Talk:Custom-built weapon components

Okay, I used the nifty gallery thing and made the page look friendly, I also tracked all the item pages and formatted them. I created the Radscorpion Poison Gland image, but there are still a ton of items that need in game pics (plz upload them folks).--AshRandom 16:53, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * ok the pics are done... (well, for the Custom Built Weapon Components site) now thers on the to do list: Base ID's, Spoiler warnings ({FO3} - Template) and the "See also" -links from the item sites to the "Custom Built Weapon Components" site...may some "stubs"... anything else? - Mfgpilz 22:53, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I guess all that's left is back-tracking the items to their individual pages --AshRandom 23:16, 8 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Pictures distributed! I tracked down all of the custom weapon pages too. --AshRandom 12:33, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Wow that was a lot of edits, I reformatted every last component page, linked them back to here... I doubt I'll do the same for any of the real junk pages... --AshRandom 13:57, 9 December 2008 (UTC)

I've noticed that some weapon parts randomly show up in trader inventories and others just don't. For example motorcycle handbrake seems to be the rarest component for the Shishkebab and sometimes wolfgang or seagraves will have one. But obviously this will never happen with a Quantum, the rarest component in a nuka-grenade. Somewhere we should have a guide to the rarity of components and perhaps whether it can be found spawning in merchants inventories.--7h1s 13:13, 17 January 2009 (UTC)

---Start discussion Alright, I've been reading this wiki for a long time and I think its great, so props to everyone who put it together. I think this custom built items page is seriously falling short of its potential though. Some general suggestions -- first, change this page's title to Custom-built items -- Superjet and Mississippi Quantum Pie should be on here too, with nice pictures. Maybe split page -- top half weapons, bottom half custom items. Next move the Custom-build items page to the top level of items -- it should be on the same level as the other items types (weapons, etc.) as its really useful.

Third, please please please remove from components articles and places articles information that xxxx item is in xxx crate/metal box. All of these items (to my knowledge) are random spawns. Where you found a leather belt is not where I'll find a leather belt. A simple mention of which items random spawn in metal boxes/crates should suffice. I'd put also a mention of which vendors might have the items (i.e. Moira, Seagrave, kid in Lamplight, etc. for surgical tubing, flour, medical braces...etc...)

Finally I suggest that the images on this page have a small colored border placed around them representing their rarity. Some items (i.e. tubing and lunchboxes) are rare and are the rate limiting item for making the custom item. I think this is really useful information. If everyone's okay with this, I can make these images and upload them/change the page. If everyone is okay with it, I would even revise the page as I discussed to have the other custom items. Is everyone okay with these edits? --IrishCape 12:08, 17 March 2009 (UTC) ---End discussion

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