Easy money

Post » Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:14 pm

Just wanted to express how easy it is to stockpile money in this game. Here are a few methods:

Stealth: take lily and put on a stealth boy. You can loot Van grafts entire showroom, BoS bunker, and camp mccarran. These alone can be sold back at gun runners for thousands of caps.
Kill: if your a true baddy you can clear out BoS without many repercussions (arm turrets to kill all BoS, bEst done after finishing BoS quests as you can first get trained to wear power armor) it'll take you a couple trips but you can quickly rally a a TON of gear (I use novac as my base as it has room, safe, workbench, and mailbox all close to one another).
Luck: I amped up my luck (you can save some points and buy an implant) then buy the naughty nightwear from mick and ralphs. If you gamble at all the casinos (blackjack is the easiest to pull off) you'll end up with close to 50k (including atomic wrangler and primm).
Caravan: learning the game is a pain, but playing it is very easy. If you build your caravan deck with just 10s, 9,7,6,Jack, king you can easily win each time. Remember to raise your bets to max.
Caravan tip: just try to put down a ten in each caravan and double it with a king. Then u just need a six to win the caravan. I never use queens and occasionally a jack. Really you an just use 10s, kings, and sixes. You'll get caps but you'll often get NCR money and other currency.

I also am trying to get better about selling everything I'm not really using. Pick a weapon type (energy will always be most powerful but sniping or sneak critical attacks are equally powerful due to the high crit. I always finish the game with way too much stuff and money.
I almost wish there were more things to buy or spend money on.
All of this is essentially in the wiki, but I thought I'd put it out there.
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Post » Wed Mar 17, 2010 6:58 pm


I almost wish there were more things to buy or spend money on.



Me too. Though without a high luck money means a lot more.
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Post » Thu Mar 18, 2010 3:37 am

Me too. Though without a high luck money means a lot more.


The good news is you don't need luck to win caravan. It's very easy.
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Post » Thu Mar 18, 2010 5:09 am

Luck: I amped up my luck (you can save some points and buy an implant) then buy the naughty nightwear from mick and ralphs. If you gamble at all the casinos (blackjack is the easiest to pull off) you'll end up with close to 50k (including atomic wrangler and primm).


you can actually win up to 32,000 caps plus the ban limit in every casino except the Ultra-Luxe if you play blackjack and then switch to slots just before hitting the ban.

slots payout is 160:1 (32k caps) for three oranges and 80:1 (16k caps) for three graqes.

the Ultra-Luxe has no slots, but roulette max payout is 35:1 (7k caps) if you switch to roulette just before getting to the ban limit (15k caps ban limit at the Ultra-Luxe).

Caravan could be a really fun mini-game if the opponents used better AI (for example if the opponent played face cards on your stacks to ruin your hand, etc.)
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