This is too see what people think about the new economy in skyrim, though i do not think it will be as i stated it in the pole.

Hasn't it already been confirmed that you can cripple a town/city's economy by messing with their main trade/industry?

they didnt say whether it was permanent or not and to what degree. at least i dont think they elaborated on it.

In that case, still the same as how I voted Temporary, as they are bound to sort themselves put after a while (how long that may take though...)

i'm the only one so far who thinks a merchants supply of money should be Dependant on his customers?

I do too.
In the game, however, I would have it be dependent on the PC and the town's economy, so as to not have to simulate all of the possible NPC transactions. There is a "base" amount of gold that will naturally rise or lower with the economy, and after that is calculated, any gold from NPC to PC transactions could be added/removed from the base amount to have the merchant's stock at that moment in time.

Yay added a new topic/question! id also like for traders to become more desperate with the economy of the town, though it should have downsides for the player as well.

The refill of the gold every 3 days is supposed to be reflecting the fact that NPCs are buying from them. It literally isn't magically refilled.

I reckon, the more you barter at any particular store, the store will improve and get better items and have more gold available.

Sometime I feel like I should be earning money for the surveys I take on these forums :happy:

I would like to see gold not replenish to a given amount after a given time but as certain items are sold and bought throughout the day/week. That is nice. One thing that I am not sure about is the trade between towns or large orginizations. There should be travelling merchants but that should be a relativly small part of the overall economy in my opinion.

Your sir know how to make a poll, good job for including "other" in your options!

I love it when they add a little economy that you can make grow or destroy :flamethrower:

I think it would be interesting to see a random trader walking a trail to a different town and possibly buy something from him. They had it in Fallout, why not elder scrolls

I don't think they need to turn the game into some kind of economy sim.
I'd like to see evidence of economy being part of the game world, but feel no need to have a particularly big impact on it, and I am fine with "magically" restocking merchants as it's kind of implied that they get shipments every X days - it didn't bother me in previous games. Unless you sit around specific traders for days it's reasonable enough to imagine a shipment came and went when you were off becoming the Nerevarine or saving the world from Daedric invasion.

i dont think any of the options in the poll feel simmy, opening up trade routes would be like asking (or paying) one of the traveling traders in Fallout 3 to go to a town they dont normally go to. They already confirmed crafting and thats probally what some of the merchants youll be buying from do, i'd like to see some npcs that are scripted to start conversation X with merchant Y about how he broke his Z and needs it repaired, that would happen every so often and allow the player to see that they're not the only source of income for the traders.

I just want to see NPC interactions in stores. Those junk items would be sold to them or something and if they buy armor or weapons you will see them put the things to good use(Hunting, fishing, etc etc)

Well does some one play a X series privateers?
Thats game has many similarities with TES in modding,
One of best things in game thats player can make economies in galaxy.
There was consumers manufactures resource extraction prefabricated goods commodities market and global economy, and thats was still space shooter game!
This features very nice to be see I but I believe they will be ignored (but we can still make them with mods perhaps)
Another example Mount & Blade game
There is villages thats produce goods (food wool ore and other) merchants stock in them and go into towns for sell goods, in towns produced more high tech items, merchants stocks in towns thats has manufactures of some item with most low price and make route to another town where thats item cost more, merchants caravans can be robbed if not have guards, player can both guard and rob caravan or demand money from them.

At last thats confirmed cities in Skyrim will have manufacture thats can be interrupted by player (can thats modify economies local or global?), logically can be predicted thats between two cities can be merchant route and I believe Radiant Story can add some quest about protecting caravan.
Maybe we can even establish some trading company or join trade guild.
There is great possibilities for modding also, cant wait for release of Skyrim for testing them.

erm, all I really want to do is buy and sell things. There'd better be a buyer for my hard booty!...ermmm ...hard won booty...hard won loot!

Having traveling merchants would be nice. Perhaps a caravan would make more sense since it could defend itself better.

Banks? Well, they make good targets to rob...that's about it.

As for trade routes, crippling economies, blah blah blah....I'd only use it if I was forced to through a good in depth quest or story.

Well they did traveling traders pretty well Fallout 3 IMO, but you couldn't really change where they went or what cities they favored and such.

About restocking both gold and wares:

the NPCs should have an economy within the towns and trade with the merchants to restock their supplies and gold. If you drop a sowrd somewhere, an NPC could sell it to a shop keeper and then you'd find it there in his inventory. Gold should work as bottle caps in Fallout 3, not infinite like in Oblivion.

I think that it would be nice to see the merchant have sales to get rid of some stuff that are not selling at normal price. See NPCs interact with the shopkeeper, like negotiating with them for a better price and arguing with them when the negotiations are not going anywhere

well maybe Skyrim will be a portrait of economic reality and all economies would be bad.

I would love for a merchant's supply of gold and goods to be determined only through non-magical transactions and crafting. However, I doubt the other NPCs will spend enough money for that to be a feasible option. Depending on how long it takes to craft, I also doubt merchants will be able to craft enough on their own. Maybe certain items, like rare weapons, could only be available after crafting, whereas staples like arrows and potions could magically restock.

I mostly meant by that was that a merchants money depends on the economy and number of people in the town they live in.

I dont want anything to be permanent exept race and my kill-count