I just spent the weekend playing this. I'm a cheater, so I got 1 billion gold and 1 million plat to start.
Hemorrhaging dosh like some uninformed kid that recently acquired a black tier credit card. As for the plats, surprising that I havn't spent more then 5k yet... and I've been using it every chance I get.
As of 1.73
@Shops
Apparently specialized shops still sell 'other' goods. The general store has a base chance of 'not making a sale' from what I read in the wiki. The specialized shop sells everything without the 'not making a sale' modifier it feels like. Cause I decided to throw random things in there to sell in the specialized shop cause the general store was full. They get sold too, cleared out much quicker too. The backlog of random crap I picked up to sell is empty and I can actually use 1 shop instead of 2.
The quality of life changes from whenever I played last(years ago) is superb.
Karma is overrated and maintaining it is super inconvenient. Especially when you are trying to grind the unique from the thieves guild questline and people get in the way with the 'Guard! Guard!' -5(-3) karma from out of line of sight. Did you know the thieves den resets every few days? Lotta murder happens down there ya know. And apparently nukes don't want to blow up the heavy things or the safe...
On a positive note, I can now gang up on the king and murder him without anyone dying. (Yay, I didn't have to set-off a nuke daisy-chain right next to the throne...) Which is a first for me, since I never made it this far in power level before now.
Playing as Fairy Claymore. I like the concept. Just hard to find a good claymore for her... well, once I find enough flying scrolls and a good claymore I reckon. Took awhile to find a decent weapon in the first place.
Still the issue of my party getting devastated by area attack enemies like the hounds. The Nurse from the slave market is actually pretty decent healer now that her AI is fixed, especially when you are wandering around overburdened. No need for emergency rest-stops. No more 'I wasn't paying attention so I died from overburdened+hunger/sleepy'. I guess it is good training for her spell level.