I invested in Wolfgang and I haven't seen him since.I only did the first round(200?) Does that make a difference?
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the first 200 upgrades them a little bit, but if you fully upgrade them, their repair skill goes up even more and they will have a lot of caps all the time and more stuff. i upgrade all of them once i have enough caps. another thing about the traveling merchants, later on in the game they get killed easily, there is a few ways to minimize or prevent that completely, this is what i do, three main steps.
1 - this is the way that makes sure you always have them around, make a couple saves with wolfgang and lucky hairth in the save every so often, i usually do this at megaton or rovet city. check the locations every so often and if they don't show up, you need to reload the save with them in it, now this might seem like a hassle but it can be if you don't have recent saves with lucky or wolfgang in them, but the next two steps will make sure they stay alive.
2 - put tesla armor on the guards and give them gatling lasers and heavy incinerators, i also give heavy duty weapons to the merchants themselves, usually chinese assault rifles, or tri beam lasers, or plasma rifles, however don't give lucky armor or else his repair skill goes down a little bit, i just put the armor on the caravan guards
3 - this last tip is important and it works pretty good, avoid certain locations and areas that the caravan guards might be at because if you're in the same area or cell as them, they might get attacked by deathclaws or albino scorpions, here's a few of the locations i really try to avoid
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near temple of the union
near canterbury commons
evergreen mills
arefu
those are prob 4 of the worst locations to be at often because the caravan is usually near those areas and those are areas with lots of enemies
safer areas to meet the caravan guards are
megaton
rivet city
agathas house
thats about it and if you do all that, you'll always have them around.
here is one more tip in case you do go to canterbury commons a lot and want to protect that town better, because it does come under attack a lot later in the game.
i give the mayor, and the machettes, the guy and gal who roam around the entrance of the town, all gatling lasers and heavy incinerators.
also i buy RL-3 from the robot guy and fire him and he goes to canterbury commons right where the caravan merchants are, and if you have broken steel RL-3 is indestructable pretty much so he might help oiut if an enemy comes into the town.