Sierra Madre Vending Machines : Fallout: New Vegas

» Mon Oct 19, 2009 10:18 am

I get the voucher what do i do with it......?!?!?!?!

» Mon Oct 19, 2009 11:47 am

Cash the voucher in at the vending machine for 1000 chips.

» Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:29 pm

Yeah, its just an option in the vending machine.. Gives you 1000 'free' chips for every voucher you have..

» Mon Oct 19, 2009 6:29 am

I love having the vending machine in the BOS Bunker, after completing Dead Money. The drop box adding 200 SM chips every 3 days, and the ability to craft more chips is a god send. My character is now a full time weapons repair man. I spend all the chips I make and get from the drop box on the weapons repair kits, then I go to the merchants around the map. I buy their junky low condition weapons, repair them, then sell them to a vendor for major profits. Who knew a vending machine could turn into a lucrative wasteland business virtually over night! Mr. House better look out. My character will be so wealthy he'll buy all of New Vegas. :biggrin:

do you have to fin the code in the villa for the repair kit or is it already one of the things you can get at first and how many sm chips is it

» Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:47 am

Weapon Repair Kit is found in the police station where you find dog near the prison cells on top of a cabinet

» Mon Oct 19, 2009 8:51 am

Weapon Repair Kit is found in the police station where you find dog near the prison cells on top of a cabinet

ok thanks

» Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:22 am

Not really, it probably won't have bankrupted corporations, effectively putting millions out of jobs. Like all those chemicals for the chems and meds, how many people just became obselete over night. Those vending machines would have destroyed any economy...

I hate them, they are the most ridiculous idea that I have ever seen and I thought that Harkness was the limit.

The current economy as we know it would be obsolete. Who needs capitalism when machines can create anything you will ever need from an infinite supply of raw materials? It would be like Star Trek :intergalactic:

» Sun Oct 18, 2009 10:04 pm

Has anyone mentioned the Agility glitch yet?
If you have gotten the clothing item return discs, you can cheat like crazy. Go to a Vending machine wearing any prewar clothing that grants an AGI bonus. Turn it in. You will still have the permanent bonus. Just for kicks on a previous character I got the AGI bonus up to +28. Quickdraw, changing weapons and reloading were almost instant; blindingly fast. Not sure what this does to the stability of the game. Also, didn't try it on the machine in the BoS outpost.

» Mon Oct 19, 2009 1:02 am

The current economy as we know it would be obsolete. Who needs capitalism when machines can create anything you will ever need from an infinite supply of raw materials? It would be like Star Trek :intergalactic:

My exact problem with Star Trek, I don't dwell on it but the idea of them just being able to create anything that they want. However magical though, it does kind of raise some import questions. The fact that the Fallout world is a capitalist world and then this guy just invents a machine that can turn metal into anything? Why do the Vaults have hydroponic laboratories if this kind of technology existed in a damn Casino Resort of all places. There would be anarchy, that machine would destroy and put so many out of employment. There would be an economic despression, farm land would become worthless over-night, hell the very notion of it would be ridiculous, a lot of people wouldn'y have any money, noboa lot of people wouldn't be buying anything and Sinclair ascends to Godhood and would effectively become the wealthies and most powerful man on the Earth. That machine would essentially render everything from Super-Markets to arms manufacturers obselete, and obviously people only tangentally involved with these trades like haulage companies and such would lose business and money too.

wow, thanks for this. i can only hope this is an attempt at trolling. if so, well done sir, i will bite.

it really bothers me when i run into this in the real world, though...extraordinary leaps in development and our technological evolution crippled because progress would inconvenience those unwilling (or unable) to adapt.

no thank you.

Yeah, [censored] those farmers who won't adapt and those miners who got fired because the company that ran the mine went out of business when food and any metal can seemingly be craft out of the ether. You can't just introduce a machine that can turn metal into fully functioning bullts or food and get away with it, it's a silly idea. Just somebody else thinking, "Instant Food? Sweet" and not actually thinking about how much it effectively puts tens of millions out of work, possibly even making them dependant on this machine and promoting Sinclair to the most powerful and wealthy man ever; and worst of all what new jobs would be created to appease them aside from Vending Machine technician or something, certainly not enough to replace the now obselete fields of agriculture and manufacture.

» Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:18 am

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The vending machine ~~replicator~~ can only replicate a limited amount of items (no guns or anything else with moving parts. No game meat. Etc.)

If farming and mining are rendered obsolete, then those people can do other things, like 'service' jobs. Most of the economy in the real, industrialized world is service anyway. The US economy is 80% service.

In order to create the Sierra Madre chips you need fission batteries (for some reason) which are a limited commodity anyway, so it isn't infinite.

People would find other things to do...like become waiters, singers, soldiers, secretaries, doctors, lawyers, computer engineers, janitors, nurses, deliverymen, couriers, bureaucrats, ditch-diggers, photographers, policemen, etc., ad infinitum.

» Mon Oct 19, 2009 2:18 am

The vending machine ~~replicator~~ can only replicate a limited amount of items (no guns or anything else with moving parts. No game meat. Etc.)

If farming and mining are rendered obsolete, then those people can do other things, like 'service' jobs. Most of the economy in the real, industrialized world is service anyway. The US economy is 80% service.

In order to create the Sierra Madre chips you need fission batteries (for some reason) which are a limited commodity anyway, so it isn't infinite.

People would find other things to do...like become waiters, singers, soldiers, secretaries, doctors, lawyers, computer engineers, janitors, nurses, deliverymen, couriers, bureaucrats, ditch-diggers, photographers, policemen, etc., ad infinitum.

This is me, agreeing entirely.

Sorry, Enclave, but the message here is not about "screw the little guy"...it's that progress is going to happen, regardless.

The farmers and miners you talk about might be inconvenienced by the invention of a "magical replicator" but to imply that they are ruined is to say that they are not capable of learning something new, or adapting to the changing times. The argument you are making is like complaining because a candle-maker is put out of a job by the invention of the light bulb.

As for Sinclair becoming wealthy, so what? If the post-apocalypse teaches us anything, it's that nothing lasts forever. Let Sinclair have his billions...did he not earn them by coming up with something amazing that people would pay for? Why should he not profit from good business sense?

Besides: the bombs came, and everything Sinclair worked for was put to the torch, metaphorically speaking. If it hadn't been the war, something else would have destroyed him...a car accident, cancer, a brilliant scientist with an even better idea. Whatever. The point is, everything changes...except war, of course. ^_^

» Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:45 am

Yeah, Dead Money made Jury Rigging obsolete...

Na, most people you find are not going to wait day after day for chips. Half broken Bush gun is better than no Bush Gun.

» Mon Oct 19, 2009 5:00 am

Yeah, [censored] those farmers who won't adapt and those miners who got fired because the company that ran the mine went out of business when food and any metal can seemingly be craft out of the ether. You can't just introduce a machine that can turn metal into fully functioning bullts or food and get away with it, it's a silly idea. Just somebody else thinking, "Instant Food? Sweet" and not actually thinking about how much it effectively puts tens of millions out of work, possibly even making them dependant on this machine and promoting Sinclair to the most powerful and wealthy man ever; and worst of all what new jobs would be created to appease them aside from Vending Machine technician or something, certainly not enough to replace the now obselete fields of agriculture and manufacture.

Who cares who it puts out of work? They all have to die anyway....they are squatting on Federal Property.