Fallout – How to get the most buck for the bang

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Is it more cost-effective to sell many items of poor quality, or fewer items of higher quality that have been repaired together? Does the answer change depending on the item? Does it change depending on my repair skill?

Best Answer

You should repair items before selling them, rather than selling many cheap weapons.

There are two reasons for this:

  1. You don't need to go back to town as often; weapons get heavy pretty quickly. You will definitely make more money-per-minute-played, considering the time to get to town, sell your stuff, and get back to whatever hole-in-the-ground you were exploring.
  2. You'll make more money by repairing items together*. This is especially true when the weapons are under 25% quality.

Once you hit a repair skill of 90 and level 14, it's worth picking up the Jury Rigging perk just so you can merge vaguely-similar weapons together (and convert the cheaper weapon into a higher quality on the more-expensive weapon).

*This depends on your skill, of course. I don't have numbers to back me up, but if your skill is below 25 or so, you may lose money. (But you'll still make more money-per-minute-played, because you're not trudging back to town as often.)

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