While I was on my 3rd playthrough, I sparked a nice and challenging idea for my next playthrough: To collect every weapon in the game, try to maintain them at top-notch peak levels (~80% to 100%), gather enough ammo for every firearm, and if possible, have every mod available for each one! This applies to unique and non-unique weapons, and melee weapons. Thrown weapons will be just in packs of 5 or 10. And for the clothing, it'll apply as well. It sounds like a crazy idea, but It may work out. I already know some limitations, like the Alien Blaster/YCS rifle. And to be organized, I'll store all collected items in Lucky 38 (reason: you can buy crates that has categories, for more convenience), hard save occasionally (reason: I don't want to lose/go through anything), and have a list to check off each one I found, compiled from the Fallout Wiki.

I posted this because 1) To give people an idea and 2) Some good tips to help me. I already know to take the Jury Rigging perk ASAP, as that perk will help me considerably, and to maintain a very high bottle cap count, as getting these will require a hell load of spending.

I've already done this, however as I have also found you can't actually get ALL of the weapons in the game.

If you choose the Wild wasteland trait, you get the alien blaster which is great, but you can never get the ycs gauss rifle. And if you don't choose wild wasteland trait, well vice versa.

Jury rigging is awesome, but not for weapons. Once you've completed dead money you don't really need to repair weapons with weapons. JR is still awesome for repairing expensive armors with cheap/common ones.

I even started displaying my weapons around my L38 pad too, I have a bookshelf full of all the different type of mines/grenades, the plasma ones look kinda cool. (its the bookshelf in the corner of the pool roof so its pretty dark and the glow looks great)
It's great fun trying to collect all of the ones that is possible though, it's just a shame there isn't better shelves/table tops in the L38.

I always have my evil gnome stood next to a regular gnome in the main hall so that table out...

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That's awesome that you've collected nearly every weapon in the game! Any tips you can provide?

Why is that when after Dead Money, repairing weapons with weapons won't be a deal anymore? If there's potential spoilers, please block them

Tips? Well if you're going to hunt them all down yourself and not hunt them through the wiki, I'd advise making sure you have good lockpicking skills and sneak for pickpocketing.
Make sure you explore absolutely everywhere maticulously..

Can't really explain why dead money changes the way you repair weapons without spoilers tbh lol.
But, as long as you have plenty of patience it's not a hard feat to achieve tbh.
Organising things in your 'pad' using the horribly inacurate object manipulation mechanics is harder, imo lol

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Thanks for the tips!

I should post a screen shot of Mr. House's Penthouse after I killed him. Weapons of every type in there. All repaired to perfection. All on shelves and propped in corners. The unique ones go in my Lucky 38 suite. the non unique go in House's place.

While waiting for honest hearts I went through a bit of an exploring and collecting phase.

My favorite collection display is the poker chip pacman maze in the Lucky 38 first floor casino, dropped like 1000 of em one by one by one.

The things I do while the hockey games are on....