fastest way to get 2k

[Zes]

I directly travelled to diamond city but I need 2k to buy the house, I can't just steal and sell you know, and I left minigun & bullets at concord.. what now :)

[Fytch]

you can get an easy 3k~ caps by going directly to USAF Satellite Station Olivia. i advise setting your diff to very easy before entering. once you enter, make sure not to kill anyone. make your way down stairs and keep running down the halls until you face 'Ack Ack'. once you kill ack ack, run and hide around the corner from all the other enemies, kill any melee based enemy and the dog that comes after you. as long as the minigun is on the ground, nearby npcs will eventually pick it up, thus spawning roughly around 500 5mm ammo on their person. repeat and rinse until all enemies are dead, then go and loot their bodies for the 500 5mm ammo, and don't forget to pick up the minigun. after obtaining all of that 5mm ammo, you can then visit any vendor your please and sell it all off. this isn't the most direct way of making caps, but it sure as hell helps you buy anything you need *cough overseers guardian cough* and lets you clean out any vendor you come across until you have around 3k caps. side note - you can also get an extra 500-1k 5mm ammo by going to concord and finishing the quest there. by entering the PA and ripping the minigun off the vertibird, the game will grant you the extra 5mm ammo (most i ever got by doing this was 4k 5mm ammo).

[The Inept European]

You should get about 1600 rds of 5mm from Concord and all you need to fight is a few low level raiders with pipe weapons.

The trick with getting Ack Ack’s buddies to spawn extra ammo is neat but I would not call it “easy” to have people repeatedly shooting at you with a minigun. USAF Olivia is not an easy mission at low level on whatever counts personally as your “challenging” difficulty level.

The Concord ammo you can loot without ever seeing Gristle or the death claw. You can walk unopposed out of Concord with it as long as you don’t talk to Preston.

[Fytch]

Publicado originalmente por The Inept European:

You should get about 1600 rds of 5mm from Concord and all you need to fight is a few low level raiders with pipe weapons.

The trick with getting Ack Ack’s buddies to spawn extra ammo is neat but I would not call it “easy” to have people repeatedly shooting at you with a minigun. USAF Olivia is not an easy mission at low level on whatever counts personally as your “challenging” difficulty level.

The Concord ammo you can loot without ever seeing Gristle or the death claw. You can walk unopposed out of Concord with it as long as you don’t talk to Preston.

that's why you prioritise killing the person with the minigun the moment they pick it up. you can actually tank a lot of damage on very easy diff, especially if you pop a med x. also, everyone is a one shot if you throw on a receiver upgrade on the 10mm.

[Zes]

Publicado originalmente por The Inept European:

The easiest solution is go back to Concord and get the 5mm ammo, go to the Sanctuary cellar and get the gold. Do your best on CHA gear and it might be worth crafting Grape (is it?) Mentats to sell the gold if your net CHA is low.

yeah I was careless ;) eventually had to startover

and this time first stopped by at the root cellar and grabbed gold bars, then at the red rocked, got fusion core from the basement (and the black rim glasses), i passed by concord and got minigun by climbing up the church, then followed the road and activated Carla (unnecessary, but I sold some of those things to her and completed CHA clothings by buying a hat and a tshirt +4 in total with the glasses) then handled wolfgang abd trudy crisis, sold them too. Stopped by at the starlight as well, just looted the backside, grabbed some adhesive and aliminum and the core. ventured down along the way and claimed power armor which was caged in the train. (didnt go lex and corvega for trading books and fusion core booblehead) helped Danse but no arcjet, then reached diamond city by passing uss riptide.

it was nighttime when i got there, i only traded with robot and slept at bobrovs' place, sold everything by the morning and bought new clothes, got the house, and settled in. got a few level along the way, got armorer and gunnut lone wanderer lockpick hacker and strong back, tweaked my 10mm and leather armor to the max. still have 1k caps :D now going for the Valentine..

Well, I still wonder how I could find 2k by just staying at diamond city only, with a freshstart character, I'll try it again later as a challenge. It will be heavily relied on stealing i guess.

(and as Zek mentioned, high charisma is useful when getting diamond city quests, for winnig 3x speech checks, and exps and extra monies. I already got all quests in this playthru but havent gone for them yet)

[The Inept European]

The best way to make big caps at Diamond Ciry is to do Diamond City Blues and sell all the chems. As a fight it is not that hard. You definitely want to drop some Grape(?) Mentats when you do that big chem sale.

[The Inept European]

Another way to make big money (probably not on Survival) is to walk behind Danse while he clears ArcJet and loot yourself ridiculous amounts of fusion cells and synth weapons. Fairly low risk and high yield. You can do it in Survival but you will probably need to stash your haul in an ArcJet workbench (is there one?) and move the stash to DC in multiple mile runs.

[The Inept European]

If you bring a companion (eg Codsworth) you might be able to mule all that loot out of ArcJet in one run even on Survival.

[Solomon Hawk]

Easiest and cheesiest way to get even 100,000 caps (or even more) :
Simple
(press ~) player.additem f 2000 ENTER (press~)

But don't let everyone know you did it. Just keep it to yourself until someone else could use a hand.

[NecroMaster]

If you do the side quest order up you can get a sizeable amount of many if you do this.

First approach Wolfgang and pass the speech check to make him lower his gun.

Afterward pass the speech check to make him hand over his money.

Then ask what’s going on.

Wolfgang will recruit you to get what he’s owed from Trudy agree to talk to her.

Afterward go to talk to Trudy.
Offer to help her.
Ask for more money until she offers to pay you 200 caps

Now agree to help Trudy and kill Wolfgang and his guard.

You just got 250 caps free but we aren’t done yet.

What we do next depends on whether you own wasteland workshop dlc.

If you do own it do this.
Buy the materials to build a Brahmin cage as many as you can in a settlement to generate fertilizer.

Next go do the quest call to arms with paladin danse clear the ghouls and do the follow up quest.

Every single time you kill a synth prioritize pocketing the weapons.

Take all the weapons back to your settlement with the Brahmin and scrap them for their plastic.

Now using the plastic and the fertilizer make as much jet as possible then go to diamond city and sell it and continue to do this with every weapon dropped by a synth you will easily be making back what you spent.

If you do not own wasteland workshop this method isn’t an option so instead I would go to the settlement raffling ton boathouse and use that money on building industrial water purifiers there and selling the water.

[The Inept European]

I certainly wouldn’t describe that method as quick! XD

[The Inept European]

The caltrops method is probably the fastest and easiest- if you’re back at Sanctuary.

Far Harbor is my favourite DLC but it still manages to break the game due to lousy QA and a recipe that breaks every rule in FO4’s balance book. 400% profit on crafting, or 700% with not even any added ingredients to explain where the poison comes from.

Since every DLC breaks the game balance badly one way or another it makes you wonder if they just didn’t GAF anymore or if they were actually trying to break the game on purpose. Did they hate the game or hate the players at that point? I guess the DGAF explanation is more likely. Or just that the people who had the vision of the game balance and whose Jon it was to enforce it, had just moved on.

Maybe after water farming was allowed into the base game they just thought “what’s the point?”. Maybe they were right. Caltrop farming is an egregious way to get a few thousand caps right out of the gate, but it’s not hugely different from selling the minigun ammo or just selling all the scrap from Sanctuary. Whereas water farming works all through the entire game and just keeps growing exponentially more profitable without any practical upper limit.

[inetd]

BTW I never use this house, it's just too many gates in between.
My preferred locations are still Taffington Boathouse and Spectacle Island

[Zes]

Publicado originalmente por inetd:

BTW I never use this house, it's just too many gates in between.
My preferred locations are still Taffington Boathouse and Spectacle Island

in survival every place has the same difficulty for me to reach, but in loading screenwise you have a point, diamond city has one extra. outside the survival you can fasttravel from/to diamond city house from anywhere. and it somehow has one of the shortest loading times.

[Biggus Dickus]

1. Build a lot of water purifiers -> collect 100+ water daily -> sell
2. Buy fertilizer -> cook jet -> sell

[The Inept European]

Publicado originalmente por Biggus Dickus:

1. Build a lot of water purifiers -> collect 100+ water daily -> sell
2. Buy fertilizer -> cook jet -> sell

OP said “fastest” and preferably near DC.