Forum:Whats Your Money Making Method?

I'm interested how people make their caps as i just scrounge, take what i can make a profit on, sell certain types of ammo, sell pre war books, BOS holotags, fingers... my highest amount of money was 20,000 caps but then i started getting lazy and got traders to repair stuff so i'm sitting on 15,000. i might have at least 10,000 caps worth of crap in my house at megaton. one prone-to spend tip is if you, like me, go to your house and store things leave half of the caps you have in your house i.e. 14000 caps leave 7000. enough rambling on share your methods! Mr snip 10:37, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I collect Pre War Books, Scrap Metal, BOS Holotags, Sugar Bombs and Blood Packs. Blood packs are just about in every First Aid Kit so they're easy to find and can be sold for 15 caps each. I currently have around 10,000 caps. I get my fortune from selling ammo (I always just take all when I open a Ammo Crate and Scrounger perk helps) that I don't need or use, like darts, I mean come on, like anyone is gonna use about 100 darts, I only ever use them on Deathclaws, 10mm, .32, Energy Cells, Missles especially, I can find about 11 missle from some ammo crates and for 36 caps each :O. Whenever I start getting Heavy, I just dump my loot or sell it in Megaton. After about 1 of my exotic and erotic Wasteland adventurez I can make about 3,000 dollerie doos. :D DipCheese 12:30, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

Go to Alexandria Arms, kill all the Enclave Soldiers, grab their Plasma Rifles. Go to Rockbreaker's Last Gas, kill all the Enclave Soldiers, grab their Plasma Rifles... Those things are expensive as hell. 1789 caps for a fully repaired one, IIRC.BSMaker 13:45, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

If you have the right gear,go out hunting enclave and giant radscorpions,kill a giant radscorp drops 4 poison glands,which can be sold for a good price,and the enclave loot always goes for a high price,and if your really thick,you can go out hunting deathclaws and taking their hands!(recommend doing this one very easy to get the most out of the loot)


 * I upgrade the Merchant Empire so they have the cash for when I dump everything on them at once. Collecting stuff and storing it in a mailbox in Springvale makes life easy, you can just map-hop directly to a storage point - and later sell it off in bulk by waddling over to the caravan point with a ton of goods (what's the max 2700lbs?). [[Image:Ash_Nuke.jpg]] AshRandom (Talk) 15:45, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I've found that there aren't enough caps in the Wasteland to sell everything you find, at least without waiting for the merchants to restock caps. I pretty much just trade for everything I need. I store everything I find in a storage place, and only take it out when I need to buy something, which doesn't seem to be very often. Even after trading for everything I need, I still have enough junk to clean out their caps. --MadDawg2552 16:20, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Seriously? The merchant caravans end up with a combined 6,000-8,000 after you upgrade them. That's not enough? [[Image:Ash_Nuke.jpg]] AshRandom (Talk) 16:57, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * Before you upgrade them, they only have between 100 - 300 caps each. How many people can get enough caps to upgrade all the merchants all the way relatively early in the game?  Having enough caps to upgrade them means you are quite a ways into the game and money is no longer an issue.  --MadDawg2552 17:05, 23 January 2009 (UTC)
 * I suppose you have a point, from my own experiences however I always manage it before level 5.... [[Image:Ash_Nuke.jpg]] AshRandom (Talk) 17:35, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

A good way to make money is to trade worthless junk to henry casdin,for frag grenades or something equally useeful,you can do it early in the game and you can get easy scrap metal from carl in the family Werewolfhell 17:08, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

I almost never use frag mines, but they're all over the place, lightweight, and expensive. Looting refridgerators also earned O.K. money early on, at least until I installed a hunger/thirst/sleep mod. Pilot lights are pricey. Raid the Citadel for Sugar Bombs. I even got hardup one time and brought a load of ruined books from the Arlington Library to Moira, but it takes longer and pays less than knocking over some raiders. Imp of the Perverse 19:11, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Picking up every piece of crap and selling it. Then Enclave Farming later in the game. Fat Man Spoon 19:13, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * What's Enclave Farming?? Butcher Pete 23:42, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Killing all the Enclave at one site, then planting mines all over the area. When they respawn, BOOM! raining dead enclave. Rinse and repeat with multiple areas. Fat Man Spoon 23:55, 10 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Thanks, sounds good. I'll have to try that sometime. Butcher Pete 01:13, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

Collect items with the highest value to weight ratio. Also, boost your repair as high as possible early on so you can repair weapons and armor and sell them at a much higher profit. Repair, repair, repair. LVTDUDE 22:58, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

I have 35,000 caps, and I credit it all to using Missles (I DESPISE the missle launcher in the game) to replace my expenditures and then clean out the trader's remaining caps. They are innumerous, valuable, and weightless. I've also devised a system of using a single weapon for a long period of time (preferably a melee weapon), causing your ammo reserves to rise the next time you select your favorite gun, and selling any amount you feel to be excessive. Butcher Pete 23:42, 10 June 2009 (UTC)

Big Guns farming. With a decent barter skill and a high repair skill, these things can be sold for a ton of caps. Farming areas include: The Mall, outside Hubris Comics and Fort Bannister. Just repair the thing into a decent condition, and you're good to go.

Also, sell them Chems you don't need. AngryNorwegianDude 07:56, 11 June 2009 (UTC)

I believe I have 120,000 caps. I usually just go to a place and search all the lockers and stuff then sell plasma rifles and laser rifles to the caravans. SuSpence95 07:45, 12 June 2009 (UTC)

I have about 60,000 caps because of the shop glitch but before that I had 40,000 caps from just hunting and looting in the wasteland(I do that when I want to take a break from quests and relax a little by killing the enclave and wildlife)then selling them to various caravaners and shops in the wasteland but with the shop glitch I don't really need to loot anymore.GaZam360 12:43, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Er, shop glitch? Fat Man Spoon 12:45, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Oh, its when the merchant you are trading with has 2 items with varying CND. When you buy the lower CND one, you actually recieve the higher CND one for the same price as the lower CND item. And if you repeat that you actually get a perfectly repaired version of that item. Then all you have to do is sell the high CND one you recieved back to them and you get more money in the process. Keep doing this to get all the caps the merchant has.GaZam360 12:52, 13 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I think I've done that unintentionally a few times. Fat Man Spoon 12:54, 13 June 2009 (UTC)