CountChocula
Keeper of the Watch
This is sort of a pet peeve of mine. Nearly every RPG I've ever played has a problem where it is too easy to become wealthy in the game. I've installed lots of "poverty" mods for previous games to increase merchant prices or reduce reselling prices.
If I ever reach a point where I can easily afford anything at all, there is no more point to accumulating wealth and loot, and it is perhaps time to retire that character.
How is your experience going with Skyrim so far in terms of the accumulation of wealth? Are you ridiculously wealthy? Poor as a pauper?
Do you have a high Speechcraft score? Which difficulty setting are you using?
I'm level 37, playing as a thief on master difficulty. So far I have not completed any of the faction or civil war questlines. The only faction I've joined is the thieves' guild and I only completed the first couple of quests. I only did the main quest up to
In my case, I'm finding some excellent gold sinks in the form of arrows and smithing materials. I have also paid trainers a few times, primarily for the RP purposes, in line with the concept that I need to pay someone smarter than me to teach me things from time to time.
I've pickpocketed several of the Jarls and Thanes and robbed them blind, and I also take care to retrieve every coin and valuable item I find from dungeons, etc. However, I've been spending a great deal of gold improving all my weapons and armor from time to time.
I've accumulated a cache of jewelry and dragonbones which I can sell in a pinch, but for the most part, every time I earn around 4000 - 6000 gold, I spend it all buying arrows and moonstone and quicksilver ingots to improve my Elven armor and weapons, etc. Early in the game I also spent gold to buy filled grand soul gems in order to enchant some items. At this point I no longer need to buy any soul gems.
I suppose perhaps on Master difficulty it takes a lot of arrows to bring down high level enemies? In any case, every chance I get, I buy every single arrow in town, then after visiting a dungeon or two (or encountering a dragon), I'm down to a handful of Ancient Nord or iron arrows and desperately need to buy more in case of dragon attack.
I haven't bought a house or any horses yet, either, although the house in Solitude looks very appealing.
I've found after playing for nearly 150 hours, that the economy system seems to be holding up just fine. I'm certainly not wealthy and there is a lot of reason to look forward to continuing to explore and accumulate loot. And I think finding new dragon words would be a strong motivator even if the economy system were not working so well. So far, I see no need to install a poverty mod.
If I ever reach a point where I can easily afford anything at all, there is no more point to accumulating wealth and loot, and it is perhaps time to retire that character.
How is your experience going with Skyrim so far in terms of the accumulation of wealth? Are you ridiculously wealthy? Poor as a pauper?
Do you have a high Speechcraft score? Which difficulty setting are you using?
I'm level 37, playing as a thief on master difficulty. So far I have not completed any of the faction or civil war questlines. The only faction I've joined is the thieves' guild and I only completed the first couple of quests. I only did the main quest up to
the part where you are supposed to go the Thalmor Embassy. Haven't been there yet
In my case, I'm finding some excellent gold sinks in the form of arrows and smithing materials. I have also paid trainers a few times, primarily for the RP purposes, in line with the concept that I need to pay someone smarter than me to teach me things from time to time.
I've pickpocketed several of the Jarls and Thanes and robbed them blind, and I also take care to retrieve every coin and valuable item I find from dungeons, etc. However, I've been spending a great deal of gold improving all my weapons and armor from time to time.
I've accumulated a cache of jewelry and dragonbones which I can sell in a pinch, but for the most part, every time I earn around 4000 - 6000 gold, I spend it all buying arrows and moonstone and quicksilver ingots to improve my Elven armor and weapons, etc. Early in the game I also spent gold to buy filled grand soul gems in order to enchant some items. At this point I no longer need to buy any soul gems.
I suppose perhaps on Master difficulty it takes a lot of arrows to bring down high level enemies? In any case, every chance I get, I buy every single arrow in town, then after visiting a dungeon or two (or encountering a dragon), I'm down to a handful of Ancient Nord or iron arrows and desperately need to buy more in case of dragon attack.
I haven't bought a house or any horses yet, either, although the house in Solitude looks very appealing.
I've found after playing for nearly 150 hours, that the economy system seems to be holding up just fine. I'm certainly not wealthy and there is a lot of reason to look forward to continuing to explore and accumulate loot. And I think finding new dragon words would be a strong motivator even if the economy system were not working so well. So far, I see no need to install a poverty mod.
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