Why did they start using bottle caps of all things for currency when there's so much pre war money readily available...

why did they start using bottle caps of all things for currency when there's so much pre war money readily available and it still holds significant value? what about bombs dropping made people put down money and pick up caps?

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>and it still holds significant value
That’s the problem. It doesn’t. It’s worthless because the government that printed it doesn’t exist. It’s literally just paper.

>readily available
>value: 8
>weight: 0

it's more valuable than gold bars. nuka cola doesn't exist anymore as a company. what made people pick up caps as currency? they have no value either inherently. a cap = 1 cap. one [pre war money] = 8 caps.

Caps are literally just bottle caps.

Fallout was never good and the lore never made sense

because it's cool you dingus

The money would've gotten worn out by all the radiation. Also, it probably has value for its physical properties, not for its role as a fiat currency.

>readily available
That's the thing, it isn't. Bottlecaps are far more plentiful whilst also being finite and therefore makes for a decent currency, not to mention they would presumably be hardier and last longer than paper pre-war money.

thanks user, this needed to be said

because god knows there's no cloth or paper in the wasteland

it was a funny meme then Bethesda embraced it too hard

Because water merchants in fallout 1 only accepted bottle caps and since they had a monopoly on water everyone had to play along. Fallout 2 switches to actual money but everything after that switched back to bottle caps as a form of "HEY!! REMEBER THIS??"

t.brainlet that doesn't understand the very basics of a currency.

Yeah the lore is typical of a lot of 90's stuff. If you tried getting people on board with EVERY VAULT IS LE SOCIAL EXPERIMENT nowadays you'd get laughed out the door.
Probably a hangover of the sort of economic anxieties of the 80's you could see in things like the Alien franchise or the cyberpunk genre.

Caps were a good placeholder trade token because they were fairly plentiful, while being limited and durable. However, Bethesda can come up with nothing original. All of their fallouts are too cartoony.

All the vaults being crazy social experiments is a Bethesda thing

>why did they start using bottle caps of all things for currency
The Water Barons grew in power, forcing everyone to submit to their own controlled currency or keep bartering like cavemen
Then, the NCR grew in power and a gold based currency was established
At last, Fallout died and Bethesda happened

It was a fallout 2 thig ya dingus.

Toilet paper is useful you know

>vault 8 and 13
>crazy social experiment
No. Stop.

No there were numerous detailed on the terminals.
>13
Hey look another quaint sign of 90's lore.

Pretty sure Tactics had real money too.

Tactics was made by Australians and therefore doesn't count.

Rural Australia is the closest thing to RL Fallout, so kys

soda can be consumed and glass used, caps can be melted down and made into tools or parts. Paper money is good as toilet paper without a large enough government backing it.

This is more obvious in FNV, Legion money is useless because there are no Legion settlements in which to use it while the NCR's money is only useful if you keep doing quests for them and expanding their influence. And House's currency, Lucky 38 chips, are totally useless outside his casino and the Strip. It's also why the Crimson Caravan's top quest is destroying a bottlecap machine that can be used to print counterfeit caps, thereby forcing them to rely on NCR bills and forcing them to use their banks (and abide by their laws). This ties into all of Cass's quests.

The Dead Money DLC suffers from this problem the worst because Sierra Madre chips (and faked chits) are worthless outside of the DLC.

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i was impressed that they at least made a half-decent effort to explain it in fallout 76: nuka cola just happened to be running a marketing campaign at the time the bombs dropped where nuka caps could be used as currency for a limited time, and this extended to automaton vendors, so after the bombs dropped the robots continued to accept caps as tender

Truly, the worst part about Fallout 76 is that they have some interesting outlines and concepts for the lore but don't deliver on it.

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>not using bullets as currency
>tfw firing my money away in Metro games

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Legion money is actualy highest valued money in the game as it's made out of precious metals, you just have to sell them as an item

Casino chips aren't a currency, in real life or in New Vegas. They're not meant to leave the casino they come from because they only exist to 'store' real money until the customer is done being fleeced at the tables. The Sierra Madre chips have no value outside the Vending Machines because they're too rare and have absolutely nobody backing them to make them worth more than what you could trick a collector into buying them for.

Legion money is actually made of gold and silver, which is why people value it outside of Arizona. Inside Arizona it's 'backed' by Caesar telling you how much it's worth and you accepting that.

Alice McLafferty straight up tells you that bottlecaps still find use in NCR, they even have their own bottlecap presses to produce new caps, and that destroying the press is a means to stop currency devaluation by wasteland smartasses printing themselves as much money as they want.

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Fallout 2 is the most “cartoony” fallout by far

Beth just got a summary of Fallout plot and just added more LOL RANDOM until 3 was made.

>NCR fiat money
lmao

And India is one giant literal toilet, it doesn't mean poos know how to make a decent toilet.

>set the game on the East Coast, a chance to do new things, do their own take on Fallout, do something really unique
>copy a bunch of shit from 1, 2 and Tactics instead

Whew, we dodged a bullet there.

Fallout is a satire.

Currencies need to be backed by something or be something a human individual desires or needs to survive.

Food, Ammo, Tobacco, Alcohol can be currencies because of their obvious individual value completely free of any conditions. "Money" can be a currency when I know it is backed by a government and the banks.

>create useful good
>trade it for worthless product
it makes infinitely more sense that the water merchants would keep bartering for actually useful things instead of setting up an autistic fiat currrency based on bottle caps

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Money replaced barter for a reason

You cant melt paper into armor, ammo or guns.

You can with bottle caps however.