Talk:Wasteland Survival Guide (Fallout 3)

I got the last (and worst) description for the book, can someone please explain to me what I did wrong?
 * ... probably everything.--Kajex Firedrake 06:05, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

You need to complete the optional objectives for every mission to get the best book and the best perk. If you miss an optional objective for any mission in a chapter of the book, that chapter will be described in the worst terms, so you could complete six of the nine optional objectives and still get the worst book description. RandomData 06:21, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Alternate discription
I have a different discription. it is as follows:

Author:Moria Brown Expert Researcher: [Player name]

This sturdy guidebook contains a wealth of knowledge for any wasteland wanderer.

The pages are studded with good advice about survival and overcoming its denizens, only slightly hindered by impractical suggestions about high-mined ideals suck as "rebuilding humanity."

Its straight-forward and no-nonsense style makes this a very useful field guide, despite its minor flaws.

Table Book or Carry-along?
Any point in keeping this in my inventory or is it just a house decoration type thing? -Q

I'm using mine as a house decoration. It's a big cool looking book. It does make strange metal sounds though when I move it around and bang it into stuff. Wierd.

I put it on the table in my Mr. Handy's room (because that little room is a bit boring).V.A.T.S. addict 19:58, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

its just a decoration, but the thing is huge! its almost three times the size of any other book --87.177.34.197 09:59, September 6, 2009 (UTC)

How to get discription
Sorry to post anon, but I was curious how it is that we read these descriptions? (360, specifically, please) Thanks in advance -R
 * ... ooops, answering my own question here for those that come after. Description is in Notes.

-R

Matching descriptions with optional quests completed
It would be nice if someone could match all these descriptions with what optional (if any) quests were completed. I completed all 9 of them, yet there's still descriptions that sound better than the one I have.

Random Encounters
I recently ran into a male wastelander at the WKML Broadcast Station. He had killed a Mirelurk and had a copy of the Guide on him. I pickpocketed it and came back a few days later. It respawned in his inventory. This seems to be exploitable and I've edited the main as such. I remember running into a wastelander in another game of mine in a different location though. Any input on where the random encounters for these are or how many total "Guide Fans" there are? I also think I should reverse pickpocket some Tesla Armor on that guy, so I can keep stealing books from him. Imagine a safehouse table covered with 20 Survival Guides!! VATS 16:03, July 1, 2010 (UTC)

B.S. book
I went through and counted all the optional objectives I didn't do, 2 of them. One being the "hack the RobCo" (I accidently hit x instead of circle on my controller and it locked me out.) The other being "7 mole rats" (in the tunnel there was only about 4 left alive, and none would attack me in the wasteland so I said screw it) and I still got the B.S. "moderate guidebook contains little...detailed focus in some areas....simply confusing in others...questionable content." I also used the Intellegence on all answers. Anybody mind explaining why?

"tone of your replies"
moar detailz plz.

what responses are required to get one of the 5 versions? ie how do I choose the one I want?

Reordering information
This page has a TON of repeated information. The description only has three sections: a summary of the quality depending on how many chapters are good/bad (unrelated to the order), a section that depends on which chapters were good and bad (3 good, 1 and 2 good but 3 bad, 1 good but 2 and 3 bad, etc), and a section that describes the tone, again reflective of the book quality. Seems it would be much better to have different headings for each of the three sections, and describe what determines them, rather than listing every possible iteration of the description and copying every line several times. Will do this myself if there are no objections. 220.14.74.120 10:13, 23 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 4 sections rather (how highly regarded your character is in the credit at the top). But my point remains valid!220.14.74.120 10:19, 23 September 2012 (UTC)