• Man successfully pre orders Fallout 4 with bottlecaps
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Damn I really need to step up my bottlecap collection. I only have like half a glass jar full.
[QUOTE=J$ Psychotic;48050977]This is how Facepunch reacts to fun.[/QUOTE] Correction: This is how addicts lounge reacts to fun :v:
[QUOTE=Flapjacks;48049278]I never understood that. It's currency that's been obsolete for 200 years.[/QUOTE] Pre-war collectors? :v:
Do they also accept NCR money and Legion Denarii?
[QUOTE=peepin;48048968]2,240 bottles caps is about $112 if sold per nickle (to recycle center). Most places will buy for a dime so $224. (Granted they wont count them; just weigh them) :/ bet he spent more money shipping the bottle caps than the game is actually worth.[/QUOTE] You can get bottle caps for free. Hundreds of them in one go, from one place. From where? Think. Where do bottles get returned? Where are bottle caps collected? Ask nicely to one of their employees. You might just get a box full of them. Free money, if they're actually worth something. I mostly see people using them for artwork/crafts/collections, not for recycling or selling them.
This guy is my new idol.
[QUOTE=Annoyed Grunt;48049493]I guess the NCR still uses alongside the NCR dollar? It's not like using bottlecaps in the first place makes much sense.[/QUOTE] The NCR tries to make people use the NCR dollar, which used to be backed by their gold supplies. The Brotherhood of Steel destroyed their gold supplies so they switched it to a fiat currency and is pretty much worthless. People have gone back to using caps in the Mojave. Caps were used originally in the first Fallout because they were backed by the water merchants at the Hub, but were made obsolete quickly when the NCR introduced their gold-backed currency in Fallout 2. It doesn't really make much sense that they use caps in New Vegas, Fallout 3 or Fallout 4, seeing as they aren't backed by anything.
[QUOTE=Tobin;48053552]The NCR tries to make people use the NCR dollar, which used to be backed by their gold supplies. The Brotherhood of Steel destroyed their gold supplies so they switched it to a fiat currency and is pretty much worthless. People have gone back to using caps in the Mojave. Caps were used originally in the first Fallout because they were backed by the water merchants at the Hub, but were made obsolete quickly when the NCR introduced their gold-backed currency in Fallout 2. It doesn't really make much sense that they use caps in New Vegas, Fallout 3 or Fallout 4, seeing as they aren't backed by anything.[/QUOTE] Maybe it's like the copper coins in the middle-imperial period of Rome. The Empire had already been minting silver and gold coins that had value, but the copper coins were still in circulation. They didn't have as much value, obviously, but they still were used in day-to-day transaction of commonfolk since the more valuable silver and gold was mainly used by government/military personnel.
I'm collecting too. [t]http://i.imgur.com/tzuL4dX.jpg[/t] Hopefully I'll have enough soon.
I, too, took to collecting bottlecaps after discovering that glass-bottled coke was sold nearby. This was my somewhat meagre collection about a year ago: [t]http://i.imgur.com/Z1KJevG.jpg[/t] I figured I could incorporate them into a Fallout cosplay by sticking them all in a little drawstring leather bag tied to my belt or something, get that authentic jingle-jangle. [editline]26th June 2015[/editline] oh shit this isn't the Fallout megathread, seems I forgot where I was
[QUOTE=A B.A. Survivor;48048775]If he got all of those caps from bottles he bought, that's probably several hundred dollars worth of drinks.[/QUOTE] I'm no mathematician, but I think its somewhere in the ballpark of around 6 or 7.
I actually had a huge collection of them, but threw them all out before I moved a couple months ago because I had nowhere to put them. I should have mailed them to Bethesda :v: ah well
[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;48048810]If you worked in a bar or cafe it might be relatively easy to do, assuming the management isn't strict about getting them back.[/QUOTE] I stole a gallon or so of beer caps in high school from the pizza place i work at during senior year alone. [sp]that was just the ones i drank, i didnt even go after anybody elses and i wasnt a server or anything[/sp]
Silly bugger could have got some top quality Brahmin Steak for those!
I feel like I had a pretty large collection of Coca Cola Bottle Caps, but I can't seem to find them anywhere. I've got [I]loads[/I] of plastic bottle caps from a long time ago when i was hoping to get something from Coke's rewards program but somehow I figure Bethesda won't accept those
[QUOTE=Gamerman12;48049069]still a hell of a story, plus he'll probably get some extra bits for being the special guy.[/QUOTE] Don't you mean the "S.P.E.C.I.A.L" guy
[QUOTE=Ragekipz;48050325]Here's the story behind bottle caps:[/QUOTE] I get it's a game but that's such a dumb excuse for a backstory Currency can work in two ways: either a powerful entity like a government backs it's value (modern currencies) or the value comes from the materials it's made out of like copper, silver and gold (ancient currencies) You're going to tell me at some point a bunch of merchants in a post apocalyptic world decided to exchange their precious supplies for worthless stuff you can literally find all over the place?
[QUOTE=Tobin;48053552]The NCR tries to make people use the NCR dollar, which used to be backed by their gold supplies. The Brotherhood of Steel destroyed their gold supplies so they switched it to a fiat currency and is pretty much worthless. People have gone back to using caps in the Mojave. Caps were used originally in the first Fallout because they were backed by the water merchants at the Hub, but were made obsolete quickly when the NCR introduced their gold-backed currency in Fallout 2. It doesn't really make much sense that they use caps in New Vegas, Fallout 3 or Fallout 4, seeing as they aren't backed by anything.[/QUOTE] Maybe they just don't want to switch because it's already a common currency? [editline]26th June 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Ryo Ohki;48056091]You're going to tell me at some point a bunch of merchants in a post apocalyptic world decided to exchange their precious supplies for worthless stuff you can literally find all over the place?[/QUOTE] This is also a world where clicking brackets equates to hacking. There's a lot of shit that doesn't make sense.
[QUOTE=gk99;48058132]Maybe they just don't want to switch because it's already a common currency? [editline]26th June 2015[/editline] This is also a world where clicking brackets equates to hacking. There's a lot of shit that doesn't make sense.[/QUOTE] Oh come on, don't pretend that those are equal. One's an abstraction for an activity that would be too complicated and unfun to accurately simulate for a minigame, and one's a deliberate storytelling choice.
[QUOTE=ElectricSquid;48054002]I, too, took to collecting bottlecaps after discovering that glass-bottled coke was sold nearby. This was my somewhat meagre collection about a year ago: [t]http://i.imgur.com/Z1KJevG.jpg[/t] I figured I could incorporate them into a Fallout cosplay by sticking them all in a little drawstring leather bag tied to my belt or something, get that authentic jingle-jangle. [editline]26th June 2015[/editline] oh shit this isn't the Fallout megathread, seems I forgot where I was[/QUOTE] This is what I'm doing, going to sand down the tops of the caps and replace them with the Nuka Cola and Sunset Sarsaparilla logo
[QUOTE=Mio Akiyama;48058909]This is what I'm doing, going to sand down the tops of the caps and replace them with the Nuka Cola and Sunset Sarsaparilla logo[/QUOTE] Put a blue star in some of the Sunset Sarsaparilla ones for more reference reasons.
[QUOTE=Simplemac3;48055385]I feel like I had a pretty large collection of Coca Cola Bottle Caps, but I can't seem to find them anywhere. I've got [I]loads[/I] of plastic bottle caps from a long time ago when i was hoping to get something from Coke's rewards program but somehow I figure Bethesda won't accept those[/QUOTE] Plastic? That's communist talk you filthy red.
I have a trashcan full of nothing but beer caps that I started accumulating in may of last year but I imagine the shipping cost to send that much metal might be more than the game costs
[QUOTE=Hamaflavian;48058865]Oh come on, don't pretend that those are equal. One's an abstraction for an activity that would be too complicated and unfun to accurately simulate for a minigame, and one's a deliberate storytelling choice.[/QUOTE] Well, yeah, but then we've also got shit like Megaton's sole existence etc.
A gold bar from the Sierra Madre vault is worth about 11,000. He sent about a quarter of that in caps, but will have much more fun in return. Good deal.
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