Running the Lucky 38 Mod

[simplywayne90]

People love business mods, if you can combine that with a versitiaty like RTS when it comes to decorating then it'll be a top 10 mod.

 

I'd suggest working on customizable themes and custom content, you also have access to the voice actors thread and plenty of experienced modders willing to help likely.

 

Perhaps you could have characters or iconic items from various quests show up after your player completes them. Non-voice roles, mainly just re-use general respones for characters, and by items I mean like maybe the sign from Helios shows up on a wall in the 38 after you finish it, or some Khan dealers if you happen to be in good reputation with them, etc..

 

Best of luck, let me know if you need resources or ideas for more content!

[someguynamedjoe]

omega549(creator of Lucky 38 Expanded) and I have decided to combine our mods.

 

The result will be the ability to not only run your own casino, but also you will be able to try your hand at running the Lucky 38 hotel!

 

The Lucky 38 will now be a thing to behold, as you try to restore it to it's former glory.

 

omega549's amazing (and some never seen before) rooms will expand the Lucky 38 as you play. You will have the choice of which rooms to open (at a cost). Think of it as because the Lucky 38 as been out of commission for so long, much must be done to restore the rooms to be a habitable area.

 

For those using Earache's mod, or other Lucky 38 -altering rooms, we will try to make them compatible (you may have to wait for the optional ESP).

 

Please leave a comment below!

 

Wow, really? That sounds amazing.

[PaladinRider]

Wow, really? That sounds amazing.

 

Sure is :thumbsup:

 

This will happen for version 1.5, which (hopefully!) will be up some time next week.

[simplywayne90]

Hey Paladin, Here are some resources you may like to add in for decorations or things. Just in case =P

 

Love the idea, I wrote something similar a few monthes ago so I'm glad to see this idea again.

 

To help give you some support here are a "few" resources for you to use, and threads you can get some cool ideas from!

 

There is a large piece I wrote with tons of backstories for players to take and recieve bonus' from, but you could use it to inspire stories for NPCs possibly as well.

I believe there is a full list on this thread.

 

---------------------Resources For The Lucky 38 Possibly---------------------

 

New Vegas Resources

Bobs Armory NV Resource - Modders Resource - Tons of custom headwear (hats, glasses, goggles) to make more interesting looking NPCs.

 

Random Item Resources

Random Items STmoddersResources - Modders Resource

The Nexus Casino Chips - Modders Resource

Gold Skull of Bling - Modders Resource

50s Style TV Camera - Modders Resource

Classics Vault-Tec Publications - Modders Resource

Static Alphabet Letters - Modders Resource

Make Your Own Sign - Modders Resource

 

Furniture and Building Resources

Television Comes To New Vegas - Modders Resource

Marble Chessboards - Modders Resource

Home Holodisk Player - Modders Resource

Tapestry Resource - Modders Resource

Meos Colorful Kitchen - Modders Resource

Chemistry Set Crafting - Modders Resource

 

 

Fort Bauldur Horror Interior - Modders Resource

Bonds Bonnie Springs Emporium - Modders Resource

Speedy's Pack (Several new building sets, and over 100 new models and textures) - Modders Resource

Clean Lab Resource - Modders Resource

 

 

Fallout 3 Resources

 

Random Resources

Gold Coins and Bars -- Modders Resource

Voodoo Doll - Modders Resource

Holy Bible -- Modders Resource

Bonds Animated Flag - Modders Resource

Canadian Red Ensign Flag

Confederate Flag -- Modders Resource

Final Fantasy 7 (FFVII) Materia Resource -- Modders Resource

 

Grand Piano Model Resource -- Modders Resource

A Lightswitch -- Modders Resource

Bonds Vases Collection -- Modders Resource

Bone Furniture Pieces -- Modders Resource (Could be good for horror mods or goth/vampire mods)

 

Those are only a few resources I've gathered, there are much, much, much more on my "Modders Resources And New Models" Thread.

 

---------------------Threads to get Ideas from---------------------

 

Try looking around in the "Steampunk Thread" as that thread has lots of popular ideas on retextures, new ideas, and themes that you may like.

 

Daily Jobs Thread - I took control of this thread at page 3 and summarized anything good that was posted before me, so only read from page 3 onward for all the good ideas and suggestions.

 

Quest Mod Ideas - Please don't post on this thread, but its my personally organized thread I've made of very good and (so far) unmade quests and ideas that may be useful to the Lucky 38.

 

You may get some ideas from the "Gifts or Souvenirs Idea" Thread

 

Just for fun, if you can, try adding a poster with some of the rules from the "How to be a successful Evil Overlord List" in Mr. House's room, just for laughs.

 

Within those threads are links to others like them so I'll leave the list at that.

 

Anyways Best of Luck

[PaladinRider]

That's very cool. I'll definitely take a look though and add some of these. Are the permissions the same for each? I will contact respective owners if I use any of their resources.

 

If anything simplywayne90, I'm looking for someone to add some backstory content. There will be several terminals and currently some aren't serving any purpose so I'd like to add some lore relating to the Lucky 38. Similar t

o employee email terminals you'd see, just something anyone interested can read. Perhaps learn about the Lucky 38 before the war. Perhaps there was some 'shush' things going on such as tortures of cheaters (maybe theres a ballpeen hammer resource somewhere?)

 

There's probably going to be about 4-5 terminals on different floors, if you're interested in making a couple paragraphs tidbits let me know. I'll tell you what floor and where the terminals going to be to give you a sort of theme I guess.

 

I'd also like to add some Fallout humor, but nothing too crazy. I kind of like the list idea. Maybe just a hidden note somewhere or other Easter eggs .

[simplywayne90]

That's very cool. I'll definitely take a look though and add some of these. Are the permissions the same for each? I will contact respective owners if I use any of their resources.

 

If anything SimplyWayne90, I'm looking for someone to add some backstory content, just something anyone interested can read. Perhaps learn about the Lucky 38 before the war. Perhaps there was some 'shush' things going on

 

There's probably going to be about 4-5 terminals on different floors, if you're interested in making a couple paragraphs tidbits let me know. I'll tell you what floor and where the terminals going to be to give you a sort of theme I guess.

 

I'd also like to add some Fallout humor, I kind of like the list idea. Maybe just a hidden note somewhere or other Easter eggs.

 

Okay this is the third time writing this, I will finally post this time (the site keeps being down when I post, twice now.)

 

Okay to the first thing, all the Resources I gather and post are completely public, meaning that the authors are not involved, they want credit and thats it, so that saves all the hassle of messaging for permission and waiting.

 

Second, Backstory and Lore huh?

Well. Fallout is a very old series now (Close to 15 years old I believe), so there is undoubtably tons of fan-fiction, stories, and things to find. I'll try and point you to the best tidbits I can find though.

 

One of the main developers wrote a series of documents called "The Fallout Bible" back during Fallout 2, it included tons of information that new Fallout players (Fallout 3, and New Vegas) don't know about.

Then there are the Vault-Tec Publications as well.

 

Also don't forget that a lot of the plots and stories of New Vegas were written years before Fallout 3, in the form of Project Van Buren but a lot of Van Buren was scrapped due to Beth not getting the copywrites and also wanting to seperate themselves from Fallouts true creators (Black Isle --> Interplay/Troika ---> Obsidion (and a few went to Bioware))

So in Van Buren there are tons of stories you could adapt to include or focus on the Lucky 38.

 

Third, you want to include Fallout humor, that...I'm an expert at, I'm better at it than the developer Chris (nowadays anyways...his 'funny' isn't as good)

 

Fallouts humor is composed of parodies, easter eggs, Black/Dark Comedy, and lots of pop-culture references. That is because the series started that way, a parody of 50's fear and sci-fi, and lots of pop-culture jokes = Fallout.

 

Anyways, here are some tips.

 

Referencing older Fallout games will definitely make people grin and smile. Fallout New Vegas does this pretty well, but there are things you could include like mentioning "The Cats Paw" or someone who avoids churches, saying "No, I'll never go near a church, bad things happen to churches back west, especially big ones." (This is a reference to the nuclear detonation of "The Masters Cathedral" those are just some quick and not very good examples.

 

Pop-culture jokes and parodies are a stable of Fallout so they're good for humor.

Like an Avatar joke about a traumatized guy/girl who was sexually attacked by a tall skinny blue alien

Halo jokes are fun, easy, and easily recongnized.

Red Vs. Blue references would be funny as hell. Especially Sarge.

Bieber jokes. etc.

Those are pretty easy.

 

Dark comedy is kinda hard to write actually. The intent of black comedy, is to cause the other person to both laugh like hell and feel uncomfortable, often at the same time, it's main way to do this is by irony and karma. However you have to be careful because its very easy to go too far and then people are just pissed.

Example:

"A rapist gets raped by an alpha deathclaw and lives = funny and a bit scary"

Going to far, Girl (No matter how evil) gets raped by anything = never funny.

 

I've included clips of some Popular black comedies like Monty Python, Christopher Titus,

and another JibJab video

[someguynamedjoe]

So I finally got around to playing Dead Money today, and after a very prolonged session of swearing at my monitor every time my collar blew up, I had an idea.

 

What about an optional ESP for those who would like to see Dead Money things come to the Lucky 38? Such as a Sierra Madre vending machine in the Penthouse/whichever room the Courier uses, or maybe even some holograms walking around as security or dealers?

 

Just a thought.

[Vartoz]

Another way to get employees is to try to "rob" them fromo other casinos, like, you need a teller, go to the omertas 's place and offer a certain NPC created for this mod the chance to join you.

And then you can some "interaction" with displeased members from the other families.

The buildablerobots mod is also a good idea, you can never have too many bodyguards.

[someguynamedjoe]

Type 3 Dealer Outfit

 

Just thought I'd post this, too, in case you ever decided to have an option to hire humans as employees. A simple retexture, and you've got a Lucky 38 Employee Uniform.

 

Assuming the author gives permission, of course.

[simplywayne90]

Hey again,

 

Recently some new resources came up on my resource thread I linked earlier, including one called "Hightown" with new unique neon signs from before New Vegas,

 

so I just thought I'd let you know, and also I had a quick idea that might be hard to make but could be rather interesting to users.

 

If the new resource has all 26 letters, perhaps you could make it possible for players to rename the Lucky 38 and put up a new sign out of those letters.

 

The way I imagine it could be done is tiresome

 

You place a copy of each letter in each position, then create an NPC that the player talks to and through him they chose what letter is in each position.

 

Example:

To make:

L-U-C-K-Y 3-8

 

NPC - What do you want the first letter to be?

List of choices from A-Z and possibly 1-9, and the option to leave it blank or a space.

 

Player Choses: L ( A script then 'enables' the L letter in the first position, and disables all the others including one that was already enable in that position.)

 

NPC - What do you want the second letter to be?

Player Choses: U (Script enables U in the second position)

 

etc.