does anybody else stop to wonder if the creators of fallout 2 just used gold without any thought behind it? i mean gold as currency in video games is like the default option to use. it's used in like 90% of games when dealing with some sort of currency. i thought it was refreshing that FO3 used bottle caps. sure it didn't logically make sense, but it was breaking the stereotypic mold of using gold.

in the past thread i took a stance on chips and/or caps, but in the end whatever they choose for currency will be fine by me. as long as their excuse isn't something as pathetic as: "because it was in fallout 2". that's just lazy writing.

We did and the reason to use it was that developing settlements like NCR and Vault City needed a unified currency to make trade easier. Bottlecaps aren't that durable and will run out sooner or later.

Gold. Why would they regress back to caps?

I mentioned before that I'd probably go with casino chips given the setting.

Though the potential for Gold and Bottlecaps to be 'other' forms of currency might play into the NCR/Legion conflict.

One of the main plot lines in fallout 2 was deciding who controls the gold and that decision affected the game's ending! Actually there was a lot of thought behind it people mined for gold and then traded it to the 4 major established towns in the wastes for supplies and weapons because they had nothing else that was worth anything! It was the only way redding survived!

I really don't see why everyone likes poker chips so much, the whole game isn't just based in Vegas so forget it. Outside of vegas they are useless and are just more garbage. Let's just stick to caps...

chips, New Vegas is a sole City State under it?s own control so the gold from NCR is null in this case and the city being nuke free leaves lots of chips in circulation...plus what?s more inconic for Vegas? The gold coins we seen in dime a dousing RPG or the chips used for gambling.

When it comes to chips they are useless out side of Vegas like ITS GARY said. They can make it just Like New Reno. The people in the city of New Vegas could just call any form or money caps or coins "chips." The only role I can see for "chips" is in Mob run Casinos. Out side Vegas they would be garbage. I don't think the Entire State of Nevada would have any laws that will honour the cash value anywhere because there is no longer the pre-war government that would enforce such laws.

We don't know what government will be running Vegas, will it be the Wright family from New Reno, NCR, Caeser legion or Other? we don't know. If it is Raiders well they would use caps mostly but have gold for dealing with NCR. Same goes for Caeser legion.
NCR would use Gold and have very little value for caps if any.
Other well we will just have to wait and see. Hell they could be some government that is like the midwestern brotherhood and still use Cash that looks alot like American money.

It won't be for long. I'm assuming that's why NCR is there, to take it over.

well that seams to be up to you the player to decide who will rule New Vegas at the end of the game.

Well, I made a thread suggesting poker chips as currency, so I think my vote is fairly obvious

EDIT: Who says we can only have one for of currency? I'd suggest using Dollars or whatever the NCR use in their territory and Poker Chips inside New Vegas itself. Super mutants could use rocks or possibly stale feces...

You'd just have a currency list that looks a bit like this:

Chips: 142
Dollars: 56

Etc. I see multiple currency types as something that will just enrich the game.

POKER CHPZ NAO1!!!11!!1!!ONE!111!

Come on.. Super mutants in fallout one and two are a world apart from the DC ones. Some of the http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Master Super mutants are dumb yes but they are not dumb enough to use rocks or feces as money. Many are smart like http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Marcus from fallout 2. In fallout one and two it has been proven that many west coast super mutants are just like when they were human, with all their smarts and memories intact. They used the same money as NCR, gold.

The East coast ones, have rare ones that are smart but none that are close to being "human" as the West coast master mutants. Not even Fawkes or Uncle Leo and because they are from the vault 87 FEV they will just keep getting bigger an dumber as they age till they become Behemoths. This does not happen to the West Coast FEV mutants.
The DC ones would just kill you and take what they want. They would not pay for anything. The semi-smart ones would use what the humans in the area are using for money. Till they become out of control Behemoths that is.

As for evey faction having their own currency is odd because over 200 years in that part of the usa (the West). Things have got to the point were the Big player NCR was using gold.

I can see Caps and some casinos only in the city of Vegas using Chips, but anything else like "rocks or feces" not likely.

Maybe some other form of money used by who ever is running the City of New Vegas, maybe pre-war money.

Gold should be the most valuable.

I said casino chips, as they are in abundance and carry some significance as to where the game is set.

I would like to see chips used but not as currency, and I don't want to see gold, gold would be to hard to come by. Caps I guess, or something new.

Gold would be everywhere this is proven. NCR has Gold mines Redding for One. Redding had a big part to play in fallout 2. California and the areas around it have alot of places were gold can be mined. Plus every Casino and bank vault would be full of it. One they would have to by pre-war law. Two, Every war in human history as proven that when war is about to breakout people stock up on GOLD! .

people are thinking DC style civilization here. People need to understand that NCR was well on its way to become almost pre-war like. They had power, from nuclear power plants and vaults. They were building new buildings out of concrete. They had a great understanding of pre-war tech and farming enough to feed hundreds of thousands. They had places like Vault City that had used their GECK. They were even about to have new rail ways and trains. New Highways.

NCR had something like 700,000 people. By New Vegas they would have double that by expanding and population growth due to better living conditions.

Having enough caps for all those people is not likey
Even if you had a hundred million caps there is not enough to go around, you would have to make a new currency like gold Coins. Which they did!

Sounds a little far fetched to me.

thanks for this comment. actually, only after i made my post i decided to look up currency and other info on fallout 2. i know, should of did my research before posting. anyway, i stand corrected.

now i know since some of you assume the currency should be gold considering it only makes sense, with the NCR being featured and all. could it be fair to also assume that Ceaser and his faction don't use gold? the NCR came from the west to settle. the legion was most likely in vegas long before the NCR showed up. so whose to say something other than gold is the currency in the vegas area. NCR has THEIR idea of what is the standard currency, but what if Ceasar started his own (chips, caps, or whatever). i kind of think of it like how my US dollars don't mean anything in europe unless i convert my money to euros. thus this idea brings me to what i've posted before about different currencies existing and how there are conversion stations located throughout the wastes.

I say gold or NCR's currency backed up by their gold. Casino chips are just ridiculous, and we're talking about it only because of the setting - but it wouldn't really be good as currency. About Caps, they would make sense depending on who has most influence over the region. Although going back to FO3 they shouldn't be really used even there (easy to obtain - nuka cola factory, easy to produce - The Pitt factories).

I hope we can drop currency, instead of carrying thousands of them, partly for realism, partly because it's cool to have a secret treasure trove of gold coins/caps/chips. Plus i'd say that gold coins or poker chips would be the best choices for currency.

I would like to see less bartering in the big cities. At least in any big NCR cities. I want stores that only take Gold. Just like today. Maybe some credit like a tab. If you don't pay by the given dead line they send people after you if you owe them alot, say $1000 plus.

I want to see banks. I'd like to see store owner and traders/merchants that have more then just $10 on them. I want PAWN Shops to sell all the wasteland goodies I find. Since it's a pawn shop, if I sell something I need I will have like 20 games days to get it back.

I want gold coins most of all.

Rethinking stuff, multi-currency would be somewhat good too. Like being able to buy smaller stuff for both cash(backed up by gold) and caps, but the best stuff would be available only for cash/gold.

where would you find gold in a post apocalyptic world. Also caps have already been used, so I think poker chips would be cool

Poker chips please or :cookie:

Ceaser's legion is in control of NV. NCR is just trying to expand.

CHIPS