GusTavToo

Anyone know where I might acquire a cheap house in Skyrim?

I'm still in Whiterun but don't have the cash for the house there. Is there
anywhere else with a cheaper shack where I can stash my smithing and
enchanting stuff?

I could do with not carrying it around to leave more space for loot.

Gus.
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Kendrick Kerwin Chua

In article <1658044183347298612.515390GusTavToo-clasf.org.invalid@news.eternal-september.org>,
GusTavToo <GusTavToo@clasf.org.invalid> wrote:
>Anyone know where I might acquire a cheap house in Skyrim?
>
>I'm still in Whiterun but don't have the cash for the house there. Is there
>anywhere else with a cheaper shack where I can stash my smithing and
>enchanting stuff?
>
>I could do with not carrying it around to leave more space for loot.

At 5,000 Septims, the Breezehome in Whiterun is the cheapest house and the
most well-equiped for the price. Other houses in Skyrim start at 8,000 and
lack one or two of the options of the Whiterun property in exchange for
some other feature.

There are some areas that look like dungeons or war faction headquarters
that are in fact habitable, but the game goes out of its way not to
indicate this to the player. There is the house in Markarth that you can
live in, but there's an annoying quest that you have to complete to get
all the old tenants out.

-KKC, whose painkillers are now wearing off.
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hurricanepilot

GusTavToo wrote:

> Anyone know where I might acquire a cheap house in Skyrim?

Whiterun is the cheapest house IIRC

> I'm still in Whiterun but don't have the cash for the house there. Is there
> anywhere else with a cheaper shack where I can stash my smithing and
> enchanting stuff?

Try not to leave stuff anywhere that you don't own as the game will
reset containers after about a month.

You could join the college of winterhold, as that gives you a sort of
dormitory room...I'm not sure if it's considered an owned dwelling by
the player though, and as such you may lose your stuff when the game
containers cycle. I know for sure that the few items that are there to
start with get restocked occasionally, so it's reasonably likely.

There's at least one other way of getting a free dwelling, but again I'm
not sure if it's just use of the dwelling or full ownership. It would
also involve spoilers.

> I could do with not carrying it around to leave more space for loot.

By the time you get to the point where buying a house is affordable, the
stuff you're carrying around will be affordable as well most likely.

I'm at the point now where I simply don't pick up loot unless it's worth
more than a grand or is a gem of some sort.

gospvg

GusTavToo <GusTavToo@clasf.org.invalid> wrote:
> Anyone know where I might acquire a cheap house in Skyrim?
>
> I'm still in Whiterun but don't have the cash for the house there. Is there
> anywhere else with a cheaper shack where I can stash my smithing and
> enchanting stuff?
>
> I could do with not carrying it around to leave more space for loot.
>

Get yourself 5000 coins and use the glitch to get the whiterun house for
free

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GusTavToo

gospvg <address_is@invalid.invalid> wrote:
> GusTavToo <GusTavToo@clasf.org.invalid> wrote:
>> Anyone know where I might acquire a cheap house in Skyrim?
>>
>> I'm still in Whiterun but don't have the cash for the house there. Is there
>> anywhere else with a cheaper shack where I can stash my smithing and
>> enchanting stuff?
>>
>> I could do with not carrying it around to leave more space for loot.
>>
>
> Get yourself 5000 coins and use the glitch to get the whiterun house for
> free

It's getting the 5,000 together that's the problem. I'm aware of the
'exploit' ;-)

As I've gone down the heavy armour route and I'm doing a fair bit of
smithing I don't have much room to carry back stuff to sell.

Even then I only get a price less than a third of their base value :-(

Cheers for the tips guys I'll keep saving!

Gus.
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gospvg

GusTavToo <GusTavToo@clasf.org.invalid> wrote:

> It's getting the 5,000 together that's the problem. I'm aware of the
> 'exploit' ;-)
>
> As I've gone down the heavy armour route and I'm doing a fair bit of
> smithing I don't have much room to carry back stuff to sell.
>
> Even then I only get a price less than a third of their base value :-(
>
> Cheers for the tips guys I'll keep saving!
>

I found it quite easy to collect 5000 by visiting bandit camps and selling
all loot I could find. Do you have a follower with you?

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GusTavToo

gospvg <address_is@invalid.invalid> wrote:

> I found it quite easy to collect 5000 by visiting bandit camps and selling
> all loot I could find. Do you have a follower with you?

Yep, I fear that Lydia shall be my pack horse from now on.

I'm currently quite pleased with myself. I just managed to Soul Trap a
Sabre-Toothed Cat (my 1st Lesser Soul). It'll be interesting to see if that
boosts my next enchantment.

Gus.
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gospvg

GusTavToo <GusTavToo@clasf.org.invalid> wrote:

> Yep, I fear that Lydia shall be my pack horse from now on.
>
> I'm currently quite pleased with myself. I just managed to Soul Trap a
> Sabre-Toothed Cat (my 1st Lesser Soul). It'll be interesting to see if that
> boosts my next enchantment.
>

I've been trying to soul trap some bandits but it keeps saying I do not
have a large enough soul gem? Even though I have a spare greater soul gem?

I now have quite a few empty soul gems and will experiment on filling them
up.

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Kendrick Kerwin Chua

In article <512246339347306505.783382address_is-invalid.invalid@news.eternal-september.org>,
gospvg <address_is@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>GusTavToo <GusTavToo@clasf.org.invalid> wrote:
>
>> Yep, I fear that Lydia shall be my pack horse from now on.
>>
>> I'm currently quite pleased with myself. I just managed to Soul Trap a
>> Sabre-Toothed Cat (my 1st Lesser Soul). It'll be interesting to see if that
>> boosts my next enchantment.
>>
>
>I've been trying to soul trap some bandits but it keeps saying I do not
>have a large enough soul gem? Even though I have a spare greater soul gem?

Sentient beings can't be soul trapped through normal means. You must
employ darker arts.

-KKC, whose day somehow filled with meetings.
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gospvg

Kendrick Kerwin Chua <kendrick@nospam.io-nyc> wrote:
> In article
> <512246339347306505.783382address_is-invalid.invalid@news.eternal-september.org>,

> Sentient beings can't be soul trapped through normal means. You must
> employ darker arts.
>

Ok thanks i will stick with animals for now


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