What to buy from vendors?

[HellSlayer]

The game surpasses the skyrim, so many amazing things but..
what to buy from vendors?

I try to find legendary weapons and armor so I can scrap for 1 chip where 5-12 chips required to install mods I desire on my gear.

Another thing I used to buy was simply wood, but since I try using sims settlements, not I have 0 things to buy.

I play on very hard, but still dont use chems or even lots of grenades.. Heck now I play melee and I roll in ammo..

Much to sell, nothing to buy. Any advice?

[Ilja]

If you have material requirements active for Sim Settlements, then you will be soon buying wood and concrete as well. I am buying those as shipments all the time.

Otherwise it depends on what sort of game you play. I am constantly buying junk to craft better weapon, armor and PA mods for myself and settlers.

[HellSlayer]

Originally posted by Ilja:

If you have material requirements active for Sim Settlements, then you will be soon buying wood and concrete as well. I am buying those as shipments all the time.

Otherwise it depends on what sort of game you play. I am constantly buying junk to craft better weapon, armor and PA mods for myself and settlers.

isnt those.. forgot what they are.. those spikes(forgot what they are called) you get from church where first power armor is what they use for building?

[Ilja]

Plots require ASAM sensors to build. Initial set and holotape can be found from Museum of Freedom. There is indeed a church right next to it.

Bases can use materials, like wood and concrete. This depends on settings you have chosen from holotape. For most base settings the option is set ON, but can be toggled OFF from either holotape or City Planner's Desk.

Exterior plots are not only available plots in Sim Settlements. There are also interior plots. Some settlements - like Red Rocket, Tenpines Bluff, Jamaica Plains and Oberland Station can get tricky to build with exterior plots, unless you just want very limited amount of settlers there. This is where interior plots come handy.

You can squeeze more services and settlers to each area with these 2x1 plots, by building structures for them by hand. That will of course consume building materials as well.

[Simpson3k]

Even with Sim Settlement you´ll need build materials, unless you simply plant one SS plot right next to each other without using a single vanilla workshop item.

For example, if you build SS interior plots you´ll have to build the floors, walls and roofs around them, lay the power lines to them.. So you need wood, concrete, steel, glas or whatever depending on your choice of building.

[HellSlayer]

Disregarding the optional base building, what is there to buy.. Even at level 20 on my previous character I was swimming in caps yet nothing to buy. Come to think of it, havent needed much to buy in skyrim either, but at least skyrim had very expensive skill training, occasional super expensive enchanted items for disenchanting/same here for legendary items.

But nothing really else... just wood and steel.. :|

[Ilja]

Honestly not much. There are few unique armors and weapons in stores, but not much beyond that.

One criticism toward legendary enemy system is indeed that it leaves very little use for caps. My own caps are being drained by settlements and power armor (because I finally made a PA game.) There is still a handsome surplus of caps, after setting up just few settlements correctly.

[red255]

if you can scrap legendary weapons you are running a mod and rules are different.

I generally buy crafting supplies and run the crafting as XP. and ammo.

Things I generally buy.

1.) Acid shipments.
2.) fertilizer/shipments
3.) Aluminum
4.) Circuitry
5.) Fiber optics
6.) weapons I can scrap for parts
7.) weapons with mods I can remove to stick on other weapons.
8.) Blood packs
9.) ammo

For instance I found a wounding ripper, so I purchased an extended ripper in the shop and removed that mod from it and placed it on my wounding ripper saving a need to purchase blacksmith

things I loot in the field.
1.) aluminum
2.) Bone
3,) adhesive
4.) ammo
5.) guns with a variety of mods I can scrap for alot of parts with scrapper.
6.) circuitry.
7.) nuclear material.

I run around use the bone to make cuttting fluid for oil, prime use of oil is turrets for defenses.

[HellSlayer]

Originally posted by red255:

if you can scrap legendary weapons you are running a mod and rules are different.

I generally buy crafting supplies and run the crafting as XP. and ammo.

Things I generally buy.

1.) Acid shipments.
2.) fertilizer/shipments
3.) Aluminum
4.) Circuitry
5.) Fiber optics
6.) weapons I can scrap for parts
7.) weapons with mods I can remove to stick on other weapons.
8.) Blood packs
9.) ammo

For instance I found a wounding ripper, so I purchased an extended ripper in the shop and removed that mod from it and placed it on my wounding ripper saving a need to purchase blacksmith

things I loot in the field.
1.) aluminum
2.) Bone
3,) adhesive
4.) ammo
5.) guns with a variety of mods I can scrap for alot of parts with scrapper.
6.) circuitry.
7.) nuclear material.

I run around use the bone to make cuttting fluid for oil, prime use of oil is turrets for defenses.

Well, thanks for tips but, i dont find anything much to buy, what you buy. I had few instances where I needed specific things for crafting but otherwise its just wood/steel when I was into settlement building. Now I am not so much.

I do run scrap one legendary item - get 1chip. 5/12 chips can add a certain mod on your item. Im playing on very hard. I wish I could play on survival but I hate inability to quicksave(dont want 30min of unsaved gameplay).

The only thing I like crafting is robots. I got a brilliant idea thought.. if there were 1chip for 2000caps that would be very very cool. Or maybe full legendary addon for 10k - 20k price.

[Yograin]

I only bought Overseers Guardian Rifle and Commandos Helmet + Ammo. I'm lvl 80 on survival without mods and without playing with settlements.(no fast travel makes it rather boring)

In the beginning I used to buy purified water or drugs just to craft other drugs for XP.

Only thing preventing me from drowning in caps is the weight limit :)