Why did 3 go back to using caps?

Why did 3 go back to using caps?

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Tell me about the bottle caps.
When did it start, when did it end, and WHY DID 3 go back to using caps

You could argue that since the NCR is on the west, the DC area might not have the same luck on getting a mint going

Why did they start using bottle caps and when? What's the meaning of it? Is there meaning? Maybe that 3 is prequel? When they were still using bottle caps? Then they didn't go back except in time

because Fallout 3 is an out of place garbage mix of popular Fallout things like le nuka cola, le supermutants etc. without any tangible lore reason for all of this

Bethesda cant into proper worldbuilding but having caps as the main currency was a good thing cause it set Fallout apart from other games. However, New Vegas solves this by having multiple sources of money depending on the faction with bottle caps still serving as legal tender.
Bethesda just has hack writers. Dont expect anything from Starfield

Didn't the lead writer for 3 and 4 go on record as saying he didn't give a shit about the lore of Fallout?

i hope so lol. otherwise there would be doctor who and shit everywhere in 3

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>lore says bottle caps were displaced by NCR coins
>NCR coins didn't exist on the east coast
>therefore bottle caps are still used on the east coast
not really hard to figure out

Instead we get propped up skeletons doing funny poses in a third of every location in the games

>le supermutants
Why the fuck are they YELLOW

Sucks to be you if you're not skeleton lover

>currency for buying water from california merchants is used on the opposite side of the country

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Maybe people caught on that NCR can mint infinite amount of coins from shit metals and decided to go back to finite stuff - pre-war bottle caps.

explain new vegas

>Why is Bethesda retarded and incompetent?

Dunno, its a mystery.

I assume that Bethesda wanted FO3 to feel especially lawless, and no stable society means no legal tender
Instead it’s common etiquette that everyone agrees for bottle caps from the massively huge Nuka Cola corp to be used as currency instead
New Vegas tried to incorporate it into local politics - NCR cant get people to accept their dollar bills because they’re too used to caps, plus something about a gold mine destruction that devalued their cash if I recall correctly. One mission even had you try to acquire a bottle cap printer from a soda factory
Likewise in FO4 I’m pretty sure Bethesda wanted to go mostly lawless again with their wasteland, there was a weak attempt at forming a unified society that got sabotaged and now a couple (two) towns remain - so back to caps again. It probably helps that it’s a catchy name for a currency and enhances the post apocalyptic feel by having what’s normally junk be considered riches. I don’t mind much myself - I just take steal everything I need

New Vegas had NCR money if I remember

Yeah, the NCR and Legion has such a giant presence in DC why dont they use their currency?
Even in NV where an NCR presence was being established, NCR money was worth way less then bottle caps since no one besides the NCR used it.

it had ncr money, but the main currency was caps.

they used them because 3 used them. likely they didn't want retards to ask them why they left out the heckin 'iconic' bottlecaps.

Playing Todd's advocate here, but it's likely either
A)they came up with the idea to use finite prewar caps that couldn't be made anymore as currency independently of the west
B)traders spread the idea via word of mouth and the concept caught on nationwide
But really it's just because it's expected of Fallout to have that as the legal tender of the game in the same way souls or some analog of them are the legal tender in Souls games (except for Sekiro which uses the coins of the period it takes place in)

The Mojave is not owned by the NCR.
People outside of NCR land do not use NCR money.
That being said, people from the NCR that live in the Mojave still pay you in NCR money like those guys in Sloan.