Talk:A Valuable Lesson

Can you skip getting the 50 caps?
After being sent to the room with the badges I recalled being there once before earlier in the game way before I collected 50 star caps, but I don't recall the badges, the guy with the pew pew, or the holotape. Were those added as a result of me turning in 50 caps?--65.27.167.139 09:17, November 10, 2010 (UTC)

As far as I know the room remains locked until you give the 50 caps to Festus

Experience upon completion of quest
I'm on PC version and upon picking up the holotape, I get a huge 1500 xp gain. Can someone else confirm this and add this to the quest reward? Yiron 14:25, November 21, 2010 (UTC)

What a waste of time
I searched high and low for those caps, i killed at least 4 people to take thiers from them and i had 64 by the time i turned them in and all i get is 1500 caps and a laser pistol with a different name?

Wow. Well I guess the name of the quest is right.... Don't Rob, Steal or Murder children. Gets you nothing but 1300 caps and a rubbish laser pistol that wastes emmense ammo... 11 EC Per shot...tsk tsk.

Thanks for sharing Droevig 19:02, March 4, 2011 (UTC)

Turning in 50 caps and getting 1500 in returned seems like a pretty good return on your investment if you ask me. Also Pew Pew is not only a unique weapon, which have always been favored collectables among Fallout players, but it’s the highest rated pistol type energy weapon in the game, equaled only by the Alien blaster. ReapTheChaos 22:51, May 30, 2011 (UTC)

That's the reason of the name of the quest. "A Valuable Lesson". --186.57.195.216 16:51, August 29, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah, I was dissapointed a bit at first too, but that quest was pretty nice. I mean, yeah, the prize isn't big. But the experience was pretty cool. I was collecting those caps like mad to get the "mysterious prize", and killed that poor guy who made a necklace out of them. I was like "Give me that" and killed him. And at the end just found a holotape which told me it was "wrong to kill all those innocent people". lol, it was kinda suprising and all, so I liked it. Similar to that dude that runs from you when you first find Nipton, shouting "I WON THE LOTTERY!" Then you kill him to get his ticket, only to find out that his prize was not getting killed. --Neko ceko 19:52, August 30, 2011 (UTC)

Page incorrect.
I know this is more a question of semantics, but stating that the “real prize” is 1500 caps is incorrect. The 1500 caps is simply notable loot.

The “real prize” was the story behind the legend of why some bottle caps have a blue star under them. The legend of a prize for collecting enough star caps started long before any prize or explanation was offered by the company. Once they decided to use the legend to their advantage as a sales promotion they received complaints about the story being a lousy prize, so they began giving away the deputy badges as a consolation prize. So technically the badge is the prize. ReapTheChaos 23:02, May 30, 2011 (UTC)

Bugs
This has been removed:

This section doesn't fail; The Legend of the Star does.
 * This section of the quest will always fail, but the one it unlocks is the important one.

FSBDavy 05:03, June 16, 2011 (UTC)

Yeah I've been cleaning up the articles for Bug Verification Project. If the verification tag expires(after I think 2 weeks without being verified) it gets deleted, and if they are incorrect they also get deleted.

PS: I also edited your message and took off the verify tag because it adds this talk page to the Category:Verification needed page that I'm sorting through, and there arent bugs on this page, just discussion. --Xa3 19:12, June 21, 2011 (UTC)

Death of the Stranger
It says that if you read between the lines, it sounds like the bar owner killed the stranger, but I don't get that from the story. For one thing, that would have meant no recipe for him because if it was a family recipe, it probably was remembered and not written down. Also, why would he have closed early or paid for the funeral. I think that sentence should be taken out of the page. Besides, it's unverified and irrelevant to the quest. Ganondorf 21:36, November 13, 2011 (UTC)