Chaito
Led Storm.
N+1: Post-nuclear factions' only motivation is the amount of hate/like/need-for-free robots.
Things we learned from Fallout 4
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SarcasticGoodGuy
*R O T T E N*
513: The Institute also trade in bottlecaps. Because... um... I'm sure Petey can come up with a good reason.
mithrap
Ring a ding-ding, baby
"You can't handle da truthh!"
Seriously though, the potential of a post-apocalyptic reporter was huge. Can't see how this idea was submitted and ended up as a regular companion (who would have ended in jail, in the sole survivor's pre-war timeline, but anyway, let's pretend that he wasn't influenced by his neo-McCarthyism time and that he loves the independent, liberal press without asking questions) instead of the hero's profession. Imagine a Fallout where you are a reporter, have to take pictures of the Institute's activities to convince people that they exist (or at the contrary, to prove that they don't), of the Brotherhood's war crimes (or the Brotherhood's acts of heroism) etc. Use a camera like a weapon (http://www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/62115/?), interview important people from several factions and, using the dialog system, write several articles that change the perception of the NPCs on the situation (through different idle lines, maybe even scripted events). Basically what "Beyond good & Evil" tried to do years ago, which was great for its time.
That would have forced the hero into confronting all factions, give him a reason to follow their men on the field, to take a closer look at the Institute's activities etc. Give him a direct influence on the situation, violent or non-violent. Like the couriers in New Vegas, the reporters could have become a whole new profession, original and interesting.
RangerBoo
Resident Schizo Poster
Nothing should get in the way of poorly written romances and shagging!
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CerberusGate
I should save my game in a whole new slot
It'll be more interesting if the Institute had its own currency like the Legion and NCR of New Vegas which requires the player to convert caps into said currency to buy anything (like 1 Institute credits equals 20 caps etc.)
MercenarySnake
Kept you waiting huh?
They just expect you to make characters as shallow as the characters they put into the game.
It's called lacking in originality.
0wing
Все умрут, а я волномут
Why would there be caps in the first place IN COMMONWEALTH? And why would the instupiditute ever need money if they're an isolated state?
R.Graves
Confirmed Retard
Er... How would they buy something? I feel like they'd have some kind of internal credit system and then barter with the outside.
0wing
Все умрут, а я волномут
Or do they ever contact with the outsiders at all? Haven't notice this really.
R.Graves
Confirmed Retard
No, I'm saying that's how it should logically work. Right?
0wing
Все умрут, а я волномут
Sure. But the institute is not about working society or logic, it's humanity's last hope.
R.Graves
Confirmed Retard
514: it actually is possible for a game to have more plot holes than fo3.
JetCan'tMeltVaultDoors
Vault-Tec did nothing wrong.
Actually, there is at least one or two other purebreds available as a companion(s).
CT Phipps
Carbon Dated and Proud
Bottlecaps are shiny, prevalent, but not too prevalent as to be worthless. I find it more unbelievable people would go back to gold in NCR than stay with an existing useful currency. Given dollars are just slips of paper and gold is just worthless yellow rocks, I don't see why caps emerging as the new currency stretches disbelief.
SarcasticGoodGuy
*R O T T E N*
Thanks Petey.
Bottlecaps are shiny, prevalent, but not too prevalent as to be worthless. I find it more unbelievable people would go back to gold in NCR than stay with an existing useful currency. Given dollars are just slips of paper and gold is just worthless yellow rocks, I don't see why caps emerging as the new currency stretches disbelief.
CT Phipps
Carbon Dated and Proud
You're welcome. I'm actually, however, a shill for Nuka Cola.
I intend to change my name to John Caleb Bradberton and replace Coca-Cola with my fascist government alliance.
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3160b0
First time out of the vault
Bottlecaps are shiny, prevalent, but not too prevalent as to be worthless. I find it more unbelievable people would go back to gold in NCR than stay with an existing useful currency. Given dollars are just slips of paper and gold is just worthless yellow rocks, I don't see why caps emerging as the new currency stretches disbelief.
Caps are backed by water in the west, they aren't a faux-fiat currency like they are in the east. Considering the power struggles in the New England Commonwealth, I find it a little crazy that there aren't any scrips/chits/credits (Brotherhood, Institute, Bunker Hill, Diamond City all have incentive, the Institute especially to try to control the economy above ground). The reason caps exist on the east is because, like the Brotherhood and the Enclave and the desert, it's what Bethesda thought Fallout was about.
CT Phipps
Carbon Dated and Proud
Fallout 3 was basically "The Force Awakens" in that it was an attempt to recruit the "greatest hits" of Fallout 1 and 2. The Enclave, Super Mutants, Caps, Vaults, and Raiders. It's unashamedly and deliberately an attempt to introduce new players into the elements of the original game.
Otherwise, why bother with the license?
Call it Radiation or Afterwar.
As for why caps. If traders used them on the East Coast, they don't have to introduce their own currency. Hell, the BOS could very well have used caps on the West Coast and been happy to discover it was the same on the East.
They don't need another currency anyway since the caps are just a measurement of value since it's a primarily barter-based system.
CerberusGate
I should save my game in a whole new slot
It's still odd that everyone in the Wasteland all came up with the same idea for currency, even more glaring that the Institute, a supposedly isolated community, uses caps rather than some kind of proper currency of their own and forcing the player to use said currency (i.e convert caps to pitiful amounts of Institute money).
CT Phipps
Carbon Dated and Proud
Do they actually use caps in the Institute or are they just giving you caps because you have a use for them? I always assumed the Institute would be post-capitalism given they're all a bunch of Utopian Raygun Gothic science fiction nerds.