== Cutthroat Merchants ==

If you've played Skyrim for more than one hour you'll have noticed that it is easy to get rich. Very easy. Gold is abundant after a short while and you can't even sell most of your loot to merchants since they don't have enough money to buy everything you have. Your speech skill doesn't make that much of a difference and more money isn't needed anyway.

This mod decreases the amount of gold you get for selling items and increases the amount of gold you need for buying items. There are four esps - easy, medium, hard and very hard. Pick one of them.

By default in the vanilla game you sell items for 50% the price with 100 speech and for 30% the price with 0 speech. Perks will give you even more gold when selling items. For buying it's the other way around, with 100 speech you will buy items for 200% of the original value, with 0 speech for 330%.

This mod changes it to the following values depending on the esp you choose:

- Very Hard -

100 speech - 20% sell / 500% buy
0 speech - 7% sell / 1500% buy


- Hard -

100 speech - 25% sell / 400% buy
0 speech - 8% sell / 1200% buy


- Medium -

100 speech - 33% sell / 300% buy
0 speech - 11% sell / 900% buy


- Easy -

100 speech - 40% sell / 250% buy
0 speech - 13% sell / 750% buy


- Vanilla -

100 speech - 50% sell / 200% buy
0 speech - 30% sell / 330% buy


= Installation =

Put ONE of the esps into your data folder and activate it in the launcher/mod manager/plugins.txt. To remove the mod simply delete the esp, the merchant prices will be back to normal.

Thank you, I've been waiting for something like this. Tired of making phat stackz of l00t.

Did you JUST change the Speech skill multiplier, or Speech perks too?

Are you all schlepping back to town every last thing you find in a dungeon?

How are you guys making all this money.

My character is level 24 and has about 24 grand loot. He has probably spent 10 grand and saves only the highest level gear.

Are you all schlepping back to town every last thing you find in a dungeon?

This one may not be for me, but good start!!

EDIT: This mod is still not the final solution for the problem, for me at least. Merchants need better stuff to buy, stuff that is actually useful. Leveled rewards need to go. For example the guy at the bottom of High Hrothgar who asks you to deliver a few goods to the Greybeards gave me 1000 gold for my little service. That's ridiculous. Are people swimming in money in Skyrim?

i stopped taking everything thats not nailed down after i discovered how to make iron ore into gold rings ( buy iron ore from bsmith guy -> transmute to silver then gold ore -> smelt -> make 2 rings with 1 bar. end conversion is 5 per iron ore - 60 per ring for a 55 septim profit per ore i buy.
iron ore mines are dam awesome when i find them a few k worth of ore at least better than gold as normaly gold mines are small as well, well except THAT one i won't spoil where it is.

The transmute spell needs to be rebalanced, it feels like a cheat to me now. For all practical purposes it gives you infinite gold ingots, and any level 1 character with no investment in alteration or magicka can cast it. I think the way to go would be to break it up into an Apprentice-level spell for iron->silver and an Expert level spell for silver->gold.

Might be a bit outside the scope of this mod though

So far I've only played a character who specialized in two-handed, heavy armor and smithing. But after looking the spell up on the Wiki it's another game mechanic implemented by Bethesda.

Even with a higher skill requirement it would be overpowered imo since it simply means unlimited money. Maybe if you would need 5 iron ore for 1 silver ore and 5 silver ore for 1 gold ore plus a higher skill requirement it would be somewhat balanced.

Hasn't really to do with this mod, but I'll say it anyway:

Another way of avoiding too much riches in the game is to lower the carry capacity of the hero drastically. This is done in the console with the following command:

player.forceav carryweight ...

A tangentially related mod I would like would be Abusive Guards (when they arrest you, they confiscate high quality gear that was not stolen -- and they do not stick it in a chest, they keep it for personal use, and if your gear quality is high enough they occasionally arrest you for minor infractions, or maybe just because you have a record). It's not that I want to lose my gear, I just like how this kind of thing makes my play feel.

How are you guys making all this money.

My character is level 24 and has about 24 grand loot. He has probably spent 10 grand and saves only the highest level gear.

Are you all schlepping back to town every last thing you find in a dungeon?

This one may not be for me, but good start!!

Personally, I like this mod (I am using the medium version) because it gives my character an increased carrying capacity.

I hold on to things that seem to have sell value, and with this mod I can actually unload my inventory on shopkeepers. The actual money involved is not particularly irrelevant to me -- I'm making these decisions based on how I see my character's role. I know that the system can be exploited to crank my character's damage or coins up to incredible levels, but I do not have fun playing that way.

If I want to do something not fun, I am not going to waste that time on skyrim.

So, anyways... I like this mod.

A tangentially related mod I would like would be Abusive Guards (when they arrest you, they confiscate high quality gear that was not stolen -- and they do not stick it in a chest, they keep it for personal use, and if your gear quality is high enough they occasionally arrest you for minor infractions, or maybe just because you have a record). It's not that I want to lose my gear, I just like how this kind of thing makes my play feel.