I find it not so nice to have just gold... plus i end up with 4646747 gold coin and i feel like i need a horse just for the money bag

wouldn't be better
100 cooper = 1 silver
100 silver = 1 gold

so acctualy when i have 4646747 (unit/lame gold) with my system i would have 464gold and some change...

make gold feel more gold more real... i give poor people on the street 1gold.... that's totally wrong make my gold feel like garbage

There isn't copper in Nirn.

do they even call copper "copper" in Skyrim?

Gold is garbage. It's a lustrous metal for making jewelry. And semiconductors. I don't think they have those. Considering there's far more useful metals and ores, it's where it should be. Near the bottom of the pile.

Anyway, yes, they have copper guys. Or else those circlets are lying to me.

Gold is just a Generic Term for money in this game. Kind of like Dollar.

However, tiered currencies might be nice. But, since coins are weightless, there is no real game reason to make change.


I just made a pun and did not realize it..........

They're called Septims. However, it's just called gold by the game.

"Corundum" looks awfully copper-like to me. In the real world, corundum is aluminum oxide and the basis of many gemstones (ruby and sapphire being the primary examples). Obviously the stuff in the game is not even remotely what we know as corundum.

Regarding currency, the actual name of the coin is "septim" or "drake". Calling it "gold" is a kind of slang that has crept into popular usage. Perhaps at one time there was a gold coin in common use, perhaps by the Ayleid, and it just stuck.

I have long argued that the "gold" in the game is not actually gold, but bronze. It visually doesn't look like gold, and the value of the coin is so low next to the value of any real gold you find that there's clearly some shenanigans. Even the collector's edition coin doesn't look like gold (obviously it wouldn't BE gold, but if it was supposed to be really shiny they would have made it out of brass).

I don't like this system. How do my 100 copper coins suddenly transform into a silver coin? It's just ridiculous.

Septims
Drakes
Gold

All the same.

I agree I really wish that there was a copper silver gold system.

Yep, it's gold. Why would you want to pay for stuff with people's septums? That's gross.

If you're talking about real life there, gold is one of the rarest elements in the known universe.

Also, for some odd reason we (humans) don't fully understand, our love of gold is built into our DNA.

I think its because its shiny. Shiny things are cool.

[Citation needed.]

(If you do have a study to link I would be genuinely interested.)

no thanks i like haveing 100k gold instead of 100k copper that magically turns into 1000 gold.

There's not very much to even use the gold for. What do you people buy with your gold? I buy lockpicks. That's all I really need. Also, finding gold is nothing special now. Finding copper or silver and slowly getting close to 1 gold feels more rewarding imo.

What it really needs is to bring back banks. More for the thrill of robbing/defrauding them than anything else, though I personally feel as though only being able to carry a couple thousand gold at a time makes the game feel more real, and isn't something I ever found terribly annoying in DF.

Dragon Age uses it too: Sovereigns, Silver, and Bits. Gold, Silver, and Copper.

Hell, I think Everquest used it years before WoW was created.

And we could always go aaaaaaaaaalll the way back to basic D&D for the same Copper/Silver/Gold thing.

You know, when I think that it's been 200 years since Oblivion I wonder why the world is still technologically the same in Skyrim as it was in Oblivion. Especially when ancient Dwemer and Ayleid technology seems much more advanced. Are the people of Nyrn afraid of technology?

Could be that the use of magic has stagnated technological advancement. Or people could be afraid of disappearing like the dwemer.

Cleanup in aisle three.

Isn't this Copper/Silver/Gold system an MMO thing? Something even WoW related perhaps?

Do not want, we've only ever had Septims/Gold/Drakes in TES and I refuse to let that change, stop trying to ruin one of my favorite series's with things like this.

It's DnD related. But yeah, some way of not carrying around 500-1000 coins just to buy some supplies would be nice.

No, the copper/silver/gold/platinum system goes back to pnp D&D at least. Keeping track of copper pieces, and, if you had a really stick to details DM, finding money changers or "banks" to convert the pounds of copper/silver pieces you accumulated and change it for gold could be a real pain. I'd rather have the generic "gold pieces" or "septims" or "drakes" instead of keeping track of copper and silver.