Good business-owner mods?

[Warcrimes McGee]

I really want to be able to run a store in New Vegas, but it seems to me that all the ones I've found are buggy, incompatible, poorly navmeshed, not voiced, and completely uninteresting. Furthermore, I can't find any kind of immersive aspects to any of them. There are no personalized features to add, no store upgrades or earned rewards for a successful business, nothing to make it immersive. The closest I've ever come was the New Vegas Trade Center mod, which added complex things like investing, banking, as well as cool new merchants and even quests. But you still couldn't own a store and besides that, the mod caused a whole lot of problems with my game including crashes and corrupted files. If any of you have played Skyrim, I really like the Adura's Merchant Mod. That mod adds a little merchant stand outside your home in each province where you can sell things. You can hire someone to sell your goods for you and you can collect the money in a safe. All you need to do is stock the items chest with things you want to sell. But even more than that, it has an immersive leveling system. You can only sell really low-value items at first, but as you sell more, your experience increases and you can sell more valuable items increasingly over time. It's immersive and it makes sense. You can even customize each stand to sell different kinds of items and you get alot more money from selling items that are specialized at a specific location. You can have one stand dedicated to selling potions and poisons, another to sell furs, one to sell armor and weapons, and so on. That is the closest thing I've ever had to a great business mod for any game, period. It never crashed my game, it never conflicted with anything, and it was immersive and enjoyable. The reason I went into detail about that was because I wanted to give everyone the impression of what I needed in a merchant mod. Immersion, customization, upgradeables, leveling, and for it to be FULLY FUNCTIONAL, without bugs, glitches, conflicts, corrupted saves, etc. Why isn't there a good mod like that for new vegas? And if there is, can someone please provide me a link?

[talgaby]

I don't think there is. It proved quite a challenge for modders to make working homes, I remember how long it took to get the sort-o-matic working, and then how buggy it was when someone other than the author tried it.
Skyrim seems to have a better content creation system, plus thanks to all the hype the game got it has a much larger modding community, whereas for New Vegas the mods which have actual staff try to focus on cleaning up the numerous bugs, glitches and problems, or just try to make the game look finally good with reworked NPCs and areas. It simply hasn't reached the stage where several people try to add additional content, the closest we have is someguy and his quest mods.
Still, the peaceful life aspect isn't really explored, and the game design doesn't really support it. Skyrim's world despite being in a conflict, still has a lot of towns and villages which aren't struggling for survival but live in a somewhat peaceful and average life, so being a merchant can be a good, immersive option. In New Vegas you pretty much have to play a character who is involved in an upcoming large-scale battle, and unlike Skyrim you can't just disregard the main quest, since almost literally two-thirds of the game map is dedicated to this one notion.

You idea may be feasible for Fallout 3, but it has even less modders now.

[Warcrimes McGee]

I disagree, I think there's plenty of room in New Vegas for some peaceful-yet-fun extensions if people would just put in the time and effort. For example, I have RTS (Real Time Settler) mod, and it makes it so that you can basically build your own thriving village from the ground up, with resources, workers, custom structures, and all that good stuff. My only problem was trying to figure out how to get it to work, and alot of the time it basically just wouldn't respond to my commands at all. That's the only reason I don't use it, until they fix it or I find out what's causing it. But it had so much cool stuff, it broke my heart to uninstall it.

[Cabbo]

Not really what you're looking for but Run the Lucky 38 is really quite good and you don't even have to Kill Mr House to be able to run it.

[baddude1337]

Bison Steve Hotel and Run The Lucky 38 might be interesting to you. There is another mod that lets you run your own caravan but I've forgotten what it's called.

[Cabbo]

Originally posted by baddude1337:

There is another mod that lets you run your own caravan but I've forgotten what it's called.

That sounds awesome.

[Warcrimes McGee]

I actually have the Run the Lucky 38 mod, but I haven't gotten to it yet because I've been doing alot of other stuff in NV, but I'm glad to hear that it's good. I'll check out the Bison Steve one.

[hghwolf]

Rather than playing FONV, why don`t you play Recettear ? Or Second Life ? Or, really, any game not so blatantly at odds with what you actually want ?

[Warcrimes McGee]

I've never heard of either of those games but I'll check them out.

[hghwolf]

I would reccomed NOT checking out Second Life. It`s an RP MMO where "anything" is possible but that ultimately boils down to people being very very creepily sexual. We`re talking ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dicknipples level overfetish here.

Huh. Didn`t think that would come out without hearts.