Exactly, obviously they cannot allow you to build or renovate your fort just anywhere. The logical choice would be to have certain Forts (namely contested ones on bordering and dangerous areas) with the ability to restore it. The way this works is rather simple. The first step would be to introduce an NPC to the newly cleared area. For that matter the whole goal could be creating a trade route between these outposts and the major cities overseen by the Jarls to unify Skyrim. You can have whole classes of guards and fortifications right down to siege weapons that you can upgrade and outfit in better gear. Whenever an outpost is under attack, a courier will deliver a message to you. These towns are taxed, can produce food and crafting materials for your Hall. Each outpost can have varying resources they specialize in to promote the player to rebuild multiple forts. The concept is to upgrade the Outpost to the highest Tier so it can defend itself and produce income and materials for you. The more Outposts you have connected, the greater the output as a Trade route is established. The more established your town becomes, the greater dangers that attack it. (From Bandits to Elder Dragons)

I have the same problem. Next I'm going to try to search chest and take people's money to make it more challenging.

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I'm not sure why this post keeps coming up. Any RPG open world type game this becomes an issue after a while. I think I am sitting at 3.6million flourins in Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood. This isnt something specific to Skyrim.

If you are looking for somewhere to spend money, spend it on skill training. It gets ridiculously expensive at high levels and the higher level your character gets the more difficult it gets to level up just by using your skills.

i think the issue is not that it comes up, but that it comes up so quickly.

This!

Maybe also being able to buy skills past 100? As opposed to buying perks outright...

One potential problem with the gambling hall.

I'll have 100,000 Septims on 25 black please.... spins the wheel.... Ball falls into in 25 black Nooooooooooooo!!!!

It would be complicated, but it would be neat if they had a set number of gold pieces in the game so that eventually , people would stop paying you in gold, or the prices would skyrocket if you hoarded it all rather than spending it. If you fence all your jewelry in Riften, no one there would want it anymore but a potato would go for 20g. I liked what they did with Battlehorn in oblivion - except the location svcked. If I could buy a castle outside of Riverrun, staff it and keep my collectables there (I have a waist deep pile of skulls in Riften right now) it would be great. Include an armory with display cases and, well everything that Battlehorn had.

You could invest money in Oblivion although I never worked up that skill because, like Skyrim, money came in quickly enough anyway. I still like the games that have the courage to rob you of everything you have halfway through so that you have to start fresh with good skills at some point. Imagine having a reason to wear fur armour at some point because you got drunk in a bar, passed out and woke up, with nothing, in a temple. The quest could be to find your stuff, or you could just start anew.

this might happen 1 out of XXX times. but people will keep going