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Originally posted by Happy Monkey
Also, it wasn't really that easy to make tons of money - it was easy to get tons of valuable stuff, but it was incredibly tedious to get tons of money.
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Depends on how irritating you found the Creeper Shuffle to be. Translation:
1) Gather goodies.
2) Recall to Creeper's location.
3) Sell one 5K+ item.
4) Rest for 24 hours.
5) Repeat until goodies are sold.
If you cared about getting full value for your items, yeah, it could get ridiculous at times. (One Ordinator's haul was worth 30K+, with two items that exceeded Creeper's 5K cap and thus required some creative bartering.) Lots of people hacked Creeper to have a 100K max, but I didn't bother doing that. Really, there was no major reason not to -- little (if anything) in the game was time-critical, so cutting out 19 redundant selling days would've been harmless.
Come to think of it... what would've been NEAT would be if Creeper's and other sellers' cash DIDN'T spontaneously recharge daily, or at least not all at once. You could sell lots of items to lots of buyers, leave them with shiny items and no money, and cripple the local cash-based economy.
Or enter some generic Pawnbroker's shop and say "This Daedric Katana is worth more than everything you're selling combined. I'll trade it for YOUR STORE." He takes the sword and leaves, and you have a new business...
My favorite shopkeeper trick was nasty as hell -- enchant a piece of armor with Damage Health 1 Point, On Self, Constant Effect. Sell it to Shopkeeper X. Since it's better make than what he had on already, he puts on the armor; wait for a minute or two, watch him drop over dead, and loot the place with no legal repercussions.
I inadvertently ended up doing that with the Mudcrab merchant; I'd sold him a boatload of Daedric weapons, but when a Daedroth appeared on his island and blasted poison at me, the Mudcrab got too close to the crossfire and died. Hey, free weapon cache!