Caps are waaaay to hard to get

[MOJO Spice]

People rarely buy anything from player vendors quests give almost nothing looting gives nothing selling to NPCS gives nothing armor does nothing like wtf am i suppose to do sure farm water but nothing sells set it at 5 per purified and still not 1 sale

[NIkto Barada]

i also went for the water route and camped near a trainstation, pick one with water nearby.
so you use the better ones.oh try to use perks and food that improve charisma b4 selling.
hard bargain.
switch teams so you can use their camps to travel to.
use carry weight food and str chems food too when youve reached weight cap.
hows your combat side? can you partake in various events?
aliens might be too tough unless you stealth and just tap things.

[EchoOne]

I started playing FO76 just over a month ago and I currently have 34,000 caps. If you play 1-2 hours a day I expect you'd be earning 500-1000/caps day just from collecting and selling items like apparel, food, water, chems etc. There's also 10-15,000 caps available as season rewards (I think some are locked behind FO1st membership).

A few tips:

Make use of the Punch Card machine to create a SPECIAL/Perk loadout just for crafting/trading. Get the perk card that increases vendor prices. Max out Charisma and distribute points as needed to use the crafting/trading perk cards. Every railway station has a vendor and a Punch Card machine, switch out your combat loadout for your crafting/trading loadout before using the vendor. Remember to switch back to your combat loadout when you leave :)

Set up a camp, and get some water purifiers up and running. While not huge earners they provide a steady source of passive income and purified water is always useful for keeping your thirst bar topped up.

Plant some crops and harvest them every time you visit your camp. Cook and sell EVERYTHING. Every play session I craft as many soups/steaks etc as I possibly can and sell them all.

Sell the chems you aren't using. Be careful to keep enough stimpaks/rad-x/radaway but otherwise sell off everything you don't use.

DO NOT scrap apparel. You get nothing from scrapping apparel, however you can sell apparel for caps at vendors. Some apparel is worth quite a few caps (eg golfing outfits).

Only spend caps when you absolutely have to. Avoid buying consumables altogether, there are huge amounts of food/drinks/chems/ammo in the world. You don't need the plans for all the different weapons and armour in the game. Only buy plans you are going to immediately use. Avoid buying plans for weapon and armor mods. You can easily learn these by scrapping weapons/armor at workbenches.

[Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC]

farm rare colored baseball bats and sell them for 40k caps each. Farm Enclave mods, sell them for more than 40k caps worth of bobble head leaders and then sell those in your camp.

I usually find either one of those within a few hours of farming. Just check the places you can find them each time you join a new server. Its instant max caps.

[MOJO Spice]

Originally posted by Hefutoxin:

Originally posted by MOJO Spice:

People rarely buy anything from player vendors quests give almost nothing looting gives nothing selling to NPCS gives nothing armor does nothing like wtf am i suppose to do sure farm water but nothing sells set it at 5 per purified and still not 1 sale

Sell what people want to buy? Not rocket surgery.

See a topic that says "OMG, Where r screws?1?"
Ok, sell screws.

See a topic that says "I have question about Bloodied Build."
Ok, sell Bloodied Weapons and Unyielding Armor. Any kind, any amount of stars.

See a topic that says "Does anyone have Mutations for sale?"
Ok, buy Serums from other players, list them on your own vendor for more.

But the vending machine dosent show items if the game cant place your base on login then you have to remove everyhting re add it then you have to SIT AFK for countless hrs as you sell nothing offline like any other multiplayer game

[Chronocide]

Originally posted by MOJO Spice:

People rarely buy anything from player vendors quests give almost nothing looting gives nothing selling to NPCS gives nothing armor does nothing like wtf am i suppose to do sure farm water but nothing sells set it at 5 per purified and still not 1 sale

Raising your CHA and taking the buying/selling perk will help increase your cap's value.
Raising your luck and taking the finding caps perk will help your ability to acquire caps.

But player vendors are definitely the main way to get caps.

[Scooby Doo]

Originally posted by MOJO Spice:

People rarely buy anything from player vendors quests give almost nothing looting gives nothing selling to NPCS gives nothing armor does nothing like wtf am i suppose to do sure farm water but nothing sells set it at 5 per purified and still not 1 sale

You must be kidding? Not even looking for them and I have over 1k. If I was collecting them I would have much more.
If you find the game too hard for you then just do not play. Not going to upset anyone. Not sure what you need caps for anyway as you can find everything you can buy from all I have ever seen.

[Raynn von Valancius]

Sell water, diluted meds, drugs you aren't using, everything adds up over time. Have to remember, this game was designed for one thing. Grind.

You'll get there. Just takes time. I run a bunch of aristocrat gear, so I can never drop below 30k caps or else I lose combat power. Even then, I still have close to 20k left for what I want. And I just broke level 200 myself, so not much of a no-lifer in any regard.

[climbingeastofwinter]

Originally posted by MOJO Spice:

Originally posted by Hefutoxin:

Sell what people want to buy? Not rocket surgery.

See a topic that says "OMG, Where r screws?1?"
Ok, sell screws.

See a topic that says "I have question about Bloodied Build."
Ok, sell Bloodied Weapons and Unyielding Armor. Any kind, any amount of stars.

See a topic that says "Does anyone have Mutations for sale?"
Ok, buy Serums from other players, list them on your own vendor for more.

But the vending machine dosent show items if the game cant place your base on login then you have to remove everyhting re add it then you have to SIT AFK for countless hrs as you sell nothing offline like any other multiplayer game

You're looking at this from exactly one angle, vendor selling. Selling items from your vending machine is a source of caps but like you're pointing out there are issues with trying to make it your main source of caps.

If you want control over your caps income, you can't make yourself dependent on players popping up and buying from you. Caps stash farming is a *mostly* reliable source of income. Really though, the best thing to do is get together a decent basic farming build and just farm the Boardwalk expedition for the free 100 caps teddy bear and the 2-5 caps you find on every single human you kill in the expedition. Or farm West Tek super mutants for their 4-7 caps each. Or farm caps stashes for their.. what are they with the luck caps stash boosting perk cards.. 40-200 caps each?

Point being that you have options. Plan some simple routes for farming the materials you need to repair your gear and replenish your ammo/aid/food/chems, if you aren't already getting it all back farming, say, boardwalk. Then work in your caps routes.

The worst thing you can do for your caps income in this game is to sit idle, manage your inventory, and just wait for things to come to you.

[Jamie]

Where do u even sell stuff been playing a week and haven't sold one thing. Spent all my $ on buying ammo. Same problem I had 5 yrs ago when I tried this heap.

[Vinnolo]

Originally posted by ✟The Gent✟:

Where do u even sell stuff been playing a week and haven't sold one thing. Spent all my $ on buying ammo. Same problem I had 5 yrs ago when I tried this heap.

the npc vendors...? in trainstations, and why are you wasting caps in ammo instead of crafting it

[Kitty uwu]

I sell all legendaries after i hit my scrip limit. 200 caps per 3* weapon or power armor. Vendor always sells out, and im always having to dump caps. I throw bloodied etc in for same too at this point i only keep solid rolls which is few and far between

[Kitty uwu]

Originally posted by ✟The Gent✟:

Where do u even sell stuff been playing a week and haven't sold one thing. Spent all my $ on buying ammo. Same problem I had 5 yrs ago when I tried this heap.

Imagine buying ammo when ammo factory, ammosmith and super duper all exist. also loot everything you tag for contextual ammo drops. Daily ops for easy ammo, dont even have to tag if with a team. Expeditions if you can handle them, I just solo expeditions and come out ammo positive. eventually just launch a nuke to waste some of it

[Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC]

Originally posted by ✟The Gent✟:

Where do u even sell stuff been playing a week and haven't sold one thing. Spent all my $ on buying ammo. Same problem I had 5 yrs ago when I tried this heap.

I farm rare-ish stuff and sell it in my vendor. If I need caps ASAP I sell it for caps in trading sub-reddits/discord.

[Chris Hansen with Dateline NBC]

Originally posted by Felis Silvestris-Catus:

Originally posted by ✟The Gent✟:

Where do u even sell stuff been playing a week and haven't sold one thing. Spent all my $ on buying ammo. Same problem I had 5 yrs ago when I tried this heap.

Imagine buying ammo when ammo factory, ammosmith and super duper all exist. also loot everything you tag for contextual ammo drops. Daily ops for easy ammo, dont even have to tag if with a team. Expeditions if you can handle them, I just solo expeditions and come out ammo positive. eventually just launch a nuke to waste some of it

It depends on the weapon. My Groll Elder's Mark and Ultracite heavy weapons with FFR chew through ammo faster than contextual will put out. Its easier to farm caps than lead and other mats sometimes.

If you are sticking with bland meta weapons...then yeah, it doesnt make sense to buy ammo.

[The First Breed]

EVENTS and daily ops. Join Public groups. Sell your meds!!!
I made a new character after the tv show player surge and am rolling in caps.

I just scrap all weapons and armor. Legend scrap all legendary items i dont need.
Only selling Food, Drinks, grenades and Aid.

The only reliable item to sell as a player vendor = Fusion Cores. There is always a laser mini-gun player in need of more cores.

I choose the Legendary Perk: Survival Shortcut and sell all my food from that point on.
If i choose Legendary Perk: What Rads? i can sell 90% of my rad-away/x.