Fallout 3 - Caps???

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I never use caps to buy anything, I always trade various assorted junk for what I need so my characters are always minted. My current character is level 26 or so, has a fully kitted out house and has invested the maximum amount of cash in all four trade caravans, and still has around 12,000 caps.

Also I generally only use Small Guns as my offensive capability, so after every mission/exploring trip I come back with shedloads of 5mm rounds, flamer fuel, energy cells etc that I can just flog off if I need money for anything. Ammo is weightless, as are drugs, so ECP packs and Jet are a much better way of accumulating wealth than picking up sensor packs and conductors.

 

[GundamSentinel]

About 70000. Just explore a lot, repair what you find, and sell it if you've got a full load. Easy peasy. All without fortune hunter or any bartering skill.

 

[HK_01]

About 8000 by the end. Playing through a second time now and it seems like I'm getting more.

 

[Rakkana]

After a while I stopped counting. I had enough to buy anything I wanted when I wanted it. That's enough.

 

[Shemming]

I had about 15000 caps by the end. Purely because my tendency to shoot people after buying things from them.I also had very evil karma.

 

[k-ossuburb]

I can't remember right now but it was a lot. I basically stole most of it. I had high charisma and stealth so pickpocketing and stealing items from stores was a breeze and selling their own crap back to them at more value than they're worth was easy too.

That and killing anyone I came across who was just mindlessly wondering around, mostly traders and caravan drivers. Looting places and checking everywhere for random crap I could sell later and eventually I had enough bits and pieces together to get caps whenever I needed them. Except I didn't need them because trading items is a lot more affective than trading caps, the caps were just a way for me to keep score on what was going where and how much I could extort from them.

 

[nick n stuff]

too many. there was no point in having them by the end of it all...same as all RPGs, still loved gathering them mind

 

[Jezzascmezza]

I had about 35,000, because i never really bought anything.

 

[Mechsoap]

50.000 caps...and extreme much ammo to each gun type and medicine enough to officially call me the suriving king of the wasteland

i did it with simple questing and scavanging
note: i had the highest karma possible

 

[PauL o_O]

After I rounded up about 12,000 caps, I just bought every stimpak in the game, and spent the rest of my money on guns to store in my house in case I ever needed repairs. I figured that was the only thing to spend money on, so fuck it.

 

[neilsaccount]

see, i never understood the cap system. Seeing as how therre is still an abundant supply of pre war money, why can't they just use that? I dont go for how many caps i collect, but how many stimpacks i collect. I started a new playthrough and broke 100 2 days ago.

 

[Je Suis Ubermonkey]

14500 caps here. Thats from 80 play hours and getting the fortune finder perk ASAP.

I also have over 5000lbs of stuff, mostly good (70/80%) condition weaponry and armour - I can't sell it all because I find stuff more quickly than I can sell - the traders don't have enough money.

 

[Je Suis Ubermonkey]

Just bring Fawkes along as your item Mule (give him a Gatling Laser protect himself with)
and load him up with loot to take back to town and sell.
I've never reached Fawkes weight limit.
Wonder if he has one.

His weight limit is surprisingly low; I'm sure it's under 300, and I've maxed it out a lot of times.

 

[The Procrastinated End]

Wow I had about 20,000 caps while keeping every armor, weapon, ammo, and almost everything else you can find. I just found the caps along with selling fingers and locations. After a certain, early point though the caps lose most of their value when you pick up any gun you'll need and you dont really need armor.

 

[captaincabbage]

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.

Wow. Classy. XD

OT: I had about 3000-4000 or so Caps. mostly just picking up tons of shit, like laser rifles and laser ammo and just selling it.

 

[The Night Shade]

about 38.000 i barely even use them

 

[AWAR]

About 3.500, I rarely visit shops though.

 

[glitch388]

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.

I have (I think, i havent played it in a while, so my number might be off) over 50,000 caps. Eventually, you'll find yourself with a lot of stuff that you wont need once you boil yourself down to only a few things. Even when I did that, I still was carrying about 20 or so weapons, ammo only for them (I earned a massive amount of money through selling excess ammo) and loot everyone. Have your repair skill really high so you can condense armour, and sell it. I find that I can go into stores, and most of the time after buying every stimpack, at least some ammo, and repairing everything that the sales person can, I can still sell enough stuff to make a profit through the entire transaction. My barter and charisma arent too high, but if you try, you'll soon be rich.

 

[micky]

10k is the most but i just stopped trying after a wile.

 

[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.

Really and that is it?

Gezz I must have played way to much. I had around 30,000 caps by the time I stopped playing.

Holy unicorns! This is really old. Yeah I had a huge hole in my pocket and a minor glitch involving items disappearing. I played it for 12 hours recewntly and had over 30,000 I believe.