Hey guys - I am around 35 hours into Skyrim and one thing concerns me quite a bit. Currently I have 38k and I am thinking of ways to spend it. I do not want a house as I already have one in Whiterun and that's all I need, I have full daedric which is fine, and my mage and range gear is up to scratch. What should I spend my money on?

Go around chopping people and then pay off your bounties.

Cheese and sweetrolls. For everyone.

1. Save it, get the achievement/trophy for 100k.

2. Give it all to charity (paying beggars one coin at a time…).

3. Buy a house that has a safe, and stick all your gold in the safe. It's useless there, but at least that will feel like a logical place to keep that much money.

You can drop it all at any time

If you buy skill points, after 51 in a skill it'd cost 1600 per level skill. 8000 gold each level goes to that. Buy a house and you won't even be able to buy all stuff for it if you chose the biggest house

Spend it on the town harlet.

Randomly drop large sums of money to simulate having a wife?

Spend it on soul gems for enchanting. Keeping up your magical gear uses them too.

My characters are usually close to penniless after an extended hunting trip. Two bows and three swords eats up soul gems pretty quickly.

I imagine spell slingers wouldn't have much use for them though.

I think I will just save up for that achievement

Another one of these threads? Good God.

At a certain point in games like this, you'll have far more money than you can spend/than you want to spend — Morrowind, Oblivion, Fallout 3, New Vegas, and now Skyrim. There's only so much the developers can add for sale, and if certain things are hideously expensive, people will complain about them being too expensive. It'll probably be the same story in Fallout 4 and The Elder Scrolls VI: Elsweyr. Same with your character's strength, for that matter — at some point, if you build a focused character with focused gear, your build will outstrip the game's difficulty and everything will be easy for you.

Thank you for the laugh.


Too bad there aren't any bathtubs in Skyrim as I took great joy in watching my bathtub filled with caps in FO.

I don't get it. How can you get so much money playing only 35 hours? Am I missing something? I don't pickpocket that much, but 38K?? Weird

Skooma and Moon Sugar! That's how you unlock the Tiger Blood perk!

Would have been nice if they added things like ships and castles that we could sink our gold into. Perhaps with enough gold, being able to buy a town or city and after performing a set amount of deeds, getting chosen as the Jarl and having to make tough choices such as paying or not paying taxes to the Empire etc...

I have the same problem sometimes... guess I'll just buy every house and load every mannequin up with Deadric Armor. I did have an idea for money though....

Read the O.P.
http://www.gamesas.com/index.php?/topic/1160987-skyrim-traders-guild/page__p__17038708__fromsearch__1#entry17038708

I was like you and did not think I wanted another house. Now it's different. Take a look on YouTube and see some other houses. Solitude is great. You can display your armor, functioning weapon racks. It's just a better house all around. At least take a look.

training?

I do have an amulet which gives me some % off, but haven't perked up my pickpot skill.
Too much to perk.

Give it to the poor or the kids. You'll get a blessing for a few hours too.

Buy skill points from trainers - that would be my vote.

I have over 250,000 all houses but one (which has glitched and i cannot buy), and max levels, so i have literally nothing to spend it on. What's worse, i found the 'special' trader who has 12,250 gold, and i have perks to sell everything to him, so i can't help but scavenge still.

BA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!

I used to spend my gold on Skooma and hokers as well then I took.............

My good but eccentric philanthropist character left a heap in a mudcrab. He has also got an impressive collection of things he stores in large heaps in one of his houses.

He is hoping some mod/patch/DLC will include things to spend outrageous amounts of money on - city or guild works for cities or guilds you are in charge of, armor dyes, home mods/expansions, throw a festival, buy a ship or a country estate etc. Artwork! I'd happily by by some statues or paintings for my house.

I also hold onto my hope of becoming patron of the orphanage or sponsoring explorer expeditions or something of that nature.

Already broke the 200.000 a while ago with all houses + upgrades bought. Having simple delivery quests pay over 1.000 gold each doesn't help either. I got 1.500 gold for delivering some supplies to High Hrothgar, how stupid is that? That's 1,5 horse for trekking up the mountain and back. I killed a giant by a Jarl's request a few minutes later and received 100 gold for that, which seemed a bit off to me. I can find and make potions/poisons that sell for over 200 gold each. Self improved armor can sell for several thousand of gold.

This game needs some gold sinks badly. They took away a lot of potential gold sinks from Oblivion: spellmaking, enchanting, recharging and repairing. Some kind of taxes or upkeep for houses and upkeep/wages for housecarls (?) and mercenaries.

How do you know the title of the next Elder Scrolls, it will be a next gen console game for sure.