Why purchases more than one house?

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jam

Member
I really had nothing else to spend my money on and I wanted the mannequins for my armor collection. Plus, I like all my housecarls and the ability to use my thane title.
 
^^explain
 

Rayven

Global Moderator
Staff member
I think the Whiterun house is almost a necessity since it's the cheapest one and provides you with storage early on in the game. Also, aside from the lack of enchanting table, it's only downside is aesthetics. Buying property is required for some of the thane quests, but other than patting yourself on the back for the achievement, there's not any real point in buying multiple ones. I think you should buy them all in the first playthrough at least. I just find it exciting to own the different houses and see what they have to offer.
 

Tidimus

New Member
I bought the whiterun house before I knew I could buy others. Now, being the collector whore I am, I don't know I just feel the need to have them all. I like the Arch Mage Quarters but every single time I go to the bard college I have to fight a dragon and sometimes I'm just not in the mood. So far I have Markarth ane.d Whiterun. I was going to do solitude next then I saw the price.

I know there is some "cheat" to not have to pay for it but that dude never seems to get close enough to any containers to hide the money. I don't know how people do that one, and frankly money isn't that hard to get once you start smithing and enchanting...it's almost too easy if you just take a little time.

The only problem I have now really is picking a "base" to keep all the stuff I use (alchemy, etc) so it's not split between two places lol
 

numb3r5ev3n

Member
I installed Hearthfire just last week. I bought Breezehome and installed the BreezehomeTNF mod (goatk's original one - Elianora's Flavor and Shezrie's Breezehome, while great mods, were a bit too fancy for an adventurer still learning the ropes, in my opinion.)

Yesterday I stumbled back into Morthal and found out that Jarl Idgrod had assigned Valdimar to be my housecarl. I bought Windstad manor with the intention of turning it into more of a hunting lodge/outpost - Breezehome will be where my character's spouse and kids live - there are still to many monsters out there in the swamp for me to feel okay about leaving them out there. I stepped outside my front door at Windstad Manor to see a dead Draugr right in the front walkway, LOL! I was amused to see some Horkers nearby - will they go aggro on me if I try to give them a bucket? :D

What happens to Lydia if I make Valdimar my Steward? I haven't married her or even asked her to follow me. She just hangs out at Breezehome and watches Lucia while I am away. I asked him to be my steward and saw a message flash across the screen that my other follower left, so I reloaded quickly. Can you have multiple housecarls/stewards at different houses?

I think that buying all the land/houses with Hearthfire makes sense. Being a landowner was a really big deal during the Middle Ages/Dark Ages, and it makes sense that it would be in a setting like the Elder Scrolls games. Roleplaying, immersion, and all that. A landowner who is a is a thane in more than one hold would quickly be seen as a powerful person to be reckoned with, whether or not they could also shout their enemies off of a cliff face. >:)
 
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Well as far as Hearthfire goes, atleast on vanilla Skyrim, you almost need all the houses just to have access to all the different options. As for non-Hearthfire homes, it depends. With Honeyside in Riften you get quick access to the TG fence and the thieves cache in the backyard. As for the rest, the only real benefit so far as I know is that you become Thane when buying a house in whichever hold. And that you have to buy the home to become Thane. Useful certainly if you want to be able to get away with whatever you want and not serve jail time or pay thousands of septims in bounty. I could be wrong about the mechanics but I believe that's the main benefit. So far all my characters are criminals in one form or another besides one so I plan on doing it myself.


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Wippii

Bookworm
I simply like not having to pay for a room at an inn when adventuring around Skyrim.
Of course, I could always pitch my tent - but when in areas such as the Pale or Hjaalmarch, staying inside is much more appealing than building a campfire that goes out after 6-12 hours. The HF houses are perfect, since they're all located in the middle of nowhere rather than in a city. :D

As for the "city houses", I rarely own more than one, if even that. None of my characters care about titles (some even actively avoid them), nor are any of them criminals (I have the "join the DB" achievement, but only because Alternate Start tried to send me down that road).
 

Brofski

Member
I buy breezhome, till I build a Heathfire house. The ones you can buy always lack something. Either manaquins or storage.

My favourite hearthfire house is Heljarchen Hall. So I use breezehome till level 22ish (so you can do the quest for the Jarl) then move there.
 

sticky runes

Well-Known Member
If you're a casual gamer, you may like to own all properties in the game just to see what they're like. If you're into role-playing, then you'll likely just focus on owning a property in a specific hold that you feel is relevant to your character. When I was new to skyrim I did want to own all houses and have all housecarls at my disposal, but now that I'm familiar with the game, I develop my own play style based on whatever character I'm using and will just own one or two properties. Becoming thane in every hold in Skyrim doesn't really suit the way I play any more, but it was fun to try and own everything when I was experiencing it all for the first time.
 

Wildroses

Well-Known Member
Yes, I had a lot of fun my first playthrough buying all the houses to see what they looked like, but it isn't something I feel obliged to do now. I quite often buy Breezehome because it is cheap and there, but mostly I build a Hearthfire home because I greatly enjoy the challenge of finding all the things needed to repair it. I've made several characters based entirely around making a Hearthfire home. I probably should try Minecraft, I think I'd greatly enjoy it.

Sometimes I will buy houses based on roleplay. I had one character who grew up in the Rift that bought Honeyside, but ended up doing a lot of quests in Solitude just to get Proudspire Manor because she wanted to get her kids as far away from Brynjolf as possible. (He kept giving them apples and promising to teach them how to pick pockets and locks when they grew up, which upset her because she'd figured out there was a curse on the Thieves Guild a long time ago).
 

Stalker

Member
I think the only home I purchased in Skyrim was the cheap one you can buy in White Run. Eventually I just made a bandit hide out my home. Even though they respawn sometimes.

In Oblivion my favorite house was the one in Skingrad. Id spend hours just arranging things and pretending that I would have visitors. Which is kind of sad..

In Morrowind I took over a house in Balmora. The house was owned I think by a lord who was murdered.
 

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