Fallout 3!

[Hammy]

Money Exchange Strategy

So the NPCs average 200-450 in caps.
What do you do when you have so much loot that you cant cash out because both the doc and the Supply chick are tapped out?

Buy for your home either:
Nuka-Cola Machine
Infirmary
Work Bench

Obviously you need so many weapons in your lockers that you need to empty your pockets first. Also, I usually only store fully repaired to my skill weapons.

Last night I did this:

Sold out.
Bought the Bench.
Sold out.
Bought the Med Station (infirmiry)
Sold out.
Bought the Nuka-Cola machine
Sold out.

And effectively walked away with 1400 caps still in my pocket.

I'm a pack rat in this game.
I sweep a map and as I clear a floor (like the police) I find a Fire Hose Station and empty all my loot into it and go on to the next floor.
There may be a million desks, but usually only one or two fire hose stations- so I use them so I dont have to remember where I stored my loot.

After I am done with the entire Instance (the building or subway or etc) I then do fast travel back and for the Megaton to empty my pockets. After I am done doing that, I spend a few minutes repairing, then I completely empty my pockets and re-equip so that I am carrying the least weight and no more than two weapons and one melee weapon. I usually opt for the Combat shotty and the Chinese Assault Rifle knowing that I will pick up mines along the way and unlimited ammo thanks to my packrat tendencies

I currently have over 500 rounds of every type of ammo in my lockers except the .308 which only seems to pop up if you are carrying that gun while you forage, and even then the ammo rate is 3 -10 rounds a find, with possibly only 1-2 finds per instance/subway/etc.

Pass on the themes in my opinion. There is no value return on them, unlike the 3 machines I mention.

[Duke{CLR}]

Good stuff Hammy.

[FieryDragon]

Here's the House Themes!

So you all can decide what to spend your precious caps on!

Gametrailers.com - Fallout 3 house themes by mrjimmy

[Rand{CLR}]

Some of the house themes have skill books. I got both love den and science to date, and each had a book in there.

Hammy and others, gun ammo is weightless. I simply carry as much as I find, and sell off half of the rounds I don't use much when I need a cash infusion, also doing that technique--works for schematics as well as home items. It's all the little junk that adds up weight. Thankfully, stimpaks are weightless also, because I had almost 80 of the things after hitting up a hospital.

I am probably carrying too much weaponry. Even with small guns focus, I'm currently lugging around a chinese assault rifle, combat shotty, silenced 10mm pistol, scoped .44, sniper rifle, shishkebob, either a plasma or laser gun and my brand new dart gun (just made last night, and I want to test it out on something). I also made a rail spike gun, but I put that away for now without using it.

I love the look of home-made weaponry, especially the dart gun. You can see the elements that were used to create it, and how they were thrown together. Very cool.

-Rand

[Duke{CLR}]

Well I just bought my first infirmary with the stuff i scavanged from the RoboCo factory.

[FieryDragon]

*************SPOLIER ALERT************





Has anyone found Harold yet? I did last night (HE'S A FREAKING TREE NOW!) and his quest was alot of fun! Sucks about the three outcomes that I had to take though. Basiclaly they are:

1) Kill him to make him happy
2) Help the people of the wastelands by speeding up his blooming periods.
3) Stop his blooming period so that only the cult will benefit from him.

Have fun peeps and I wont disclose where I found him, I'll just say North.

[Hammy]

Some of the house themes have skill books. I got both love den and science to date, and each had a book in there.

Hammy and others, gun ammo is weightless. I simply carry as much as I find, and sell off half of the rounds I don't use much when I need a cash infusion, also doing that technique--works for schematics as well as home items. It's all the little junk that adds up weight. Thankfully, stimpaks are weightless also, because I had almost 80 of the things after hitting up a hospital.

I am probably carrying too much weaponry. Even with small guns focus, I'm currently lugging around a chinese assault rifle, combat shotty, silenced 10mm pistol, scoped .44, sniper rifle, shishkebob, either a plasma or laser gun and my brand new dart gun (just made last night, and I want to test it out on something). I also made a rail spike gun, but I put that away for now without using it.

I love the look of home-made weaponry, especially the dart gun. You can see the elements that were used to create it, and how they were thrown together. Very cool.

-Rand

I'm with you on that one already- I keep over 500 rounds in the locker- I didnt say I wasnt selling any I've played games where at the end of the game, they make ammo scarce for some dumb reason, and if you arent stocked heavy you are stuck. So I keep 2x what I spent in the locker at all times - doing measurements from each instance.

Example: I leave the house with 100 rounds, come back with 10 rounds. Remember- I'll stash stuff in the map, I dont check lockers until AFTER the map is clear, so I already know how many rounds I spent. As you level up and progress, you will spend more rounds. So I'm just preventing myself from being stuck in game. The vendors dont replenish ammunition fast enough...

Anyone having luck with finding the nomad vendors? Any uniques?

[Toryu72]

Will not play it!

[Hammy]

Today's patch fixed the Alt-Tab instability and addresses some issues when shutting the game down.

[Duke{CLR}]

Will not play it!

Why?

[omfg karl marx]

Here's to waiting for a mod to add more tracks to the radio stations or new ones! After like 40 hours, I'm getting sick of the Ink Spots and company.

Bonus!

[Rand{CLR}]

They definintely need more radio stations. I love the style of music Three Dog plays, but could go for more variety both in music and chat.

-Rand

[Hammy]

They definintely need more radio stations. I love the style of music Three Dog plays, but could go for more variety both in music and chat.

-Rand

If they come out with an "add your own music " mod, I'm grabbing the MP3's I have of music from the 20's, 30's and 40's. It'll be so perfect.

[omfg karl marx]

There will be one. I'm just not sure how long it will take. From the looks of it, there's just a grouping of files from which it randomly chooses. (I'm over-simplifying it, of course.)

[JohnyRico]

I was always running out of ammo until I took the perk that increases the amount of ammo you find. Between that and getting to 100 on small arms so I can kill with fewer rounds I am never completely out of ammo anymore. At worst I have to switch back and forth between the assault rifles and the 10mm weapons for a bit. Or you can always break out the shishkebob (-1 for spelling) and just go old school til you find some bullets ya like.