Strangely I had a mod that did this not long ago, and now I can't seem to figure out which is was and why it stopped, so here I am for this one. Thanks for it. Save the money!
But I want to build beds with 5 dollars and 4 spoons. Honestly though this is a great mod. I use a mod, no longer available, that adds prewar vending machines that requires pre war money. Also people should not be building furniture out of dollar bills, its absurd lol. Combine this with a mod that that stops scrapping cigarettes and crafting suddenly becomes a bit more realistic.
You use pre-war "dollahs" to stoke the fire to melt the brass you need to make the bullet that holds the real value to the "dollah". Pre-war money in a collapsed society is like Confederate money after Sherman ran ape-$h1t through the Confederate south and tore their world apart.
I mean even today vending machines make LESS money by you inserting cash than they do passing on a free profit surcharge by saying they can't take cash - swipe card instead.
The game literally requires five cloth and four steel to make a bed. Its stupid.
As for vending machines, its irrelevant how or what modern vending machines do. Fallout is a different world. One where bottle caps, which makes no sense, is the primary currency. In a realistic post-collapse society, gold, silver and copper would be your currencies, followed by barter items like sugar, coffee, tobacco, and alcohol. Bottle caps would be trash.
Gold, Silver, and Copper would have no relevance what so ever, the only obtaining of those materials would be finding stashes of them that already exist. Unlike going back in time where they actually mined and refined those materials.
So you're wrong there, and in something like fallout, caps aren't unreasonable if you listen to the lore. But the likely answer to this question, would be that there really isn't any currency, and you'd just commerce with bullets, water and food items, which isn't feasible for a game, since you have to give monetary value to something or it'll confuse your players.
This isn't true since it looks like if still having a new most likely made out of necessity currency like bottle caps, pre war money is still used for trading because why shouldn't they do like old times without a government anymore which tells of the value. - Just the difference like bottle caps, one note is equal to each other, the numbers on it are out of value- which means each note if 8 caps in this case.
Actually I'd wish even NPCs are trading with pre war money for more logic because imagine you'd buy something very high valuable and you pay with 5K single caps.... That would be like you're buying a new TV/computer or what ever and would pay with 1$/€ coins. The traders must carry around those bigpack bags just full of caps.
we want to make our furniture out of money because everyone keeps telling me that if we tried to swim through gold like scrooge mcduck did that we'd f***ing die.
Wait what do you mean the same thing would happen if we used dollars? YOU LIE!
Since Fallout3, where even one NPC existing which giving you extra caps for pre war money I used this to be a secondary money currency. Anyway, in Fallout4 I always was wondering why suddenly my pre war money vanishes all the time, until I found out you can scrap it for cloth- automatically happens if you're building things like sleeping bags... Though it's even illogical because the cotton of a bank note is processed in a manner where you can't do anything else with them anymore (for safety at all).
As opposed to caps, the value of which are backed by what exactly? The values and construction materials (frankly the lore too), is a bit of a mess. Just tell yourself 2070s US notes had high grade polymer or a silver strip inside (like British notes have had for ages).
Any mod that protects pre-war money from being scrapped is solid in my book. I use the SKK global stash mod which protects it, along with the Perk Brew mod that lets you create special / perk brews with pre-war money. Helps a ton when you want to flesh out a build. Will endorse for fighting the good fight!
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Full Disclosure: I did not test this with Vortex. I can't see why it'd cause an issue, but let me know if I'm wrong.
Endorsed.
Pre-war money in a collapsed society is like Confederate money after Sherman ran ape-$h1t through the Confederate south and tore their world apart.
I mean even today vending machines make LESS money by you inserting cash than they do passing on a free profit surcharge by saying they can't take cash - swipe card instead.
As for vending machines, its irrelevant how or what modern vending machines do. Fallout is a different world. One where bottle caps, which makes no sense, is the primary currency. In a realistic post-collapse society, gold, silver and copper would be your currencies, followed by barter items like sugar, coffee, tobacco, and alcohol. Bottle caps would be trash.
So you're wrong there, and in something like fallout, caps aren't unreasonable if you listen to the lore. But the likely answer to this question, would be that there really isn't any currency, and you'd just commerce with bullets, water and food items, which isn't feasible for a game, since you have to give monetary value to something or it'll confuse your players.
Actually I'd wish even NPCs are trading with pre war money for more logic because imagine you'd buy something very high valuable and you pay with 5K single caps....
That would be like you're buying a new TV/computer or what ever and would pay with 1$/€ coins. The traders must carry around those bigpack bags just full of caps.
Wait what do you mean the same thing would happen if we used dollars? YOU LIE!
Since Fallout3, where even one NPC existing which giving you extra caps for pre war money I used this to be a secondary money currency.
Anyway, in Fallout4 I always was wondering why suddenly my pre war money vanishes all the time, until I found out you can scrap it for cloth- automatically happens if you're building things like sleeping bags...
Though it's even illogical because the cotton of a bank note is processed in a manner where you can't do anything else with them anymore (for safety at all).