Lydia does not know it, but while she is sitting upstairs in my Breezehome, eating bread, she is actually guarding the largest hoard of gems and jewelry in the entire known world. It is right there, in that chest over against the wall, a collection of wealth greater than anything found in Tamriel, probably ever known.

You see I got tired of trying to sell the stuff off at merchants. Once in a while I will grab it all, run over next door to the forge and make some jewelry, just to help my Smithing skill. Then I just run back home and dump it all back in the chest since 1) It is too much of a pain to try to sell it and 2) I really do not need anymore gold. So I just keep dumping my gems/gold/silver loot there, knowing that Lydia will watch over it.

Anyone else just feel like they are just way to wealthy? Anyone else wonder why no other NPC is nearly as wealthy when it is so easy to just find stuff?

Are you kidding?

My main characters wealth is almost the size of the US National debt... but in a positive number. lol

I'll never be able to spend all of the cash and gems that I have.

I always find stuff to spend money on. If nothing else, filled grand soul gems will make that money vanish in no time.

I had a mod at one point that added a secret player hideout, there were a couple open chests in there that you couldn't activate as storage, just drop things in. I got in the habit of dropping gemstones in there to see if I could fill it up. Sadly I didn't start until fairly late in the game when I no longer needed to sell them for money or smith them for skill points, so I never did fill it all the way up. Would've been cool to have it piled high with gems and some scattered on the floor around it from the overflow.

And I've seem some people talk about dropping their excess gold 1 septim at a time into rooms in their houses so they can swim around in it like Scrooge McDuck.

If you are really into hoarding gems or gold like that, piling them up in plain sight would seem like more fun than just stashing them in a chest where you can't see them.

But yeah if you play long enough and do enough looting/crafting, and especially if you take the relevant perks, eventually you end up with either more stuff than you will ever use or more cash than you will ever need from selling it all off. When I retired my first character that made it past level 60, I had close to 2 million septims on hand and that was without selling off special or unique items that I kept as trophies. If I get that way again with the current PC, I may start leaving gifts in the homes and shops of NPCs who I feel have been helpful or extraordinarily friendly along the way. I already tend to lavish loyal followers with cool gear so extending that to other worthy NPCs would feel like a natural progression for my character.

I tried that for a while, but not even all of the merchants in the Hold cities will ever carry enough Souls Gems to spend all of my money on. lmao

I've taken my main character through all of the possible character types I can think of, and every time he picks a new career, I'll take him out and buy him the best stuff I can find for the new character "class".

I just keep selling loot, I've got the Speech Skill tree maxed out, and I just make way more money than I spend.

See I have yet to spend a single perk on Speechcraft or Lockpicking. The last thing I need in this game is more gold so these Skill may as well not be in the game. I know there is some Speechcraft perks that help persuading people, etc., but I have never had an issue with that. And don't even get me started on how bad the lock-picking mini-game is. My low level warrior can open a Master lock like ... a master.

I'm always intrigued by player wealth in games that never 'end'. At some point we have to have more money than any one hold and eventually Skyrim or all of Tamriel, right? So why can't we just hire mercenaries and take on the Altmeri Dominion ourselves? It would be interesting to know how much gold we have relative to other NPCs (ie holds, Jarls, nobles, etc), though.

In Borderlands, after you've earned $10,000,000 (I think you just have to earn it - I don't think you have to amass it.) you get an/a Achievement/Trohpy called How Much for the Planet?.

You be careful with http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMyk7MXsseg.

I craft Legendary weapons of various materials and reverse pickpocket them onto NPCs that I like. I know that will never bring my money down in any significant way, but it's pretty funny to me.

Given what can happen to you if you bump into a cart or stumble over a skeleton at the wrong moment, that's probably a wise bit of advice.


On my last character I did the Thieves Guild and Dark Brotherhood stuff because I couldn't see doing them with my more "honorable" PCs (which is usually what I play, I just can't get into the master criminal/assassin thing). I wanted to see what those storylines were like, plus play through some other stuff that I wouldn't ordinarily do or do the same way.

Early on when I got access to the TG cistern I still needed cash so I took everything of value that was freely available in there. Later when I was Guildmaster and had money coming out my ears, I went back and started dumping gold back in all the chests.

And then I remembered... I don't even like these people, lol.

You have to do what you must so you can sleep at night.

Over the "lifetimes" of the toons I've played in this game, I must have amassed a total of well over a million gold. I never have found anything to spend much of it on....

Be careful what you read; you can't drop coins from your inventory. Maybe they were talking about console spawning them?

I think it may be possible to drop them one at a time using console commands. I know I've used them to drop normally "undroppable" items, for instance a quest item I needed to get rid of and "find" again to advance a quest that bugged out because I found the item before the quest giver sent me looking for it. So it may be possible - albeit extremely tedious - to drop septims that way as well. Never tried it myself, I like to keep my coins jinglin' in my pocket.

Careful...the Falmer will find you like that.

MODS!
Kuertee has limiting gold mod and also there is a cutthroat merchants one - both on the nexus.