Item Storage? Does more weight slow you down?

[MythTrip]

Ive joined the fighters guild, can I store my items safely in the storage chests in the the spare bedroom? I believe its downstairs, the one with the two beds, both have chests at their foot.

Also, am I slower when encumbered? In other words, am I twice as fast at 125/250 item weight/max capacity vs 250/250?

[quiescentCeez]

You can drop/place them on the floor. I just place my extra items besides the chest that they tell you can take the items in it or all over the top floor close to the quest giver. So long you dont do somethihng that the FG dont like you should have no prbs leaving your items there. They will not despawn.
As for the chests you refered too I never used them but i took stuff out of them and they never complained but then again im using MGSO3 mod so not sure if that changes anything.
You can always save and then test if they aggro on you.

Dont know the math but any weight will slow you down.
Over encumbered you wont be able to move.

FROM UESP:
http://en.uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Encumbrance

Encumbrance also has an effect on your Speed. In this case, it is the ratio of your Encumbrance to your maximum Encumbrance that determines how much you are slowed by what you are carrying. Thus, carrying 20 units of weight with a Strength of 30 (max: 150) will slow you twice as much as carrying the same 20 units with a Strength of 60 (max: 300).

[terror923]

more weight slows you down yes.

If you need places to store stuff people recommend corpses that dont disappear.

however i find the best place for me to store stuff is all the crates in balmora that are outside as they dont belong to any person, and they never reset.

[psychotron666]

You can literally drop things in a pile on the ground and they will never disappear or anything. Putting things into a stolen container will make that item count as stolen when you take it out, and a major flaw in the morrowind engine is if you steal a specific item, every other item like it will be considered stolen.

So you steal a diamond, every other diamond you find in game will be flagged stolen property and taken from you if you're paying bounty off to a guard.

So what I'm saying is its best not to put things in containers unless they aren't owned (like the ones in the balmora alleys). I recommend either just dumping into a pile until you get a stronghold from the great house quests, or going to the hlaalu manor in balmora and using the dead body there as storage (as unlike regular containers, a body holds unlimited stuff, isn't owned, and this specific body will never disappear, and any body that's put in game won't either, only bodies of people you kill will disappear).

[terror923]

if you do drop stuff on the ground make sure to not do it all in one place. i knew a guy that dropped like 100s of items in balmora mages guild and eventually he had to make a new game because his old one would crash due to all the items loading.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by terror923:

if you do drop stuff on the ground make sure to not do it all in one place. i knew a guy that dropped like 100s of items in balmora mages guild and eventually he had to make a new game because his old one would crash due to all the items loading.

Yeah Xbox version added in a overflow loot bag that would appear after so many items were dropped and anything you dropped in the cell would go into the loot bag when you reentered.

But yes if your computer isn't that good you don't wanna drop a million items in one spot.