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Elder Scrolls V - Skyrim

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I spent WAY too much time today earning enough money to buy the house in Solitude ($25,000).

Finally made it with $2 to spare, bought the house. It is huge but now I have to save up an additional $12,000 to furnish it and make it nice. Oh well, I guess I have something to do for the next few nights.

When it is furnished that place is going to be legit and will totally increase my enjoyment of the rest of the game. Dragon bight my head off as I'm randomly running around? Oh well, I still live in a pimped out mansion thank you very much.

Ah, video games...
 
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Buckeye86;2084663; said:
I spent WAY too much time today earning enough money to buy the house in Solitude ($25,000).

Finally made it with $2 to spare, bought the house. It is huge but now I have to save up an additional $12,000 to furnish it and make it nice. Oh well, I guess I have something to do for the next few nights.

When it is furnished that place is going to be legit and will totally increase my enjoyment of the rest of the game. Dragon bight my head off as I'm randomly running around? Oh well, I still live in a pimped out mansion thank you very much.

Ah, video games...
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Why did you not take advantage of the free house glitch?
 
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OneBuckeye;2084745; said:
Why did you not take advantage of the free house glitch?
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#1 because I didn't know about it nor care to know about it

#2 because taking advantage of "glitches" like that takes the enjoyment out of games for me... they're called glitches because they are not supposed to be there

now if you will excuse me, I have to go raid same caves and fortresses, sell some weapons and armor, chop some wood, pick some flowers and make some potions, and do various other time consuming things in order to make some money to furnish my new mansion
 
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The free house glitch is the only glitch I have taken advantage of. It is so hard to sell my shit and make money, because the vendors only carry 1k in gold. I am working to get the fences up to 4k, I don't want to invest in speech, it seems like a waste in investments right now.
 
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OneBuckeye;2084767; said:
The free house glitch is the only glitch I have taken advantage of. It is so hard to sell my shit and make money, because the vendors only carry 1k in gold. I am working to get the fences up to 4k, I don't want to invest in speech, it seems like a waste in investments right now.
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Agreed on the speech perks being a waste of skill points, same with lock picking.

My "spent way too much time" comment was directed more at the sad state of affairs in which I had so much time to devote to a video game (although in my defense it was on a Sunday) rather than me being upset at the game for being tedious or anything like that.

My strategy was to get the house in Whiterun as soon as possible and hoard a bunch of stuff so that I had a huge stockpile to sell by the time I was ready to buy the house in Solitude.

I found that fast traveling between several of the cities took long enough that the gold reserve for the vendors was generally replenished without having to wait around too much.
 
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Merchant cash on hand is more realistic in this game. It was kinda absurd in Oblivion that nobody had enough cash to buy a single Daedric Warhammer from you without taking a big haircut on the price, but they could buy infinite Daedric Daggers at full price as long as you did them one at a time. Money got out of hand really fast in that game.

The nice thing about the new system is that when you buy from a merchant it adds that gold to their total on hand, so I avoid the cash limitations by doing more bartering. Unlike Oblivion where merchants had very little useful stuff on hand, Skyrim merchants have a lot of useful enchanted items, soul gems and other crafting materials. If a merchant starts with 800 gold and I have a ton of stuff to sell them, I might buy 3000 worth of raw materials and sell them 3800 in loot. Then the things you barter for can be used to level other areas by using them to create potions, weapons, armor, jewelery, or to enchant items or transmute ores. You level those skills in the process, and you turn around and sell those things to recover some of the gold you lose in the original barter. The additional transactions help you level speech a little faster too. I have it down to a pretty efficient routine at this point.

Breezehome in Skyrim has proven to be a very useful trading post and base of operation. There's a mage, an alchemist, a general merchant, two smiths and a fletcher. Getting to each location is pretty straightforward and most of it is close to the house and the city's gate. Even though I've also bought the house in Solitude and have "moved" there, the storage options kinda suck in that house and there isn't a forge near so I've kept most of my crafting and trading stuff at Breezehome.

I don't stockpile much at all. I pretty much only keep materials and stuff that I can't craft for myself. The rest of it gets sold or bartered right away. Because of the way I like to play, I don't want to spend an entire afternoon traveling from city to city selling an entire stockpile. When I finish a quest or become too encumbered, I go back to town and start selling.
 
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Now that I am a master dagger maker. All the magic stuff I hoarded is going to get improved and usually improves the pice by 3 so. i have liek 160k in lifetime earnings, yet I only have one house and 20k currently on me. I burn through coin pretty easy in this game, because the merchants are so valuable. Also training alchemy was a a killer.
 
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:lol: holy shit, I play this game like such a n00b

Whenever I start collecting multiple items of value I usually hoard, save the game, drop the all my stuff I don't want to see in a city/camp site location, then fast travel to Whiterun to sell around the merchants.

I'm still early in though (just bought Breezehome; haven't been to Solitude) so I think I'll use some of your tips, jlb
 
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Just stumbled onto this thread. Got this for Christmas. Level 10 Nord so far. I had just started Witcher II, but wanted to see what this was going to be like. Never played any of TES games prior, but a long time PC gamer. Looks like it's going to be awhile before I get back to Witcher II. This game is a life-eater.
 
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jlb1705;2084867; said:
Breezehome in Skyrim has proven to be a very useful trading post and base of operation. There's a mage, an alchemist, a general merchant, two smiths and a fletcher. Getting to each location is pretty straightforward and most of it is close to the house and the city's gate. Even though I've also bought the house in Solitude and have "moved" there, the storage options kinda suck in that house and there isn't a forge near so I've kept most of my crafting and trading stuff at Breezehome.
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Breezehome was my main base for quite awhile too, but after becomming part of the Thieves Guild and finishing that quest line I've moved operations to Riften. Thats where the money is, it's so easy to unload excess loot. If you've completed the Thieves Guild then Riften has the potential of 4 Blacksmiths/Armor vendors, 1 Fletcher, 1 Pawn Shop, 2 Alchemists, 1 Jewelry Vendor, a Fence with a potential of 5000 in cash for anything and everything including stolen items, and I think a few miscellaneous food/booze vendors with small cash. It wasn't long before I racked up 200k in cash with all houses and furnishings bought (I didn't exploit those either). Theres no Smelter there for ore, but I'm so stocked on ingots now it doesn't really matter.
 
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OneBuckeye;2084745; said:
Why did you not take advantage of the free house glitch?
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I'm with Buckeye86. I don't use any glitches in the game, it just takes away from the experience for me. The only thing that I do that could be considered cheating is that I ramp up my carryweight to 3000 using the console. It doesn't help me win any fights or really make me any more coin than I would normally, it just saves time. If I didn't increase my carryweight I would still clear out entire dungeons and take every valuable I find, I would just have to do it in several trips. I'm a hoarder like that and I've got to milk every septim I can. I don't find that several trips back and forth from a dungeon adds to my gameplay experience, hence why I bump it up to 3000. I suppose I could bypass the console completely and just load it all onto my companion, but this just takes one step out of the process.
 
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