The OFFICIAL Anandtech Forums TeS V: Skyrim Thread

[VulgarDisplay]

I think the amount of gold a vendor has should increase if you keep trading with them. It would make sense that my steady trade with Belethor would increase his business. I bring him tons of unique weapons/armor/items and a lot of other goods yet he still only has 750G every time I go there. Sometimes I will give him 100s of G worth of items even when he has no gold, just so I can clear up some inventory space.

It would also be nice if he would stop being so sarcastic every time I leave. "Dooo come baaaack". I've basically made this guy one of the richest men in Whiterun because of my business, yet he treats me like shit. His shop also opens/closes at weird times. Some days he doesn't open until noon. Must be nice.

If you wait for 48 hours in game he will get all his money back so you can sell more stuff to him.

 

[MustangSVT]

now I dont pick up anything less than 1lb to 20gold ratio. And my partner carries quite alot. I'm still waiting for better storage/sell interface and a satchel on a horse.

Hmmm it would be nice to own a carrier or ride a dragon.

 

[KentState]

What's the point of gold anyways after a certain point? I really wish that merchants had really expensive unique weapons, but everything I made and enchanted is better and there is plenty of ore to mine, herbs to collect and animals to skin and get meat.

 

[VulgarDisplay]

Having money helps to level alchemy, smithing, and enchanting. It also helps you wind up on the next episode of 'Cribs of Tamriel.'

I've basically only used money to buy training in stuff I'm not good at now, just trying to round out my character.

Kinda disappointed I didn't learn about the ebony mail before deciding to go light armor. Truly the best looking armor with the coolest enchantment in the game.

 

[MustangSVT]

where can you learn(pay for) enchantment skills?

 

[Locut0s]

I'm guessing Dragon Armour is heavy. Anyone know for sure?

 

[Matthiasa]

Dragon armor and be either light or heavy but for heavy deadric armor is better but only just barely.

Related, my mage now has deadric armor.

 

[HybridSquirrel]

I'm guessing Dragon Armour is heavy. Anyone know for sure?

there is a heavy and a light armor version

 

[Imp]

where can you learn(pay for) enchantment skills?

Total waste of money.

Jsut get an assload of steel/iron daggers (all bandits have them), and enchanted a weapon with a 1 second soul trap plus buy lots of gems. The Banish Daedra enchantment is worth a few hundred gold on weapons, and you only need like 10 (out of my ass - but not that many) to level Enchantment.

Enchant and Smithing were total level whores for me until I maxed them.

Alchemy is a bitch though. I can make 50 potions and only level 2 or so levels.

 

[coldmeat]

Rich Merchant mod...look into it.

I don't want to mod the game and change it from the way they intended on my first play through. I was just saying that it would make sense that if my character sold most of his shit to 1 guy, that guy would make sure he had more gold available for me.

 

[Martimus]

I'm guessing Dragon Armour is heavy. Anyone know for sure?

http://elderscrolls.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_armor

It comes in both varieties, but that page gives all the details for you.

 

[homercles337]

I don't want to mod the game and change it from the way they intended on my first play through. I was just saying that it would make sense that if my character sold most of his shit to 1 guy, that guy would make sure he had more gold available for me.

I wasnt disagreeing with your idea, just providing a solution. Im a solutions guy. Here is another solution: Start with the well-off merchant mod, then later upgrade to the rich merchant mod, then do the wealthy merchant mod.

 

[MustangSVT]

Total waste of money.

Jsut get an assload of steel/iron daggers (all bandits have them), and enchanted a weapon with a 1 second soul trap plus buy lots of gems. The Banish Daedra enchantment is worth a few hundred gold on weapons, and you only need like 10 (out of my ass - but not that many) to level Enchantment.

Enchant and Smithing were total level whores for me until I maxed them.

Alchemy is a bitch though. I can make 50 potions and only level 2 or so levels.

well, I have like 70k and have nothing to buy..

 

[VulgarDisplay]

well, I have like 70k and have nothing to buy..

Buy houses.

 

[PrayForDeath]

Buy houses.

I don't see the point in buying any more houses beyond Breeze home. It's close to the teleport, and has plenty of containers. Why buy more?

 

[Madia]

I don't see the point in buying any more houses beyond Breeze home. It's close to the teleport, and has plenty of containers. Why buy more?

The home in riften is also close to the teleport and also can be upgraded with an enchanting laboratory. It's perfect if you're in the thieves' guild. The only other home I would buy is the one in Solitude if I wanted and uber home.

 

[Painman]

I don't see the point in buying any more houses beyond Breeze home. It's close to the teleport, and has plenty of containers. Why buy more?

...Because, if you like to enchant, you have to jog/fast travel up to Dragonsreach and listen to the insipid court wizard Farengar prattle at you every single fucking time? You don't see the value in having an enchanting station in your own home, with containers full of the relevant materials nearby?

I like Whiterun, because it's central, and because there are 4 armor/weapon dealers in town, and one of them never closes (Drunken Huntsman). But money becomes stupid after a while, just like it does in every other Bethesda open world game. I racked up 100K, and now I'm basically running from hold to hold and becoming Thane of each one, and buying the house if applicable. There's only the Windhelm house left to buy, and I've still got over 70K in liquid assets.

Don't even ask what my "misc" barrel at Breezehome is worth... my Smithing is at 100 already even via self-found-only material, and that container must contain literally tons of shit that I no longer need. Mostly Dwarven metal ingots. That shit is actually more common than Steel, which is required for every single Dwarven forging operation, along with Iron and Leather.

I'm moving into Proudspire, and I'm grabbing a mod that adds full smithing capabilities to the house, as well as half decent quarters for the Housecarl. I think it's odd that the vanilla house (the priciest in the game) gives your Housecarl no better quarters than a bedroll in a musty old storeroom.

 

[KentState]

There is an Enchanting station in Whiterun that is out in the open on the west side of town behind the merchant stands. Much more convenient that going to Dragonsearch.

 

[you2]

In whiterun i stuck and enchatning station in the house; actually finding places to enchnat have never been an issue. Hum. Finding dragons is still an issue; only seen 4 or 5 and I think i'm getting really close to the end (nearly level 60).

 

[Painman]

There is an Enchanting station in Whiterun that is out in the open on the west side of town behind the merchant stands. Much more convenient that going to Dragonsearch.

Huh? Don't think so. Unless you added it via a mod and forgot about it.

 

[Beev]

I like having houses because I like to use my imagination regarding them and the world I'm playing in. More houses is more prestige. I just wish I could decorate them. Whenever you place a foreign object anywhere within a house it never stays where you put it because when the house loads it's interior again it has your objects floating, so they just drop and clutter up the house. Very sad.

 

[Painman]

In whiterun i stuck and enchatning station in the house; actually finding places to enchnat have never been an issue. Hum. Finding dragons is still an issue; only seen 4 or 5 and I think i'm getting really close to the end (nearly level 60).

It's possible to ditch them. I ditched them by getting the Horn of Jurgen Windcaller from Delphine, and then leaving her sucking dust at the inn. I took it to High Hrothgar, learned Fus Ro Dah, then left the MQ.

I didn't see any more dragons until I followed Delphine to Kynesgrove and I saw what took place there.

After that, Dragons would show up anywhere. I'm lvl 42 now. There Still Be Dragons.

 

[homercles337]

I like having houses because I like to use my imagination regarding them and the world I'm playing in. More houses is more prestige. I just wish I could decorate them. Whenever you place a foreign object anywhere within a house it never stays where you put it because when the house loads it's interior again it has your objects floating, so they just drop and clutter up the house. Very sad.

Prestige? Prestige among a collection of poorly programmed NPCs? Really?

On the objects within your house, i discovered this early on when i dropped an enchanted amulet in Breezeway only to have it be gone when i went to retrieve it later. The "feature" that your personal home "resets" is clearly a bug.

 

[ArizonaSteve]

New patch just came down via Steam. Looks like it's the executable only. I wonder if this has the official LAA support. Any easy way to tell?

 

[Beev]

Prestige? Prestige among a collection of poorly programmed NPCs? Really?

The purpose of the game is roleplaying, hence the genre. I just like to do it wholly. If you're just playing to beat up some enemies and win the game then why bother? And it isn't prestige for the NPC's to notice, it's for me to use in my imagination with my character when I play, nothing more.