Forum:Good source of ECPs?

Hi all, first post, new to Fallout series.

Been using this awesome wiki to get myself in with the BoS, got my power armour, tesla cannon and Laser Gatling gun. Sweet.

Doing the return to sender quest, (that ranger sequoia is mine) getting to Ranger Station Foxtrot for the first time...run into a massive bunch of cazadors. Boone and I, all suited up in sexy T-51b, open up on them with everything...at which point I realise i have about enough ECPs to last 15-20 seconds in combat with the laser gatling -_-

I got lucky a couple of times on roulette and got a couple a thousand caps...I just want to know where I can buy ECPs in serious quantities so I can use my baby without worrying about ammo. Specifically, a place I can buy again and again would be good (e.g. Silver rush? already shoplifted their stock of ECPs, but they are still alive at this point) any suggestions?

86.152.202.102 01:46, January 5, 2011 (UTC) CJ 05/01/2011 86.152.202.102 01:46, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Torres and http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Gloria_Van_Graff should both sell them and restock every few days02:03, January 5, 2011 (UTC)Evilkord

The secret to play with energy weapons is having the Vigilant Recycler perk, so you recover a lot of drained ammo and can recycle them. You also will convert ammo A LOT, so make up for those science skills. :D Finally, having Veronica as a companion makes up for it, since she's a walking workbench and at same time very good too with energy/unarmed wepons, making it a terrific companion (give Pushy to her and you fire from the distance and she closes to finish the enemy).

Apart from Torrres and Gloria, if you wish to buy large quantities of ECP, the Khans armory usually have them by the 1000s, as well the NCR quartermaster on Hoover Dam; Blake at the Crimson Caravan have usually 300+ and Chet at Goodspring and Cliff Briscoe at Novac have them at 500+. But if you have a good amount of money or MF/EC cells, convert them to ECP. One MFC will give you 3 ECP and one EC will give you 2 ECP. So if you convert 100 energy cells this will give you 200 ECP. Later at the game you probably won't use much weapons with EC cell, unless you're a fan of Plasma Defender (and you should, terrific weapon). So get those 1500 EC that you probably have and convert them to ECP, you'll make 3000 ECP! Also, don't let the Gatling fool you over the Laser RCW, this weapon is very good with the mod: fire rapidly enough, last longer without needing repair, is way more accurate than Gatling and do very good damage to anything in the Wasteland. Specially Cazadors. ;) Brfritos 02:27, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

Wow, cheers guys, fantastic responses!!! Gonna look into buyin up some of those cells from the hoover Dam + khans...Torres and Gloria are already sold out atm :/

Now...I suspect I'm going to run out of caps soon...apart from raping casinos at roulette (usually possible to get 6000 caps by betting on a single number enough times) are there any other sure fire ways to make bucket loads of caps quickly? Looting is time consuming, and frankly, getting ~30 caps for conductors and fusion batteries just seems so pointless. I'm talking earning 5000+ in under 20 mins...possible? I've heard Caravan can be really good for that, but I have NO IDEA If I'm winning when I play it in-game, and very few of the special cards in my inventory...should I try and go down the build-my-deck-and-rape-peeps-at-caravan route, or is there an alternative? I wish casinos didn't ban...

86.172.89.196 12:41, January 5, 2011 (UTC) CJ 05/01/2011 86.172.89.196 12:41, January 5, 2011 (UTC)

Taking on NCR troopers and selling their weapons and equipment seems to net a fair bit of cash for me at the higher levels, or even making a few trips to places like vault 34(?) the irradiated one, and selling off a lot of the weapons found there. I'd say that hitting patrols from the different factions and "Prospecting" for high level weapons and armour is a good idea. Exosion 21:55, January 10, 2011 (UTC)