» Fri May 04, 2012 8:32 am
If you use the various crates or barrels (which have a weight limit) for all of the lighter items, and just dump the heavier stuff on the floor, it should be a LONG time before you need to worry about the 1000 item cell limit (on console, the PC limit is supposedly higher) and loot bags appearing. My characters often have more than one storage location, with a cave here, a house there, and one of the old Dunmer Fortresses somewhere else, with all of the assorted crates, barrels, and sacks in each of them. Addamasartus, right there near Seyda Neen, is generally the first, and can actually hold a decent collection of stuff for an early-game character (around 6 crates, 2 barrels, a long box, and 2 sacks, if I recall).
Supposedly, the capacity of "perma-corpses" is even higher. If you find either the missing tax collector, Ralen Hlaalu, or the deceased adventurer at the bottom of the stairs in the tomb where the MG orc sends you in the MQ, those should never respawn, and can hold an immense amount of stuff (I've encountered scrolling issues with the list above some point, but the stuff is still there, it just takes more work to access). Other corpses (ones that you create the old-fashioned way) will vanish after 3 days along with their contents, so be careful.