We could spend money at a taxidermy shop if there were any. And if we could skin animals.

I hope they add more money sinks in a future update.
Money is kind of pointless, I do have to agree with you guys on that.
I am level 21 and had the game since it came out, I take my time and only have 10k. The reason-being is because I bought the most valuable thing in the game, a house and furniture. That's it. Nothing else is unique to me in the game to be honest. (Money-wise)

How. Not? Sell everything you don't need, you can carry a ton especially with a companion. If you take up Enchanting, just get the Banish enchant and enchant crappy stuff and sell it to a vendor. Each Iron Dagger sells for almost 2500 gold. It isn't like there is a lot of gear that you need to buy. You use money to train skills if you are lazy, buying a house which you don't really need and uh a horse I guess?

Spend a little time filling kettles of gold while we all wait to catch a rainbow. And, don't stop there, jewelry and gems work nicely... mind you, sometimes they twitch (even all the way out of your house for some, apparently).

Blacksmiths should be able to smith and upgrade your equipment by payment.

alright let me put some emphasis in my post.

Sorry to bring it up, but this is why I'm all over Morrowind. You could find something that was worth 50,000 gold in your travels if you were a master of exploring. Skyrim doesn't seem to have the awe factor in finding unique items such as this, instead randomizing loot, or having uniques look exactly like their common counterpart with a shiny film over it. The only bad thing about that in Morrowind was that nobody could ever buy these things from you haha.

Get wasted on Alto Wine, pick up some strangers, and make Sanguine proud.

Buy.. A horse? Psh i just steal em.

Currently around 180.000 gold and dumping it in investments in about every place I can find. Not only that but once you get the perk from finding all those 24 stones of barezthia (or something) you can find at least 2-3 flawless gems in about every urn and more in chests. My house in Riften is now my "Treasury House" and has nothing but gems and gold ingots spilled across every possible surface (expect floor, ofc ).

That's another thing which falls right into the discussion of over-abundance. There was one time, I think it was a dragon priest, where I FINALLY used potions. That was about 70-80 hours into the game where I finally needed potions, draughts, or what-have-you. Thing is, it felt awesome. I loved that I needed these things. I wish there was more of that.



That's not a very good argument. I don't think anybody here is saying this is a deal-breaker for them. Just, well, there's too much money and not enough to spend it on. Would be nice if it wasn't that way. I doubt it really would be hard for developers to NOT include five billion saphire and emerald necklaces in their next TES game.


Sure. Just paypal me the amount of money you'd like in Skyrim gold and we'll get you all set up.

Perhaps DLC will give you more stuff to spend money on.
Hey! Maybe you can find a chest in the wilderness, store it there and come back for it later when you need it.

This is how 90% of games are, you have a tough time getting money at the beginning but by about halfway you have loads more than you need. It's a shame there isn't more expensive stuff to buy but in reality there isn't a good way to fix the problem other than adding a bunch of crap that's expensive. And even then eventually you will have bought it all.

It would have been nice if your followers (well the mercs anyway) had a daily or even WEEKLY fee. I mean a one-time payment of 500 gold is just...lame. Especially considering how easy it is to find gold in this game compared to previous titles. (Gold and jewels in EVERY dungeon chest....come on, Beth....)

Best thing to do would be:
No lootable armors from corpses, only from chests.
Armors with high prices, like 30 000 for daedric armor or even more.
Merchants which have lots of unique items
no level scaling items
Armors and weapons very hard to find/get.
Enemies which have powerful weapons should easily kill you if you've got weak armor because now you can kill draugr with ebony sword very easily when you're in steel armor and with steel sword.
And of course no smithing, or at least ignots much more expensive and hard to find, and some better smithing system

That would make money worth spending.

I don't care about any expensive houses or horses because I never really buy them because I don't need them.

Who said we wanted an economic simulator? It's poor gameplay design when you have tons of money and little to spend it on. It would be fine if we had a lot more to spend money on, but only 2 houses are huge expenditures in the game. Maybe they could have smiths make you upgraded gear in exchange for some gold, or have mages enchant gear for a price.

It's not like the game needs some gigantic reworking to fix this problem...

Personally, I like it.

Skyrim is a barbaric land with no luxuries. Once you're able to equip, house, and feed yourself for the rest of your life, having millions more gold really shouldn't be good for anything.

To put it another way: "Wealth can be wonderful, but you know, success can test one's mettle as surely as the strongest adversary."

Econ is defiantly not the strong suit of this game engine; it's been hopeless since Morrowind.

This would be awesome. Someone suggested a re-building Helgen DLC in another thread. You can spend money to build the houses, stores, guard posts, hire guards and pay them annual salary etc


The talking mudcrab. He had 10k on him. Sell him something worth 10k, wait 24 hours, then repeat 3 more times. Then wait 24 hours again and sell him the 50k item for those 4 10k items and 10k

They could let us use our excess dragon souls, bones, scales, gold, and alchemy skills to build some horrific frankenstein dragons to unleash on the world or something.

There needs to be a mod in which you do a quest and get the deed to a broken down castle. You then do quests and pay money to upgrade the castle. It should be massively difficult and expensive to do

they should make a DLC. Wait, a DLC to spend money?

I think it would be neat if we could build a castle/tower/dungeon. Some empty patch of land, and you get to pick what to build, fund it, pay for armed caravans to move the construction supplies (or if you're cheap, escort the caravans personally, at great risk or boredom), pay for houses to be built as well, so you can attract your own villagers, commission a city watch (or leave it lawless and defenseless other than when you're home). Even get to train the master at arms in one of your skills, and based on the level of the Master at Arms training that you've done, is the level that your guards have that skill.

Alchemy - the guards have potions and poisons they use for an edge
Smithing - the guards have superior equipment (fine, flawless, etc, based upon skill)
Enchanting - the guards have some magic items, and maybe even a soulgem or two to recharge their weapons with
Destruction - All hail the fireball spewing guardsman!
Restoration - Self-healing guards...maybe they'll even use Healing Hands to spider-tank!
Alteration - The guards have Detect Life, and therefore cannot be surprised
Illusion - the guards can Calm their foes, cutting them down while defenseless
Sneak - You recieve early warning of any attacks that may come
Pickpocket - you recieve increased income from the 'confiscations'
Archery/1h/2h/LA/HA/Block - Standard effect, though guards trained in one of them will use equipment to match the skill
Conjuration - you specify summoning/necromancy when you train it. Guards use what you specified then. Better the skill, stronger the spell.
Lockpick - you recieve periodic bonus loot from your guards 'confiscations'

Couple that with a system that includes attacks upon your lands, defend the land quests, and dragon attacks...could be fun, and offer a great diversion from dungeon delving. Include things like hiring blacksmiths and securing supplies of ingots for them to make equipment for your guards with (or trade routes for the ore/ingots). Easy to outfit them in Iron, but if you want them in Ebony or Glass, that's gonna take some serious work, and a lot of palm-greasing.

Seriously, with costs for construction, furnishing, hiring, training guards, arming guards, bribing officials into opening trade routes with you, supplying guards for trade routes...best goldsink EVER!

Best laugh I've had today

I support this idea. Hopefully Bethesda does something like this in DLC. Oblivion had that castle DLC, and Skyrim should get something like that too, but better.