LOL I guess I suffer from OCD as well then, I can't pass an urn without looting it, although I KNOW there's only like 2 gold in it. Plus, I have so many gems in my nightstand, I don't need any more!!
But looting is half the fun when I go dungeon diving!


Hey, I like that idea! Unfortunately, I don't use any followers on my current toon! OH I KNOW! I will start paying a weekly salary to all my housecarls!

I got the Investor perk, just so I can invest in shops and get rid of some of my money! I do train skills I don't use, so I have a reason to spent gold. lol
The best part of any game is when you first start out, with nothing and then trying to make your way in the world. I guess that's why I am such an "altoholic" LOL

Sure if you spam crafting, you can end up with more gold than you can use, but I only craft when I am short of gold or if I need something crafted. I have one character at level 43, one at level 31 and one at level 15 and none of them have ever been rich. I never fast travel and always pick up the most valuble loot I can find. I don't sell all of it. A lot of it I find interesting and may come in useful later and some of it has sentimental value, so I store a bunch of stuff in my houses. And I typically store raw materials (ores, ingots, pelts) for future use. Maybe that's the difference. I am sure if crafted all the ores, ingots and pelts I own and sold everything I own that I don't use on a regular basis, I would have a lot more gold. But I own houses, so why wouldn't I stock up for the future, rather than just sell everything?

i am going to rebutt this point of view forever. it's backwards.

allowing us to gimp the economy is fine. but, we HAVE to gimp the economy.
i have read some excellent posts resolving the issue.

however, beth jacked it up. it should be the other way around.

the economy should be a great part of skyrim. it's not even close. add in the worthlessness of the loot and no gear needed to buy means BETH either f'd up, didn't care, or, had no clue.

I haven't had a problem with too much gold but I agree that the economy should be improved.

What happens when you sell a dozen gold rings or a hundred daggers you smithed? The merchant runs low on gold, so you wait a couple days to sell the rest, all at the same value.

What should happen? The price of these things should go down after you dump a bunch of them on the marketplace. It would be awesome if the economy were dynamic. Geez, even the first Fable game had a dynamic economy where the value of goods was higher in some cities than others. They should have had that in Skyrim so you could roleplay a merchant who buys goods in one City, transports them with followers as guards/porters to another City to sell for a profit. A dynamic economy could also help with the problem of too much loot, since the value of all that loot would go down if you sold too much of one type of item. Better yet, after you sell more than a few of any one type of item, the merchant tells you that he doesn't need to buy any more of that right now.

This issue is hardly unique to Skyrim: every RPG or similar which uses money, even the hack'n'slash Daiblo clones, ends up at the point where you have more money than you could ever use. The only exception I can think of is Diablo2, if you keep getting your hireling killed in Hell Difficulty: the resurrection cost is insane.

I dont see how these will help use money. I rarely buy things as it is on normal mechanics. I tend to store anything I collect for later use, and I dont use followers. And I dont buy potions because I find plenty in my travels as well as use healing spells.

at level 10 i should be able to buy level 12 or whatever if isaved. have the spread appropriate and no problems.
at high levels, gasp, a merchant appears that can deal with your loot. or whatever. crea plucking tivity.\

a broken economy with a poor loot system and ...

not good.

It can be used for a Mr. Duck vault of goodies? Though the game tends to digress with such actions, saddly for both the PC & consoles.

How is it that the Draugr are always rolling in recently minted gold Septims? For a race cursed to walk ancient, long-lost tombs as undead Nord mummies they all seem to be loaded with modern coin.

For some reason I never have much gold in any game.....

At level 34, the most I've carried at any point in time is ~12,000 gold and I only own Breezehome. I have no problem with becoming super rich. In fact, I don't know how you guys do it? Do you all have 100 in Speech from all the crap you must've been selling?? I feel like it's such a waste of leveling every time I sell something and gain a point in Speech, that I now only sell really expensive stuff in order to not use speech too much. I also don't mule back and forth just to loot every single item that can be looted.

Buy all houses and upgrades. Buy all training sessions. Buy anything you would normally craft or farm.

As A UPS Guy I seriously think this should be instituted

It's even funnier when you get the prowlers profit perk and find multiple diamonds in urns. I have about 500k in gems that I can't be bothered to sell, I just use them as currency.

Its so rare that every character you create can go into the Halted Stream Mine and pick up the Transmute spell tome off a table. It's also so rare that you can Google which merchants sell it.

Why would you sell everything and craft stuff? To make gold and level your crafting skills? You guys are broke because you RP, don't sell everything, don't craft, hoard items to make your house "pretty" etc. Every Iron Dagger with Banish Enchanted on it sells for like 2-5k or something ridiculous. Potions, are even easier to craft and sell. All you have to do is pick up Herbs. This does not hinder you in the slightest and it makes 0 sense to hoard items.

Your a thane then, correct?

I like to give flawless diamonds to the hot girls. And when I say "hot" I mean Skyrim hot... which is, of course, not hot at all.

I was going to say to make a pile of it in your house and blow it up into a gold blizzard, but I dont see a way to drop gold. Its not in inventory like it is with followers is it?

Agreed, but the theme of the game isn't the amassing of wealth, it's about the character turning into a legendary hero. While a 'working' economy is one thing, within the scope of the game it's needless to force players down a path of having to rely on making money to improve their character's equipment or training, and those are essentially the only aspects of the game that are economically relevant to character progression. From the 'storyline' perspective, it's probably better to have a 'workable' economy, where a point is eventually reached for the character where money no longer matters...and that is pretty much a hallmark of any of Beth's games.

You are wrong. According to the almighty USEP, the Transmute spell is not available for purchase. Look it up. http://www.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Transmute#Transmute

The fact that you as the player can easily learn the spell from a book in a particular camp does not make the spell any less rare in the game world.

That is probably true, but for a lot of us, that is the whole point of the game. If you don't roleplay, then why do you care how much gold you have?

Yes, but money does not matter from the get-go. What you can buy, is worthless as found loot or particularly crafted loot is FAR better. This doesn't occur at like level 50 or late game but around level 15...I don't care about an economic system, I just want stuff I can spend my money on that gives me a benefit. Not forced to, just an option. That is non-existant in Skyrim and could easily be included to give more longevity to the game.

Uh - really? Maybe because currency in almost every single RPG is used to progress your character? You buy better items, spells, etc.

I hardly think this is a problem unique to Skyrim. Every RPG with an economy system I've ever played reaches a point where gold is no longer a necessity. After so many hours of playing you've got just about everything you need and as long as you continue playing you'll just accrue more without the need to spend it.