Personally, I like to cap my repair skill and use that to sell some expensive equipment, also, stealing 

Repair for sure saves BIG money. At low levels, you'll spend at least half your caps trying to fix your equipment. And, all the weapons/armor you find and repair makes alot more money when you sell it...

Killing Brotherhood of Steel and Outcasts and selling their gear works for me but I'd do that for free :hehe:

Actually that's usually what I do too, but not the Bos because my charcter is a good guy... This time;)

Slaving.....just saying

Definitely repairing armour and other equipment and selling high. I also made a pretty penny selling fission batteries that I found all over the place.

^^This right here

Have none of you played I <3 Katamari? LIFE IS PRICELESS~~

Horrible. :nono:

Sell off all the chems and food that is irradiated. Use only StimPacks or resting. Boost attack skills to minimize weapon usage and degradation. Do not wear armor, only clothing.

The problem I have with the economy is ammo, not repair. Not enough ammo for role playing specific character types, and too expensive to buy (not to mention specific types are often not offered when you want them to be offered).

Hey slavers would agree with that too! You can't very well make money off a dead slave now can you? :disguise:

I'm sure someone has found a way...

Putting a price on someone's life, shame on you! You should have to launder the caps you make from slaving and not be able to use them for regular trade.

Yep, and its currently about 250 caps a pop now

scrap metal to the old dude in megaton. but I am soon to start a new character which will be evil and which will most probably blow up megaton so...

My last character killed off Nova and took over as the resident prosttute and Moriarty's Saloon...

... but I've got lots of other jobs my characters take.


One I made a member of Riley's Rangers and the Regulators... makes all her caps by patrolling the wasteland with that mapping device and her badge.

One joined the Talon Company, made all her caps wandering around being an evil [censored] and collecting ears for the Contract Killer guy.

One character did nothing but scavenge... the whole of the game world... but he died poor, and alone, in Old Olney.

I've played a few raiders who didn't bother with money at all. They made their 'fortunes' by killing and taking anything they wanted... even from other raiders. One girl worked at the brothel at Evergreen Mills... which was fun for a while, until someone let the behemoth out...


My latest character is a pregnant (again) mom living in Rivet City. She runs a Heavy Weapons shop out of Rivet City called 'Bazooka!' Her husband is a mercenary... so he comes home every now and again with some caps to keep them fed. Her daughter is friends with C.J. Young and James Hargrave, and occasionally she makes a few caps here and there helping out around Gary's Galley.

WooT WooT for being way too absorbed in my video games!

There's such a thing as being "too absorbed"? News to me... I must not get out enough.

My characters just want to collect toys and play... well, they're young girls, after all, and you're only young once, so why waste the opportunities?

Of course, their idea of "toys" covers a broad range from teddy bears and cute outfits to energy weapons, techie tools, and explosives... and big guns, of course. :flamethrower: But they're really quite angelic, you know? :angel:

Let the ghouls into tenpenny tower and loot everything you can while the fight is going on.

all those little freeform quests, the "bring me this and i'll pay you this" kind of quests

Speaking of repairs, what NPC has the highest skill.

Officialy I think it's Moira if you tell her to give up on her book

but due to a bug, Haley From Haley's Hardware in point lookout can get up to 100

find out how to do it http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Haley

just scroll down the bottom

Hunting Mirelurks. :gun:

Killin and ah theivin

Everything except slaving and selling junk (except Ciggerette Cartons).

I just finished the "Economics of Violence" mini-quest by getting 20 Chinese Assault Rifles for Pronto, proprietor of Lock and Load at Paradise Falls.

Now I'm thinking, "Is a 20% discount worth all the effort?" I mean I could have got a lot of caps by simply selling those 20 CARs. How much am I likely to save with that 20% discount? It's like paying a certain bookstore chain for a discount card: have to buy a lot of merchandise for it to pay. Especially since I don't go buy guns very much anyway, and if I do, it's not going to be to PF,

I wonder, though. Would the old "buy low, sell high" rule work? Would it pay to go to L & L, buy 260 or so lbs. of stuff from Pronto, fast travel to another arms dealer, sell it for a profit, and repeat?

Geomapping with Reilly is my biggest source of income. Selling chems like Jet and unwanted ammo also helps too.



Agreed. I'm guessing I know how how you resolved The Pitt quest then. If I'm right, then I did the same thing. An excellent DLC, if I must say so.

Hunting mutants, super mutants that is. Got probably 100 hunting rifles :celebration: