10000 Bottle Caps

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I guess, but they had to use something common that was widely available.  The NCR is trying to reintroduce paper currency, but it's not valued as highly

Then again, you're trying to add logic to the bottomless pockets of video game inventories, and it's better than counting them out.  Hell, in Fallout 1, you had to add groups of 999 bottle caps to make any big purchase, and even that was annoying

I love walking around with 135, 000 caps and 400 Legion Auereus' :P

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Hardcore BALLA!

Hardcore ballin' :D

Probably one reason the developers used bottle caps is from their child hood.

I'm a boomer and can remember collecting bottle caps for the weekend sci- fi movie classic in the mid sixties.

You would use them like currency to get into the theater. Usually a well known brand like Coke or Pepsi.

We would spend days collecting them and trading them like currency.

This was back in the early to mid sixties.

The sponsors would raffle off cool toys like wooden skate boars with metal wheels.

When The world comes crashing down You will have a barter system and more negotiations at the barrel of a gun (sorry to say).

Gutsy, the thought of you being almost 50 scares me a bit.  That being said, I agree that soda being part of that era's culture would help explain their usage in Fallout.  Mainly because I figure that a ton of soda bottles (and thus bottlecaps) were produced before the Great War, so there would be a lot of them, but since the technology to produce them was mostly lost after the Great War, counterfeiting them was difficult

God Maul I wish I were turning the big 50.

This month it's 55. I have always liked the Fallout genre and noticed little things thrown into the games from when I was a kid.

Personally I see more then just Fallout 4 coming down the pike now that Interplay is out of the picture.

I think the legalities are what caused Bethesda to look at outside sources to get New Vegas out before the judges decision, but who knows.

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God Maul I wish I were turning the big 50.

This month it's 55. I have always liked the Fallout genre and noticed little things thrown into the games from when I was a kid.

Personally I see more then just Fallout 4 coming down the pike now that Interplay is out of the picture.

I think the legalities are what caused Bethesda to look at outside sources to get New Vegas out before the judges decision, but who knows.

[/quote]That's even scarier

And obviously Bethesda will be developing more than just one more Fallout game, but Interplay wasn't the reason why (that was just the MMO, which we'll probably never see now).  They asked Obsidian because they were busy developing Skyrim and wanted another game to hold fans over, they wanted money, and maybe, just maybe, they wanted to appease older fans who disliked Fallout 3

I think they should make it harder to obtain caps. An average NPC in New Vegas carries about like 50 caps and I'm walking around with 30,000.