Once you get past 100,000... what do you do with it all

I wish i could buy a castle and hire guards (with an occasional bandit raid attempt every now and then)

I usually use it to fund entertaining or fun things I just feel like trying. Whether it's fashioning the best armor I can make, one of every type, or buying up all the alcohol I can find and seeing how quickly I can drink it all. But you're right, after you have a certain amount, you're kind of left wondering what else there is to do with it.

I have over... 400,000? I just started collecting it after a while. I mean, once it gets to that point, no real reason to go search for equipment/items when you can buy it all with no real limit.

I guess just buy everything you can?

Pave a poor section of town road with gold?

I wish you could do things like this.

Oh, but you can!
Just... one... piece... at... a... time...

Get lost into the wild and drop a coin every few steps to mark your way out of the woods.

I'm currently trying to (legitimately) see how high the gold counter in Skyrim even goes. I'm up to half a million at the moment by level 34, with a plethora of quests left to do, areas unexplored, so on, so forth. I estimate I've eaten up about 1/3rd of the content available in the game with Dawnguard and a few mods, so I'm hoping to see if 1,000,000 is doable or if the game hard caps at 999,999.

I know I could just use the console to assign myself an arbitrary number of coins and see that way, but where's the fun if you don't earn it yourself?

This is why I wish they brought in a Fable esque property ownership/development system. Once you reach a certain limit or even a certain level, gold becomes rather useless. I personally use my vast sums to pay off town guards allowing me to do whatever the hell I want lol. I have complete immunity from the law

You could spend it on training, which is incredibly expensive. You could also buy a house. Or you could buy a ton of arrows just for the hell of it.

As much as I don't like a lot about Fable, the landlord system was really fun to me. I wish investing in shops would pay dividends above and beyond "has more gold to trade with." I'd also love to buy up Riften and tell Maven to go soak her head in the canols, and set everyone's rent ridiculously low so they could enjoy their lives for once.

haha I'd do the opposite (except for screwing over Maven I HATE that woman with a passion, how DARE she talk down to me!) I'd be so horrible I'd make them MISS Maven my character is pure evil, hell the only reason I got rid of Alduin was because I saw him as a challenge to my supremacy. People were beginning to fear him more and I didn't like that,...not...one...bit.

Yeah, forget magic, dragons and daedric princes. This is where TES really deviates from reality. All this money and nothing to do with it. I fantasize about:

1. Improving towns and cities.
2. Improving guilds.
3. Buying my way into Jarldom.
4. Building a castle.
5. Giving the people of Skyrim proper clothes.
6. Saving all the poor beggars.
7. Actually giving a proper donation to the Temple of Mara and seeing them DO something about it.

Etc.

Build a block style pyramid with gold or ebony ingots. Do it on a nice stretch of flat land where NPC or creatures won't walk into it.

I have mine stored in my safe in my Solitude home. Waiting for a DLC that will allow me to buy a castle.

Drop all of my coin in my house and swim in it until the game crashes.

I actually gave my follower/husband half my money, I think it was 48K gold, just for the fun of it. He didn't do anything with it though

I did earn over 1,400,000 gold legitimately and it doesn't cap at 999,999.

Sounds like I've got my work cut out for me, then.

Invest in horses. You'll burn through money in no time.

It's like gemstones. All my characters have so many darn gems that they aren't even worth the trouble of selling anymore. So I pile them up all over my houses.

i usually never get that much money, after a point i just quit selling things, or picking up all the nice shiney things bandits and dragur drop. My whiterun house has all the containers full of awesome expensive stuff. I have a couple full suits of dragon plate and ebony just laying around incase i hire new followers

Drop every single coin into a well, everyone knows how poorly Skyrim water can be.

I'm thinking it would be a nice idea if you could run for Jarl in one of the holds, which would be an upgraded form of the house-buying you can currently do. You'd obviously need a whole lot of money to do this, but this would enable you to perform certain actions within the hold such as raising and lowering taxes, being immune to the law, enabling the court wizard as a free trainer and other such things like replacing the destroyed buildings in Winterhold, establishing guild branches (for example, having a Companions base in Solitude), increasing or decreasing the guard presence in the various settlements in the hold (like you can at Riverwood), and funding expeditions into caves (you'd pay a group of soldiers to go into a dungeon or ruin, and after a few days they would return with whatever they found. The risk would be that they might not return with anything of value, or they could uncover a super-unique item). You'd need to be at least part-way into the civil war quests for this to work, because the hold would be 'given' to whichever side you're fighting for.

If you're feeling charitable, slip into Honorhall Orphanage, wait until Constance isn't looking, and then slip a few thousand septims into her drawer. If you can't adopt the kids, you can at least make their life better in other ways.

I think that's a fantastic idea personally, there are plenty of Jarls I'd like to replace, that Siddgeir fellow for instance. So a bit like an upgraded version of the system at work in the Shivering Isles I could see it working, though I think it would work better at the end of the Civil war, if you replaced either Ulfric as Jarl of Windhelm, or Elisif as Jarl of Solitude (as she would then become High Queen)