Oblivion Economy?, unbalanced like Morrowind or fixed? Options

[Uruhara_Kisuke]

I was wondering what the economy of Oblivion will be this time round.

Are the typical complains from Morrowind addressed? in particular-

- exploits from MudCrab and Creeper?
- low npc max septim counts?
- highly valued endgame gear that has modest drop rates from medium level monsters?
- low expenditure from training?

As I understand it, Alchemy fortify potions to boost stats are capped, so I *think* the rate of making and selling potions to make a fast buck will be somewhat gimped.

[Uruhara_Kisuke]

Well fair enough that mudcrab and creeper are easter eggs.

I can agree fishing villages having a lower cash flow due to low economic activity

However, this does not explain the forced barter trading to take place with high end gear, if even rich merchants in Caldera, Ebonheart, Sadrith Mora and Vivec itself have no npcs capable of buying it from the PC at one shot, requiring instead the tedious attempts to first load up npcs with cheap gear, so as to garner septims for expenditures.

I hold a vastly different view on training being cheap only through exploits though, as anyone capable of killing a golden saint/dremora (about level 9~12) will soon find themselves the owner of 5.6k~120k item.

What some mods did was increase the cost of training, fast travel and spells, adjusting merchants mercantile and persuassion skills, as well as nerf drop rates from golden saints/dremora. All these policies are rationale I concur with. The lack of viable trading partners still bug me though.

The only information I managed to find was investment in npcs that allows them to have a higer septim count for trading in Oblivion, and horses/houses are not supposed to come at bargain prices too... wonder how that will actually work out.

[Pisces]

What some mods did was increase the cost of training, fast travel and spells, adjusting merchants mercantile and persuassion skills, as well as nerf drop rates from golden saints/dremora. All these policies are rationale I concur with. The lack of viable trading partners still bug me though.

That seems a bit n00b unfriendly though, I've played characters which were not combat orientated and I didn't go to all the places I knew I could get money and I had to steal to afford silt stider fare back to Khuul after getting a better spell for fishing, and my first character thought 6000 was a huge amount. The biggest unbalancer I feel is those damned supply chests, and the complete inexpense of armourers gear; paying for repair isn't worth it even if you next to nil armourer's skill. Paying for repair isn't a big expense for low level characters but it becomes one for higher level characters but because of the cheapness of armourer hammers and the fact they are in supply chests means you'll never have to spend a septim on repair.