Coping with pack-rattery

I have a big problem with this, and so usually the first thing I do in an open-ended RPG is find some sort of place to store my gear. The big problem with Bethesda RPGs especially is that this can take a long time due to being attached to high costs/lengthy quests, especially since few storage containers in their games are actually safe to keep your loot in.

If it becomes a major problem in a game, I look to mods. Usually Infinity Engine games have some sort of Bag of Holding available, for example, and in Dragon Age I added a party storage chest to my camp as well. I think the biggest problem is that I feel like I need to hold onto every single item, even ones that I know I'll never use - if it's unique in any way, I want it, no matter how utterly pointless it is.

 

I think these new fallouts have way too much stuff just laying around. Thats why i took the hardcore mode, so i wouldnt be the millionare of the wastes 10 hrs in game. But yeah i have the same problem as you, i just feel bad discarding valuable stuff away just to make few more pennies from shops. I usually just fix everything so i have the same value with less weight.

 

I don't waste time picking items that cost less than 100 caps. Money is irrelevant in this game anyway, ammunition is quite cheap and there is no weapon/armor you have to buy. Except implants, there is nothing expensive that you'll WANT in this game.

 

the room you get at the Novac motel has worked wonders for storing stuff for me. I put everything into the safe.

 

Crafting allows me to break things down into component parts that don't weigh anything. For ammunition alone, this is a cheap and easy way to carry nigh-infinite amounts of ammo in Hardcore, so long as I visit a workbench once in a while, to recombobulate them.

That said, just about everything else hurts:

Broc flower + Xander root + empty syringe = 1.2 lbs.
Stimpak = 0.0 lbs.

Scrap electronics + 3 scrap metal + 2 wrenches + 2 wonderglue + duct tape = 9 lbs.
Weapon Repair Kit = 1 lb.

I do like how water always weighs a lot, which, well, makes sense.

 

I really have to force myself to not pick all the junk and crappy weapons\armour. Or the game turns into inventory management tedium especially with the party members.
If you want to craft I suggest weight balance mod, cause the components weigh is ridiculous

 

Its been like this with the original titles for me as well. In Fo1, I remember I gifted everything to Ian (and stole it back when needed)
that way you had nearly unlimited inventory.

 

Well right outside the Vikki and Vance Casino is a Garbage Can, which I have stashed stuff in through Three play throughs never had my stuff get erased out of it still got stuff in it. Also it really helps early on to hit up the lone wolf radio station which is inbetween Goodsprings and Primm on that western mountainside with all the Geckos ... you can get all the items to Repair ED-E (Two Sensor Modules and One Scrap Electronics and One Scrap Metal, as there are already two by ED-E)

 

Personally, I prefer the Goodsprings for my stash (for the first parts of the game untill I move up north.)

Drag the 3 boxes (right across the Bar's backdoor, next to the back of the general store) to the middle of the benches and you are done. Victor's house (the desk) is also a nice stash but it is a bit too far for constanat hopping.

 

Oh I know its kind of a waste of a perk but Packrat Perk SERIOUSLY helps on inventory weight However if you do not play on Hardcore then I wouldn't even bother with this perk.

 

I use Pete's house in goodsprings, as he doesn't appear to own it. I'll fix in a mod my next playthrough, though.

 

The first step to fixing a problem is admitting you have a problem, so I admit that it's not a problem, just because i like to store everything in every game i play it doesn't mean anything.

 

Packrat works wonders. It's almost essential to me if I specialize in weapon skills that use heavy ammunition (Energy and ESPECIALLY Explosives).

I'm also playing with a mod that renames all safe containers as "Unused XXX", just helps to clarify things.

Oh, and companions. Too bad they can't carry faction armor for you though.

 

I have a few rituals I go through when I find myself overloaded.

1. Do I have any duplicate weapons/armor I can repair?
2. (Hardcore) Do I have a high enough hunger/h20 meter that I can I eat some food/drink water to free up a couple LBS?
3. Am I carrying excess soda I can drink and at least get a cap for drinking it?
4. Am I carrying a lot of liquor I can drink for +1/+2 extra strength and be able to make it to the nearest town?

Once i've exhausted all those options then i'll finally give in and start dropping items with the lowest weight to cap ratio. Which is also the trigger to tell me to go and cash in. I'm not very proactive about trying to save space, my first playthrough I carried a minimum of about 8 weapons at all times "just in case". I was about 60+ hours in before I finally decided to stop carrying around the 9mm pistol I was barely using anymore.

 

I'm using my Caesar's Legion safehouse now, I transported everything I had from previous storage spaces to there.