Poker Chips may be a decent alternative, considering the game's location. NCR might have an entirely different currency though; but then working with two different currencies wouldn't be too problematic. It would just show up as two separate currencies; kinda like when I'm on a holiday and had currencies for two countries in my wallet

Chips: 673
NCR $: 438

The inability of bottlecaps to barter with sounds plausible as well, considering this quote on the Wiki and the fact that Fallout 3 was set in an entirely different region:




Anyways, I'll see what the guys at Obsidian and Bethesda will provide as currency


Milt

Not a bad idea at all

I love this idea

This idea actually sounds great! It's a small thing, but it really is the small things that matter.

This topics getting revived o yaaa.... i have no real reason for doing so except wanting to disscuss somthing enjoy.

The http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Currency#Fallout:_New_Vegas is as follows:
So no poker chips as currency, except perhaps within the casinos themselves.

Although from memory it was actually ring pulls in Fallout Tactics and not Bottle Caps.

i'm not sure about currency but on fallout wiki i saw that you can buy a pipboy 3 million (gold version) with poker chips at a casino

Frankly i think they've done the money really well. If they used casino chips as money what would they use in casinos?

I think we should still use caps and use them to buy chips and exchange chips for caps.

There is exchange rates for the currencies

NCR Dollars (Most value in NCR territory)
Caesar's Legion gold coins (Most value in CL territory)
Bottlecaps (Universal currency)
Chips (Casinos)

You can trade in any of the first three for chips, and I assume you can get your choice of money back when you cash in your won chips.

its caps and it will stay caps deal with it <_<

I'd like to find jewellery (gold rings, silver chains, little baubles with gems) to be able to barter. I mean, what happened to all the diamonds?

Caps is but one Currency and Poker/Casino chips will only be in the casinos.

Too much obsession. I never ever question what an RPG I play uses as currency, I just accept it as currency.

Maybe just trade in your poker chips for caps to Mister House

I wasnt sure about this at first, but the idea has grown on me. What I've seen of the currencies so far looks pretty good though, I'm pleased that there are going to be more than one. Its one of those little things that makes too much sense to leave out

In Fallout, isn't EVERYTHING used as currency? In a post-apocalyptic world, I bet they only want useful items as currency.

Exactly, and I think they said each Casino had their own chips, right?

But what I don't get is that CL coins are made out of gold, so wouldn't the NCR want them no matter what? Gold is gold.

Also, CL wouldn't want NCR money, because it's just paper.

Confusion.

Well excuse me for posting a suggestion...

Will chips from other casinos be worth more than others? Will you even be able to leave with chips or do you have to exchange them before you leave? So many strange things about all these new currencies. Just exchange rates alone are a little confusing.

This. Bottlecaps fell out of favor as currency nearly a hundred years before the events in New Vegas.

And for some reason I was under the impression that poker chips were being used as currency in Vegas. I don't know where I got that idea, but I knew caps were out, so I guess I just assumed. Also, I read that the game actually keeps up with the separate denominations of NCR money that you have, so it might already be set up to deal with multiple currencies. I don't see why groups opposed to the NCR would be using their money . . .

From an economics standpoint, poker chips would make great currency. They are durable and hard to duplicate, and they have a definite value, with everyone knowing that they can take chips from you and go cash them in at the casinos in Vegas for NCR money or whatever else is being used. They may charge a transaction fee for the trouble of having to trek to Vegas to cash in the chips, but I don't see why they wouldn't take them in payment. Hell, if enough people believed in the guaranteed value of the chips, they wouldn't even have to cash them, with the chips being passed around as is, backed by the "gold standard" of the casinos.

What? Caps are out?

Apparently not. They were last time we played Fallout in the West, but apparently people have re-adopted them for some reason ( ) even though there are 2 possibly, 3 better choices for currency present in the immediate area. Why anyone would except bottlecaps in payment when there are perfectly good poker chips, NCR dollars, and Legion currency to be had (all backed by strong, stable, well-off groups) is beyond me.

It was hilarious in Fallout 2 when you tracked down a treasure, went to a lot of trouble to get to it, and uncovered a bag with thousands of caps. Which were utterly worthless.

Caps made sense in Fallout 1, because they were backed by a standard (water) and a powerful group (the water merchants).

Caps made sense in Fallout 3 because there was no better currency, and bottlecaps worked well to facilitate barter transfers.

But the best answer is probably that people have come to associate bottle cap currency with the Fallout series, and Bethesda and Obsidian decided to include them as option in New Vegas, regardless of how little sense they make.

I just got this idea about the form of currency in the game. How about if all the three major factions have their own kind of currency? For example, the New California Republic will use the water backed NCR Dollars, Mr. House will use the poker chips of his casino, and Caesar's Legion will use Roman/Spartan style bronze and iron coins.

When dealing with the factions they will much more prefer their own form of currency and will give you really bad exchange rate for the other ones. As for the neutral settlements, the value will change depending on how powerful each faction is. For example, if you help Caesar's Legion to wipe out the NCR's presents in the Mojave Wasteland, the NCR Dollars will worth almost nothing. On the other hand, if you eliminate the Legion and help NCR establish a stable regional government in Vegas, the NCR Dollars will become the dominate currency in the area.

What do you guys think?