Well, at least Skyrim got this part right; until you get a perk which makes it possible, certain retailers will not buy things that don't match the theme of their shop. The obvious exception being general stores, who buy everything and have no theme to speak of.

Even more ways to fix this problem!

If you have two low of charisma, some people will not deal with you.

If you join a faction that is an enemy of the vendor, they will not deal with you.

Less places to sell all the junk people collect, so less caps they end up with. It will also add more realism.

I must agree with op. Always end up with enough stuff to arm a personal army.



You forget shops restock, npcs respawn and the player can sleep forever. Even with one shop you could just keep killing npcs, selling their loot and sleeping until shops restock and npcs respawn.

Vendors should just pay plain nothing for most items but they should always have something the player wants. So that the player has always less than he wanted to spend.

This could be fixed by simply not having the venders respawn... or better yet when you kill the vendor their inventory is empty. So you can't loot everything they have. Their inventory should represent what is in the store, an area the player can't get into such as Hidden Valley storage room and the gun runners robot vendor. So the vendor doesn't have anything on them, all the stuff is in the incessible part of the store, or boxes.

It's possible solution but what kind of vendor doesn't restock?
Besides it could create a problem with certain items that can only be found from vendors. There could be a situation where the whole world runs out of certain ammo type because shops don't restock it and it can't be found anywhere. For example in New Vegas this would concern 25mm grens and .50 explosive rounds.
Basically all vendors won't give away what they sell already.

How do you restock (but through further trading) if there are no steady supply lines and manufacturing, and the content of the shop is based largely (if not solely) on traded-in items (at least that's how it'd logically be in the given setting)?

Some items could restock at different rates. The most common items restock faster then the rare expensive items.

Some vendors could have better connections with suppliers, so their items restock faster then others.

Could make those vendors cash only people.

Personally I don't see the point in cash-only vendors when everyone else is dealing in caps, it just wouldn't make sense unless everyone in that area was also dealing in cash.

By "cash only" vendors I mean what ever currency is in the game. Caps, NCR money it doesn't matter.

The guy only takes money for goods/services.

I don't see any problem with this, I always find myself in both Fallout and TES that I always end up with a high amount of money. One request would be that I can also use my money to hurt the town in some way, so that way I don't have to be a saint to do something with my money. Maybe I could bribe some official, or use my money to somehow negatively effect the town.

Isn't that a problem in and of itself already?

I see, I was under the impression you were referring to pre-war or NCR money.

That makes plenty more sense.

I apologize, I don't follow. What do you mean?

That they are the same, when they shouldn't be......