Forum:Can i make caps quick?

i would like to get caps quick but i cant really find a effective way any suggestions?--Xxsoulsignxx 20:15, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Personally, I've never had a problem getting caps. In fact, I tend to accumulate too much. Just take whatever isn't nailed down while in a 'dungeon', then start ignoring the 1:1 weight:value items. You'll be loaded before you know it. There's really no situation where you'll be spending caps a lot.
 * Cigs in all forms (Carton, packs, single) are worthwhile, as are all weightless items (pencils, pre-war money, etc.)
 * Certain items should be hoarded, as they can be turned in to a quest giver for more cash then their values indicate: Sugar Bombs (15 or 30), Pre-War Books (100), Scrap Metal (10), Nuka-Cola Quantum (40 or 80), Blood Packs (10? 15? Can't remember). Buffout and Strange Meat are exchanged for Cave Fungus, which is Value 50.


 * Early game, Silver can give you anywhere from 100 to 400 caps, depending on Speech checks. Watching a friend play, even failing the check he got 300 caps out of it. She's very bugged in that regard.


 * Just remember this is an RPG. Even if it looks like a FPS, it's still Oblivion with guns, so explore! Plenty to see, plenty to loot. --DarkJeff 20:31, 10 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Oh yeah, you can get the Bottlecap Mine schematic fairly early on (Wasteland Survival Guide). So keep lunchboxes, cherry bombs, and sensor modules handy. If you don't use the mine, it's a 75 cap value item out of 10 caps and 38 caps worth of stuff.
 * It can also be worth reaching Fort Independence early, to turn stuff in to Casdin. He accepts technological goods regardless of quality. Which means near-broken low value items are worth turning in to him. (For example, if you find a crappy laser pistol worth less than 50 value, turning it in to him for 2 frags or stims gives you 50 value worth of goods. Note that it is not worthwhile to trade in sensor modules unless you want the item in question. 1 Sensor Module (30) for 1 Frag (25), 1 Stim (25), or 1 RadAway (20) is not cost effective. If you want Frag, Stims, or RadAway, it can worth trading 2 scrap metal (20 caps total) for. --DarkJeff 20:43, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Lastly, make sure you have 25 Explosives skill, and disarm the bomb for quick early cash. If you want to detonate the bomb, don't do it yet. Fixing the pipes (to get the scrap metal turn in) is handy cash. The best early source though is actually when Moria sends you to Minefield. Just be careful and quick with the action key, and load up on frag mines. 25 caps a pop and plentiful supply at the area, also conveniently an early quest. --DarkJeff 20:46, 10 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Unlike Oblivion, you actually don't accumulate 10,000,000 and buy out the world. The equivalent to buying out your 1,000,000 fine for massacring a city in Oblivion, is having enough to that shoot 8 mini-nukes is a cake walk. Obviously, seeing how people are so against in wasting their nukes, caps isn't really THAT easy to come by. --Lord0din69 05:05, 11 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I've got about two dozen nukes, two hundred missiles, 2000 rounds of every ammo, and 6000 rounds of 5.56, as well as 40k caps or so. I beg to differ. Just don't spray randomly and act intelligently, and caps (and ammo, which is just as good as cash) come easily. Exploration is key, obviously. As is being thorough in searching and looting. I actually tend to clean up Megaton of all their junk when I first arrive, since it's so close to a shop. Actually, the only time I've ever spent caps is to upgrade my house. Every other time I'm in trading, I can afford whatever I want simply via bartering the junk I've picked up. It got to the point that I had to start taking ammo because merchants run out of caps (I don't do the 'wait' trick to let them get more caps). Of course I obviously started trading with Casdin (hence the excessive amounts of 5.56). I don't use mini-nukes because they're rare, regardless of how rich I am. I did cleanse Paradise Falls by shooting everyone with a missile to the chest. (Clover took 2! Even with Star firing a minigun at her!) At this point I barely care about wasting ammo other than out of habit, and I still keep track of what loot is worth taking and what isn't. Seriously, caps aren't an issue when you've upgraded your house and accumulated a few map markers. If you're a heavy mine user or something it might be different, I guess, but just shoot intelligently and don't use excessive amounts of ammo, and you'll find you barely need to actually spend caps. I grabbed Scavenger and Scrounger at roughly level 10 or so, but I never had a problem with funding prior to that either.


 * Heck, killing the guards and robbing the blade before leaving the vault as well as talking to Silver means you start off with almost a thousand caps worth of goods right from the get-go. Then if you just repair the pipes and disarm the bomb (I let Burke kill Simms to grab an early Chinese assault rifle, killing Burke after, of course) and then do a few easy quests off Moria, you can be constantly in the black without having to face serious combat. --DarkJeff 06:22, 11 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Mini-nukes aren't rare. They are constantly resupplied at Rivet City and cost about 380caps per nuke. Still would put a dent into your wallet even with 40,000 caps if you wanted to go on a nuking spree with the MIRV. In short you won't be as rich as you were in Oblivion. In Oblivion there was nothing that really wasn't out of your price range (besides the guards refusing to take your bail when it reaches over a million). I remember accumulating over 30 million and had nothing to spend it on. I highly doubt you can compare 40,000 caps to several millions in Oblivion. Granted it is a bit similar that there isn't really much you want to spend your caps on in Fallout3 besides occasional repairs, upgrading home, and restocking ammo. --Lord0din69 21:37, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I have no expenses other than when I buy missiles and mini-nukes when I see them. Now that I know Rivet resupplies (I never actually Wait so I tend not to notice what restocks and what doesn't) I'm going to go around nuking random things... although my own innate nature won't let me waste ammo with the MIRV other than for amusement sake. I did run around firing missiles at every car I could find though. Pretty. --DarkJeff 21:41, 11 December 2008 (UTC)