Seasoned players of Fallout New Vegas
help out by providing workaround for the following as well as any others
keep em mind these are tips for all platforms PC/PS3/360

Here are few issues I've seen from the forums

Q. I got locked out of The NV Strip how do I get back in?

A. Your answer here

Q. Companion is missing vanished where did they go how do I find them?

A. Your answer here

Q. Characters are missing items I gave em what happen how to prevent?

A. Your answer here

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The first thing I would tell any player is to turn off all auto-save functions. The next thing I would tell them is to make a new (manual) save every 15 minutes (or whenever you feel like it).

i dismissed arcade on black mountain so i could get raul in the party. but now i cant get arcade to join with me again.

what i mean is, i sent him back to the lucky 38 and got raul to join the party. then i immediately sent raul bak to the 38 also, intending to grab arcade back before he left. he did not give me the dialogue option to join with me again.

well, once he got back to the 38... gues what??? he still wont join the party again. help! i want his friggn quest to get in the remnants' bunker!

You have ED-E in your party?

He doesnt like joining with an eyebot, after he comments on it.

Dissmiss ED-E, grab him, grab ED-E.

Well right now my save isn't corrupted but I'm stuck at the Thorn's door, and as soon as it loads it freeze's. It froze originally which is why I tried to reload it.

oh hey I think I figured out a reason for a bug that could cause crashes upon fast traveling, what I found is that you can't fast travel from a cell that is currently loaded, can't be lazy in vegas

-Locked out of the strip by freezing on Normal file.
-Just got c-blocked by freezes every time I click on Save in the menu for hardcoe file.

WTF? Where's a patch for that crap? I want to platinum this chud so I can say I beat it and move on with my life.