Money

Lelio · Post by **Lelio** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 6:45 am

I was wondering how much money the average player earns during the game of Morrowind, as well as how much his items are worth that he/she has stored or put on display.

My character (level 47) is a thief mainly, has defeated Dagoth Ur, is Head Thief and leader of the Morag Tong. He is also high in the mages and the Imperial Legion. My character has 234400 in cash, and at least another million in items (i have packed my house ful with expensive stuff). Is this a decent amount for a character of this level? Or is it just me using the blessed mudcrab to its fullest?

SSRat · Post by **SSRat** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 8:49 am

700,000 + and counting

I have amassed quite a bit of loot. I don't have an extensive collection of items, i only keep the really good stuff but i had to take out a commoner in Balmora so I could use their house for excess storage (I filled the two chests in the Fighter's Guild). I need to join a house and get a stronghold.

BTW, I am somewhere between level 25 and 30. I run the Imperial Legion and am about to take over the Fighter's Guild.

I recently stored a lot of my good items and continued adventuring with minor loot to maintain a level of difficulty (I already had the bar set to 100).

Lelio · Post by **Lelio** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 1:09 pm

I have filled the plugin home Hoyaldi totally, and i still have more stuff.

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 1:23 pm

Money is a very flexible subject when talking about Morrowind.

First off-You dont really need that much of it. You train, you buy potions, you repair stuff. Thats about it. Stronghold costs a bit of money at the beginning, but thats about it.

Second off-It takes a lot of work to find venders with the proper amount of money, and raising and dropping prices takes a lot of work, not to mention carrying the stuff to begin with.

So lazy people like me get about 100k or less. Training is the only real useful thing to do and you shouldnt do it too much, cause thats the boring way to gain levels. Go out there kill some creatures, hack and slash and plunder the bad guy's loot, sometimes solving a problem, get a prize gets some nice items. Now thats what I call gaming.

Lelio · Post by **Lelio** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 1:37 pm

The wonderful mudcrab is the source of my wealth, should i sell the stuff i have collected (just tried it for fun before going back to a saved game before i did so) and got 4.2 million.

SSRat · Post by **SSRat** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 3:52 pm

@Tybaltus

Couldn't agree more. My wealth is a function of the game. I collect whatever I can from every quest and sell it to mudcrab.

There's no use for $700K at all. It kinda just happened that way w/o any special effort. It's hard not to buy skill increases though, so tempting. I limit myself to enchant and alchemy as I have no use for those skills until they are high level.

One quick question somewhat off subject:

I am trying to complete as many quests as possible (one reason i have so much money) outside the main quest and outside the House quests so I can save the game at that point and not have to restart entirely in order to try the three different houses. Is this going to make me much too powerful and make the house quests ridiculous?

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 4:00 pm

Re: @Tybaltus

Originally posted by SSRat
There's no use for $700K at all. It kinda just happened that way w/o any special effort. It's hard not to buy skill increases though, so tempting. I limit myself to enchant and alchemy as I have no use for those skills until they are high level.

One quick question somewhat off subject:

I am trying to complete as many quests as possible (one reason i have so much money) outside the main quest and outside the House quests so I can save the game at that point and not have to restart entirely in order to try the three different houses. Is this going to make me much too powerful and make the house quests ridiculous?

Its all good. Training is a good thing, just doing it excessively and avoiding quests because you train isnt good. One of my friends found some cheap way to get infinite money and all he does is train. Wheres the fun in that? There is none.

Ah, you are doing what I did with my mage-doing all the quests.

Well you cant join all 3 houses with 1 character. Only 1 house per character. The disadvantage for doing all the quests, is that if you wait for one guild for last, then the opening quests will be too easy and maybe even boring. I mean my mage was level 35-40 and then he joined the fighters guild. I dont think 4 rats (the first quest of the fighters guild) was much of a challenge for a level 30+ character, you know.

So if you plan to do all the quests and join a house I suggest balancing the quests and houses well, that will preserve the fun!

Was that the answer you were looking for? Or did I misread your question?

SSRat · Post by **SSRat** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 6:17 pm

? answered, thanks.

I was afraid of that. At this point, I'm going to do it anyway.

I won't join all 3 houses w/ the same game.

I'm going to save the game just prior to joining a house, finish the game, then go back to that save game and join the next house, etc.

Right now I'm doing Fgter, Thieves, Mage, Imperial Guard, and Temple quests.

Tybaltus · Post by **Tybaltus** » Wed Sep 11, 2002 7:48 pm

Re: ? answered, thanks.

Originally posted by SSRat

Right now I'm doing Fgter, Thieves, Mage, Imperial Guard, and Temple quests.

Sounds good. Have fun!

Lelio · Post by **Lelio** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 7:06 am

The problem of starting new quests after a certain point in the game is that often you have met/killed the people you are meaning to meet or kill already, as part of another quest or just in passing. It makes it all a bit confusing.

Obike Fixx · Post by **Obike Fixx** » Thu Sep 12, 2002 3:15 pm

I had about 250000 Septims\Drakes (Can't remember which is the correct).

FRAGZILLA · Post by **FRAGZILLA** » Tue Jan 27, 2004 1:14 pm

I completely disagree that not having cash is a good thing. I have amassed over 1.2mil plus a couple mil in treasure. Cash is great for Expensive Enchantments, until your skill is 90-100 why take the risk. Also good for training and bribing to your hearts content. In my opinion, having too much is always better than not enough. You never need to conserve as you'll never run out! Want a hundred Summon Golden Saint Scrolls... no problem! Want to buy a 100lbs of Void dust and Frost Salts to make potions... no problem. Want to train all your skills to 100... no problem. Want to make 20 CE items.. no problem. Anyway, you get the point. Cash is good.

Monolith · Post by **Monolith** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 1:42 pm

hey Fragzilla, editing your chara and giving him 100 to every skill and attribute, and giving him the best weapons wouldn't be that much effort...
in my opinion it's all the same....c-h-e-a-t-i-n-g

I edited the game a bit, so I won't get THAT much ca$h for the loot, and also I only take the things I can use or which really seem to be very valuable. So I don't grab every heavy armor I can find lieing around in abandoned caves, I don't pack my inventory full with furniture and I don't walk around and pick every mushroom I can find...
And joining every guide is something I really dislike...when I played the first time I did exactly that but now all I am is a thieves guild and hopefully soon a Morag Tong Member.
So with my level 2 character I'm walking around with about 400 septimes and hell yea, now I really got a reason to do all the quests...

FRAGZILLA · Post by **FRAGZILLA** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 2:56 pm

I didn't 'edit' anything as I am on an XBOX so it's quite impossible unlike you computer folks who can edit til the game suits your peticular style. I simply used the methods that the game provides and earned everything legit. I killed, completed missions and pillaged for loot and used my skills and paid for training to advance them so I don't see how this is cheating. Compared to games like HALO, Desert Storm 2 and KotoR, this game, though much longer, is easy even at difficulty 100.

Grand Master of...
Quake 3
Age of Kings
Halo
Desert Storm 2
KotoR
D&D Heros
soon to be Morrowind

Locutus · Post by **Locutus** » Wed Jan 28, 2004 10:03 pm

i like to profit from the game's (sometimes) narrow rules....
....if u ever need a handfull of coin,try to kill almalexia's Hands (they just stand there when u finish the main tribunal quest,and they still don wanna talk...i was compelled to make them move

)
,every bit of their equip is 10k+(there are 5 of them...do tha math) ...luckly,theres an armorer with 10k in great bazaar nearby....

ScionOfNerevar · Post by **ScionOfNerevar** » Thu Jan 29, 2004 2:01 pm

there are prized artifacts in the game that are worth a lot and in tribunal, the museum of artifacts buys them for half price up until 30,000 Gold. So having Umbra Sword which is 110000 is 30000 to the museum and a 30000 sword is 15 and they buy the boots of blinding speed for 250.

Locutus · Post by **Locutus** » Fri Jan 30, 2004 7:21 am

the Great Imoral: sell it to the museum and then steal it and sell it again (an armorer in great bazaar has 10k)