Any methods to make cash quickly?

[Hunter Wulfstern]

Hello everyone,

I am still relatively new to Fallout: NV after years of playing FO: 3 & 4 and I was wondering what would be the best way to make cash quickly in-game as I saw some unique weapons being sold at Silver Rush for about 20K caps just to add to a collectors thing (as I like collecting unique items)

I am playing a good karma character with most factions having a neutral or good standing.

I am mostly fighting Fiends atm around the outskirts of New Vegas, after a daring mountain hugging through Deathclaw valley (I was too stubborn to go the safe route) and found out they offer the most caps from their weapons.

I am using mostly items to improve my charisma where I can, and patching weapons and armour to fixed conditions to sell on for a higher price to sell to the Gun Runners and do any other missions I can, to make the most caps when I can.

I think gambling is another method a friend suggested, but I would prefer a more adventure method to explore the wastelands, as gambling was too slow pace and I don't really have the caps to splash out on casino tokens.

Any advice/pointers would be appreciated.

[Tribe Reimanen]

Gambling is actually a very fast method depending on your Luck level. Whats yours at? For the rest, playing the game and just leveling / doing the story gets you a large amount of caps anyway. Other than that try selling rare strong armors like Power armor / Combat armor and unique weapons that can be found. Also a very popular trick is going to the silver rush, and by holding E on one of the weapons / grenades etc on the counter you can drag them to the bathroom in the back. There you can safely steal them and sell them back for immediate profit and basically no karma loss.

[lammy from um jammer lammy]

get 9 - 10 luck and play blackjack until you get kicked out of every single casino.

[Vex Hilarius]

Play caravan. Can easily get ~5000 caps by the time you reach novac

[PopCultureReference]

1) Sell extra equipment you don't need. Get the jury rigging perk so that you can repair all expensive items to the max with surplus ♥♥♥♥ equipment. Selling is basically THE way to make money and many vendors have thousands of caps to give for high-value items.

2) Blackjack with full bets isn't slow. You can buy the minimum amount of chips from the cage cashier and end up breaking the bank at every casino. The Ultra Luxe caps out at 15k if that's where you want to start. In order to win consistently, you need 7 of luck or greater. If your luck isn't up to this, you can boost it with the luck implant, naughty nightwear, and lucky shades. However, Lucky shades require "Liked" reputation with the Legion.

3) Legion supply cache replenishes every three days, but you need a favorable rep with the Legion. This supply cache continues to be refilled even after you lose favor with them. It's full of legion money, ammo, meds, random armors and usually a few stealth boys. This won't make you as much as the other methods, but it's something to try.

4) Dead Money: this DLC completely derails the money system in New Vegas. You can get 37 gold bars that end up being worth around 350K caps. However, they weigh a lot. But if you gamble in Dead Money, you can get over 100K worth of pre-war money, which is weightless. Not only that, but after you finish the DLC, so long as you have the code for it, you get what is essentially an infinite supply of weapon repair kits that you can then use to max out the condition, which increases the value, of any weapon.

New Vegas has a completely unbalanced economy compared to any other Fallout game. Although it might not seem so at first, it's very easy to make money. There are many different methods, but these are what came to my mind first.

[Shiroi Ren]

Kill all, sell everything - easy cash.
With "Leave no Witnesses" even safe one.

[Jakob]

Step 1: Get gun or melee weapon

Step 2: get negative rep with the legion (cause they suck)

Step 3: "The Casear has Marked You For Dead and The Legion Obeys Ready Yourself For Battle"

Step 4: Loot the Many Assault Carbines, 12.7 smgs, and Thermite Lances (each worth around 1000 caps at max durability)

Step 5: head to Gun "chad" Runners Robot

Step 6: repeat Step 2

[Crystal Sharrd]

I pick up everything unowned that isn't nailed down and sell it if I won't be using it. Vendors take three days to refresh their stock.

[Graceful Jabberwocky]

gambling with high luck

[Vassago Rain]

Get a ton of rockets and break them down into incendiary rockets at the Khan armorer. You'll have hundreds of thousands of money in minutes.

[76561197971992647]

player.additem f 13333337 then buy thirteen million three-hundred and thirty three thousand three hundred and thirty seven of your booby pans. and unlock the safe at goodsprings school, easy start atleast.

[Hunter Wulfstern]

Thank you everyone for the useful advice, I will be sure to give the ideas a try too.

As for my Luck for my current character, they're at Luck 7.

[wicked lester]

You can boost Luck with Perks, gear, and cybernetics.

[Vali Riversong]

Step 1: Kill the Omerta's
Step 2: Take all their .44 magnums and 10mm SMGs
Step 3: repair a bunch to max condition
Step 4: sell them for around a thousand plus each.

You do good and get cash, win win.

[otakon17]

Get 10 Luck, go clean out the casino's asap.
Hunt Fiends around New Vegas itself and repair and sell their pricier weapons(Hunting Rifles, Lever Shotguns, Laser RCWs). Use weapon kits on the most expensive ones(the Lever Shotguns) if you don't have duplicates or the Jury Rigging perk(level 14, 90 Repair).

[Hunter Wulfstern]

I also read something about super mutants drop good loot but couldn't find any sources to back up this claim or any locations they spawn other than Black Mountain as the OP of the post on a different thread/site mentioned about selling on the heavy weapons they drop.

Fiends around NV tend to be my go to as they seem to respawn every 3 or so days according to the Wiki with enemies that spawn in the main over world map.

For now, I will hit the casinos and fiends to get the caps.

Thank you again everyone for the very useful tips and advice, it's greatly appreciated