I never use companions.
I never use Sniper or Gobi
I never use 1st beret recon
I never use Gambling (too easy money)
I never play caravan (too easy money)
I never bought ammo
I never crafted via workbench, campfire, workstation
I never used any difficulty lower than the hardest
I never worked for House's side.

hardcoe mode, Survival, um...that is about all.

Caravan is actually really cool when you try it out. I have actually begun collecting as many varied and venerable decks of playing cards as I can find in real life. I know no one else will want to ever play it but I think that it is a killer strategy game.

This gets me wondering if I've ever not used anything... blame wanting to have 100% achievements and all. So I've basically used just about everything... well wait... I think there's a few:

- I've never used the Assault Carbine for more than 5 minutes *Personally, I use the ammo to convert it into more useful 5.56mm ammo.*
- I've never fired the Gatling Laser, Plasma Defender, and Plasma Caster *Probably some others but on my Energy Weapons character, the AER14 was all I ever needed along with the Pew Pew for sneak attack criticals.*
- I'll never make Hydra at a campfire *Reason being that Cave Fungus is near impossible to find and I only fix my limbs in hardcoe when it involves at least 3 limbs so I save up on Doctor's Bags and Hydra.*
- I've never used Arcade outside of his companion mission.
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Those are features right? Well those and not siding with the Powder Gangers in 'Ghost Town Gunfight'.. oh, and not blowing up Vault 19 *Something I plan on fixing with my latest character*.

I've never used, or even held a 9mm SMG. And that includes the version that was in FWE mod for Fallout 3. Time for the old Bioshock quote: "Ugly. Ugly! UUGLYYY!! :gun:"

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No darling thats not how it works ya see you have to pay me

I absolutely cannot, no matter how dehydrated he is, and even though it's only a game, make my character drink from a toilet.

:lol: I forgot V.A.T.S. was even in fallout, but I rarely use it, only in dire circumstances.

I never:

-use VATS
-pickpocket
-back the Legion
-play Caravan
-raise Melee or Unarmed
-make HP or OC ammo
-use SMGs or Assault Rifles
-back the Powder Gangers


and some others I cannot think of right now.

Some of the above are things I just don't like, while others are just pointless given how I play.

I just realized I've never used the NCR radio they give you once you're accepted or liked. During moments it might be handy, I always forget I have it and if I do remember it's when I don't need it. :mellow:

I don't use the drop boxes, level up the energy weps skill, never isolate the virus on the Brotherhoods' computers, and I never leave Goodsprings without a shovel.

Really? Must be left handed. I use the arrow keys for movement with R-shift for jump, R-ctrl for sneak, and pad-0 for VATS.

I never play Caravan, the few times I've tried, I've only ended up wasting money. Although I have tried Roulette in the past, I also stopped playing it when I started to notice that other gambling options were just much more profitable.

And although I've yet to complete the game on any route yet, I doubt I'll ever survive with the Legion, I just don't like them and can't see any of my character's siding with them, I can think of convincing justifications for the other possible paths, but I simply can't sympathize with Caesar's Legion. I also haven't chosen the Powder Ganger solution to that quest in Goodsprings.

I've still never used a poison on a weapon, or the NCR radio.

I've only rarely used the Mojave drop boxes, though I could see them having limited usage if I decided to play without companions.

I've never chosen the Lady Killer or Black Widow perks, so far, or their same six counterparts.

I've never once used Swift Learner or Here and Now, not just in New Vegas, but not in Fallout 3 either. Both perks seem completely worthless to me, Swift Learner MIGHT have been worth choosing if the level cap were higher and it wasn't so easy to reach it well before the end of the game, but Here and Now is just a great way to waste one chance to choose a perk.

I've never used hardcoe mode, and probably never will, I like the sound of some of the features of it, mainly the changes to stimpaks and healing as they would potentially make the game more challenging, make doctor's bags actually worth using, and make it so you need a bit more thought to using stimpaks than just spamming them as soon as you need healing. But I don't like needing to deal with the need to eat, drink and sleep in games, and if I am given an option to have them in the game, I don't want to use it.

I've never used any unarmed weapons weaker than the power fist. I've also so far yet to use any of the weapons that were formerly big guns in Fallout 3, except for the flamer, though this could change in the future.

I've never actually used the non-cap currencies in barter, I just exchange them for caps at casinos.

Those are what comes to mind, but I might think of other things later.



Which seems like a bad design to me, of course it's going to confuse players if one select place requires players to use keys that are otherwise not needed. The in-game information about how to play it also seemed kind of vague to me, overall, the way Caravan is designed strikes me as rather unintuitive, but I blame part of the problem, at least with the setup on the PC version, on the fact that it was primarily designed with the console versions in mind.

Tried Caravan once, got bored and confused in short order.
Mojave Express, as mentioned above.
Loading one's own ammo and crafting, never bothered - too much hassle, and it's unnecessary.

Wow . . . it's hard to think of things I **never** do. There are several things I almost never do, but have tried once or twice . . . like Caravan or Gambling (note: I actually would love to do these things, but I spend enough time playing Fallout as it is . . . I can't waste even more hours gambling! )

However, I can think of a few things:

I have never:

- Tried to "force" a lock.
- Used Cateye
- Used a Mine (though my current character is going to focus on explosives and sneak, so this will soon change!)
- Killed a coyote pup (that is just too sad . . . ). The one coyote I actually killed, I reloaded the game and then avoided the encounter.
- Devoted a skill point to "unarmed" or used the unarmed attack method in serious combat (at high levels, I have killed a few very low level encounters with my fists just for fun!)
- Figured out how to make any of the "hand load" receipes.
- Had a character with a strength or intelligence less than 7.

And finally, I always play in hardcoe mode, though I wonder why I bother because I have never . . . ever . . . had a character even remotely in danger of starvation, dehydration or sleep deprivation. It never progresses past the intital stages before I take care of it. A few times, I let it progress just out of laziness, but I could remove the symptoms any time I wanted.

If you're on PC you can try http://www.newvegasnexus.com/downloads/file.php?id=37184. It adds a portable Dropbox you can put in your house for example. It also turns all the blue post office boxes into send-stations.

I tried Caravan... it's too confusing to me. I've read some guides to it several times and it still boggles my mind.

Ammo crafting. But I DO use chems, neheheHEHEHE. :mohawk:

A few other people have mentioned this and I just don't get it. Caravan is a rather simple principal but it does take a certain amount of strategy. I do have a hard time remembering what the face cards are for but the game manual has a page that sums those up just fine. Really its just placing cards into three piles to add up to 24, 25, or 26 without going over. The face cards and jokers have special effects on the aces and number cards depending on where and when they are played. Easy. The only hard part is creating a deck that both follows the rules and has a strategic advantage of one type or another.

The game is simple, the controls are not, on PC you have to use arrow keys to select cards.

I've never not done something at least once to try it out.

However, I don't actively use:
Mojave express boxes,
Lily as a companion, ( I actually killed her because of how annoying she is. )
Gambling, ( Aside form getting the achievements and caravan, which I love. )
Chems, ( Other than stimpacks obviously )
Energy and melee weapons,
"Swift learner" and "Here and now" I find both to be a waste.

That's all I can think of for now...

I've never tried Caravan, or an Express Box. Never used energy weapons, nor have an interest to do so. Never use big/heavy weapons; biggest has probably been Light Machine gun. Never used power armor.

Here and Now perk is a total waste of time - even more so than in FO3. In that game you received a perk every level, so could in theory 'here and now' into a perk you really wanted (though I never did this), but in NV all you do is gain a level which won't offer you another perk.

I never customize my charcter's face. I usually use a preset face or randomize it. Too tedious and I'm horrible at making a decent face

I know Caravan's just an optional feature, but I hope the developers take this thread as a sign that more people would be playing it if there had been an actual tutorial in-game. The hard-to-follow text note on your Pip Boy doesn't cut it.

I like Caravan, but I could not make heads or tails of the rules until I came here and found a thread that explained how to play (and a bit on strategy) more clearly.

For some of the hardliners who don't strap a saddle on Fast Travel like I do, I can see the use in the Mojave Express box, but like I said, I abuse Fast Travel like no tomorrow, so they are a novelty feature for me.

Never played Caravan. BOOOOOORING. I've got a wasteland to explore.

Never bothered with the NPC repair services. "Ah kin fix it meself!"

Never used poisons or throwing spears. I'm not a damn tribal.

Never wore Legion armor. Because everyone instantly hates you, and my nether regions get breezy. Seriously, what's wrong with pants?

Never wore Metal Armor (lightweight metal from Merc Pack is a lot better, and then straight on to Combat Armor).

Never fast traveled (I like to stop and smell the flowers).

On the other hand, I couldn't live without Mojave Express or campfire crafting.

Once you understand the rules, Caravan is actually (or should that be "can be"? ) pretty fun BUT the AI makes it horribly broken because all you need is three types of cards (your whole deck) and you are guaranteed to win ... EVERY time.... since the AI does not counter your moves. IF however the AI DID use some strategy Caravan would be an awesome game. (I am actually going to attempt to teach my son this game IRL for us to play). As for campfire recipes and crafting your own ammo, I have a kind of role-playing gig going. To "fix" the recipe thing I got myself a mod that beefs up hardcoe mode and bumped up thirst and hunger 500% (sleep also) then role-play that I am only allowed to eat food and drink water that I craft myself ... oh and not that Gecko Steak proletarian nonsense either, only delicacies like Bloatfly Sliders, Cook-Cook's Stew and Brahmin Wellington, the ingredients for which is hard to come by!

As for ammo, my "rule" is to ONLY use weapons that use hand-loaded ammo and then only use that ammo. Now all I need is some mod to "fix" the amount of ammo available everywhere (ala FWE) and I am good to go. Actually next playthrough I am thinking of trying energy weapons, converting all energy ammo to their "max" equivalents (which is very costly). Apparently they got nerfed, which is good for me. Or try a pure unarmed characer (since the developers did their level best to make us want to play them, what with all the perks and stuff catering to said unarmed).

OK back to the topic at hand:

VATS. Never used it. Never will.
Explosives. Any kind.

(Not to say explosives can not be fun).