Or are you a pack rat perhaps? Do you clutter your in-game home with useless items? Is Carry Weight an issue for you early game? Since weight can affect your mobility, this can obviously become a dilemma very quickly.

So how do you manage extra equipment like finding new special weapons, gear or items? Do you make frequent trips to storage? Look for a way to increase your 'carry weight'? Hold on to some 'just in case' you need them later items? Sell what you don't like? Collect certain items for no reason? Also, how do you manage your in-game house?

Typically most people start out grabbing whatever they can to sell. A lot of people I've seen playing these type of games usually end of becoming over encumbered very early in the game. What's funny is that some of these people are the exact opposite in real life and have a very low tolerance for clutter.

I collect lots of things related to the character's theme. My Vault Dweller collects Vault suits from different Vaults, my Brotherhood Paladin collects unique energy weapons, etc. Sometimes "useless junk" is part of that collection. I always arrange these things in my home, or at least my "base" (Fort Independence for my Outcast character in FO3 for example)

Most definitely, to both. I think I have a problem.

Lots of trips back to storage in the first play through. Adjust player.modav carryweight in other play throughs.

Everything worth picking up, gets picked up..... now with Fallout 4's junk all being worth something... I might spend an ungodly amount of time, picking everything I can up.... every bent tin can, milk bottle, ceramic plate, nuka cola bottle........

Lol, you cheater with those console commands. I was thinking about playing Skyrim earlier but then I thought about managing all the useless items my PC has. I'm thinking of making a new save, where I sell what I don't need instead of running back to storage all the time.

You know, I honestly can't say I'm a collector in these games. I used to see these threads and after reading over them I would go in game and pick an item to collect. I never got very far, which is a shame because it seems as if you guys have so much fun with it.


Once, I did collect Leather greaves for an argonian shadowscale character I had on Oblivion. This was more for practicality reasons however as I always found leather cuirasses, helmets, and boots to be plentoful but greaves far and few between.

As soon as Todd announced the new additions, I already knew I'll be spending many hours at the crafting stations. I heard somewhere that junk items automatically get sent to your workbench station or something to that effect.

If you look close when they show the pipboy, you see there's a junk tab... I bet most of it goes there.

Heh, yeah I know. I don't do much in the way of cheating, just carryweight really so I can explore at my own pace and not have it interrupted by trips back to base. Most of the time I don't even use the bits and pieces but I'll fill containers with crafting materials "just in case". I may do the occasional tcl if I get stuck somewhere or couldn't be bothered spending 10 minutes finding a path around an obstacle.

First play through is always without outside assistance though, I have to have at least one legitimate run.

Fallout 4 may not even have console commands. They aren't needed but they can make certain aspects easier.

I do whatever is appropriate for the character I'm playing.

Some of my characters disdain to loot the weapons or armor of their enemies. Some see potions as a kind of evil magic and refuse to loot them. Some are illiterate and never loot a book. Some see Alchemy ingredients as worthless "weeds" and leave them on the corpse.

Conversely, some characters hoard every book they can get their hands on. Others jump at the chance to get more of those valuable Alchemy ingredients so they can use them to make more potions. Some make it a point to don the armor and weapons of their fallen foes as a sign of strength and superiority.

It's all in the roleplaying.

True, I can easy imagine myself stealing houses

And yes I'm an hoarder and an kleptomaniac from the first time i went off the boat in Morrowind

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I'm terrible at collecting random stuff, and quite a lot of it. Though I prefer not to simply hoard it: I remember lining the walls of my Waterfront Shack (with the aid of Decorator Assistant) with any interesting and unique swords I happened across in my travels, admittedly not all acquired with the agreement of their former and usually late owner. But, yeah, suits of armour, books, any other random and "ooh shiny!" stuff, things that might come in useful one day... etc. Just like RL, I suppose.

Since I usually play mages I hoard as many books and magical artifacts as possible. I place them all over my houses for all to see.

When I play for the first time I am because I don't know what I'm doing, but as I play more I keep less.

I suppose I'm a hoarder but that's only because I'm too lazy to clean out my inventory every once in a while. By the way, OP, what's with the oversized font? You look like you're constantly speaking with your voice raised.

Been a hoarder since Fallout 2(Black button bug was a way of life for me), I keep anything unique as a memento of what it took to get it.

My Morrowind character's house looks like a bottle recycling center with all the empty bottles around the outside of the house, neatly stacked into pyramids 6 layers high. I also tried to surround it with lit lanterns and candlesticks until lag became a serious issue...

My Skyrim character's priority mission was to get a home to store junk. The containers are so full now there's a noticeable lag when adding or removing items. I also use a lot of categories when it comes to storage(Enchanted Weapons, Enchanted Armor, Mundane Weapons, Mundane Armor, Clothes, Ammo, Books, Notes, Ingredients, Potions, Fresh Food, Cooked Food, Alcoholic Drinks, Pelts, Empty Soul Gems, Ingots(except Gold), Leather/Leather Strips, Gold Coins/Ingots, Gems, Ores, finally Dragon Bones/Scales)

In real life I am a toy collector, mostly Transformers, who has now spent a couple of years trying, but still isn't finished packing everything up properly(I get distracted when I pick up a toy I haven't tinkered with for a long time, then start all over)