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[marager]

Im baffled,can someone points me to some explanation,FAQ or guide as to what merchant buys what? it seems to me that no matter what i offer to whom they always think its worth 0 caps :/ it makes the game unplayable for me XD please help

[Slaver Snipe]

http://www.fo2238.fodev.net/wiki/Merchants

Still fairly accurate although your speech/karma will also affect it.  (lots of merchants don't want pointless weak shit either)

[TheGreenHand]

I would argue that the wiki on merchants is currently useless for selling, only from buying from them.  For example, merchants who bought all armors, big guns, energy guns, and ammo pre-wipe, now currently just buy rockets, 5mm AP, and some other random stuff.

[marager]

dudes, its rediclious, merchants mostly buy ONLY AMMO, and if they do, its by a fraction of what it used to cost pre-wipe
is there a list of changes to merchants somewhere in the patch changes? someone?

[Slaver Snipe]

Have to disagree with you there marager, get good karma and good barter skill and don't try to sell them shitty tier 1 stuff if thats what your doing.

[vilaz]

Have to disagree with you there marager, get good karma and good barter skill and don't try to sell them shitty tier 1 stuff if thats what your doing.

Let me rephrase:
Create charisma/barter alt and sell high tier stuff which you looted for low price until you gather some reputation (eventually do some quests... with that barter alt) from trading. Optionally repair it to get better prices wasting half of the gathered equipment... and no. You won't get caps anyway since traders and merchants just don't have them.

Yeah I also don't like the trading post wipe changes. Merchants can be served with less variety of items and there are even less caps in the circulation.

[marager]

so basically we have another solid reason why we MUST have an alt in this game, something the devs been trying to "combat" for like, years? XDDD
dont get me wrong, i see nothing wrong with having a few character types, its just more annoying grinding and move bullshit in the banks untill you get a shared account for your private little faction of idiot toons XD

[yoz]

dudes, its rediclious, merchants mostly buy ONLY AMMO, and if they do, its by a fraction of what it used to cost pre-wipe
is there a list of changes to merchants somewhere in the patch changes? someone?

It's ridiculous, not rediclious.

[Lon Chaney]

so basically we have another solid reason why we MUST have an alt in this game, something the devs been trying to "combat" for like, years? XDDD

That's not really true.  They've weighted the reputation with the faction a lot higher than barter skill, so you can still get fair prices if you have a higher rep.  And you'll get that by trading, so just keep selling and buying. 

[KruskDaMangled]

so basically we have another solid reason why we MUST have an alt in this game, something the devs been trying to "combat" for like, years? XDDD
dont get me wrong, i see nothing wrong with having a few character types, its just more annoying grinding and move bullshit in the banks untill you get a shared account for your private little faction of idiot toons XD

No, you just have to horde/make spears. The cash you get for them in JT is consistent. Yes boys and girls, there is a compelling reason to get them off dead raiders and the dusty streets of unguarded towns where some poor bluesuit got shot over a crappy gun and maybe a few caps!

But yeah, in all seriousness it would be nice to see other ways to make caps consistently. There are a few quests you can get some caps from in some amount, but not all of them are repeatable.

For the moment, you must  content yourself with low reward tasks, like knocking over low tier raiders and NPC's for those spears with cheapass .45 caliber ammo, or scrabbling to get enough metal parts and junk to make spears. (That, or shoveling shit and moving boxes, but that's never fun. And considering how cheap .45 ammo is, it's almost worth hunting raiders for the crappy xp they give and the 100 caps you are almost guaranteed for getting a couple of spears off the screwheads.)

[MuscleShark]

How much is slaves sold for 200 caps ? There are lots of humanoid to slaves and sell quickly. 20 slaves an hour brings you 4000 caps....