[MEGATHREAD] Fallout 4 || Contraption, Vault-Tec, Nuka World

[Ipquarx]

It also doesn't matter if it's post apocalyptic or not. people will find gold valuable no matter what.

Maybe sentimentally, sure, but it would at best be a novelty in the post-apocolyptic world, especially for the first couple generations. There would be very, very little demand for it, and demand might go up more as things started to stabilize but I can't imagine it going to anywhere near pre-apocolypse levels.

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[Lord Tony®]

There are way more bottlecaps than subway tokens

In reality the amount of bottlecaps in the common wealth would be significantly less. How often do you encounter bottle caps in real life?

Also if anything subway tokens would have been a secondary currency just like how NV had NCR, legion and cap money. Considering how subway tokens are rare and have some sort of use I have no doubt someone would also accept that as currency.

Wasn't legion money worth like 8 caps or something? Subway tokens could have been worth like 2-5 caps easy.

[Lord Tony®]

It also makes absolutely no sense for the institute to use caps as currency.

[Foxscotch]

How often do you encounter bottle caps in real life?

how often do you encounter power armor and cars powered by fusion in real life?

[sir dooble]

It also makes absolutely no sense for the institute to use caps as currency.

This is the only caps/currency-based thing that bothers me in Fallout 4.

It does seem illogical that they would accept caps, rather than barter for items, given that the Institute does not trade with other people.

However, the Institute does have operatives outside in the wasteland, and they would be expected to trade using caps.
Therefore the Institute would know that caps are their means of trading with wastelanders.


This means that the only illogical aspect of the Institute and its use of currency is the fact that the requisitions Synth even sells items at all. Obviously when items are normally requisitioned from him by Coursers, they wouldn't need to pay, or have anything to pay with.

The fact that he does exchange items for caps with the player can be explained by the fact that he's given special authorisation to do so.
Accepting caps is also useful, because those caps can be given to Institute operatives in order for them to purchase goods on the surface and blend in.


Of course, Tony wouldn't know any of this because he hasn't played the game.

how often do you encounter power armor and cars powered by fusion in real life?

Also, the answer to his question is, quite a lot.
There's no shortage of supermarkets, bars, restaurants, houses, shops or any other that have a variety of bottled goods that have bottle caps.

[Lord Tony®]

how often do you encounter power armor and cars powered by fusion in real life?

None but they don't exist and this is not the alternate year of 2077.

[Foxscotch]

None but they don't exist and this is not the alternate year of 2077.

right, so, how do you know bottle caps wouldn't be common?

[Zloff]

should i use an enb preset or just get a lot of other mods that change visuals in similar ways

i dont quite understand the effect and installation process of enbs yet

also caps would be far more plentiful in the fallout world b/c they use glass bottles much more frequently as compared to in reality where we use cans the majority of the time

[Nonnel]

How often do you encounter bottle caps in real life?

Well I mean this is a world without canned pop so it'd probably be pretty frequent
But yeah they should've made them a secondary currency, but pre-war cash seems to work pretty well for that

[Cybersix]

No idea if anyone has said it yet, but has anyone seen the new achievements for the robot dlc? Looks like the mechanist from Fallout 3 is coming back.

forget The Mechanist, Antagonizer for life.

[Lord Tony®]

Well I mean this is a world without canned pop so it'd probably be pretty frequent
But yeah they should've made them a secondary currency, but pre-war cash seems to work pretty well for that

pre-war cash is not a secondary currency if you can accidentally waste it to make a sleeping bag.

Also the price isn't fixed it depends on your barter. The secondary currency in NV is fixed.

[Oasis]

Of course, Tony wouldn't know any of this because he hasn't played the game.

right, so, how do you know bottle caps wouldn't be common?

#rekt

[Lord Tony®]

Well I mean this is a world without canned pop so it'd probably be pretty frequent

Canned drinks exist. The purified water in Fallout 4 is canned.

The trash texture on the ground is aluminum cans with soda tabs.

[Ragequit]

In reality the amount of bottlecaps in the common wealth would be significantly less. How often do you encounter bottle caps in real life?

not like nuka cola was a nationwide soda company and mass produced the stuff out of them or anything like that

[Lord Tony®]

not like nuka cola was a nationwide soda company and mass produced the stuff out of them or anything like that

It's about the same as coca cola and I have yet to find 50 bottle caps just laying in an office drawer