» Sat Jun 16, 2012 3:20 pm
Your wife in the game is gonna run around in her beggar clothes or whatever she wears, even if you are the richest person in Skyrim. And if you marry a companion character, then she is gonna wear armor all the time, even if you try to remove whatever you gave her , she is gonna default back to whatever she was wearing originally. It is not programmed in the game, that she will change clothes according to your wealth, just like even if you are a dragonborn who defeated Alduin already, some jarls and people will still treat you like sh_t. "I got my eyes on you" - says to me the dunmer bodyguard in Whiterun's imperial room, like I'm trying to steal an apple or something. Basically it's a non-living; static economy, your loot or business doesn't make anyone richer or poorer.
It kinda destroys the immersion part, I agree on that, you just can't change the circumstances, you do not bring change to the world whatever you do. The changes are minor (npcs you helped gives you a different speech, or a cave may remain unoccupied for a short while and then repopulated.) It's like I was expecting that the bits&pieces store will start doing better after selling them some expensive stuff, but instead, they default back to 750 gold. Or how about , that nobody buys anything from them, they are all waiting for you to buy something? And then I figure out that it's a perk to have them more gold, but that's again a benefit only for you, so you can sell more stuff to them.
