Ever since I played Fallout 3 and created a char as the Janitor, who cleansed the world of rubbish, such as tin-cans, bottles and all that,

I can't get out of this habit. I can kill everything in a dungeon, but I can't leave one item behind. In Fallout and Skyrim. And other games, too.

I'm a hoarder and what makes it worse I never fast-travel in any ways, I walk....or run until I can't walk anymore.

I started a new char with the intention to skip loot that he doesn't need, but it doesn't work. I can't RP a guy that leaves a shining dagger behind worth 2g.

Maybe I have to make a Janitor out of this guy, to pick just everything and sell what I find? But that is long-hauling stuff, as this char won't be over-burdenend.

I don't know, I can't get out of the habit as it sticks to my brain -- "frigging dagger still in that cave" -- and I can't release myself to play the game differently.

Instead I waste hrs of running back and forth to sell crap. But I'm quite happy when I cleansed an area.

So my point is, I do have a problem and I'm not really asking you good ppl for answers, but there must be a middle way somewhere?

As it is, my new char is the new Janitor and you don't even know how much rubbish that's out there, it has to be gone!

( disclaimer - I can play other chars that leaves things behind, but it still hurts me and takes me out of my RPG-ing, because the obsession of every gold

somehow belongs in the dark ages of Eye of the Beholder and similar games, when coins was a must.. end disclaimer/)

Please, just cheer me up and give me some sober advice, please.

Sounds like O.C.D. to me.

Why bother when much of that loot respawns and most merchants have very limited gold?

This is not Eye of the Beholder. It is The Elder Scrolls, a very different style of RPG from AD&D 2nd Edition.

Just as much fun too.

We hoarders need horses with saddlebags and driving our own carriages, Bethesda. Just saying.

I also has some hording problems but not as much, yes I pretty much have to have any unique/ rare item in the game. All sort of crafting items, like why should I need to mine all the ebony as I have no plan of taking the ebony smithing perk. All the dwemer items in Blackreach goes without saying even if smithing is 100.

Take all books if you don't know you have it, if you do, take it anyway it might be that you remember it for another game.

Foods, uses realistic need and diseases so I need food, yes I have enough to feed everyone in skyrim for a year.

if you are on PC then see if there is a mod that makes you unable to move if you become over encumbered.

The funny thing is in real life, I'm the opposite, I don't care about that old couch. If someone wants, come and get it.

Hey mate, we don't need this TV anymore, give me a sixpac and it's yours.

Stuff like that, I don't have much, but still share what others does'nt have. No worries for me, they even got the digital box.

And I do NOT walk around collecting bottles and cans......well if they annoy me I pick them up and throw them in the recycle-bin.

But in Beth-games I get the feeling I need everything I can get my hands on early.....and at level 35 I can't stop, I want every coin...

"Not referring the 35-guy to my lvl 2"

Mate, I already not accepting over-encumberance, so I walk and walk and...zzzzzzzzzzz

But thanks for the tip, I have no mods and want to finish the game without them, before

I take that step.

It was just a thought, as I know some folk who have the problem in real life.

In most Beth games the stuff you need tends to be undropable and unsellable while its related quest is active.

Selling junk is a good way to get gold in this game though.

I too have done what you describe.

But if you get a mod that makes you unable to move if over encumbered (like on Oblivion) then how can you get to where you need to go?

We're talking level 1 char sticking to old "dudes" gameplay.

But you're so right, when the game matures, YOU need to harvest this and that, I just to stop it from day ONE!

Still,for your reference, this char isn't throwing/selling/dropping ANY books away!!!

And he turned into the Janitor.

Now 200 hrs of great fun is coming.

Of course, only a few ppl would play the game like this.

RELEASE ME, PLEASE!!!!

Best suggestion I can come up with at the moment is to maybe impose a weight limit of only being allowed to carry 200 in loot and 1 visit per dungeon/cave etc. Could be implemented by role playing a bad back or that's the limit set by his superiors or something. The one visit idea could be that he has a schedule to stick to which must be adhered to, that way your character would know what rules their dungeon delving have to abide by.

Argrrh!

Got what I can carry, don't look back!

That's what you saying?

"eye ticking and fiddlefingers starting"

For all your interest, I NEVER drag a load of 2000k around the map, just what my char can, so many trips.

It feels better that way, but kills me irl.

Hey wait! I just did another Janitor...so I might like the concept too much to let go..?

I used to be kinda like that... I took nearly everything except items that paid nothing when I tried to sell them. Tankards and such. Anyway, I started playing DiD and it didn't take very long to notice that every time I was overburdened some unusual random critter would attack and kill me while I couldn't move quickly. When you're overburdened. that's when the hired thugs, assassins, dragons. and stray hostile mages show up. Mudcrabs appear nibbling on your feet from nowhere, and the skeevers are running circles around you.

I'm now much more choosy about what I take, even though I am now using a mod that gives me a horse I can summon even inside dungeons, and it allows for running and fast travel while overburdened... and sometimes flying...