Fallout 4 currency system

[Bobbanz]

How is it that the pip-boy knew that the currency is caps and the sole survivor know that caps is the currency in the commonwealth after she/he left the vault and find caps right outside the vault the sole survivor came straight from before the great war and just left the cyropod and somehow knew that the currency is caps

[Ion]

Most game mechanics require you to suspend your disbelief for the sake of player convenience. I think most players know about caps anyway.

[Bobbanz]

Yea but if one think if this was reality and you just left the vault after coming out from a cyropod you probally think the currency is pre war money and not caps until you reach a trader

[AbsynthMinded]

Im with bob on this. The immersion and story holes in this Fallout are almost unforgivable. Caps always had an explanation before, at some point. Except in New Vegas where you were not a Dweller, and were already familiar with the modern commerce systems.

Oh and I think Tactics did not have a Caps explanation, but it wasn't an RPG really either.

[sdack]

The Pip-Boy had been used by somebody before the Sole Survivor found it.

[AbsynthMinded]

Originally posted by sdack:

The Pip-Boy had been used by somebody before the Sole Survivor found it.

A dead tech in the cryo lab that had never been outside after the bombs fell.

[Bobbanz]

well in vault 111 there was mutiny about opening the vault door since the food supplie was low and if one see the pip-boy before you take it when it is on the skeletons arm and its screen is covered in dust but one has to wonder how the radroaches got in and also the pip-boy must have gone into power off mode some how since its not active before the survivor picks it up and power it up also the door outside is a button that makes the elevator go down but theres actually no console to open the door on the outside but since that one hitman from the institute kellog or something like that and the institute scientists got in probally through the relay also bodies dont become skeletons from how long it was from the kidnapping of shaun to the survivor getting out of cyrostasis

[Bobbanz]

we can only hope the next fallout game probally fallout 5 or something like that has a pre war person come out of the vault and exploring what currency the commonwealth uses

[Bobbanz]

Originally posted by AbsynthMinded:

Originally posted by sdack:

The Pip-Boy had been used by somebody before the Sole Survivor found it.

A dead tech in the cryo lab that had never been outside after the bombs fell.

Actually i think he was actually the head scientist since he has the only pip-boy in the vault and he took you to the decompression pods/cyropods
or damn budget cuts

[Solomon Hawk]

Originally posted by sdack:

The Pip-Boy had been used by somebody before the Sole Survivor found it.

This makes relative sense for explaining the use of caps as a currency.
But it seems a bit contradictory if the scientist never left the vault.

[AbsynthMinded]

it is ok to agree that this Fallout's story and delivery of concepts, is not great.

[Bobbanz]

Originally posted by James Stillwell:

Originally posted by sdack:

The Pip-Boy had been used by somebody before the Sole Survivor found it.

This makes relative sense for explaining the use of caps as a currency.
But it seems a bit contradictory if the scientist never left the vault.

the only people we know have been in the vault after the bombs fell was kellog and the institute but they where after shaun

[sdack]

Originally posted by James Stillwell:

Originally posted by sdack:

The Pip-Boy had been used by somebody before the Sole Survivor found it.

This makes relative sense for explaining the use of caps as a currency.
But it seems a bit contradictory if the scientist never left the vault.

Apparently did the scientist have connections to the outside. The use of caps as currency on his Pip-Boy is not just a fact but also evidence of something we simply don't know much about at this time.

[Bobbanz]

This is the only thing we know about the doctor from the wiki http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Vault-Tec_doctor

[Von Faustien]

Originally posted by AbsynthMinded:

Im with bob on this. The immersion and story holes in this Fallout are almost unforgivable. Caps always had an explanation before, at some point. Except in New Vegas where you were not a Dweller, and were already familiar with the modern commerce systems.

Oh and I think Tactics did not have a Caps explanation, but it wasn't an RPG really either.

Tactis use ringpulls from pop cans and brotherhood hood requisition script for money.


As for a plot hole its no wourse than how ever rpg out there has one type of currency. Logically if im hoping country's on world saving quest i should have to exchange my coins. ♥♥♥♥ mass effects the only rpg ive played with a rational reason for having a generic money.

[tulle040657]

Because the itemid of caps is f and in all BGS games the itemid for the currency in the game is always f. So it was easy lookup for the pip-boy. Once the pip-boy knew, all the sole survivor had to do was to look at the pip-boy to get the info