200.000 CAPS AT LEVEL 1!!! - TOP 5 EARLY LOOTING LOCATIONS IN NV

This guide was made for those who (like me) love to start the NV playruns with lots of money, stuff and resources... NOT CHEATING with the console/mods or whatever...

At level 1, you can make enough money in a legit way
to buy all the implants,
to buy some absurdly OP weapons for level 1 like the famous Anti-Materiel Rifle or Paciencia,
to buy some of that super-expensive, but amazing "non-lootable" ammo,
to get the best armor set (Mark-2) in the base game,
... and to buy whatever you want!

Of course, the Casinos are a compatible option to get some extra money fast too, but we will need much more caps to be really well prepared... O_O

These places follow these rules:
- Not a single shot needed to reach and to loot the place.
- No need to kill anyone or to suffer any damage.
- No faction hate taken. Of course, to steal "owned" stuff, we must be hidden.
- Zero lockpicking skills needed.
- Zero hacking skills needed.
- No special requirments needed, like spellchecks or fame.
- Not any quest/s required to access to the loot.
- Everything must be "taken" easily, at level 1, even playing in Very Hard/Hardcore mode.

note:
Numbers are rounded.
Items with weight/value ratio worse than 1/5 are not taken.
Items with value less than 10 are not taken. Exceptions: ammo and duc tape.

TOP 5 - Camp Golf - 15.000 caps

HOW TO GO ASAP?
12 minutes from Goodsprings:
Goodsprings > Novac (this way) > 188 Trading Post > GG Rest Stop > turn right following (or walking on) the big pipe to the end > Camp Golf

NOTORIOUS ITEMS
Combat Armor + Helmet in good condition. 5.700 caps value.
3 Mentats
3 Fixer
5 Nuka Cola Quarz
+20 Purified water bottles.
A lot of energy weapons ammo.
Many magazines.

NOTES
5.000 caps of value among the 13 tents.
10.000 caps of value in the main building.

wikilink:
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Camp_Golf

TOP 4 - Camp McCarran - 18.000 caps

HOW TO GO ASAP?
12 minutes from Goodsprings:
Goodsprings > Novac (this way) > 188 Trading Post > GG Rest Stop > Arotech OP > Camp McCarran

NOTORIOUS ITEMS
Sniper Rifle in decent condition on a bed, in a tent.
Many magazines.
Lots of average ammo.

NOTES
Most extense single location in New Vegas.
Camp McCarran shows like one location but it has six relevant spaces: the tents, the Concourse, the terminal building, the Contrera's Shack, the airport, the ferry.
Loot apart, two cool unique weapons can be taken here easily in a peacefully way. Check the wikilink for extra info.

wikilink:
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Camp_McCarran

TOP 3 - Freeside - 25.000 caps

HOW TO GO ASAP?
15 minutes from Goodsprings:
Goodsprings > Novac (this way) > 188 Trading Post > GG Rest Stop > East Pump > Freeside East Gate

NOTORIOUS ITEMS
Energy weapons and ammo (20.000 caps) at the Silver Rush.
Snowglobe (2.000 caps) at the Old Mormon's Fort.
Barter Skill Book + some loot at Cerulean Electronics.
Naughty Nightwear (Luck +1) + some loot (upstairs) at Mick & Ralphs.
Average loot and some interesting bonus clothes all over the place.

NOTES
Safest way to steal the stuff at the Silver Rush is to move things to the toilet to take them there.
A key can be pickpocketed from Gloria/Jean-Baptiste to access the house and some more stuff.
The best weapon at the Silver Rush is a Tri Beam Laser Rifle. it's in poor condition, but with 2/3 weapon repair kits it will be ok, being a totally OP energy weapon for a level 1 character.
Rats in Cerulean Electronics can be easily "jailed". No need to fight them.

wikilink:
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Freeside

TOP 2 - Hidden Valley - 30.000 caps

HOW TO GO ASAP?
5 minutes from Goodsprings:
Goodsprings > Jean Sky Diving > Sloan > Hidden Valley

NOTORIOUS ITEMS
Four sets of power-armors at very good condition in the armory. (20.000 caps)
Super Sledge in decent condition (3.000 caps) in one of the scribes cells in L2.
Lots of ammo, mostly for energy weapons.
Energy Weapons Skill Book, in the doctor's room.

NOTES
The armory sometimes is open sometimes is closed. In the last case, the key needs to be pickpocketed from Knight Torres.
That Super Sledge, at level 1, is a totally op weapon for melee builds.

EXTRA.
How to enter in the Hidden Valley Bunker at level 1.
There are four bunkers in Hidden Valley.
Only one of them gives access to the BoS base, the Hidden Valley Bunker.
There are different forms to enter in this bunker, but the best one (specially at level 1) is to use Veronica to get access:
1. Recruit Veronica as companion at the 188 Trading Post.
2. Make to trigger the Vero's Companion Quest: "I could make you care".
3. For this, go you and Veronica together to three places of the nine possible places. Check the wikilink for extra details.
I usually choose Nellis, McCarran and Freeside, as I use to visit those places at level 1.
Vero will say something in every location, opening new dialog options... and finally, you both will be able to enter together in the bunker.
4. Enter the bunker with Vero and wait.
5. You will be accepted in the Bunker for ever with no penlties/humiliation at all. This would be very different using other methods to enter.
6. Now, you can ship Vero back to her kiosk at the 188's. She is not needed anymore.

wikilink:
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Hidden_Valley

TOP 1 - Nellis Base and Hangars - 80.000 caps

HOW TO GO ASAP?
18 minutes from Goodsprings:
Goodsprings > Novac (this way) > 188 Trading Post > GG Rest Stop > East Pump > NV Medical Clinic > Harper's Shack > Nellis Air Force Base*

STRUCTURE
For easy comprehension in the vast Boomer's are there are four relevant looting spots:
- Barracks (five)
- Houses (five)
- The hangar with the plane.
- The hangar with the armory.

NOTORIOUS ITEMS
14 Combat Armors + Helmets in the barracks, in the loyal's house, and in the hangars. (40.000 caps).
Snowglobe in the museum house (2.000 caps)
2 Servo-Armors + energy weapons in the corpses of two BoS paladins, in the ruined houses in front of the entrance. (4.000 caps)
3 Missile launchers in the armory. (8.000)
5 Grenade Launchers/Rifles in the Armory. (6.000)
+100 Missiles. All over the place. (+5.000)
Many mines and grenades in the armory.
One Mini-Nuke (armory)
Skill Books of Explosives (in Pearl's barrack) and Repair (in the loyal's house).
All kinds of average loot, here and there...

NOTES
Be careful here... if these guys catch you, they will immediatly become hostile and will fight you en masse.
More "not so easy to loot" stuff is present there. Many Boomers hold valuable stuff like Missile Launchers, Grenade Launchers, Mini-Nukes... also one Fatman. Most of these are obtainable with more or less grade of difficulty.

EXTRA
To pass the Boomer's bombardment for me.
0. Avoid or ignore the guy offering info for caps as you arrive. It's useless. He can be killed with no karma penalty. He has a cool hat (+5 barter) and some caps to loot.
1. Wear no clothes or AGI+1 clothes. Armor is useless here (at VH at least) because if you are hit, you die anyway, with or without armor.
2. Carry low weight and switch to First Person View*.
3. Totally unequip any weapon.
4. Remove your fists.
5. Save the game here... just in case.
6. As soon the missile music starts get pasted to the rocks at the left.
7. Run and jump, run and jump... continue glued to the rocks... nonstop...
8. Eventually you will reach the metal fence.

wikilink:
http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Nellis_Air_Force_Base

TRADERS, LOCATIONS IN NEW VEGAS

GOODSPRINGS AREA SELLERS
Very early-game traders:
- Goodsprings, Chet, the dude at General Store. Trudy, the Saloon owner, but she has little money to buy our junk.
- Primm, Nash, The oldest man around.
- NCR Correctional. The dude at cell B. You need to pay 100 caps to enter,np, but the loot there has much more value.
- Mojave Outpost. The ugly girl at the bar.

EAST/NORTHEAST SELLERS
For later, most of the NV solid sellers are in the E/NE area. It's easy to make a tour:
- 188 TP. The NCR's lady soldier (up) and Alexander (down).
- Novac. Cliff, the guy at Dino-Shop. Talk first to the old lady at the hotel, to get a discount.
- Gun Runners. Best seller in NV.
- Crimson Caravan. Blake, the guy at the kiosk.
- Freeside. Mick and Ralph. Ask for the special stock. SIlver Rush, too, energy stuff only.
- Camp McCarran. Contreras dude. Take care, he sucks...

CONDITIONAL SELLERS
- Hoover Dam. Brandon, an idiot at the basement. NCR fame / 50 speech, required.
- Red Rock Canyon, basement of ruined building. Great Khan Armorer. GKs fame needed.

RANDON TRAVELLING MERCHANTS
They use to be randomly found in the main roads and in some locations like
Mojave Outpost.
188 TP.
Crimson Caravan gates.
Boulder City.
Novac.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

I've played Fallout games for thousands of hours, most of them focusing on:
- shortcuts
- loot
- optimal builds.
- ways to start the playruns overpowered.
My guides are personal and original. All we already know the wiki, youtube...
I make a guide only when I feel I have something new/useful to share.
Play in VH/Hardcore, 100% legit, zero cheats/console/mods.
Feel free to ask me anything in the guide comments. i check often. (no peronal IMs, pls)

[the big m]

These prices are the listed prices in the pip-boy, when selling this stuff the money you get is like 1/10nth. Should be how to get 20,000 caps at level one. 200K is enough to buy everything you want 20K is just one expensive GRA weapon.

[Mr. Transatlantic]

or just do the Chet Glitch get a bunch of 9mm ammo and do the Dupe Glitch with the ammo in hardcore mode, you can dupe almost anything with it, Stimpacks, Caps, different Ammo, any drug, although this wont work on armor or Weapons, and there are other limitations to it. Now this Glitch doesn't work on Console versions it got patched but, you can do the Ammo Swap Glitch with the 9mm and use can ammo Swap mines and essentially convert the 9mm to Mines, definitely recommend getting c4 plastic explosives or Plasma mines, you will get a lot more money, also invest in Barter 100 and Bartering perks.

[Sákuyá]

or just get 9 luck and hit the slot machines and you are rich in 20 mins

[SWAG.Boy]

Uncle_J, Nellis AFB is where the real cash is, trust me, you went to the two worst places off the list!

[Uncle_J]

Another honest way to earn money is to play the Dead Money DLC. Grab the gold bars from the vault. Get a blackjack strategy guide. There is a guide in this Steam guides section. Play blackjack, win your 10,000 Sierra Madre chips. Then you have options.

[Uncle_J]

Well, my Karma went down to Evil after looting Camp golf and Camp McCarren. Also, there was NO sniper rifle in a tent. I searched everywhere. And, i didn't get anywhere near the $ amount for the loot as you claim. The best loot i got was Combat armor and a helmet that i am using. And ~400 Energy cells ammo. The Silver Rush did not go as planned. But i got a low end Plasma Pistol and Rifle from the fracas.

[Sudo Modding]

I indeed thought of starting a playthrough by going early to nellis base. This place is a bit of a maze but a ton of good loot.
I don't think you need to steal that much though, maybe 10-20k worth of items, then blackjack in all casinos, it's more than enough to kick start a new game. At least you won't loose too much karma (JSawyer fixed the fiends giving you a ton of good karma on kill, so if you keep stealing a lot of stuff, you'll be stuck to very evil, even if you're jesus christ in all missions).

[Cornelius Johannes Cornwallis]

This is more than enough theft to get very evil karma... but that's a whole lot of money

[RuntyFlame]

Tip for stealing everything in the munitions storage at Nellis: Use the Crates to block line of sight, making sure you stay hidden while stealing it all
after stealing a couple things quicksave(depends on how much you trust yourself not to fuck up) and walk out with as many explosives as you can without being overencumbered(nearest trader is decently far away), repeat

[Frog Tech]

nice