Forum:How do YOU make money?

I'm not asking in what ways can you make money, but I'm asking YOU personally, how do you make your cash? I personally have started hoarding weapons and either supplying them to the Gun Runners in a steady supply, or, after visiting the Big MT. I am selling to the Sinks CIU. 173.218.154.40 19:50, July 23, 2011 (UTC)

The best way I've found to make money - although it requires a "start-up" fee and having the Long Haul perk helps immensely - is to keep any looted armor/weapons and visit Major Knight in the Mojave Outpost. He has a repair skill of 100 and when you pay to have items repaired, the caps go into his inventory which can then be pick-pocketed - essentially giving you free repairs (and a much higher resale value of mint condition items). While saving/loading until a successful pick-pocket is granted can become tedious at times, it is definitely worth the trouble in the long run and soon you will have more caps than you can spend. --R333x2

Exploiting the Casino's of all their money >:D 67.174.95.30 23:35, July 23, 2011 (UTC)
 * Yep, casino exploits work best, and as far as I know it still hasnt been patched. --Xa3MysteriousStranger.png 23:38, July 23, 2011 (UTC)

Well I don't exploit the casninos, i exploit everything else, i even take out patches if needed. I usually salvage weapons, use crappy weapons to repair awsome weapons to sell, repair a multiplas with a plasma, make 10x more than what i put in. Buy cheap weapons from vendors, (barter 100), repair them either with my limitless supply of repair kits, (thanks dead money) or with jury rigging, make anywhere from 2 to ten times more caps than i put in. And when that doesn't pay my bills, whitch are large because i am wastefull. ( I like to drop guns from gun runners worth thousands of caps and mods of the side of hoover dam, then jump in the water and try to find them. Haven't found one :), and that i like to reverse pickpoctet combat armour, rifles, and ammo onto people everywhere (especially on thugs in freeside, ever been charged by a bunch of guys in powerarmour with multiplas rifles while walking down the street? The people in freeside sure haven't.) I scavenge things like conductors and sensor modules to sell. Toaster and muggy make the rest of my stuff to sell. SOON THE WORLD WILL BURN IN NUCLEAR FIRE... AGAIN!- Toaster 174.109.137.71 00:06, July 24, 2011 (UTC)

i nab all the gold bars from the sierra madre and live off the spoils of war; selling armor and weapons as I find them. I use the gold bars to stock-pile vast quantities of ammo from the Gun Runners and Bos. Zac hemker 16:43, July 24, 2011 (UTC)

I just sell anything with a value of ten or above. Crossfire XVI 17:36, July 24, 2011 (UTC)

My companions kill legionary assassins and other groups frome the legion raid camp so making 8000-10000 caps in one run.

I raid The Fortand sell their stuff. ___________________________________________________________

I found a new fun exploit. Empty bottles sell like crap but purified water sells good. The sink in the sink in the big MT can turn any empty bottle into a bottle of purified water including milkbottles soda bottles whiskey bottles etc. Did you know that the sunset sasparilla bottling plant has over 600 bottles? Now you do!

DoctorJay 22:16, July 26, 2011 (UTC)

I kill the guards at the Gun Runners and sell all their stuff. They respawn every couple of days, and you can get around 8000 caps at a time. Best of all, you can still trade with the robot! --Wiseman of the Wastes 22:45, July 27, 2011 (UTC)

Prolly best money making skill is jury rigging. Buy almost broken items that sell well and repair them with crappy weapons. Mainly money is in picking up weapons and repairing them ... then selling. Remember to pick up items so you can make weapon repair kits.

I get buffout from the sierra madre vending machine and sell it to motor runner.Cheese eater42 07:39, July 29, 2011 (UTC)

Anything that makes 5 caps per pound or weightless and isn't nailed down. Although I tend to make a lot less if playing a good character. 9mm pistol.png 07:46, July 29, 2011 (UTC)

We have managed to get both the NCR and Caesar's Legion to supply us at the same time. That plus chips from the Sierra Madre getting us weapons repair kits, (we "sell" cigarettes to the machine to get extra chips), to repair the weapons we get from the Legion hit squads that show up every 2 to 3 days, (Yes, they are sending hit squads and supplying us at the same time...crazy!), and we are rolling in caps.DarthOrc 08:26, July 29, 2011 (UTC)DarthOrc

My new character is only level 8 and has not been to the strip yet. Max bet at the casinos is now 25, used to be 200 so that is nerfed. I make extra money by walking from the grub & gulp to McCarran after dark. I tag along behind NCR troops and let them do the fighting. I sell the Fiend armor right away and save the Laser RCWs untill I have the weapon repair kits to up their value. I save the NCR armor to repair Recon and Combat armor after I get Jury Rigging. What I'm really after is the NCR dog tags so I can get the Lucky Shades. Squalor 14:57, July 30, 2011 (UTC)

Mostly hunting animals or lobotimites as lobos carry saturnite fists and proton axes which sell for a fair price. I also still have 30 of the gold bars i "aquired" from the sierra madre thanks to elijah being mostly blind =) User:Ryan Liddell145

I sell Proton Axes and Proton Axe accessories. 71.71.26.149 15:33, August 4, 2011 (UTC)

Get kicked out of all the Casinos in less than an hour. 8) --Tactical Gamer 06:45, August 5, 2011 (UTC)

I have repair of 100. I raid places with veteran rangers and grab their armors. get like 2 in 100% condition (by grabbing a bunch and using repair) and then go sell them at the gun runners store. I only have a barter of 60 something but I still get about 8000 a piece for them.

I usually hunt Death claws and then sell the eggs

What I do is,I grab my Gobi Campaign scout rifle,then I start hunting fiends and legion soldiers(I have made myself ammo restrictions,I only except one shot kills)and sell all of their stuff. Deathclawslayer99.

I get stimpacks for 25 sierra madre chips, then sell them for 75 caps. Charlie1121 00:40, August 11, 2011 (UTC)

I get Boone, equip him with the Remnants Power Armor and helmet, The Tesla Beaton Prototype, 1000 electron charge pack ammo, and a chainsaw. I get ED-E. And then I have them wait at the legion raid camp or the fort or some other place with respawning enemies with good loot. and I come back every few days to loot the dead bodies of the people my companions make short work of. Darth Roxas 03:14, August 11, 2011 (UTC)

i have a luck of 10 and go to the casinos and win the jackpots!

i didn't know they changed the max bets at casinos!! been in the dlc's this whole time. that was always an easy way to get caps. also didn't know about the endless weapon repair kits, thanks. i do have the gold bars but when i went to the big MT i did not bring enough loot and was constantly in need of repairs (mostly to armor). i end up selling ammo when i realize i have 4000 flamer fuels or something. basically sell any ammo you don't use often especially if you have 1000+ of them! they sure add up. of course i always use more expensive ammo like .308 rounds for this machine and the gobi, so i like to keep a large supply of those. but i even had 4000+ MF cells which i use all the time so i sold some of those too.hippiehop 15:24, November 6, 2011 (UTC)

I've made money in a lot of fun and amusing ways on quite a few of my characters. My Legion character simply pillages and kills people he doesn't like (Which is everyone besides Novac and other Legionaries) and sells everything they had. My prospector character picks up every damned thing that's not nailed to the floor, you can make a surprising amount of caps with that. And my NCR Ranger character makes things for cash, turning 182 caps worth of materials into 500 cap Time Bombs. My favorite though is still my prospector. You find so much random crap, pick through the useful stuff, and sell everything else. Decent money, and adds to the roleplay value. The Cyan Dragon 15:31, November 6, 2011 (UTC)

Me? I just loot absolutely anything and everything that is 10 caps or more in value (and I don't have to steal, since I'm a good character) and then sell it. Can be time consuming, but jury rigging made it easier when dealing with weapons and armor. While this doesn't produce an insane amount of caps, it still produces more than I ever need. It helps that I play a sniper character that doesn't use much of either ammo or consumables, so my expenses are rather low anyway. Jimera0 02:07, November 8, 2011 (UTC)

I pick up anything involved in a recipe, even if I have a ton of it already, and just sell weapons and armor that are common and can't be used for easy repairs.

I pick up everything I can, repair whatever I can, then sell it. Bldudas 17:57, November 18, 2011 (UTC)

For beginers/new characters - Scaven..... ahh Prospect my way throught the wastes - but only picking up stuff that values as above 1:1 cap:weight - need to get two companions early to help carrying all the extra shizzle or you are forever fast traveling back and forth to merchants (and the load screen can get very old very quickly). The best location to sell at before reaching New Vegas - the southern border crossing outpost. For some reason the barkeeper chick there has loads of caps and there is the major for repair and there is often an additional wandering trader outside near the two rangers statue. Coddam 15:05, 20 November 2011 (UTC)