I was collecting gold nicely for a while, then I paid for training. That's a decent gold sink for me.

I have a Khajiit that only gets gold from quest rewards or pickpocketing. She bribes anyone she can and always pays the thieves that accost her on the road.

Collecting stuff to sell doesn't make her money because no merchants will trade with the Khajiit.

She rarely has more that a few hundred on her at a time.

Ever since I finished the no stone unturned quest, I have plenty of money and so many gems that i can never sell all of them at once, that i've started filling bowls in my houses with them. They look like candy dishes except its thousands of dollars worth of gems instead of m&ms lol. Best part is sometimes the bowls wiggle and dance when you drop the gems in them.

it has become a point of Dungons for me to only collect gold and gems.. and rare items like enchanted dragonscale or deadric armor and weapons. So now i find myself leaving them sometimes feeling short handed. anyone else having that problem?

I've amassed a fortune! I'm not sure what to spend it on.

I'm sure there are things you could buy instead of making, stealing or looting them.

I find it ironic that the Speech perk that allows the shopkeepers to have 1,000 extra gold for buying expensive items typically becomes available after you're already rolling in cash. Assuming you didn't p/l Speech, of course.

I keep my gold busy because everytime i goes into a city i goes into all shops and buys all the Gems / Pots / fun books. You can never have to many gems :3

"Still i got over 200k gold T_T"

I wish gold was really scarce. I want to feel like I've really accomplished something when I save up and buy something. As it is, most of what I need I can just buy straight off the bat. I don't even bother looting enemies or chests because gold is so easy to come by, there's no need.

After training 5 times at every level, and once you skill up to around 90+ in your primary skills, buy every single house in the game, fully decorate all of them, etc, yeah, money starts to build up...

a fun, creative, and working economy system should be mandatory in a series, such as, the elder scrolls.

Since there are no money sinks in the game, other than houses, sooner or later everyone will be swimming in gold. The only difference is when. Like said as for lvl25 im definitely not swimming in everything. Although if selling enchanted iron daggers, i could be the richest man in Skyrim long ago. So the choice is again, like pretty much everything else in Skyrim, totally player dependent.

It is actually a rather rare spell, at least for lower level spell casters. I think its rarity is intended to balance out the obvious implications of what would happen if everybody had it.

You mean there would be an infinite amount of gold and it would lose all value and become next to useless?

Oh wait...

I am suitably cash poor early on and relatively comfortable later on, but never have had more than 30K gold. I don't grind alchemy or enchanting. I don't grind anything, in fact. If I need coin for something like training or equipment, I use crafting skills to make some. Otherwise I don't bother with that boring stuff. It's rather intuitive, really- only make what you need.

I also don't play characters past level 40 or 50, so maybe this is a difference.

Komodo, your first post made me lol. Scrooge McDuck ftw.

To the OP: Yes, I agree with you. Gold is pretty much completely useless in the game once you have a house or three, simply because you can obtain everything you'll ever need either by (1) crafting it, or (2) finding it in a cave. In fact, lots of RPGs have that problem (save for mount and blade; you can NEVER have too much money in that game. More soldiers! More arms! More castles! Horray!)

To me that is really about convenience, so that you can sell off your loot comfortably. Otherwise you have stuff piling up or need to leave a lot behind (horrors!) or do the tedious 3-day waiting. I don't see gold as a big thing, it's just what you need to keep your adventuring running smoothly.

As for Transmute, only use it on characters where it makes sense to use it. My mage financed her rather expensive overhead by occasionally transmuting ores, making jewelry and enchanting it. I didn't sit there and do it over and over and over, just when I needed it. She had to buy training and buy more equipment than characters that could smith their own.

Is this really so hard?

Other than the houses there are some gear you can buy from the vendors that helps smithing/alchemy/enchanting but for the most part you mainly buy training and ingrediants for skills you dont feel like spending your time gathering. Even that will no longer be necessary after a point, there will come a point in the game where you will have to make a choice to continue plalying this character or start another one.

I am always short of gold and needing more. It may be how I play. First, I don't go out of my way to get rich by spamming Alchemy or Transmute spells or whatever. Secondly, I don't put perk points into Enchant. I have three characters going and none of them have ever put a single perk into Enchant. It just doesn't appeal to me that much.

That means the only way I can get good enchanted gear is to find it or buy it. It makes going to merchants fun because you are always hoping they will have a good piece of enchanted gear, but the stuff is expensive, especially if you are constantly upgrading what you have. That's one great improvement over Oblivion, where the merchants never had anything useful after you hit about 8th level.

I also train when I can, particularly in skills I don't use much. So, my warrior trains pickpocket. He has never picked anyone's pocket in his life, but the extra training will help him advance in level and get more perk points than he would if he never trained pickpocket and the extra pockets perk in the pickpocket tree would be perfect for a warrior who carries around a selection of heavy warhammers and battle axes.

I am roleplaying it to fit in with his character the best I can given the constraints of the game. My thought is that football players are known to take ballet to improve their agility, so why can't a warrior in an RPG train pickpocket to do the same and when his agility is good enough, he will be able to carry more weight because he will be able to distribute it better.

Training gets really expensive at higher levels. If buy all your enchanted gear instead of making it yourself and if you train frequently, you will not have the problem of too much gold at least not until well above level 45.

cash poor shouldn't mean you don't need to save up some gold to buy that particular item for your character.

to render gold and loot, as meaningless, should cause a huge elderscrolls community GROAN. it's unacceptable. add in, horribly generic loot and few unique items, you are making the elder scrolls a quest and fighting game, purely.

that better not be their selling point.

That is how I play too and I have never had "too" much gold, but I have not yet played a character beyond level 45 or so either. Does gold become more plentiful at high levels? Training gets hugely expensive once you skill level gets above 50.

Yes gold is plentiful. If you ever even bother crafting, you will have more gold you can possibly ever use. It does not matter how much Training costs. The fact that people are gold strapped is beyond me. This is not a "high-level" occurance. The "need" for gold dissolves almost entirely before level 20 even. I stopped picking up gear then or looting chests. I train all of my skills whenever I find a trainer. I spam click it for the max 5 skill ups. Everytime a new house becomes available, I buy all the decorations at once, or upgrade say the DB. I bought most all of my crafting materials. I did not invest in any Speech Perks. Do you guys larp fest and intentionally not pick up expensive items or something?

If there are a few more perks you want and your normally used skills are 100 already then you might use it to train in skills you dont like, just for the levels.

some lickin good ol' trout

My solution? too much gold.... start a new character

don't want to start over? drop all your gold on the floor (or in a container if your on consoles) in the middle of nowhere and start making some cash back from scratch....

I have dumped ALL my gold a few times, and sometimes I will have needed some afterwards, but for me that's all the more excitement and pressure to earn it back when in need plus you would make some random bandits really happy and they may not kill anymore... or atleast for a while?

so Role-play it like that and you might get some sub-concious good karma huh?