Damn it, stop making me rich!

[Sun Flash]

I get this problem too. Although to switch it up a bit, I make sure to dump all my swag off at my house, and make sure I only have 2 or 3 health and stamina potions as well as a few hundred gold in my inventory left. Also, I sent my follower home, so I can't have them carry my burdens for me.

I also change my gear from time to time, down grade to steel for example, and just use what I find in dungeons for the next few quests.

It's not perfect, but it does the trick.

 

[blackcherry]

The original resident evil(and the remake) had the right idea. Make the easy setting quite easy, so most people can complete the game without dying too often and with enough health and ammo to make things comfortable. Then when you start normal...ammo is scarce, health even more so. Enemies do more damage and appear in different places in larger numbers.

Hell, I breezed through resi 4 onwards just because, in comparison, those games were super easy even on the hardest difficulty compared to the older games on 'Normal'. When I completed 'Hard' I felt like some sort of gaming superhuman!

But then, they aren't RPGs, so perhaps its the wrong example to bring up.

 

[Zydrate]

Assassin's Creed had an issue with this as well.

I've done Brotherhood a couple times now, and since some of the best (buyable) items are locked by extremely rare items, I just make due with lesser equipment (Successfully, I might add).
The AC series is great but they need to balance out their money systems.

 

[Dosbilliam]

ESC > Settings > Difficulty > Master

thank you....
but I'm already there, currently playing FO: New Vegas on hardcore and I have 263000 caps 20000 NCR dollars and about the same in Legion Denarius.
I have a stock pile of Weapons and armour in my suite at the Lucky 38 and more stimpacks than I can shake a stick at (I've probably got the stick somewhere as well) and....

I've not even gone to see Ceasar yet!

Don't get me wrong, it's great to beable to buy any gun I want, it's just I buy it and then remember I have another five of them at the casino!

Here's an idea, drop a load of cash. Give yourself a limit to the amount of money you can have at one time, make a mod?

playing it on the PS3, so no mod, and I don't know what it is, I'm programmed to pick up everything in RPG's, then I repair guns and armour, then pick up spares, and repair them....
basicly my characters all have OCD!

Let me guess...once you pick up everything and repair your stuff, you only used maybe two or three of the things you picked up for repairs?

 

[Fat Hippo]

I definitely agree, I hate it when RPGs do this (most of them).

If you're playing Skyrim on PC I can only recommend this mod called "Cutthroat Merchants": http://skyrim.nexusmods.com/downloads/file.php?id=2762

It makes everything more expensive, while you get a lot less for your loot. This definitely stabilizes the amount of gold you get, and makes the game more fun, in my opinion.

 

[Malty Milk Whistle]

I have a brilliant solution to this problem. I'm incredibly paranoid that no matter how hard whatever challenge I'm currently facing is, the next one will be much harder. As such, I may at some point late in the game have near limitless resources, but I'll be too petrified to actually use any of them. For example, in skyrim I'm always terrified too purchase anything with my mountains of cash, because who knows, the next merchant might have something I like better! Ahhh! Or all the potions in pretty much every fantasy rpg ever that I refuse to use because the next boss might require them more. Consequently, I tend to think games are way harder than they are, and end boss fights are almost incomprehensibly easy.

NOTE: This playstyle is not recommended for the sane.

Yes. I spent over 3 hours grinding for the final boss of Dragon Quest IX , only for the ordeal to be over in 8 minutes....

 

[Lionsfan]

I think it's a fine line to walk. On the one hand, nobody wants an easy game once they've put in 30 hours of work or so. On the other hand, people want to feel like they're stronger/more powerful/richer if they've put in 30 hours of work. Go too far either way and people are going to *****

 

[Yellowbeard]

I agree.

Whatever happened to adaptive difficulty?

 

[Zelcor]

I dunno if anyone's played it but Tibia....oh that game is fucking awful

Gold not only had weight, took up slots in bags (which sucked if each bag had only about 8 slots or so) at 100 gold a stack. AND if you died RNG determined which items would stay with your corpse as you get rezzed GOD ONLY KNOWS WHERE and if your gold bags (which I refer to as the bag that's slots are filled with all the gold) gets picked and someone makes it to your corpse before you do guess what they are now slightly richer.

I hate that game so much it's so bad

 

[Sovereignty]

In Deus Ex I was broke for the whole damn game.

I mean I notice with most games, you're right near the end you do end up wealthy... But realistically that's how progression is supposed to work.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

I enjoy the concept of having a bank in worlds where you end up acquiring shit loads of money. Works pretty good in Runescape.

Also, Skyrim needs to offer more in terms of businesses. It's more me pretty much bankrobbing the people by selling them shit I will never use.

 

[putowtin]

ESC > Settings > Difficulty > Master

thank you....
but I'm already there, currently playing FO: New Vegas on hardcore and I have 263000 caps 20000 NCR dollars and about the same in Legion Denarius.
I have a stock pile of Weapons and armour in my suite at the Lucky 38 and more stimpacks than I can shake a stick at (I've probably got the stick somewhere as well) and....

I've not even gone to see Ceasar yet!

Don't get me wrong, it's great to beable to buy any gun I want, it's just I buy it and then remember I have another five of them at the casino!

Here's an idea, drop a load of cash. Give yourself a limit to the amount of money you can have at one time, make a mod?

playing it on the PS3, so no mod, and I don't know what it is, I'm programmed to pick up everything in RPG's, then I repair guns and armour, then pick up spares, and repair them....
basicly my characters all have OCD!

Let me guess...once you pick up everything and repair your stuff, you only used maybe two or three of the things you picked up for repairs?

you know me so well... are you stalking me?

 

[Bad Jim]

I think the real solution is to make 90% of wealth require a certain amount of donkey work to acquire.

Say you kill a dozen bandits. They have 100 gold on them. You can pick up their weapons and haul them back to town and make 300 gold on that. If you want to loot their clothing/armour as well, it'll take five trips but will net you another 600 gold.

If you really need the cash, you can make 1000 gold from this encounter. But the richer you get, the less inclined you will be to cart all that crap back to town and you'll only make 100 gold if you are rich and/or lazy.

Combine this with RPG inflation. Higher prices for better gear will eat up your money, while increasing rewards will make you reluctant to spend hours trudging back and forth with loot. But you can always start looting everything if you are poor.

Elder Scrolls games have RPG inflation, but give you quite a lot of money without having to do anything boring. Ideally, it would be possible to survive like this, but actually becoming rich would take some dedication.

 

[Zen Toombs]

playing it on the PS3, so no mod, and I don't know what it is, I'm programmed to pick up everything in RPG's, then I repair guns and armour, then pick up spares, and repair them....
basicly my characters all have OCD!

1st world problems....

Gotta love 'em!

OT: Yeah, that part tends to take the difficulty out of some games. It is nice to have sometimes though - it shows how far you've gone.

 

[The Heik]

So... games, please stop making me rich. Turns out it's more fun to be poor.

You know there's a fix for this. It's called the difficulty setting. So what if you're rich? If you make everyone else rich too, then you're effectively poor all over again, except now it's permanent.

Problem solved.

 

[Dosbilliam]

ESC > Settings > Difficulty > Master

thank you....
but I'm already there, currently playing FO: New Vegas on hardcore and I have 263000 caps 20000 NCR dollars and about the same in Legion Denarius.
I have a stock pile of Weapons and armour in my suite at the Lucky 38 and more stimpacks than I can shake a stick at (I've probably got the stick somewhere as well) and....

I've not even gone to see Ceasar yet!

Don't get me wrong, it's great to beable to buy any gun I want, it's just I buy it and then remember I have another five of them at the casino!

Here's an idea, drop a load of cash. Give yourself a limit to the amount of money you can have at one time, make a mod?

playing it on the PS3, so no mod, and I don't know what it is, I'm programmed to pick up everything in RPG's, then I repair guns and armour, then pick up spares, and repair them....
basicly my characters all have OCD!

Let me guess...once you pick up everything and repair your stuff, you only used maybe two or three of the things you picked up for repairs?

you know me so well... are you stalking me?

Nope, that's just what happens to me when I play my main Fallout 3/New Vegas characters.:3

 

[Fredrikorex]

I've got over 170 000 gold in Skyrim

I think it's alright to get lots of money, but when you get new missions/tasks and the only reward you get is even more money... :|

 

[doomspore98]

I actually find it sort of fun, getting a huge amount of money, buying a house, and then pimping it out the wazoo with a bunch of awesome decorations. I do have the problem with the huge amount of money you get though. I'm a rouge in skyrim and I don't spend much at shops, except health and invisibly potions. And I completed the dark brotherhood quest line early on and got about 20000 gold as a reward. But to answer the latter points: Skyrim is the only game where I have noticed this problem. In Deus Ex HR I only bought one praxis kit, and that was in the very beginning when they gave me five grand. The rest of the game, I spent what little money I had on weapon upgrades and energy bars. In the very beginning of fallout 3 I spent an ungodly amount of caps repairing weapons and armor. Not knowing how to repair items, stupid me. But you can't say that it isn't fun to buy a house for 20000 gold coins, upgrading it, which costs another 20000 and then placing some of your best weapons in the sword and armor racks, knowing that you can craft them again and then enchant them to make them twenty times better than the weapons you now use as ornaments.

 

[Exocet]

Diablo did it right: gold takes up inventory space.
Do you want to pick up more gold, or pick up an unindentified weapon?
Do you want to pick up that gold on the floor, or do you want to keep that health potion?

Fucking genius.

 

[Racecarlock]

20 dragons? I wouldn't call that a non-challenge. I mean, damn.