theLeeHarvey Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 Has anybody else wondered why the heck people before the great war would bother stashing bottle caps away everywhere? From their desk at work and their file cabinets, to their wardrobes at home and under the kitchen sink, you find caps everywhere you go. I can see the reasons for having ammo hidden away all over the place. The people in the Fallout universe's USA were all keyed up about a potential communist attack, thus they had weapons and ammo with them constantly, just in case. Why the bottle caps? Now, I understand the game reason for it, we gotta have some sort of reward for bothering to check every container we come across, but how can it be justified lore-wise? What would you say to justify stashing your bottle caps all around your house instead of just popping them in the garbage can like a normal person? This thread is meant as a joke/funny discussion, so get creative and have fun with your answers. I look forward to the reason why you would hoard your bottle caps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wsvie123 Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 Maybe they knew that paper money would be worth nothing after the war? I dont know but im asking myself the same question. Like i have found Cups and plates in filling cabinets? wdf? But yeah there's always a weird thing like this in every game. The programmers probably just programmed it so that bottle caps could be found in every single container in the game(on some occasions) other than ammo and grenade boxes. Not sure if its a programming fail or they meant it to be like that. There's so many things to question in this game, like why would they experiment with FEV on humans?!?!? Why is fawkes still alive after being in the vault experiment chamber for near 700 years? Why is there no "real" president? Why did they put bottle caps in a cabinet? All questions that cannot be answered by a normal person. Find someone who worked on the game and ask them. anyways. great topic. xDDD :biggrin: :biggrin: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theLeeHarvey Posted September 2, 2009 Author Share Posted September 2, 2009 Lol, don't misunderstand, I know the reason the developers placed bottle caps in every sort of container throughout the game, it's just incentive for exploration and another way to make caps so you can buy the gear or repairs you need for your character. What I am asking is how would you justify it if it were treated as real life. If you could ask someone from the Fallout USA who lived before the war "Why did you hide bottle caps in your sock drawer?", what do you think their response would be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lilgamefreek Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 Who needs a trashcan when you have an office desk owned by a company that barely pays you enough money to buy those 3 bottles of nuka cola you just chugged? I know I don't. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OpposingFarce Posted September 2, 2009 Share Posted September 2, 2009 Yeah, I'd like to have more caps replaced with pre-war money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rossum Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 I can think of a few explainations: 1). Right before the war, alot of people started collecting bottle caps. Maybe Nuka Cola had some special edition bottle caps going for a while or one of those award things where you check under the cap to see if you won a fre nuka-cola or something. Some people just got in the habit of collecting the bottlecaps in stashes for some reason. 2). After the resource wars and during the war effort, they had some kind of recycling thing going on. Nuka-Cola machines might have had special slots where you could dump the caps so that they could be brought back the the factory and supposedly recycled or reused to make new caps. Heck, maybe Nuka-Cola tried to show how patriotic it was by encouraging kids to save up those bottlecaps. For every dozen bottlecaps they send in then they get a free Nuka-Cola. I know alot of old folks will talk about how they used to collect glass bottles and then cash them in at the store to get a nickle or something. Maybe the recycling thing went for both the caps and the bottles. 3). Or even... maybe something truly sinister was at work. Nuka-Cola has proven itself willing to test out radioactive isotopes in its drinks and doesn't seem concerned with the death or illness of its test subjects. Perhaps they saw the war as a way to improve their stranglehold over humanity and used it for their own ends! Just before the war, they send out Nuka-Catologs full of merchandise like toy trucks or wagons or chems or what have you. People would drink their sodas and then save the bottlecaps to mail in to the Nuka-Cola Corporation to get one of those merchandise items. But, since Nuka-Cola was a multinational corporation (possibly) then there were nuka-caps all around the globe, the bottlecap had become a sort of currency that people could use to get stuff (granted they had to drink some of that tasty tasty Nuka-Cola first to get it but that's not bad). Kids at school would trade candy for caps to buy Nuka-Cola brand toys at the Nuka-Store. Then, by secretly manipulating events behind the scenes, the Nuka-Cola corporation instigated the Great War that destroyed the American government! You wonder why there are so many bottlecaps floating around 200 years after the bombs fell? The Nuka-Cola Corporation is still making bottlecaps! They had their own secret underground factories built to continue manufacturing Nuka-Cola and bottlecaps well after the US Mint was reduced to cinders. The Nuka-Cola Corporation now controls the post-war economy of the former United States and is able acquire the high-tech spoils of a conquered civilization by giving bottlecaps to the survivors and convincing them that its a viable currency. Oh, and the reason that you don't see armies of robots and powere-armored soldiers marching across the wastes under the logo of the Nuka-Cola Corporation? They know how to keep their heads down and let the Enclave and Brotherhood weaken eachother before they move in for the kill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evilneko Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Of course, why bother moving in for the kill, when they already control the economy. Let the peasants do what they will, they're still dependent on Nuka! ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gsmanners Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 The "lore-wise" justification is that it was funny to the developers. That's good enough for me. ;D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo441 Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 I was thinking about this today as well, as the story line takes place 200 years after the nuclear war, maybe the bottle caps are there from people that died trying to survive in the wasteland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theLeeHarvey Posted September 3, 2009 Author Share Posted September 3, 2009 3). Or even... maybe something truly sinister was at work. Nuka-Cola has proven itself willing to test out radioactive isotopes in its drinks and doesn't seem concerned with the death or illness of its test subjects. Perhaps they saw the war as a way to improve their stranglehold over humanity and used it for their own ends! Just before the war, they send out Nuka-Catologs full of merchandise like toy trucks or wagons or chems or what have you. People would drink their sodas and then save the bottlecaps to mail in to the Nuka-Cola Corporation to get one of those merchandise items. But, since Nuka-Cola was a multinational corporation (possibly) then there were nuka-caps all around the globe, the bottlecap had become a sort of currency that people could use to get stuff (granted they had to drink some of that tasty tasty Nuka-Cola first to get it but that's not bad). Kids at school would trade candy for caps to buy Nuka-Cola brand toys at the Nuka-Store. Then, by secretly manipulating events behind the scenes, the Nuka-Cola corporation instigated the Great War that destroyed the American government! You wonder why there are so many bottlecaps floating around 200 years after the bombs fell? The Nuka-Cola Corporation is still making bottlecaps! They had their own secret underground factories built to continue manufacturing Nuka-Cola and bottlecaps well after the US Mint was reduced to cinders. The Nuka-Cola Corporation now controls the post-war economy of the former United States and is able acquire the high-tech spoils of a conquered civilization by giving bottlecaps to the survivors and convincing them that its a viable currency. Oh, and the reason that you don't see armies of robots and powere-armored soldiers marching across the wastes under the logo of the Nuka-Cola Corporation? They know how to keep their heads down and let the Enclave and Brotherhood weaken eachother before they move in for the kill. That is quite possibly the most entertaining and creative thing I've read all week. :thumbsup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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