Fallout 3 - Caps???

[llamastorm.games]

Just generally wondering how many caps people had managed to amass on the game and what methods they used to get them, and if you cheated with some glitch, say that you did.

[EDIT] I wish to know because when i first started playing the game i found it a major struggle to get even over 1,000 caps, and my friends only have 500-1000 caps at anyone time but another friend has 7,000 and i was just wondering how much everyone had managed to get.

 

[Baneat]

about 4000 by the end, they completely lost their value about half way through.

 

[llamastorm.games]

about 4000 by the end, they completely lost their value about half way through.

How come?

 

[Snowalker]

I'm not sure how much I had, all I know is that if you want a lot of caps do Rielly's Rangers and explore a lot and you'll get a boat load of caps.

 

[Haliwali]

Around 3000 or so.

 

[Baneat]

All the good stuff is only really available for free, and after buying house upgrades the only thing you could buy was ammo, which I never ever ran out of, despite me never buying it.

 

[Jack and Calumon]

2400 but by then I thought of the point of even having Caps as a currency. So instead I decided to collect Pre-war money. Had about 50 of that.

 

[Fatalis67]

2400 but by then I thought of the point of even having Caps as a currency. So instead I decided to collect Pre-war money. Had about 50 of that.

I got all the pre-war money I could find then made a giant pile of cash and dismembered bodies in my Tenpenny Suite.

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

I had like 7000 caps by the end.
I got them by selling every weapon i came across that wasn't a chinese AR, or combat shotgun.
Sold all the armor that i came across except tesla armor.
Sold all the ammo i came across except the shotgun shells and 5.56 AR rounds.
Robbed and murdered people... a lot.
Sold ears to that old guy.
Didn't buy anything but stimpacks.
Luck i guess.
Did some quests that paid caps.
Sold all food, rad x, and rad away.
Blew up megaton.
Thats it i think.

 

[barryween]

Im only at Rivet City (I had a sweet ass character named Roland, who was a good karma character at level 11, but i accidentally deleted it and now have an evil ***** whos only level 6) and i had to buy a bunch of ammo and repair clothes, so ive got a whole $0!

 

[Nivag the Owl]

I had over 40,000! I could always repair my own stuff and find enough ammo to keep me going. All I did was explore and come back from each exploration with 3 bags full of crap to sell off.

P.s. There was absolutely no case of "player.additem 000000F 40000". And I'm not kidding.

EDIT: I just checked and I actually have over 45,000.

 

[minispike47]

I'm half way through and i've got about 3000 caps. But i agree with Baneat, i find most ammo and items so there is no need to have money.

 

[Axolotl]

I've got around 5,000 but the best way of getting caps is slavery.

 

[GuerrillaClock]

At the start, it seemed like a struggle to scratch enough together to buy schematics or something, but then as you get to about level 10 they become completely worthless as you find so many you can buy pretty much anything you want without batting an eyelash, since you never have to buy any ammo and my repair skill was so high I could fix anything up as well as I wanted.

 

[llamastorm.games]

I had like 7000 caps by the end.
I got them by selling every weapon i came across that wasn't a chinese AR, or combat shotgun.
Sold all the armor that i came across except tesla armor.
Sold all the ammo i came across except the shotgun shells and 5.56 AR rounds.
Robbed and murdered people... a lot.
Sold ears to that old guy.
Didn't buy anything but stimpacks.
Luck i guess.
Did some quests that paid caps.
Sold all food, rad x, and rad away.
Blew up megaton.
Thats it i think.

You must have holes in your pockets, because i did some of them but not all of it and a few of my own things and i have 31,000 caps.

 

[vamp rocks]

i have about 10,000 on the runthrough im doing now. the only ammo i buy is .44 magnum ammo, and i usually trade misc stuff and make a profit on that... i just pick anything up that its value is at least double its weight and then sell it at the best opportunity.. when you get later in the game the 10mm weapons are useless.. buts thers lots of them around so just collect them and the 10mm ammo and sell it... good money.


thers not really much to spend money on... unless you care how your house looks...
so money is pretty useless

 

[the jellyman]

I've got nearly 3000, and I'm only level 12 and halfway through the main quest. Going to one of the big libraries in DC nets you a lot of caps, as the brotherhod scribe in there gives you 100 per pre-war book, with 10 books in the librariy. there are also lots of caps in the Fortune Finder perk, about 80-90 in each container you look in.

 

[Beffudled Sheep]

I had like 7000 caps by the end.
I got them by selling every weapon i came across that wasn't a chinese AR, or combat shotgun.
Sold all the armor that i came across except tesla armor.
Sold all the ammo i came across except the shotgun shells and 5.56 AR rounds.
Robbed and murdered people... a lot.
Sold ears to that old guy.
Didn't buy anything but stimpacks.
Luck i guess.
Did some quests that paid caps.
Sold all food, rad x, and rad away.
Blew up megaton.
Thats it i think.

You must have holes in your pockets, because i did some of them but not all of it and a few of my own things and i have 31,000 caps.

I always needed good karma because i wanted the good ending so i kept on giving the church of atom guy donations. (during my first playthrough)
In my second, a really annoying glitch. Everytime i got more than 10,000 caps the game would take all of them. It really pissed me off.

 

[edinflames]

about 4000 by the end, they completely lost their value about half way through.

How come?

Because if you carry two or three main weapons (which you can swap at your house storage) you wont ever run out of ammo, also all the best weapons/equipment are found rather than purchased. Everything you can buy can also be stolen.

Repair is very useful, saves a lot of money, but the custom weapons are useless since there is always better unique weapons (like Lincoln Repeater or Alien Blaster) and also the Plasma Rifles > all else.

Once you get roughly halfway through the game you will have such an abundance of good items that caps become irrelevant unless you want to spend them on upgrading your house, which is also pointless because anything that can't be healed through sleep can be fixed at the doctors.

So my tips for you: Have very high repair, but dont bother collecting junk to make custom weapons. Horde all Enclave equipment (plasma weps, power and tesla armour) you can get your hands on back at your house. Search for the Lincoln Repeater (museum), The Terrible Shotgun (raider base) and Alien Blaster (crashed UFO). Steal stimpacks (i have so many I can't use them up) and .44 magnum ammo (for the Lincoln). Do all of the above and caps are totally irrelevant to success in the game.

 

[Monkfish Acc.]

I got OVER NINE THOU-
Sorry, I won't do that again.

The most I had at any one time was five thousand. I only ever really bought stimpaks and other weapons to repair my own.