Knowing that I could just type a number on my keyboard and have the game automatically capture it as input to the "Move items" screen made the game much, much more enjoyable.
If I recall correctly, I found this out quite accidentally; I don't recall ever seeing it in the manuals or any walkthrough or faq, which is problematical, because the game usually requires quite a bit of buy, selling, bartering, and moving things into and out of storage locations, which can be an extremely tedious and unpleasant chore without this li'l bit o' information.
PS: Although the interface counter only goes up to 99,999 the game will actually keep accurate track of your total caps well beyond that. I do not know what the actual, hard limit is for bottle caps.
Let's say that you have 99000 caps, and you sell some "stuff" for 2000 caps. Your new total should be 101,000 - and it is, although the game's interface will only show you as having 99,999. But if you were to spend or drop any number of bottle caps, the game will calculate the deduction using the actual number - in this case 101,000 - and not the 99,999 that the interface shows you.
Also: you can drop any number of bottle caps on the ground, and they will appear on the ground in a nice little bag so you can pick them up all simultaneously. (You have almost certainly, if you've played the game, come across small bags of bottle caps: that's how they are packaged when you drop yours in the in-game world.)
Post edited April 08, 2025 by Taskbar
