Best way to make money?

[Alpacalypse]

I'm sitting here at 8K caps at level 35 or so, and I hear of people with 5X more at a lower level. How do I make the dosh? :C

[Tim Timsen]

Sell weapons and armor instead of scrapping them.
Use the ammo trick.
Cheat.

[R.Y.N.O]

sell everything

[Rogue]

Cook all the meat you find, all food items like fancy lads snacks sell for quite a lot. Surplus water/food in settlements are placed in the workshop and can be sold for profit. Equip Charisma gear before interacting with a vendor to get better deals. You can sell ammo you don't use (but I wouldn't unless you're sure you'll never use it)

[JordanU]

Well, if you have the right perks build some stores. They net you a ton of caps rather frequently. Also sell pre-war money, cigarrettes, and gold watches and the like.

[Mav]

Set up a lot of water thingies and get a lot of purifies water.

[tempchar]

sell .38 ammo (only pipe weapons use this i think)
sell pre-war money

[FlashBurn]

There is also the perks. One that gives you more ammo and one for more caps. Which you can then buy more ammo. But there is plenty of ammo around unless you use full auto stuff just by exploring and picking up ammo off of dead guys.

[Tenshin51]

Create a settment that farms mutfruit then sell them. If you got a perk for barter, wear a charisma clothes, use grape mentats that increase barter and drink alcohol to increase your charisma.

You would get plenty of caps just by selling mutfruit and including the loot you got.

Sadly w/ power armor that increase charisma will not boost your charisma. Just wear charisma clothes.

[Gorebane44]

best way to make money in this game is settlement water purifiers.... Every settlement you got just build the biggest water purfiers you can like 15 or so per settlement (that has bodys of water). This will create purified water that you can take from the work bench and resell to vendors. I have by far more caps than I know what to do with because of this. I have like 17 purifiers in sanctuary and just built another 10 in the castle. Basically your purified water becomes your currency because most vendors arn't carrying around 20k+ caps to buy all my purified water ^_^.

[leftharted]

Originally posted by DatGrunt:

Set up a lot of water thingies and get a lot of purifies water.

This. None of the rest.

By level 5/10 with science 1 you can setup two super purifiers at the drive in. Selling them exclusively for fusion cores myself, and I'm in armor 24/7

[Mav]

Yeah and you wont even be able to sell all of the water. Every vendor will run out of money and ammo before you run out of water to sell.

[Rogue]

Originally posted by FlashBurn:

There is also the perks. One that gives you more ammo and one for more caps. Which you can then buy more ammo. But there is plenty of ammo around unless you use full auto stuff just by exploring and picking up ammo off of dead guys.

I would avoid the cap looting perk like the plague

[Tenshin51]

Originally posted by |Fever| Gorebane |SGT|:

best way to make money in this game is settlement water purifiers.... Every settlement you got just build the biggest water purfiers you can like 15 or so per settlement (that has bodys of water). This will create purified water that you can take from the work bench and resell to vendors. I have by far more caps than I know what to do with because of this. I have like 17 purifiers in sanctuary and just built another 10 in the castle. Basically your purified water becomes your currency because most vendors arn't carrying around 20k+ caps to buy all my purified water ^_^.

Lol that's alot of water purifier!

Having that kind of resources you need a defence in your settlement. Like hell my main settlement always getting attack due to my resources.

[Tenshin51]

Originally posted by Lady Seeri Snugglebottoms:

Originally posted by FlashBurn:

There is also the perks. One that gives you more ammo and one for more caps. Which you can then buy more ammo. But there is plenty of ammo around unless you use full auto stuff just by exploring and picking up ammo off of dead guys.

I would avoid the cap looting perk like the plague

Agreed it felt really useless if i am investing to my settlements. My settlements are my caps cow in the game. Ammunition in the late game is fine especially if you got a companion perk that increase VAts headshot to 95%.

[θάνατος]

lol, dosh

sell chems and pick up weapons and armor off of your dead foes