets at those tombs and shrines. Now only to find a way to get rid of most of my money, because it's honestly pissing me off. I'm supposed to be a poor wilderness vagabond for pete's sake, with a bit of a talent for creating silver jewelery and sustaining my life's needs with it, not a frigging billionaire with even more money than the high king or the Imperial emperor!

Why are you buying food? Or potions? When I first started playing, I picked up all the food I found, figuring it might be important or useful- it never was. Foods, cooked or not, are practically useless. Everyone gets the self-heal spell whether you're a mage or not, and even if you never put a point into magicka or restoration, it's still miles better for healing yourself than any foods. And it doesn't weigh you down, either. I can see having to buy some health potions if you are 2H melee, but anything else I play, I end up selling scads of unneeded potions, or stockpiling dozens of them in a cupboard in my home (never to be touched again). Sounds like you need to rethink your money management skills.

There was a nice touch in Fable 3 were there was a room that all your gold sat in. The more you got the bigger the mound got until it looked like this http://carlsagansdanceparty.files.wordpress.com/2010/08/ducktales.jpg

re: "balancing" the economy.

Honestly, it's pretty hard to balance an economy in any game that has infinite resources (MMOs where you can just keep grinding, "open world" games where stuff respawns, etc).

Linear games with a set amount of badguys and loot? Easy to say "well, the max cash a player can ever get is 50k. We'll put in 75k worth of stuff to buy, so the player has to make Important Decisions!?"

Game where you can /Wait, and have more dungeons full of guys to loot a dozen sets of armor / weapons / potions / etc, off of? Where the shops refill with both stuff and cash? Not so much.


(And providing a 4mil gold "gold sink/super buy" for the crazy gold hoarders to be able to say "Yes, something I can spend it on!" isn't really balancing the economy either. Because the rest of the economy's still the same way. Plus, you'll get a number of other people seeing that purchase as a required goal, and start complaining about the game being a boring MMO-style gold grindfest, and terrible for "making" them do all that.)

i share some of my gold to poor beggars...
...then use pickpocket to get them back!

I encourage those with excess gold to invest in the Thalmor.

We then use donations to fund the training of khajiit marksmen.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=js1H73QjXOo&feature=related


We already have bosmer archers.

did you read my whole post?

that's what I'm getting at!! jump starting a dying guild or expand a thriving one! or, if you have the gold, do all your favorite guilds!!!

It would be fantastic to be able to actually use a fort instead of letting bandits have it. Seriously, the bandits already do what I have suggested, but I want to take it further in which the actual place is rebuilt, crumbling foundations rebuilt, water puddles mopped up, you know make the place look brand new. no debris or dead bodies/blood or broken furniture.

And rebuilding helgen would be awesome too, because then the DB could finally be a jarl and we could have some cyrodil expansion.

personally I want to ELIMINATE those arrogant Thalmor. That is why all my weapons are centered around the wuuthrad theme, by which I meant built to destroy thalmor.

I will whole heartidly invest in the thalmor. every septim I can.

To destroy them. Arrogant yellow freaks.

oh and you might want to invest more into those assasins.

That way when I destory them I'll get better loot off their bodies. In fact, can you start sending an army of them? FUS RO DAH'ing one guy is so lame. And when I just let him attack me, all his twirling acrobatic attacks tickle me. I beat them barehanded in my pajamas.

hot elf porm

"I spend most of my money on women and wine. The rest, I wasted." Oh, wait... you were talking about in game, huh?

I buy houses and new horses for my companions (with the Horses for Followers mod). The rest I save up for when I can buy the whole province of Skyrim.

My character, who is an Ashlander emigrant, thinks that putting one's face on something denotes ownership. Therefore, she won't take gold. Don't want to steal from the emperor now, do we?

I don't like hoarding it. It feels almost like a burden.

And you know what Freud said about money, right?