@Grimpy970
Sierra Madre chips are both worth 1 cap and worth 1 pre-war money (10 caps), something you can exploit to nearly double the DLC's loot value.
@delphidelion
A bottle cap was originally supposed to be worth one bottle of water. The bottle of water became the standard currency and the cap eventually became the stand in for the bottle of water. So I think the better question is how valuable is water in the fallout universe.
@Giantsfanlewis
So ironically, I used to collect bottle caps when I was younger. My grandpa owned a bar and the bottle caps would look so cool. So I'd collect the different ones I could find. Be it that everyone makes beer, the caps were endless. That said, I'd also use them as things like title belts for my wrestling toys
@jetroid
You forgot the General Atomics Galleria bowling alley, where it's implied that 1 pre-war money is just 1 dollar, as the robot asks you for $5000 and you give it 5000 pre-war money. The robot is probably malfunctioning, though.
@azeria1
I liked in new Vegas we got some lore about how bottle caps are made it’s like real country’s currency a single or couple locations with cap machines and how counterfeiters try and find undiscovered cap machines to use like in the sunset sasprila factory
@BobPantsSpongeSquare97
I knew in the lore that at some point the NCR tried to get everyone to use their dollar instead of caps and of course switched back due to the Brotherhood. But I didn't know that in Fallout 2 NCR dollar were literally the only current to use because I didn't play the game
@ThommyofThenn
Can we just take a minute to recognise RadDaddy for having some of the most unique fallout vids? I've only ever seen a handful of economics related videos for the Fallout series so this is nice
@amazingspidermew
I really appreciate your calculations in this video. One minor issue is like to point out, as someone who spent over 5 years handling large sums of cash I can tell you just by looking that there FO4 cash is a standard bank strap of one hundred used $20 bills. This is important since used bills never lay truly flat and a bank strap of used money can stand at twice the height of its new counterpart due to the air gaps.
@lokalnyork
One thing about caps, they were originally used by water merchants in Hub (very hard to counterfeit without pre-war tech), and backed by water. I assume this is explanation why F1 and F2 caps and NCR money are worth the same - they are backed by same amount of water by water merchants in NCR.
@dimbusjenkins
I'm glad so many great Fallout youtubers exist because I used to have to spend all my time reading the fallout wiki while taking a dump
@1Scimetar
I remember the original financial backing for the bottle cap in Fallout was drinkable water. How much water, I'd need to review the lore video to figure out if that's a liter, a gallon, or a day's worth. It was produced by the Shoddy Cast if someone wanted to go back and look into it. Also, remember that the pre-war money, as entirely unbacked currency, is a bargain basement cryptocurrency, mainly because the 8 caps per stack is for the paper the money's printed on plus the retention strap holding all those bills together.
@The_Alt_Vault
i came for a sermon and left with a PHD in Fallout-enomics, thank you RadKing
@Brandon-sc3rz
i’m a stats major and when i finish school i wanna work in finance / economics and i assume it’s a hyper specific niche but i love your fallout currency/inflation videos! so interesting. love your reasoning behind sorting by uselessness
@zedorda1337
Now there is some epic maths. 2500 divided by 25 equals 1000. Great job 23:08.
@nekomonsterrawr
The makeup compact could be foundation. They go for like, $5 to around $50.
@ZeonicFenrir
About the FO76 lottery prize, could the robot have discounted the taxes off the prize already? By your original account (1 pre-war money = $1,000 dollars) it could have slashed 50% off your prize money. Things get worse since as others pointed out, the FO4 example you gave actually indicates that each stack is $100 dollars, so that would instead suggest that taxes ate 95% of your prize money. Also, I recall the robot also saying something about a due payment, so perhaps that was also deducted from your prize money and the remaining $5,000 is all that’s left after the deduction plus taxes… out of the original $100,000!
@zednott
in fo76 you missed pleasant valley tickets, and the newest one with the pitt update. stamps. oh and legendary modules and legendary cores. used to make legendary items. oh and among players we use stable flux and scrap as trade currency.
@Im.A1ex
As someone who works with money, the calculating on how many bills are in a strap was so funny. 100 bills are in a strap, regardless of the denom. Also, the thickness of the strap isn’t a good indicator of how many bills are in it because how ‘used’ those bills are will make the strap thicker. So straps of 1s and 5s (really commonly used bills) are way thicker than 100s and 50s. Love the work you put into this video, great job king!
@xXGundam96Xx
20:00 Small Bertha in Fallout 4 Far Harbour DLC gives you the Turn Back the fog quest. The first thing she says is:"I have to talk to you. I got 14 1/2 caps. I want to hire you." Which may imply that some people use to divide caps? Completing the quest only gives the player 14 caps though.
@StevetheWizard2591