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[Scklyic]

I'm at almost 200,000 no enchanting, no smithing, no alchemy. Just exploring the hell out of Skyrim and selling all the stuff in those big chests

[Matth85]

I started chucking all my gems into the trough in my Windhelm living room. It's filling up disturbingly fast even without that perk. Skyrim can probably payroll a campaign of world conquest just by clearing out every dungeon in the province and building a gem mountain somewhere in the plains west of Whiterun.

Skyrim is broken after a Civil War and the attack of Alduin.
The Thalmor attacks, almost conquering the whole province.
They get close to Whiterun, but see a big glimps of light to the west.
The first to arrive gasp at a mountain of gems, worth enough to turn Skyrim into the new capital of Tamriel.
On the top Dovahkiin sits, looking down with a innocent look.
He looks the Thalmor general deep into the eyes, and say: "...what?".

Yup. I totally see that as the outcome of the Thalmor invasion.

On topic, I do agree. I ended up with more gems, and dragon bones, that I needed. It really becomes botherfull to sit on 200-500k gold after buying everything worth buying.
Oh well, gems are pretty either way!

Edited by Matth85, 04 January 2012 - 01:44 PM.

[thesapien]

Short answer.
Steal everything
Smith everything
Enchant Everything

Get your talking up to 100 so you can take the perk to give every merchant an extra 1000gold.
Or console yourself the gold upfront and save the running around.

Wouldn't that also make for tougher enemies? They often level up as you do. So if you don't specialize and level up everything, then expect harder combat. Even just selling all that stuff levels you up. Can speechcraft help you in a fight? Maybe. Just some words of caution for those wanting it all.

[ripvanwinkle111]

I'm not sure how everyone else missed this exploit.

If you still have stuff to sell after the merchants run out of money, you can

Spoiler

Save your game and exit to the desktop.
When you reload your game, the merchants will have a new set of gold and items.
This includes alchemy ingredients and smithing supplies.

[AnzacTNF]

I'm not sure how everyone else missed this exploit.

If you still have stuff to sell after the merchants run out of money, you can

Spoiler

Save your game and exit to the desktop.
When you reload your game, the merchants will have a new set of gold and items.
This includes alchemy ingredients and smithing supplies.

I've found that out a few days ago too - after more than 100 hours game play. Just save and reload doesn't work, which is really weird.

[thesapien]

I'm not sure how everyone else missed this exploit.

If you still have stuff to sell after the merchants run out of money, you can

Spoiler

Save your game and exit to the desktop.
When you reload your game, the merchants will have a new set of gold and items.
This includes alchemy ingredients and smithing supplies.

But I can't. I mean, I probably could if I tried, but I just can't do that.

[Feanoro]

You can just wait 2 days for respawn prices. Alternatively you can just visit places with fences (4k gold) after you finish upgrading the thieves guild. Money limits aren't so bad: Ragged Flagon in Riften has 4k from Tonilia another 3.3K on average from the other weapon/armor merchants and 800 or so from the alchemy merchant.

Windhelm is also pretty good as you've got Niranye, the sexy high elf female fence that loves buying stuff from you (she keeps telling me to bring more stuff to her) to a limit of 4k, plus the Smith and the White Phial shop just next to her (with a 1k limit each).

Though as a traditionalist I still love Whiterun with its 3 smith shops, archery shop, alchemy and belethor's. And you've got a house in the middle of all this to boot!

[ripvanwinkle111]

@thesapien

Well, if you get the perk that lets you invest in merchants, Lucan at the Riverwood trader is bugged and will increase his merchant gold to 12k instead of going up 500 gold.

Might have been patched already.

[thesapien]

ripvanwinkle11, but to get that perk, gosh, that's a lot of leveling in something that doesn't help my character in a fight. I do want to try it with a new character someday. Right now, tho, my character tries to avoid any leveling out of focus. If my enemies didn't level up with my character, it would be a whole other game. It's definitely a way to make the game harder for those who prefer tougher enemies.

[thesapien]

Shoot, I won't even read a skill book unless I know for certain it's among my specialties.

Anyone else playing in a way that avoids a lot of leveling, like trying not to get rich? I'm often just looting for gold from fallen enemies but leaving everything else so that I don't have to sell it using speechcraft.