Fallout 76 Who Do We Pay To Fast Travel?

[@PlaySlough87]

Here's another question dealing with random "taxing" ... What's up with 10% tax when selling stuff in player vendor

[@RickGamesNow]

That's another good question. Maybe I'll make a video on that too.

[@tishmusso3949]

Agree!!

[@andrewbrock3675]

If you want a real explanation for these it's a cap sink, so caps leave the game. In game, chalk it up the the vending machine chewing up caps so they're unusable. Or "eating your quarter" so to speak. For fast travel consider it the cost of supplies to go from a to b.

[@chris5942]

​@@RickGamesNowplease!!!

[@KomaaGod28]

Tod Tax

[@bradleygronski817]

It forces players to actually walk and explore. By the time you're loaded with caps you have a good feel for the map

[@diddydonk5255]

It's the intended way to play the game sure as is meant more towards new players actually going around searching and looting and exploring over using fast travel. For experienced players, they've likely played a large chunk of the game already or done most the game has to offer so it's there for them if they don't want to be slowed down and deal with annoyances and stuff.

[@shouldbearealtim]

It's technically the cost of food and drinks to make the travel. That's why it costs caps. It's still lame, but that's the reason.

[@Arkham8076]

This is actually the best explanation.

[@diddydonk5255]

I was originally going to say that it could be that you pay caps to the vendors at the stations to use some form of train but I already went against that idea because it would mean only fast travelling to other stations on the map. We just got to think. What does all the fallout games have in common for use of fast travelling when you are asked to pay or just use it for free. Skyrim is even harder because Skyrim is set in a different time and different era so the same fallout travel system wouldn't make sense. Edit: I've actually just figured out the fast travelling system for Skyrim as it's already shown and explained in the game/s on how it works. Horse carriages. U pay to use them, cuts your screen off so it can teleport you there and it will cut back in once you have been teleported there. As for not actually paying for one and doing it without that system, I assume we are just meant to believe it still works the same way.

[@WastelandChef]

One of the reasons that Timothy Cain (co fallout creator) stated is that they want to restrict fast travel in one way or another, as they want you to explore the world as it's intended, and especially to find random encounters, that you otherwise would miss. 😁

[@RickGamesNow]

That makes sense.

[@jamesholt9729]

its a enterprising flatwoods alien who has started business to collet the caps and takes advantage the teleporter on his monitor station above WV , its the one that teleports away when attacked it when its exploring

[@RickGamesNow]

Enterprising flatwoods alien!!! 😂 Best answer ever!

[@jamesholt9729]

@@RickGamesNow its homer

[@jefflegate952]

It would have to be the responders at White Springs cuz they are the only faction with a Vertibird !

[@calamityvalley3491]

I always seen it as you accidentally dropped caps while fast traveling

[@RickGamesNow]

You're not the only one that has said that. lol. They say you're running so fast that the caps fall out of your pockets.

[@mr_coolzzz2128]

0:27 WE got MILK LORE by Rick before gta 6 🗣️🔥

[@RickGamesNow]

😂I'll probably turn 50 before we get GTA6

[@carllebo-fx8yc]

Todd Howard

[@mr_coolzzz2128]

Bethesda approved

[@AdamZ5k]

Okay, here it is: Every time you fast travel the day is moved forward, but it’s moved forward 24 hours to avoid breaking everyone else’s time experience. The caps you are paying represent the food you would’ve eaten during those 24 hours, the wear and tear you would’ve taken on your gear, whatever you did to sleep for the night, etc. to get your gear back to exactly what it was during departure.

[@mr.swordtoast]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/pou1Y2iVrpqLgpY At 0:54, a Mr. Handy acts as a taxi for the Vault Boy. It can be reasonably implied the robot needs caps for repairs or fuel, so there ya go.

[@aronjohnson2388]

Star Wars: the Old Republic also charges for fast travel. In fact, they added locations they charge for as an "inflation control measure. So you can say paying for fast travel also is an in-game currency sync - is that the right term?

[@Boomboxhawkin]

the mole miner that hits us in the head with a cast iron pan. thats why they have caps.

[@gestonbrumfield6347]

I figured it was paying one of those annoying vertibirds to take me where I needed to go.

[@msfeistybabe]

And stopping 20 times even on a short trip... to start some $hit with any local people, robots or creatures it decides seem like they might be thinking of starting trouble! So you gotta be proactive... shoot first & ask questions later, the vertibird motto ;) lol

[@markspencer4246]

Instead of paying caps, maybe a new sort of energy core, that is consumed to FT. Have to grind for them, or buy a charger for atoms......

[@Arkham8076]

The mysterious stranger, to teleport you

[@RickGamesNow]

You get a piggyback ride from him.

[@LuggageStardate]

railroads and subways charge a toll, lots of subway tunnels on fallout 3

[@diddydonk5255]

Well tbf, in fallout games, there's many methods of travel that it could be a mix of any one of them really. To get to the far harbor DLC, U travel via a working boat which even on spectacle island, U can see prior instances of previous inhabitants, go to set up there and likely die to mirelurks. For the nukaworld world DLC in fallout 4, U take one of those scenic tram lines to get into and out of nukaworld world. A working team line to cover a long distance. In fallout 4 lore, there are many instances of using vertibirds, pre war vehicles, tanks, cycling bikes, a motorbike, hiring mercs as guards and so on.

[@Lordoftheapes79]

It's just a representation of the resources spent to make the journey. From the dev side, it's a common practice to keep a steady flow of caps being removed from the game.

[@diddydonk5255]

In a fallout lore sense as well. Most of these, still ruined states that have been going on for hundreds of years, would've by now, had a stable enough economy and a system that works for everyone in the wastelands. Many fallout 4 instances also explain this. When the minutemen used to inhabit Quincy, they had a thriving economy growing and working there. They were also easily supplying the atom cats and had traders from across the commonwealth also coming in actively to do trades and stuff with the trading caravans. Even the castle followed the same process but in a different way. The castle was the minutemen's way of expanding across the commonwealth and reaching tons of settlers who need help and were desperate. What stopped the minutemen was the mirelurks at the castle. The 3rd major settlement that the minutemen lost control of, was university point. Due to none of the factions being able to agree in a meeting together and that the institute were after some important technology, university point was taken over by the institute and the minutemen had lost university point. Bare in mind that all 3 previous minutemen locations were 3 main and major places in which large scale trading and civil matters and all that, ended up taking place. They likely had forms of travel and large scale and long distance trading, figured out easily.

[@Lordoftheapes79]

@diddydonk5255 so, not gonna read past the first sentence. I'm going to go ahead and assume you used other Fallout games to make your point and rambled on a bunch of nonsense that proves you care WAY too much. Fact is, this is ONLY relevant to 76, and because it is an online game.

[@diddydonk5255]

@Lordoftheapes79 no, yes and no. I don't care that much about the fallout franchise and lore, I just know a bit about it is all. Yes I used other fallout games as an example but that's it. Lastly, no it's not rambling, it's my own opinion on what I thought the fast travel process was considered as and based it on logic and research, something U clearly don't do which is why Ur petty and dumb with Ur response to it.

[@theDEUBabides]

blue ridge caravan taxi service would make sense

[@RickGamesNow]

I kinda thought that, too.

[@r9eaper]

Riding Charlie to get about as a Uber sounds more like a Moo-ber .... #DadJoke =P

[@evlgenius74]

its the god howard tax. we want convenience so lord howard takes just a little of your hard earned caps to feed the interns.

[@RickGamesNow]

Bow down to our lord and savior Todd.

[@MrMorp76]

Interesting

[@kevenblackworks1906]

I know that this isn't a serious video, but the fast travel cost, is simply the cost of food, amenities, and otherwise inconveniences you may face in ur travels. So, for example, the cost in caps is for the cost of water and food, as well as beds you may sleep in while in your way from one place to the other. This makes more sense in other games, because such civilizations exist. In Fallout 76, pre-wastelanders, you may have paid robots, assuming the player made a detour through Whitesprings everytime he went from one corner of the map to the other. Post-Wastelanders is the previous logic. You stay in some inn, pay a merchant for some water and food, etc. A good example of this is Horizon Zero Dawn. In that game you have Fast Travel packs, which are literally backpacks full of supplies, that allow you to make 1 fast travel per. These ofcourse cost money.

[@perceivedvelocity9914]

That's what is called "head cannon".

[@RickGamesNow]

Sometimes I like to put out little fun videos, just to make people think. But, I really like your explanation. Now if we could just explain the 10% tax on our vendors. lol

[@kevenblackworks1906]

@@RickGamesNow Most likely, the tax comes from Wandering Robots, who act as semi-landlords on behalf of management (Enclave). For example, if you live in Grafton, the mayor would odbiously send someone to tax you. Same logic in watoga, since being the mayor does not exempt you from taxes. Again, this logic works more on other games with greater civilizations, but I will admit that in this case, its a bit of a stretch.

[@diddydonk5255]

I would partially disagree with this here although I do like the logic behind it. The reason why is because there are quite a few instances in multiple fallout games and I think even in 76 where U can pay to have a room for the night or stay and use a bed. These always have a set price and it wouldn't make sense for it to randomly increase just because of the distance Uve decided to travel costs more. The most likely situation as Ur paying more by distance is by having some caravan hired gun protection as U get to and from places each time. The longer the distance the more it'd be cause they have to feed you, give you drinks and defend you as your being transported between places. As I said before, other fallout games and 76 I believe also have a separate system for sleeping at hotels and inns which are set prices. In fallout 4, it's bring up quite often with certain people and random encounters that paying for protection and actively seeing settlers being guarded by those they hired is actually a common method of travel. Traders are slightly different at least in fallout 4 as they will actively go to multiple settlements you own within the area they work at. Carla will often go to the diner to rest up and presumably trade as well, she goes to abanathy farm, passes the red rocket, goes to sanctuary hills and I think I've seen some other settlements she's also once stopped at before as well. Carla works up north, cricket works from diamond city and in that area, there's 1 or 2 around bunker hill, 1 somewhere north east of the map I believe and 1 or 2 all the wayy down south.

[@scottshep8978]

Why do we have to pay a 10% tax on anything over 10 caps? Who collects the tax?

[@RickGamesNow]

That's another really good question.

[@scottshep8978]

@RickGamesNow another question. Where does the caps go to? The roads don't improve or anything else lol.

[@RickGamesNow]

Rich folk drug parties.

[@msfeistybabe]

I'm pretty sure someone is cleaning toilets/portalets here & there... to make Nukashine in I think...

[@VaultTecJep]

It's Gary! Gary getting all caps lol.

[@Thumper79]

Here's a theroy to mull over. Since our characters in fallout 76 are vault dwellers, maybe in order to fast travel we are using some form of travel technology developed by Vault tech that requires payment in order to operate. I mean it would fit in with the whole money grubbing lower of corporations in the fallout universe. And it would explain why it is that only player characters are the only ones capable a fast traveling in fallout 76.

[@RickGamesNow]

Are you saying our pip boys are teleportation devices that are ran off of caps? lol. Because if you are, I love it!!!

[@salad229]

I remember in TES:Daggerfall you had an option to pay for fast travel the other option to travel for free had chances for you to get diseases and some encounters I havent touched the game in a while so I dont remember more than that

[@rman74VC]

I've had a few thoughts about this. 1. The caps spent to go to a camp should go to the camp owner. 2. Caps spent to travel to an event, by everyone, go to a random player at the conclusion of the event. 3. Caps spent to travel anywhere else go into a daily or weekly jackpot.

[@RickGamesNow]

Holy crap... Those are really good ideas!

[@bmanagement4657]

I thought FO76 is a VR world simulation in the plot. Cap economy could be some form of energy transfer to the system, like a recharge and withdraw. Kind of like how the The Matrix uses body heat the FO76 caps could be some kind of simplified crypto AI that requires input and export of direct data to grow or even operate.

[@RickGamesNow]

People joke about the whole 76 is just VR. But, it did happen in Fallout 3. lol I wouldn't be surprised if it was.

[@ChosenChalice420]

Why can’t we purchase caps like Atoms???😰👐 tha fuh?!😑

[@ornerygoat7973]

Great video. Also, I'm pretty sure there's a gold fee for fast travel in Elder Scrolls Online.

[@RickGamesNow]

Wait... Is there?

[@doom5138]

@@RickGamesNow I was just about to mention this as well

[@ornerygoat7973]

@RickGamesNow Last I knew. I assume in ESO we pay the Imperials and with that the made that new Gold Road expansion.

[@sausagesoda4090]

It just works

[@Zanderfal_YT]

We pay John fallout

[@johnlinton6118]

The same people that take the taxes I’m willing to bet. No taxation without representation!

[@RickGamesNow]

It's not even going to fix the roads!! The Bourgeoisie is using the money to fund their drug fueled parties!!

[@msfeistybabe]

Those %@&$chem fiends!! Stop partying you fools, before you start The Apocalypse or something!!!!

[@zonderbunny4655]

You're obviously paying a Synth to use bootleg Institute teleporting tech. XD

[@RickGamesNow]

😂

[@ROSESnROT]

Bethesda gets it

[@DopeteK]

The answer is Todd...

[@thinrichard670]

Those random vertibots that fly around ?

[@DirtAnimanator]

We pay the institute to teleport us. How do we do it within one game hour to get from Vault 76 to Watoga? LOL

[@everrettchavers2454]

Enclave they get the caps got to keep the bunker running don't they. An how they have access to something no one else in the game does that's satellites been me up Scotty

[@JohnSmith-he5ip]

I buy and sell from player vendors enough to make 2000000 in caps profit from my vendor and then buying items worth 1960000 in caps from other players cause 40000 is the max caps you can keep. Where is the 200000 caps tax that wouldve been in my buyer's pocket and where it the 196000 that would still be in my pocket gone? If you're a tax payer you expect good roads with no pot holes, and yet I still have game crashes when I travel.

[@drewbadger68]

Will we ever be able to ride our Brahmin. Just like Mongo😅

[@RickGamesNow]

😂😂😂 A Blazing Saddles reference! Very nice.

[@ryan1983frost]

200 tax everytime i sell something for 2000. Where is the caps going? Basically nowhere they arent even worth real money there is no limit on how much caps are avaliable there is no fluctuations, inflation etc. You cant even buy caps. Its totally pointless for bethesda to collect tax they cant do anything with. My only problem is they only allow you to have 40,000 total caps? A game run by a bunch of pre schoolers giving out a 5 dollar allowance every week not to mention the gold bullion 400 cap per day like are we dealing with Handicapped developers that think everthing is a great idea without trsting or comunity input