What is the advantage of helping Good Springs? (Really early spoilers, I guess?)

[Д а н к о в с к и й]

So I've always sort of helped Ringo out in this mission but this time I decided to help the Powder Gangers. Helping them is way better than help good springs. If you help the Powder Gangers you get an easy source of explosives and reloading powder, a safe road to Primm, several easy starting missions to get you some caps, a discount in the Good Springs store, easy access to Meyers, etc. But if you help Good Springs you get a handful of caps and... well nothing else except now you have to battle your way everywhere since the Powder Gangers hate you and for what? Down the line I guess he'll probably give you a job or something but I don't imagine it'd pay much more than Powder gangin'

[rept]

the advantage is that you dont destroy EZ Pete's current mortal shell

[Д а н к о в с к и й]

Easy Pete can suck my 5.3 inch ♥♥♥♥, I gotta a new Dynamite Daddy

[MannsOverMeta]

Helping the town is the more moral choice. You keep the Trudy, the bartender, and Doc Mitchell alive, so thats a plus.
Helping the Gangers does make sense from a realistic point of view, but gameplay wise the stuff they give you isn't very valuable later in the game and you're better off angering them so you can farm low level loot off of them later.

[psychotron666]

I've done the goodsprings side many times and still did powder gangers quests and walked freely through their territory.

You get a doctor, the only reliable one between there and novac, and a couple low level stores.

[Curious Incubus]

It's a sort of tutorial for the reputation system. Later down the line you will be making amny choices that end up affecting your reputation with various factions. Some will make certain people hate you, and some will allow certain people to trust you.

[just.nuke.em]

Chet gives you a discount.

You know you don't have to do the quest when you first encounter it? I usually don't do it till later so as not to piss any one faction off.

[Akasaki]

Side with powder ganger for profit ?...it's nope for me tho. Dynamite is only good with perk but for my, I prefer frag or plasma grenades. But their mines are good tho. kill sh t heads for early game karma...and no body can touch my sweet Sunny Trudy sandwich.

If you wanna try their quest so you can ignore goodsprings's fight quest and get to the prison and work for Eddie instead. It's pretty nice, deal with the bounty Hunter, deal with the bad comrades and even spy on NCR camp.

But if you side with them at that point, you may suffer from being enemy with many factions. NCR and Legion hate them and may send rangers or veteran soldiers to kill you, in early game is real pain lol.

[AlexTheSkjegg]

If you manage to have the Goodsprings NPCs deliver the killing blows on the Powder Gangers during the shootout then you'll only end up being Shunned. Because of that you can still do the Powder Ganger quests. That way you keep the bonuses of both, more or less.

[Crystal Sharrd]

You can get infamy with the Powder Gangers, and if have a mod that fixes the bug where the Powder Gangers faction wasn't given evil karma, you can steal from them without a karma penalty.

[Bootie Q]

You get a lot more caps if doing the Goodsprings side, 100 caps initially, 150 when you meet Ringo at Crimson Caravan. Also, assuming you care about what your reputation is with the Powder Gangers, the reputation reduction you by killing them in the quest hardly affects anything regarding the three or four quests regarding the Powder Gangers. I think you'd still be able to do the quests for them at the NCRCF, and the Vault 19 Powder Gangers aren't affected by your reputation with them. As for the merchants in Goodsprings, I guess if you're ok with killing a doctor and a bartender for a 50% discount regular merchant, then go ahead. I like to do the Goodsprings side personally because Doc Mitchell is the main doctor I buy meds from.

[namresaw33]

I do like the lore of the powder gangers a lot more than goodsprings. Other than it being the starting area of the game it's pretty boring imo. But I do like betraying the PGs and assaulting the prison in that one quest though.

[talgaby]

You have Chet and Trudy as vendors for that part of the map. Chet can actually store some good crafting parts, some rarer mods, and for some reason I often see him keeping around a bunch of Caravan cards. Trudy is good for food on hardcore and she can have a decent amount of caps.

By the way, you can access the Powder Ganger stashes and quests even when helping Goodpsrings. You just have to arm the entire town and make sure you don't actually participate in the fight, let the townsfolk kill everyone. Your Infamy with the gangers will be set only to 2, and you can still enter their prison and take the jobs.

[psychotron666]

Originally posted by talgaby:

You have Chet and Trudy as vendors for that part of the map. Chet can actually store some good crafting parts, some rarer mods, and for some reason I often see him keeping around a bunch of Caravan cards. Trudy is good for food on hardcore and she can have a decent amount of caps.

By the way, you can access the Powder Ganger stashes and quests even when helping Goodpsrings. You just have to arm the entire town and make sure you don't actually participate in the fight, let the townsfolk kill everyone. Your Infamy with the gangers will be set only to 2, and you can still enter their prison and take the jobs.

Yeah I usually do this. Then I go to the prison and do those missions and when the ncr raid it I just run off and jump the fence from one of the towers and leave them to their fates.

[Spoomer]

Originally posted by Comrade Alexander #FreePalestine:

So I've always sort of helped Ringo out in this mission but this time I decided to help the Powder Gangers. Helping them is way better than help good springs. If you help the Powder Gangers you get an easy source of explosives and reloading powder, a safe road to Primm, several easy starting missions to get you some caps, a discount in the Good Springs store, easy access to Meyers, etc. But if you help Good Springs you get a handful of caps and... well nothing else except now you have to battle your way everywhere since the Powder Gangers hate you and for what? Down the line I guess he'll probably give you a job or something but I don't imagine it'd pay much more than Powder gangin'

For the most part they're losers. They're just losers. Just kill them all and take everything.