I find gold to be useless in Skyrim.


What is there to buy that is actually unique to you or is important?

The only thing I can list is a House and maybe a Horse ( Although they aren't the best )


I have 56,000 gold, and what's the point in gathering more coin from Chests or dead bodies..


It has absolutely no use to it. I hope for the upcoming DLC, they will put it to good use.

I have over a million. I decided to make http://www.nerdnexus.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/scrooge_mcduck.jpg, but the game crashed after about 2000 coins dropped.

I'm actually surprised that there IS so much gold in the game, as gold veins (to get the ore to smelt and smith to make gold coins with, and I assume that IS how it works) are hard to come by. In my experience, at least.

I guess we're supposed to assume the currency is shipped around a lot. I wonder if Tamriel's economy is as awful as ours is here in reality...

Pay your followers. I always give my followers 50% of what we find in our ventures. Only seems fair since they have to feed, clothe, and house themselves too.

How can we "pay" our followers??

Just drop it into their inventory.

P.S. It doesn't actually do anything or go anywhere, but it's how I role-play.

That's actually clever.

I shall do that, lose some of my pointless Gold.

Maybe Lydia can buy her own bread now.

Well, if you collect every single crap out there and sell it all the time, ofc. I haven't found myself having more than 5K of gold at any point unless I decided to buy a house, and went into the wilderness to collect miscellanous items to sell em. Then again, I often buy things, such as smithing resources, paying for skill trainings and so on so that might be it.

I also put restrictions on how much crap I can carry. Even though my character can technically carry 340 lbs, who can really carry that? I try to keep in mind the volume of space items might use if my character had a backpack and work around that (think Diablo II). I feel it keeps the economy much more fair in Skyrim rather than grabbing everything in sight until you reach your weight limit.

I find that gold becomes much more important when you: (assuming you are on pc here)

1. Slow down the leveling a little
2. Decrease your carrying capacity to say...150 or 120ish
3. Don't use companions as pack mules

Those three things will keep you broke for a long time.

I know I know.... I wish Skyrim had Fable's tax system. I wish you could have kids, and blah blah blah. But who cares about my opinion anyway lol

I am on the 360, wouldn't work for me unfortunately.

One word: transmute.

Nitpicking but that spell makes no sense at all. If such a spell exist then everybody will want to learn it, then produce silver and gold, which in turn will bring the value of silver and gold down because of over abundance, but I digress

I buy all my grand soul gems, because I don't care to capture souls. Even then though... yeah, I end up with extra cash. I suppose if I needed more than two houses (neither of which I ever seem to visit) then I might burn it off, but I'd get it back sooner or later.

I donated a fair bit to the temple of Mara, but at 5 gold a donation, it was slow going...

Sometimes I leave gems and amulets in the temples (amulet of Dibella draqed on her icon, etc), but that's stuff I'd likely never get a chance to sell anyhow.

Actually, there's that - not only is there no use for gold, there's little use for loot beyond a point because you can't sell more than a small portion of it.

But hey, really- if you are one of the most figures and a leader of multiple factions, do you think money is more than an abstraction anyhow? If you want something, and its for sale, you get it sooner or later (probably sooner).

And if you use Smithing, sell any pelts you find and buy processed materials (such as leather and leather strips). For one, IRL making leather takes an incredibly long time and two, it requires you to make more transactions with vendors which in turn raises the scarcity of materials to use for your equipment and helps with your Speechcraft skill.

I think he means use your imagination by placing limits on yourself, not the game mechanics.

Skyrim's mines are only a fraction of Tamriel. Besides, you're probably not seeing the whole mine, just the main portion of it. Probably goes down for hundreds of feet.

The people of Skyrim are limiting themselves severely when it comes to transmute.

With some practice, YOU CAN TURN ANY LIQUID INTO MEAD!

Too bad most are so against magic... They could get the buzz they need to make it through their depressing-as-hell world they're in.

Yeah, it's a bit ridiculous. I never remember getting this much gold in Oblivion or even Morrowind. I'm up to $2.5 million right now, but looking at my stats page I've collected $4m... no idea what I spent it on (though a lot of times I would "trade" inventories with a shopkeeper if I had a heavy high value item, buying low-weight gems til he got enough gold to buy my Daedric warhammer, for instance... the game probably counts all those transactions as "spent" gold). But what to do with it?

But it's all good. This was my sticky-fingers thief character who took & sold everything. On subsequent playthroughs I'll know there's no need for hoarding gold or even really a bunch of items to sell. Should make the questing much more fun.

Better drink my own... mead.

You could have a spell that turns milk into mead. Transmilk or something.

Bethesda's to do list...

Gold sinks

Feed hobo sweet roll done

Make Todd-2-d-2 ready for dx11 can wait

Now that's what I call recycling ;{D~

"WUDDA U LUKIN AT, TRANSMUTE-DRANKR ?? >:{O~"

"A poor, thirsty fool." :]