How do you drop gold outside of a container?

Heres a tip, only pick up items that have a 1:5 weight:value ratio. In the deepest areas Ive even had to eliminate all items from my inventory that were below a 1:15 weight:value ratio.

I had this problem had 139k so i hired the dark elf follower in whiterun, did some assassinations, and gave her 137k keeping only a couple thousand for myself.

-Raven-
Yeah, i pickup 1:10, and worth > 50gold. Too much stuff, lol. Planning to invest in Speech/Merchant, all these armor vendors with lots of money surely are itching to get a hold on some valuable magic clothing and scrolls. And iron pots.

This is an common problem in all open world rpg, you find a lot of loot, you only need the very best stuff yourself so you sell the rest, as you also get most of your consumables from loot or make them yourself you don't buy much.
Effect you run over with money. easiest way to solve it is some sort of money sink, very expensive items you want to use and you can purchase in bulk.

What bothers me the most is the lack of gold weight and the lack of effect on certain abilities like sneak or endurance. I can carry thousands of gold coins in my pockets? How? You should be nailed to the ground because of the weight. And the katching ching noise of thouse thousands of coins should make sneaking impossible.

Other than that. Release the Creation Kit. I want my banking mod.


You can get close enough though. I pick up a lot of random loot which I don't actually need. Selling it is the only viable option to get rid of it, as long as nobody's yet modded in a trash can that is.

Besides that, looking at my own gold pile, you can gather a lot of cash by selling off your own equipment when it's no longer needed. And off course that stuff usually got enchanted and tempered. On top of that you don't exactly need to grind enchantment, alchemy, smithing, pickpocket or sneaking to build up a lot of cash. Even a little functional indulgent in those skill trees will amount to a pile of cash fairly quickly.

I have about a million in my pockets right now...I earn about 20 - 40k gold per town visit. Sometimes I just wish we could give it to the beggars so that they can start a happier life. 1:1000000 is just too little for me.

I like to buy arrows. I have 250+ glass arrows, 250+ elven arrows, 160+ ebony arrows. I also like to buy soul gems which can get expensive @ 1k a piece for some. Any 50 health or more potions, invisibility potions ect. I have horses die from fall damage a lot, so I buy new horses often.

I buy lots of stuff. Ive been in the 70k range for a while, Ill buy a bunch of crap, sell a bunch of crap almost always breaking even

Same. I have about 500,000 gold on me and another 500,000 in loot that I can't be bothered to sell.

It's not necessarily useless; it's just that it's very easy to obtain large amounts once you become experienced with the game. For example, when I first started playing back in November, I used to think that 5g was a crapload and I struggled to get it. Now I have 36k walk-around gold, and at one point I had 70k before buying the Solitude house.

If you spend it on smithing, replacement horses (Mine die often), crafting materials, soul gems (expensive if you don't capture souls), and training; then your gold will have a place to sink, but once you've made it big in Skyrim, it tends to stay that way. Unless you throw all your gold away nearly on purpose

This one time at bards college this random argonian asked me for 10k and I gave it to him then I felt an emptiness inside so I ran after him and I killed him and took the 10k back and then I felt better that I had been restored to my full glory

If only skyrim had band camp

Train if that's what you do. I train the skills I never use and it's gets very expensive.

Throw money on the streets, someone should pick it up.

Training can really svck gold up, especially when the skill is at a high level. Like 6k per training session.
It's not bad though, in TES II: Daggerfall my Lvl 27 Nord Warrior has over 10 Million gold in his bank account, and he always carries a Letter of Credit worth 1 Mill on him. Almost every dungeon i go into, i end up coming out with 70k Gold Coins, and at the weight limit because of it (Gold had weight in Daggerfall). Although, Daedra Prince Summoning in Daggerfall can cost like 200k, and the largest houses cost 1 Mill.

There's always training. I make a point to train pickpocket and archery because I never want to use them, but I want the points towards levels. High-level training takes a lot of cash.

You can always give them to the poor. I think there's a bum in every city.. Karma +10

Agree with someone above about that soul gems things. I don't have a taste for fillin' them myself, so I'd just purchase 'em.

You can train and then pickpocket them trainers you know

Since when do the weight numbers in Skyrim represent lbs?

Wealth isn't the point of the game.

if you want to be thane of every city you'll need to buy every house in cities where you can of course, as requested by the city's jarl.
besides that there not many other uses for gold besides buying materials or ingredients for crafting and buying daedric arrows in solitude.

In Oblivion I enchanted a ring with a fire spell, and used to throw it on the ground to kill off greedy b*stards. I kind of miss that in Skyrim.

This is what I do to... I buy all kinds of stuff; potions, houses, weapons, training in skills and so on. So I find it more like I want more gold.

Maybe I'm just a shopoholic Skyrim-style

I always buy health potions before I head out on a quest. One time I decided to switch from being a warrior to being a Mage so I had to buy all the robes and spells for that which svcked up a lot of gold.

Between housing, transportation, spells and supplies I never have enough money even when looting every single corpse.

I limit what I take off the fallen as well, I only take treasure items such as gems or jewlery, other than that I cannot take it unless I plan to use it or have a companion use it, and then I leave whatever that item it is replacing behind. This has seriously limited my gold intake, but it has made the game more fun. I like the idea of dumping gold on followers so I may start doing that as well, just to see how much more it limits the income. The thng I hate about the whole economy though is that it seems the NPCs are quite wealthy as well, but I don't see how becaue most standard (non-magical) items in stores are not that expensive. My point is I can make 500 gold for taking a ring from the market in Markarth to Calcimo in the palace, that just doesn't make any sense to me, who the heck pays the UPS guy 500 bucks to deliver a package accross the street for them.