How do you long time Skyrim people deal with all the extra inventory?

[Win2000Fan]

I know that I have a lot of hours in this game but I have been away for quite a while. I forgot how all the inventory can be a weight and burden problem, as I make everything. How do you more experienced players deal with this best? What do you do with gear that ends up selling for more than what most merchants have on hand? Do you just take the loss or is there another way that I have not found or discovered? Last, I would like to address this W/O a mod please.

[Sairek Ceareste]

Mods— Oh. Um, okay.


Console commands then, I guess. Or just be picky with what you grab. Eventually you'll have more than enough gold than you know what to do with.

[ihoujin.]

Store things in one of your houses and sell from time to time when vendors have restocked their money.

Or buy stuff like great/grand soulgems or alchemy ingredients to fill their pockets so they then can buy your gear off you.

[theo]

Deal with hoarding habits first and things will sort out themselves

[Skumboni]

Check out the mod 'Legacy of the Dragonborn' it gives you a museum to display a lot of stuff, a great player house with all the crafting stations,and a few quests. And it gives you gold every week that goes up the more stuff on display.

[Quevik]

If you're insistent on the "no mods" thing, the best way to handle the situation is to "wait" 48 hours in game (T on keyboard). Takes maybe 10 seconds on a decent computer. Merchant inventory and gold will reset and you can sell them more gear.

Edit: If it's a single item worth more than the merchants entire starting gold, i either buy something from them first (thus giving them more gold to purchase my item), or just sell it for the cap they have.

[Pumachug]

That is why I end up investing in property. Put one handed weapons in one house, two handed at another. And the huge heap of ingredients in another. Horders heaven. Three houses to litter.

[Ruenis]

Gain the "Merchant" perk at Speech level 50, the "Investor" perk at Speech level 70, and the "Fence" perk at Speech level 90, and boost merchants' gold by 500 while also having done them what's called a "favor" that boosts your disposition with them, letting you take higher value items for free that belong to them, on top of "Merchant" and "Fence" allowing you to sell anything to anyone even if it's stolen, so you get more money plus benefits.

If your gear and items are so ridiculously high in value that they take ALL of a merchant's gold, i.e., you've already done what I said in my first statement, you'll just have to bite the bullet and take what they offer you since you don't want to use mods to highly boost merchants' available gold. The "Investor" Speech level 70 perk is the ONLY way to get extra money out of merchants, save for the exploit where you save your game, kill the merchant, reload, and their gold is restocked. I suggest you do that if there's a merchant you've already sold items to that you want the maximum profit from, but this won't account for single items with ridiculously high monetary value, so you're stuck maximizing your profit in one sitting.

CoughthemodcalledRichSkyrimMerchantscough...

[Ruenis]

Originally posted by Ruenis:

while also having done them what's called a "favor" that boosts your disposition with them, letting you take higher value items for free that belong to them

It's accumulative. For example, you retrieve Lucan's golden claw, then invest in his shop. At first for retrieving his claw he would allow you to freely take items worth below 25 gold from all over his shop, even upstairs, and even straight off his shop shelves (free Potions of Minor Healing!). Investing in his shop as a second favor would boost that value to 50.

Yes, Skyrim has a disposition system. It's simple, but it works. People love, really like, like, are indifferent to, or dislike, really dislike, or even hate you, and there are 4 levels on both ends of the spectrum.

https://en.uesp.net/wiki/Skyrim:Disposition

[Win2000Fan]

Thanks for taking the time to answer so far.

[bugscout]

Adura's Merchant Mod (SSE Port)

[Ruenis]

Forgot to mention that the "Master Trader" Speech level 100 perk instantly increases all merchants available gold by 1000.

[sdack]

There is a mod called Rich Skyrim Merchants. As the name says, it makes the merchants rich, meaning, they have more gold to trade with and one can sell more loot without having to run around and find one with gold.

https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrimspecialedition/mods/1772

However, selling gets to a point where it is a waste of time. When one has everything or does not need anything then storing it away is quicker and easier than selling it for gold.

Having a mod like SkyUI, which lets one sort the inventory by name, value, weight, and value per weight(!) is another good help. Simply do not pick up what weighs too much and is of too little value. Eventually will one pick up only individual loot and not hoard everything. It starts with what one picks up.

[Yellowbeard]

"Khajiit has grand soul gems if you have a load of loot...great ones such as yourself find themselves at the enchanting table eventually." - Ri'saad's father's father

[Seekrt]

I take the opportunity to trade instead of just selling. So, if the merchant has expensive stuff I want to get, I guy it and sell him my overhead. I end up with stuff I needed for free,
Most especially enchanted stuff I can disenchant to use later.

[Death Approaches]

what's that meme from the '90s where it's an an adventurer in warrior armour carrying a insanely large loot sack bigger than him, bristling with items and weapons, there's always more loot...

if you really want to solve it w/o mods, go to your favourite house, let's say whiterun, lots of close-by merchants... turn on no clipping ('tcl') and look just below the floor under them, say the bow hunter's bar right across the street from your front door.

Hey what's that chest down here? That good sir, is the store's inventory chest. Tag it in console, and do 'additem f 100000' 'additem f # - where # is 32767 minus the amount the store has, so you don't exceed 32k) - there ya go, he's not the richest merchant in history but you can sell a lot of low-end crap or a few high-end pieces.

Well, there's that weapon and armor vendor neighbor right next door. lemme give them the gift of mystery gold pixies, too. Keep going til you're satisfied you have enough nearby richie riches to sell to.

Now, just forget you did it, they earned that money with shrewd business and bad math at giving change.