i have had a new character for 3hours now, and i would think i'd be fairly poor, since i haven't done any major moey making quest chains... i have 5k septims, i mean cmon... im still in imperial armor from the starting zone, i should have less than one gold... i should have a haygold... point is way too easy to make gold int his game without even trying... i just gave mine all away to my follower, who i dismissed and would take too long to find... since he is kharjo...

Yeah, is easy like many other aspects of this new installment of TES. I guess some folks don't like grinding to earn things.

D: but y? thats the best part of playing... grinding through it so once you get what you were trying to get, you feel like jesus...

I spend most of my early gold on trainers, that keeps you fairly broke (or at least not stupid rich) until later levels.

I like to work hard to earn things. For example, in LOTRO there are three kinds of currency. Copper, silver and gold. What I like about it is that you need 100 copper coins to make 1 silver and 1000 silver coins to make 1 gold. To be rich is an accomplishment in LOTRO.

thats what i wnat... that feeling of accomplishment, not hte continuous wonder if im rich or just average.. i have like 90k septims on my assassin, and thats [censored], AND i bought breezehome and the house in solitude... and theyre decorated...
thats like 35k septims right there.... and i still have more gold then i know what to do with, might just give it away... i wonder if you drop 90kg, will ppl in riften fight to the death for it like its a candlestick or goblet?

This has been a problem in TES from the start. Beth never spares even five minutes to think about gold supply vs. gold sinks.

this is a dumb perk

Gold was even easier to get in Morrowind. I think at one time I had upwards of 200k in that game. The most I've ever had in Skyrim at one time is around 35k.

Bethesda obviously does not know the meaning of "moderation".

But gluttony is fun

It'll also ruin your life in the long run, if left unchecked.

eco still svcks as it were in MW and OB, money needs to be hard to get but not THAT hard

See my other posts in other threads. Gold is not easy to get in Skyrim if you are playing a pure, honest mage. In fact, it is extremely rare and you are always broke until mid game at the earliest. Warriors and thieves, sure... but not mages.

Each new Beth game has a less believable economy. They just need to hire an economist or at least someone from the social sciences/humanities.

My last character played under the rule of not using any merchants except for the orc merchants in the holds. It was actually quite interesting... I went out of my way to do quests for gold.

Pure and honest mage here; Although we might have 2 entirely different definitions of pure and honest;

106K and counting, with 265k found total.

Mage will be broke most of the game. Grand soul gems and spell books are pricey. Once you know all the spells that is not a problem... especially once you know transmutate.

Morrowind on its own was not so bad since the base merchants were all far to broke to ever buy glass, ebony, deadric, or special gear. It was after the tribunal expansion and the new merchants and that museum that bought rare items at face value. One of those items was 200k gold by itself. Of course rare items were priced very very high in that game... Of course Morrowind did have expensive things to spend money on... enchanting was VERY expensive.

It was also before Oblivion when every high level bandit was wearing deadric. I am glad they fixed that.

The only expensive things I have seen for sale are enchanted deadric bows that only 2-3 merchants will sell. One was 10k gold. But if you have enchant as a skill that is pointless.

Take to thieving, that's what I did. Now I'm looked up in the Dragonsreach dungeons, but at least they let me take my laptop with me (Talos bless them).

"Pure and honest" meaning you don't pick locks? OK, that can stop you from being too rich. But you also have to NEVER look into any container...because 99% of the games containers have gold.

Even the draugrs. And the dragons.

Know what? Just don't loot ANYTHING and you'll be nice and poor

I do wish it was harder to earn gold. It would even make smithing harder to level and actually finding armor to buy from merchants would be worth doing.

Same here. I rarely have an appreciable amount of money until level 25 or so.

Quite a lot of people asked Bethesda to do exactly that with the Skyrim money before release.
The idea was that it would allow a better economy, where a bread can be 5 copper, and a daedric sword realistically being up to tens of thousands of times that.
It would also allow coinage to have weight, making a banking system feasable.

Alas.

I never seem to have a lot of money until upper levels. But I never go out of my way to accumulate a bunch either. I pick up whatever I find in dungeons, ect. I carry out expensive loot and sell it. I don't travel overburdened or go back and clear areas out. I don't steal except on my thief. I don't abuse the currency system through alchemy or enchanting. I purchase new gear when I find something worthwhile. I purchase reagents to level my crafting whenever I'm in town. I purchase housing in places I think my character would want to live and I decorate them but I don't try to buy them all. My warrior has about 50k at level 42 but that's only because I'm not buying much now. I've leveled all that I care to level other than topping off enchanting. I never felt money was hard to get but it's not easy the way I play. Maybe that's it. I'm not going out of my way to avoid it but I'm not going out of my way to get it either.

i shouldn't have to make an effort to be poor...

Welcome to Skyrim, where you have to limit yourself for the game to be balanced.