Forum:Level up with minimum locations discovered

I'm trying to play a game unarmed/melee, and amass the maximum amount of caps and ammo possible. For this I need the scrounger and fortune finder perks, which I cant get both til level 8.Unfortunately each time you discover a location supposedly all its lockers etc are loaded, and whatever they contain doesnt increase after the perks. Whats the best way to level up to lvl 8 without discovering too many map locations?

its fairly easy to level up to level 8

to start - you can get to level 5 quickly right after leaving the Vault 101 and coming to Megaton - just do all the little quests they have (like repair the pipes, complete speech checks with Doc Church, Jericho, Gob, Nova, Lucas Simms, Mr Burke etc etc) - you could also break into some houses which are locked (though this would give you some negative karma) - this will get you to Level 5 FAST

you can also visit - save right before you actually get to it - 3 random encounter spots that are just outside of Megaton - save and reload until you get Talon Company Merc's or Raiders - and kill them for XP points - and then go around Megaton and do some random "hunting" - you could also sleep for a few days straight - and then revisit all the spots where you have been already and killed the raiders and stuff and they should respawn

I start off by going to Tennpenny Tower and visiting Lucky's to get Lucky Shades, then Random Encounter by RobcoFactory and building behind Willy's Grocer - then I head to RedRacer Factory (Bailey St Metro actually) - and kill all the raiders in vicinity of 2-3 buildings from there - then I complete Operation: Anchorage to get Chinese Stealth Armor - by the time I am done I am at level 10 or so this is the 2nd poster: haha good deal; I always try to get to level 12 fast so I can get "silent running" perk - since I play as a sneaky/stealth character; you can find a bunch of Raiders around Red Racer Factory - about 15 of them - they can net you a good 300-500 XP points; also, when you exit Megaton - head straight forward - in far distance you should be able to see a bridge - on top of that bridge are about 10 more raiders that can get you another 200-300 XP points - there is also a Random Encounter at the big Barn that's just next to the Bridge (this is how you will know if it's the right bridge - there is also a silo that you can't enter right next to the barn) - all these raiders respawn after a couple of days so you can kill them again and again for more XP points
 * nice, never realised it would be so easy. i was going to start off draining megaton dry, then the tenpenny tower quest for the ghoul mask. i guess that and a few random encounters should see me level 8. after that, i fetch 2 or 3 companions to do all the killing and packhorsing for me while i hunt down all the skill books. would like to be maxed out, lvl 30, all specials 10s, and all skills 100, before i've started more than a handful of quests

this will also let you get a lot of XP points without discovering anything BUT the Red Racer Factory

ColJack wrote...

You could always use the scrap metal glitch to get up to level 8 really fast, then play as normal..

3 locations needed for doing it.. ( technically 4 since you can't avoid finding Vault 101.. )

1. Megaton - need to find this as it's where you sell your phantom scrap.

2. Moresti train yard - a great place to buy scrap from .. the shop owner has 20 for sale.. you need 100 caps to get in though, and some to buy the scrap..

3. Fort Independance - the place where you glitch the scrap..

to get caps you could sell all of the stuff you undoubtedly brought out of V101 at moira's..