Just to add my $0.02 to the OP -- nah! Level 35 is more than enough.

Wtih no "Swift Learner" perk, I had already hit the Level 30 cap by the time I installed and loaded "Dead Money". Thanks to being stripped of all of my gear, I opted to go with melee weapons (my absolute weakest skill) with the occasional Laser Pistol shot to take out emitters and the like. I took quite a bit of damage because of the up-close-and-personal nature of combat, low skill, the lack of armor and the Cloud, but never died from combat (collar blew lots of times, though). I got back to New Vegas just in time to hit Level 35 at the start of the final battle, which was a walk in the park by that point and also done mostly with melee weapons (yeah, I brought a knife to a gunfight - seemed like a good idea at the time :goodjob: ).

Adding more levels to that would be next to useless from a game perspective. The only reason I can see for doing it are for those players who must have 10s in all stats and 100s in all skills and I think there are some mods out there to let you do that without breaking it for the rest of us.

If I could have one thing from the devs in a DLC, I think I'd like to be able to keep playing after the final battle, but my understanding is that's a pretty solid "no".

This thread has been tidied up - a lot of flamebait and other needlessly personal, antagonistic rubbish has been removed. I am unlocking this because for the most part this discussion was going well, and I'd rather not close it.

Keep your discussion on topic, and leave the personal jabs out, or this will be locked, and official warnings will be handed out.

I want a level increase specifically so I can get more perks. If only you can readjust perks like in Borderlands...

That would semi-defeat the purpose of making new characters then, if you could just reallocate perks. Making mistakes in character development, for me, just simply means I'll have a funner time the second time around, even if it's the same type of character. You know how you play with that type of character, and then you can adjust to better suit your style.

Obviously there are differing opinions here. I'm not looking to kill a legendary deathclaw with one strike of my unarmed fist or be able to DT/bullet sponge Legion or NCR extermination squad attack.

What I do want to do is be able to get one or two extra perks towards the endgame Like Long Haul and Pack Rat to facilitate my OCD need to loot everything in sight.