Talk:Strictly Profitable

Hey I have enslaved 3 peopel so far (A raider, Grandma Sparkle, Torcher) and only 1 has made it back alive. I don't know what I'm doing wrong. I haven't finished Strictly Business quest yet. I also everything in my victim;'s possession upon mezzing. Or is this just a luck based thing? --I-am-a-panda 20:32, 2 February 2009 (UTC)

Well, I think that people you enslave and tell them to go to paradise falls will always make it if you immediately fast travel to paradise falls after enslaving them, so try that --Clon3Troop3r 15:45, 12 April 2009 (UTC)Clon3Troop3r

I always enslave guards, and let them keep their guns. So they can defense themselves... --I3art 20:28, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

What is the best kind of NPC i should enslave?Nyoche 23:51, 20 July 2009 (UTC)

O.K. so i wanna make some raiders in Evergreen Mills friendlies but when i put it on its fine but when i take it off BAM! it FU%^ING freezes and what really pi%^edme off was i didnt save it all the way from megaton so thats about 20 mins of walking down the tubes so is there some way to fix this please reply--Blodymaryman 02:00, 24 August 2009 (UTC)

There has to be some bug with this quest. I've collared 10 NPCs in the last week and every single one Grouse told me they died. I've tried fast-traveling right after, waiting a while after, the only thing I haven't tried is chasing them all the way to Paradise Falls and in most cases that either wouldn't work or would take forever. Nymphonomicon 18:20, October 9, 2009 (UTC) I put the list of NPCs that are mezzable into alphabetical order to ease searching. Please keep it this way when adding new entries to the list. PIMPinator 11:14, February 8, 2010 (UTC)
 * I've even tried letting the NPCs keep their guns or giving them better guns. They ALWAYS die on me. Nymphonomicon 21:06, October 19, 2009 (UTC)
 * Let them keep their armour too. You're making 250 caps per person, why risk losing that, and having to pay 100 caps for a new collar, just to steal some clothes worth 50 caps? Also, try enslaving people who are closer to Paradise Falls, or stronger NPCs like guards. Most of mine make it back. PIMPinator 11:14, February 8, 2010 (UTC)

I have enslaved a lot of people so far,but after the tenth or something they started not coming back,so I tried enslaving tougher people(Tesla Armor Enclave),but they still don´t make it!And,one simple question,can Wasteland Captives be Mezzed?On the list it says Wastelanders,but I dunno if it aplies to captives.

Slave Pen
Do NPC's end up in the Paradise Falls slave pen after? V.A.T.S. addict 17:01, February 24, 2010 (UTC)

yes, but they stay in the slave house. the only time they go in the pen is if you free them.Wrpen99 15:20, March 4, 2010 (UTC)

response to first topic
i might know the solution to your problem. you cannot mez more than one person. if you do, the first person you mezzed will go back to normal as soon as the second person is mezzed. you cannot put a slave collar on more than one person, using the glitch to get multiple slave collars. the player was only meant to aquire one slave collar, so if multiple slave collars are used, then the game would probably blow up the head of the last person you put a slave collar on. that would be the answer to why grouse says only one of them made it back.Wrpen99 15:20, March 4, 2010 (UTC)

Overhaul of list
I just spent considerable time fact-checking NPCs in the GECK; I removed one or two who were not members of the MS13CanMez faction, and added a whole slew more. This list is probably still not comprehensive, nor does it strictly need to be, but it does paint a more accurate picture now. Kris (talk) 20:24, August 5, 2010 (UTC)


 * I added a couple that someone missed that were listed in the forum as being enslavable hope that helps. -bleep196- 20:25, August 5, 2010 (UTC)
 * I saw that, but what I did was copy the list to a Notepad window, then run through the faction list in the GECK. When I was done, I just copied that back, overwriting what was already there. So it didn't hurt anything, but it didn't particularly help either since it was a duplication of effort :) Kris (talk) 21:01, August 5, 2010 (UTC)

Effective Slaving
For people who are having trouble enslaving try this. First make sure that the person is enslaveable then mezz them and put the collar on them do not access their inventory at all whatsoever, do not pick the option to see their inventory just tell them to go to Paradise Falls and they should make it. If you look at their inventory at all take anything out put anything in they might die every time. -Mended Flesh- 23:43, August 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * This isn't accurate at all. -- Kris mailbox 23:50, August 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * Uh yeah it is I have tried this over 30 times and what I say works, how does it not? -Mended Flesh- 23:54, August 29, 2010 (UTC)
 * That's what's known as a "streak" - a long series of coincidental results from a random number generator. Thirty tries is statistically insignificant, and certainly not sufficient to give any sort of definite answer. -- Kris mailbox 00:10, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * OK even if what you are saying is true then what I said still makes sense because I didnt say it was a definite answer I said this may work. -Mended Flesh- 00:13, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * So obviously I am right then. -Mended Flesh- 00:33, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * Perhaps what you should add is that this process is only necessary if your game is somehow problematic; such as glitches. Not all players have to encounter the problem this way. Rectified 00:37, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * What are you talking about obviously you didnt read what I said. I said they should make it, I didnt say they will make it. I also said they might die, not they will die. -Mended Flesh- 00:42, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * I apologize, I must've said something wrong. What I meant is perhaps you should specify that the advice is for people with glitched games, as "having trouble" is vague. If someone is simply looking for enslavement advice with a normally functioning game, following this advice might result in them missing out on some well-needed loot. Although few of the targets possess very valuable items. =P Rectified 00:50, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * OK yeah you are right I probably should have put it in glitches then and maybe offered some more advice but still everything I said is accurate, that other guy should tell me before he deletes it and says nothing. Also my information is still accurate anyway, that other guy is just like this information is not accurate at all which he obviously doesnt know what hes talking about. -Mended Flesh- 01:03, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * What are you talking about obviously you didnt read what I said. I said they should make it, I didnt say they will make it. I also said they might die, not they will die. -Mended Flesh- 00:42, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * I apologize, I must've said something wrong. What I meant is perhaps you should specify that the advice is for people with glitched games, as "having trouble" is vague. If someone is simply looking for enslavement advice with a normally functioning game, following this advice might result in them missing out on some well-needed loot. Although few of the targets possess very valuable items. =P Rectified 00:50, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * OK yeah you are right I probably should have put it in glitches then and maybe offered some more advice but still everything I said is accurate, that other guy should tell me before he deletes it and says nothing. Also my information is still accurate anyway, that other guy is just like this information is not accurate at all which he obviously doesnt know what hes talking about. -Mended Flesh- 01:03, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * I apologize, I must've said something wrong. What I meant is perhaps you should specify that the advice is for people with glitched games, as "having trouble" is vague. If someone is simply looking for enslavement advice with a normally functioning game, following this advice might result in them missing out on some well-needed loot. Although few of the targets possess very valuable items. =P Rectified 00:50, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * OK yeah you are right I probably should have put it in glitches then and maybe offered some more advice but still everything I said is accurate, that other guy should tell me before he deletes it and says nothing. Also my information is still accurate anyway, that other guy is just like this information is not accurate at all which he obviously doesnt know what hes talking about. -Mended Flesh- 01:03, August 30, 2010 (UTC)
 * OK yeah you are right I probably should have put it in glitches then and maybe offered some more advice but still everything I said is accurate, that other guy should tell me before he deletes it and says nothing. Also my information is still accurate anyway, that other guy is just like this information is not accurate at all which he obviously doesnt know what hes talking about. -Mended Flesh- 01:03, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

"That other guy" happens to be an admin of this site - albeit a new one - and I'm quite knowledgeable about both Fallout 3 and this wiki. At any rate that info need not be re-added, since not only is it a gameplay tip, which we try to avoid adding to articles, but it's also of dubious value since there's no guarantee that it will work or is necessary. -- Kris mailbox 01:10, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

OK thank you for reading what I said before you commented again. You are obviously completely right and you obviously know more about my own game than I do. -Mended Flesh- 01:15, August 30, 2010 (UTC)


 * I never doubted your results, only the conclusion you jumped to from those results. It's the conclusion, not the results, that is inaccurate. -- Kris mailbox 01:23, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

Filing it under "Bugs" might alleviate the situation. Rectified 01:17, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

Nah I dont even feel like it now.-Mended Flesh- 01:38, August 30, 2010 (UTC)

I would like to thank Manded Flash for this post, I've been having extreme trouble enslaving people. By not accessing their inventory at all after a mezz, they able to make it to Paradise falls without death :) --Zkooma 16:29, July 22, 2011 (UTC)