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Except hardcoe mode added no realism.

I could go over a day without eating, or sleeping and then eat a bunch of pi?on nuts and sleep for 15 hours and be just fine.

It didn't require a regular sleep schedule or meals and many RPers addedbthat requirement in even in hardcoe mode, which is what we were doing before hardcoe mode.

Ammo weight but it still allowed to to carry 10 guns. So again it required some self imposed limitations to make it reasonable.

I'm glad Bethesda focused elsewhere rather than waste time on a half baked idea.

No, your logic is the problem. Survival means, as you said and as the game is designed, more frequent higher level enemies and all enemies are tougher. This means that you need more resources to survive and deal with such enemies. It also means that the enemies will have whatever they would normally have, including higher level gear (they are higher level and tougher, after all). The entire point is that if you survive you are rewarded.

You are asking for a game to remove rewards. If any game did that, it would never be played. The entire point of a game is to reward the player and encourage continuation. No rewards = no point in playing.

pfff, took me to level 52 to save the 5000 caps for Atomic Cats paintjob. Those settler stores do "nothing".. unless I'm doing it wrong lol.

even without the caps glitch, It's certainly a lot easier than previous fallout games, but not by much. wish we could stash caps though like you could in FO3 and NV.

I must admit, that most of my wealth is found in the ammo I carry. I loot all teh ammo, and whenever I sell loot I prefer to take it in trade, basically, for ammo. And every few days I''ll go somewhere and sell all the .38 ammo that I've found in my journeys (usually between 5k and 10k rounds) and then trade THAT in for higher quality ammo - usually plasma since I usually find enough other ammo from loot. I'd sell gear, but more often than not I take it back to base to break it down into components so I can mod my weapons, armor, and companion gear as well. Same with a lot of the 'junk' I find.

like i say it is totally optional if you choose to use it or not. on top of the build in stuff you can schedule and do your own too. like in Skyrim i add a rule that you cant' pick armor as they are not custom fit and won't fit my character.

weight system always a problem within Bathesda game and I think there is nothing around it can be fix.

Same, im broke as hell all the time. I cant afford shipments of anything cause thats a straight up 2-4k caps. BAM broke again.

I have a full charisma character that made every single shop he went to bankrupt for the first 25 or so levels, but then I found some combat armor arms I wanted and I still needed to sell like 5 fat mans and other heavy/legendary weapons and all my ammo just to get out with around 1000 caps. So it may be somewhat easy to make, but it's still very much easier to lose in my experience.

just make a boat load of water purifiers

Can't say I find caps in FO4 to be important, like at all. I have no use for them. I can see people who are builders might need'em for bundles of stuff to build with, but other than that, no use.

also, every vendor only had like 300 caps, so you can't sell 10,000 caps worth of stuff. First mod I'm installing is giving each vendor 20,000 caps

I'm at level 31 currently and have a good 9.000 caps simply from not using chems and selling them to vendors. A stack of 30+ Jet and other chems is easy worth 1000+ caps. Just need to sell them bit by bit because of the vendor limitation.

Yeah me too. Level 20 now, just spent ~half an hour harvesting crops to make about 1200 caps. I guess caps will come easier at higher levels. Playing on normal btw.

Settlements and crafting are real cash-cows.

As mentioned: Build up tons of water purifiers/pumps and stock up on veggies.

My farm settlement producec about 60 units worth of food just in tomatoes and carrots. So thats 120 plants (as every tomato and carrot count as 0,5 food).

Each veggie worth 7 caps, selling for about 4 caps each with my carisma, I'm getting regular profits of ~500 caps from farming alone.

Sell drugs you don't use.

Sell water.

Sell weightless stuff like burned magazines (not worth much, but no weight, so there you go^^)

So I've set up water infrastructure but I only thought it just added to the water score if the settlement. Where does on pick up the water produced by the pumps and purifiers?

Settlement workshop, in the aid section. It restocks really fast. Basically by the time you fast travel to a location, do a quest and come back you can get another haul.

everything is too easy to aquire in the game. Im lvl 24, and the only thing i buy is supply caches when i want something right now. Like last night i bought 25 fiber optics. I have 12,000 or so caps. Ammo is pretty easy too, never had a problem with ammo after lvl 10. Stimpacks, I have over a hundred. I mainly use food to heal, and there is an over abundance of that too. Even cores for power armor. I use my PA about 95% of the time, for everything. I have 17 cores, and that number rises way faster than it drops. If you want lots of cores, you have to look EVERYWHERE. I find them in every and all containers everywhere. Found one last night in a trash can outside. The other day I found 4, yes 4, in one luggage bag. It wasn't even locked. But, I'm a horder, I look in everything and take everything not bolted down.