what is the best way to make money?

Ideal Maxima · Post by **Ideal Maxima** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:38 pm

now i've herd many many many many many many many many many many many many ways to make money but the base of them all is either killing people or doin work for a guild now PLEASE DOES ANY1 NO HOW TO MAKE
E-Z MONEY!

Thank You

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:41 pm

Steal/soultrap/console.

Ideal Maxima · Post by **Ideal Maxima** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:45 pm

i tol u i dont want any hard ships... u no i jus want to get E-Z money i don wanna pay any fines or steal from any1 jus want the money ( that means i don wanna steal things and sell em

Maruchan · Post by **Maruchan** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:48 pm

I wod have to agree. I think a common soul gem and trap scamps and greater soul gem go to the merc. mud crab and sell I think he will buy that stuff if not go to the creeper thats what I do

HiRo11er · Post by **HiRo11er** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 5:49 pm

find a way into a greate house vault in vivec, loot it, and sell the goods to creeper or mudcrab. It'll get ya 100 k easily.
Selling the master alchemy equipment found in the caldera mage's guild to nalcarya in balmora will net you a a coupla thousand for starters...
Usually my first pit stop is the basement in the tower of dusk in ghostgate. The one guy has a heap of valuable glass armor on a shelf that's yours to steal, if you're good...

EDIT: That EZ money you're talking of? There are no piles of pure gold lying anywhere in the game. Only way to get a lot of cash is by selling, buying, and re-selling with the creeper or muddie... It's a long process, but with a nice payoff...

Anonononomous · Post by **Anonononomous** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:07 pm

There are piles of money lying around in that ne cave in Solsteim.

Rookierookie · Post by **Rookierookie** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 6:31 pm

Yeah. Even for my Lv 50 character that place was a treasure trove.
The cave of Northeast of the Skaal village and on an island. Best thing is that you only have to fight a few ricklings, boars, and berserkers to get there. No draugrs.

unregisturd · Post by **unregisturd** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 7:05 pm

There are tons of threads that give you detailed instructions on how to get money. BUT... You have to actually do something to get money. What most people are suggesting is not hard at all, if you took the time to look at it. Don't be too hasty in dismissing an idea... Lots of things are easier than they sound.

The easiest way to make money that I can think of is:

1. Buy the Summon Ancestor Ghost spell, find/buy many common soul gems.

2. Trap summon the Ancestor Ghost's soul in a common soul gem.

3. Sell the soul gem to Creeper in Caldera.

That's the easiest way I can think of. Another easy way is raiding shrines and selling all the plunder and loot to the Mudcrab.

Ideal Maxima · Post by **Ideal Maxima** » Fri Aug 20, 2004 8:40 pm

i no where to find the creeper but where do i find the mudcrab?

lifeishell91 · Post by **lifeishell91** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 3:04 am

[QUOTE=HiRo11er]find a way into a greate house vault in vivec, loot it, and sell the goods to creeper or mudcrab. It'll get ya 100 k easily.
Selling the master alchemy equipment found in the caldera mage's guild to nalcarya in balmora will net you a a coupla thousand for starters...
Usually my first pit stop is the basement in the tower of dusk in ghostgate. The one guy has a heap of valuable glass armor on a shelf that's yours to steal, if you're good...

EDIT: That EZ money you're talking of? There are no piles of pure gold lying anywhere in the game. Only way to get a lot of cash is by selling, buying, and re-selling with the creeper or muddie... It's a long process, but with a nice payoff...

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I would not raid a vault early in your game because the higher the level you are, the more profit you get from the vault.

I.e I you go there at lvl.1, you might find some ebony weapons, a piece of glass armour and 3K gold, but if you go at lvl.50, you will find ebony armour and weapons, glass armour and weapons, 30K gold and miscellaneous items (e.g. jewllery)

koz-ivan · Post by **koz-ivan** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 1:36 pm

[QUOTE=unregisturd]There are tons of threads that give you detailed instructions on how to get money. BUT... You have to actually do something to get money. What most people are suggesting is not hard at all, if you took the time to look at it. Don't be too hasty in dismissing an idea... Lots of things are easier than they sound.

The easiest way to make money that I can think of is:

1. Buy the Summon Ancestor Ghost spell, find/buy many common soul gems.

2. Trap summon the Ancestor Ghost's soul in a common soul gem.

3. Sell the soul gem to Creeper in Caldera.

That's the easiest way I can think of. Another easy way is raiding shrines and selling all the plunder and loot to the Mudcrab.[/QUOTE]

variation on a theme...

the shrine near caldera will respawn monsters, one of which is usually a bonelord, they also drop a soul gem (usually).

so you just keep killing & trapping them, then sell to creeper at 4k a pop.

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another means of creating an absolute hoard of cash, is alchemy.

most components are either found (free) or can be purchased for short money, brew some potions, and sell at a profit, or you could brew some int boosting potions, drink them, then brew some other potions and sell at a higher profit.

Opalescence · Post by **Opalescence** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 5:12 pm

YES! Alchemy is the WAY TO GO! And the great thing is, you can get a MASTER set of Alchemy gear (Retort, Mortar+Pestal, etc) at LVL 1 for FREE, with ZERO risk. All you have to do is go to Caldera's mage guild and go up the stairs. Right on the table is a set of 4 master alchemy things, free for the taking and nobody around to see you steal it. Mix away!

unregisturd · Post by **unregisturd** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 5:32 pm

Alchemy is a pain, especially if you don't have a high skill in it. I don't know what level you are, but if you're a high enough one, you could go to Ald Velothi and just keep running around in there killing all the Dremora Lords. I did that today. I killed at least 20 of them and piled all their weapons on the ground. I have several million worth of gold septims in my weapons, which I can easily sell the the Mudcrab.

Another way, you could get good at sneaking and security and go around robbing potion sellers. I've made a ton of money doing that. You know all those guys who have those 75 lock-level chests, and they're just full of potions... I've robbed tons of stores, and I sold all the potions to Nalcarya or White Haven (in Balmora.) She has 3k, and by selling everything to her, she's well-stocked whenever I go there to buy something.

ihatevideogames · Post by **ihatevideogames** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 5:44 pm

this is how i made hundreds of thousands of gold. ok go to vivic and taunt ordinators until they attack you then take all of their armor do this to as many as you can find then go to the mudcrab merchant by bal fel and sell stuff and sleep 24 hours for his 10000 to come back and keep on doing this and if you need more money just keep killing ordinators because guards respawn after a while

fable · Post by **fable** » Sat Aug 21, 2004 6:11 pm

At a certain point, though, these cheesy methods of getting enormous sums of gold relatively early in the game run up against a wall: just what are you going to spend it all on? I think we need another thread for that. Perhaps I'll start one.

Gromph · Post by **Gromph** » Mon Aug 23, 2004 9:40 pm

Where do u find the mudcrab?

and in responce to what do u spend it all on, make enchanted items, preferably ones that are constant effect

Dr. Seuss · Post by **Dr. Seuss** » Thu Aug 26, 2004 3:25 pm

[QUOTE=fable]At a certain point, though, these cheesy methods of getting enormous sums of gold relatively early in the game run up against a wall: just what are you going to spend it all on?[/QUOTE]

i agree that nothing is really worthy to purchase later on but i seem to always rack up a huge bill when i have to repair my armour and weapons.

hmmm maybe i should invest in my armorer skill

Lonelypilgrim · Post by **Lonelypilgrim** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 12:17 pm

Where is that mudcrab fellow???

Paranitis · Post by **Paranitis** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 12:28 pm

I stopped playing/uninstalled the game a couple months ago because I got bored.

I ended up having around a level 80 or so character and over 10 million gold at the time..I tended to have more..but I kept getting rid of it.

What you do is this..go to a daedric shrine and sleep..kill whatever wakes you up, and steal their glass/daedric items..then go sell the items to creeper or mudcrab. Easy millions right there.

Lonelypilgrim · Post by **Lonelypilgrim** » Thu Sep 09, 2004 12:35 pm

Could anyone just give me and gromph the answer?Where is the mudcrab?