Illogical? yes~
Lore breaking? Depends who you're talking to~
Game breaking? Hardly.
I don't know about you, but I'm certainly not going to lose sleep because New Vegas's slot machines run off of discarded Nuka Cola bottle caps rather than minted coins.

No I don't think it's canon breaking. It's just Illogical. I am sure wants I start to play I will forget about it. But for now the idea is just so dumb. It would not make fallout New Vegas crappy because they use caps in slot machines, Just odd.

I try not to sweat the small things in video games, like the currency. Oftentimes in games, we never consider it more than the number that's in a designated part of our menu hub that lets us buy stuff. The most important thing is that the more you have, the more you can buy.
I suppose we could consider ourselves lucky that Caps became the accepted currency over something even more ridiculous...like Box Tops.Or pop top tabs.

coins called "chips" sounds logical

I'm with caps. If a whole post apocalyptic country is using one kind of currency, why would one city use another? Just doesn't make much sense to me. Aside from that, as long as ammo isn't the currency, I'm content.

I like the idea of all 3, but make gold have weight in hardcoe mode.

That's the thing...not everyone uses caps, and with it being 203 years after the war and all it really seems like they'd have something better than that. 203 years is a long time...technology-wise.

That said, I don't really care. I did some arguing earlier in this thread just to play devil's advocate (if we're going to argue logic I still think that coins make a metric buttload more sense than caps do), but I honestly don't really care. I think it would enrich the setting's cultural narrative to shed some light on the evolution of wasteland economics, but that's probably not going to happen. Most people are just playing the game to shoot stuff with teh lazerz pew pew anyway. :shrug: Sadly, I think the details behind the setting and such are lost on most.

I agree that most who play this game are just going to play so they can be the evilist jerk in a virtual setting and not really give the significance or the relevance, or even the meaning behind a lot of the games nuances.

How does Gold coins even Make sense in the Fallout universe? Why would people start melting down gold into coins to use as currency? If thats not what they did, where did the Gold coins come from? I also feel that caps don't make much sense either because they are not rare enough, there are so many Caps and Bottles with caps on them in the Capital Wasteland that anyone could get rich just by exploring a building. But I don't like the idea of Casinop Chips either.

And yet Role Playing games require some form of currency. What would you suggest?

If you read the rest of the thread there are more than a few posts that made a very good case in favor of coins. It really does make the most sense (IMO) of the three options from a logical, real-world standpoint. That said, it's a game, so most people are going to prefer the simplest option. Still, though, my vote is coins.

Every RPG since the beginning of time has used "gold" as a currency, so I'd say keep doing caps or switch to chips. Lets be original!

P.S.
No need to post about that one RPG you played back in the day that didn't use gold as a currency, I'm exaggerating. :meh:

Mabye we could finally make use of that "Pre-War" Money? This would add a rarity factor to your currency, making you choose your purchases wisely.

Is originality for originality's sake ever a good reason to do anything? Especially when said thing doesn't make logical sense?


Pre-war money wouldn't make good currency for a lot of the same reasons bottle caps don't make good currency.

Two of the biggest being:
- There's no way to know how much of it is "out there," so there's no way to ascertain its value.
- There's no widespread authority to regulate it or back it with anything, so it technically has no barter value. Simply agreeing with your pals that something has value doesn't make it so two towns over.

Here I go again trying to use teh l0gik...

Same can be said about gold, Why would gold be worth anything in a Post Apoctalyptic world?

I dunno... :unsure: Guess I'll just go back to leveling up by collecting bobble-heads...

Why was gold worth anything to ancient cultures?

The point is that it can be controlled, especially if it were minted into coins. It would be replaceable, trackable, controllable, and difficult to conterfeit. All good attributes for potential currency.

So...Point to Softnerd, Mr. Perfect concedes the court. Softnerds serve.

Actually, I'm quitting too. I hate how I look in these shorts. You guys can have my racket and shuttlecocks.

caps were fine but gold sounds good too. i liked fallout 2 currency money. uuhhh the crisp dollar bills

Whoooa. Keep those in your shorts!

Caps, what else?


Easy answer: It was hard to produce. Think about it. You need some knowledge, workers, energy. Not everyone is able to make it's own money and this was the reason, then and today.

So a currancy needs a kind organisation and someone needs to be the big boss who is controlling the production of coins. He needs a monopole in this, or anybody could make his own coins.

caps sound good.but with the ppl with beefs about caps going in slot machines why don't you put some caps in an other machine that presses the caps into coins...or just buy coins like normal people

Maybe because there was an atomic war and all goverments died, failed, struggled?
So do you think everybody makes his own money or what?

Yeah, could happen :hehe:
(I actually like the idea)

But, why the hell not using caps?
Because it points out the problem?
Because it is too obvious?

i recon gold for continuality reasons