Anyone else finding their gold piling up without exploiting the game in any way or being particularly thrifty - just playing normally? There's not much for me to spend money on either.

Fritter it away in brothels then.

Lol anyway its not as easy to get money as in oblivion.

What difficulty do you play with? At least with Expert difficulty my money usually goes to potions. I haven't taken any Speech perks.

expert

Training support skills and buying potions burns up money like crazy.

If you're not training skills, (my excess cash usually ends up going towards Alchemy) then you could always save up and buy all the houses.

On master, maximum gold septims reached was about 7000. Then I bought a useless house and a horse and got broke

umm you really shouldn't have any left over gold since you can spend 100k easily on training a particular skill. Until you have each of the 20 skills up to 100, you always have a money sink.

im not training smithing or enchanting because they make the game too easy for me on master

For a second I read the title as "Too easy to make God?" lol

I don't really care for gold too much. But what I do like is that you can drop it. Unlike Oblivion, which is pretty neat. You can now have a fat sack of Septims in your house.

All my money goes to Honningbrew Mead, sweet rolls, Honey Nut Treats, Boiled Cream Treats, Skooma, Moon Sugar, and HP Potions

I'm saving up for the house in Solitude to become Thane of Solitude. But I am finding it very hard to get 25,000 gold.

None of the shop keepers have enough money to buy all my loot. And most of my loot is stashed in random places. The cabinets in the Arch Mage's room, my NPC companion, etc. And I have to keep lugging a big collection of gems back and forth to see who has enough to buy them all.

Selling money is a pain. They're merchants for Gods sake, why do I have more money than them? Realistically, they should have more money the later in the day you come and see them, and start at about double what they have.

The final speech perk gives every merchant 1000 extra gold, as well as other perks in the Speech tree allowing you to sell any item to anyone. That helps a lot, especially as a thief who gets his hands on a lot of expensive jewellery.

I'm at about 22,000 with my level 27 character. Yes, the money is piling up too quickly and I've nothing to do with it... besides buying a house every now and then.

Buy Moon Sugar and Mead All you need friend, maybe a sweet roll.

I can't really complain about it.

Every game I have ever played, outside of an MMO, that has money in it, the money eventually becomes worthless and just piles up.

Buy potions? Pfft. I can make my own. Enchanting? Doesn't have a gold cost anymore. Training? HA! I can train by using the skill quicker and don't need to wait until I level up to go beyond 5 points.

Personally, I just count it as my "score." The more gold I have, the higher my score

...And then I make a tower or a mountain out of them... or something?

Eh I like to buy stuff randomly because it looks cool. I have 3 houses I'm trying to decorate with cool looking armor and weapons.

Zakum may have a room piled to the ceiling with a "collection" of sorts. :shifty:

I wish. I keep buying weapons to learn new enchantment effects and that keeps me poor. I'm level 35 and own the whiterun house and have never spent money on training. Money is hard to make. It feels just like fallout, except a lot more to spend it on. Ingredients for smithing & alchemy add up to quite a bit too. Ingots cost a lot once you get up to elven and glass armor. Then when you make custom armor and weapons for your companions it adds up even more, then enchant everything with grand soul gems which cost about 1400... my money seems to hover between 15 and 20k. I've been trying to buy solitude forever now, lol but I keep needing armor upgrades.

Why the title "too easy to make gold" instead of "How do you spend your gold?"

I think that would be much more interesting.

On my thief I always end up spending a large chunk of my gold on potions and alchemy ingredients.

My Bosmer throws it at people, because it does more damage than shooting them, apparently. Or maybe he's just been spending too much time getting drunk in Jorrvaskr. I dunno.

My Orc, on the other hand, is the richest man in Skyrim. No, in Tamriel. Besides, of course, the other prisoner that somehow managed to become god-hero of the entire province he spent his time in, despite being one of the 'lesser races'.

I haven't tried yet, is it possible to drop gold in Skyrim? know it was only possible through a mod in oblivion. One thing I did with my gold in morrowind was pave the floor of my house with it, mostly in stacks of a 100 to save time, coin-by-coin was a little too time consuming, but the overall effect was rather nice.

but anyway, on topic, yes, too much gold. Generally I try to pick up just about everything, and with perks and +carrying capacity armour, that's about 500 lbs of everything. Rather than let that stuff go to waste, I then set about selling it all. It does get annoying, usually have to end up fast travelling back and forth between 2 or three cities to sell it all (windhelm, solitude, and an optional one depending on where I'm headed next), but it gets rid of the items nicely. Anyway, yeah, i've got around 60k gold, and I do spend it on training and the odd house now and then.

Haha. You people think you got much money?
My Dunmer Assassin currently runs about with 160 thousand. I kid you not, no cheats and no crafting skills. Pure loot, dragonbone and quest reward gold.
I own the houses in Solitude, Whiterun, Markarth, Windhelm and Riften.

I got tired and made an Orc Barbarian instead, he's poor somehow.