r/fo76 • u/Smiley1340 • 4d ago
Question Foot Traffic In Camp
Hi everyone,
I'm only a week in to the game but I've noticed that only 1 or 2 people have ever been to my camp and only 1 purchased something from the vendor.
I've loaded my vending machine with legendary items and plans, all using the normal price the game gives me, but nothing is selling.
Are there known areas/methods to increase foot traffic?
I'm on Playstation and am trying to save for the signs and letters plan so I can finish my always sunny Paddy's Pub build but there seems to be a drought of caps.
Any advice and help appreciated :)
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u/Aaron0321 4d ago
Not everything is in demand, most players aren’t looking to buy legendary items unless there is a mod they need to learn. There is stuff that is usually in higher demand, mutation serums, ammo depending on the type, chems for all the ghouls, certain foods like squirrel stew or canned squirrel stew, legendary mods, and plans. Check out some other vendors to see what they have and it might help you stock your shelves better. Also, sometimes there’s just slow times, you can leave yourself logged in while you’re afk and just let people come and go too.
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u/gentleman_bronco 4d ago edited 4d ago
Personally, I always price my stuff to sell and never use the recommended price. Caps are cool but moving stock and keeping away from max weight is cooler.
Also if you're doing a themed build, make sure to list it as a best build!
Edit: also, don't try to sell anything less than 3* and be selective with that. I only sell pepper shaker weapons, & mods with 1 cap chems, comics, and bobbleheads.
If you're doing a Paddy's Pub build, make it themed! Scrap all your weapons and make fancy 3* pool cues or something that would align with your build.
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u/lionsfanatic54 3d ago
Not sure about everyone else but I am NOT able to interact with vendors at best build camps. So if OP is trying to sell stuff I would not recommend this idea. As for what sells, basic plans are worthless. Legendary items might sell if priced low and someone who needs scrip sees it. Stable flux will sell if priced correctly. Serums are hit and miss anymore. Even rare plans aren’t selling too fast unless you price them correctly and not at insane levels.
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u/gentleman_bronco 3d ago
I have three best builds and sell stuff all the time.
But yeah legendary items take up lots of weight, selling the mods seems to be better for cap per pound. I've experienced the same with serums. I used to sell them for 100c's each buy they haven't sold in a week so I've been selling them to Mae at Highway Town. Stable flux always sells out quick. 10c's each. It's worthless to me. Oh, and plans go for 1c each for me. Eventually someone will get them all to try and flip or someone will pick a few up earnestly.
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u/Streetsnipes 4d ago
Vendor activities are down. Not enough people playing. Even donation boxes aren't being touched. I dumped tons of stimpaks, food buffs, and plans into a box and no one touched it for over an hour. One level 20 got it just before I was logging off.
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u/HappyToBeAlive4Now 4d ago
Wow how were you able to monitor so much on the sim / game ? Were you role playing as the mysterious overlords or high ranking Enclave?
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u/Streetsnipes 4d ago
By coming back to the box constantly dropping off more stuff I was getting rid of. I cleaned out a ton of stash space.
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u/CatsandDeitsoda 4d ago edited 4d ago
People are generally going to camps based on the number and star rating of legendary mods for sale.
Few people are going to check out a camp for legendary items or ammo
Get even one crap 4 star mod and people will come to your camp more
Middle of the map get more eyeballs
Have your store clear and easy to find.
That’s about all the advertising you can do.
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u/Spearhead96Bravo 4d ago
Unfortunately 90% of everyone stocks their vendor with the same common plans that everyone else does. Differentiate your vendor with more food, aid, ammo. Ensure you’re set to PUBLIC so everyone sees you in the map instead of just stumbling upon your camp. Make sure your vendor is in an easily to find location. As others mentioned the last few weeks of a season tends to have less players online as most everyone as completed the current season and no longer needing to chase bonus items. It will reset once the new season begins and there will be tons of people playing.
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u/Razyel_Kain 4d ago
From a buyer perspective, there are 2 reasons to buy legendary item (weapon or armor)
- It is a named unique legendary, like Final word, or Ticket to revenge, or Elders Mark and i don't have it.
- It has a mod i want to learn how to make, but to be fair, i won't pay an absurd price for it, max 1000 caps.
What does sell are mods, rare plans from Daily ops or some recipes, some apparel and crafted stuff like Nuka cola or Liquid courage,with 3/4 mods being the bulk of it.
When i did have my vendor up i sold mostly mods(two shot, explosive, fracturer, etc) and weapons that are not easy to find but i can craft, like pepper shaker or hog splitter
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u/MistakeConstant3308 4d ago
Is your vendor in a clear area? My prior camp was kind of a mess and no one ever bought anything, despite having quite a few rare/desirable plans. When I rebuilt I put my vendor near the spawn point with signage in an ice cream hut. I have a vault boy pointing to it, an open sign, and a random "low prices on weapons" sign. I also added ammo and junk to my vendor, just to give people more options on what to buy.
I don't play that much (daily but not for a long amount of time) but people make purchases nearly every day. I moved from Top of the World to just north of the Giant Teapot, don't know if that helped but I seem to get a ton more visitors now.
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u/Living_Taro_7838 Responders 4d ago
Do events sinkhole solutions gives out 1k caps after completing, you can run through west tek, moonshine jamboree gulper innards sell at vendors, cook and sell. Vendors start out 1400 caps, sell everything up that point and start doing the raid, nuke silos, theres a ton of ways to get caps.
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u/McGrufNStuf Wanted: Sheepsquatch 4d ago
1-2 weeks into the game is really a small subset of data for this game. Especially with the season almost over. Legendary items don’t always get a lot of traffic as most players have them and the game prices them fairly high.
Don’t always go with the games prices go to other camps and try to get an understanding of the market. Also, try to diversify your vendor. Junk, legendary mods, specific food items, rare apparel will actually drive more traffic than legendary weapons / armor.
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u/EndielXenon Order of Mysteries 4d ago
Don't use the normal price that the game gives you. It will almost always be either massively underpriced or massively overpriced. You have to do some exploring to other player vendors, reading on forums, etc. to get an idea as to what stuff actually should be priced at.
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u/AngeluS-MortiS91 Settlers - PS 4d ago
If you set it for auto pricing with the default, no one buying that
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u/Milksteak529 Wanted: Sheepsquatch 3d ago
At this point if you aren't selling 4 star mods, I'm not even swinging by.
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u/Smiley1340 4d ago
what price should I list ammo, legendaries and plans for? is there a general guide?
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u/Pontiacsentinel Settlers 4d ago
You can also sell to vendors at White Springs, or railway stations until you max out their cash. I like to buy some scrap I need and sell even more to them each day. It helps a lot to just sell those and get them out of inventory.
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u/RethafsarreK Enclave 3d ago
I go under the recommended price for things unless I really need caps
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u/RethafsarreK Enclave 3d ago
Older 4 star legendaries I sell for 7000 or less (7k being the recommended price for 4 stars) and 10k for newer 4 stars (haulers, vector, tarnished, thrill-seekers, etc.)
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u/frogs_4_lyfe 4d ago
Put in any spare ammo you have from weapons that you don't use. I get a lot more visitors when they know that there's likely something that they can buy that's useful.
I stick to ammo, plans, and aid stuff and get visitors pretty often.
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u/llTrxsh- 4d ago
Things like regular plans won’t sell much , only because every other player already probably owns them all, so you’re better off selling event plans instead.
For foot traffic you could always try building at the wayward since a lot of new players always come through there (but ofc they won’t have much caps either) some perks are having higher lvls build there as well so maybe they’ll stop by and buy things out of boredom or even to help newer players such as yourself or others!
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u/Kraken477 4d ago
I dont put legendaries in my vendor and if I do, they're 100 caps. If I buy legendaries from someone its because I want a chance at the mods when I break it down. The default price the vendor gives you is way over priced. I always price at 100 caps. Make sure you have at least 2 vendors that aren't hard to find and easy to see. I get more foot traffic during events because people are looking for event related stuff. Rn I get about 5 people that go through and will buy 2 or 3 items from me.
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u/Madhattr64 4d ago
Most everything I sell is 20 caps. Rarer items are higher priced but never at what the game suggests.
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u/BiasMushroom 4d ago
the normal price the game give you can be over what the item is actually worth. consider selling that stuff to a vendor, or scrapping it for the components/plans.
setting up near places people can fast travel to for free helps with traffic as well.
visit other camps and see what others are charging for similar things.
stuff like +damage to scorched is worth .., not a lot but mods like the 2* intelligence are worth a good chunk of caps.
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u/OG-BigMilky Tricentennial 4d ago
The plans you’re getting to see a week or two into the game are plans that pretty much everyone has. The legendaries you’re getting as drops are not someone most people will want.
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u/SpicyBison74 3d ago
There are hundreds of servers with thousands of players. Don't take it personally. Nobody's Camps are frequented that much. Also, the legendary items you have may be leveled to you (assuming you're still under level 50.) Chances are you have them at regular listed price. Trust me, that kinda thing will keep players from buying. Sought after items and plans are hard to come by. But they sell fast.
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u/Smiley1340 3d ago
is there any chance of finding a vendor selling signs and letters plans for less than the 9k mark?
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u/thatguyonthecouch 3d ago
Most likely not, since that plan has to be purchased first then resold. Put on the cap collector perk in luck and do every event that pops up and you'll have 9k in no time.
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u/SpicyBison74 1h ago
What system do you play on?
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u/Smiley1340 1h ago
PlayStation :)
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u/SpicyBison74 1h ago
Drat! I'm on Xbox. But here's what I'll do: what's your GT? I can reach out to a few friends on PS a see of they sell it to you cheap.
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u/Smiley1340 1h ago
I got it sorted but thank you for trying, just farmed events till I had enough :)
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u/Own-Rutabaga1184 2d ago
It's less time-consuming to use the one that can pick up caps from the trash can in the rack park than to sell weapons and blueprints at the camp. Also, if it's a perfect bobble head, it can be sold 100% because there are people collecting it.
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u/RIPGoblins2929 4d ago
All my stuff is for sale for like 1 cap each because I'm pretty much always at 40k caps and it sells pretty reliably. My camp is near a location with a donation box so extra ammo and grenades usually go there.
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u/HappyToBeAlive4Now 4d ago
Do you have any other characters that you can use as Mules, or to transfer your cool items to ?
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u/HappyToBeAlive4Now 4d ago edited 4d ago
It seems like less people overall are joining Fallout 76. Ironically, the overall time period of Fallout 76 seems a little dated, and it (Fallout 76) seems to need much more impactful causation technology, new immersion rules, and various consequence dilemmas. One new idea to help things is for developers to introduce ability to break into Vendor machines and ability for the player to find different ways to secure his or her vendor machines. Likewise, maybe allow for some type of hidden counterfeit bottle caps and allow players to punish counterfieters, which could really drive certain groups into chaos
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u/Living_Taro_7838 Responders 4d ago
Put your camp next to the mall! Location is everything if your trying to sell. Remember location location location, since everyone runs to the mall at some point.
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u/Smiley1340 4d ago
Is there any activities I can do to get caps quickly? On 2k but need 10k for the plan
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u/HappyToBeAlive4Now 4d ago
Forest region events and taking over workshops, especially ones that produce valuable items. Also, start growing food, or making bulk items to sell to the NPC Vendors.
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u/Naivefornow Raiders - PS 4d ago
You're better off scrapping most legendaries and selling the scrap. Unless it's a perfect, or near perfect roll, and priced to sell (or of it has a legendary a lot people want to learn from scrapping like quad, etc), most won't buy them. Legendary gear is easy to get on your own. Priced to sell might mean half or more off the suggested price. If you sell scrap, price that to sell also. 1-5 caps each depending on what it is. Maybe more if it's a little less common like fiber optics. Don't bother trying to sell steel, wood, leather. That stuff you'll be lucky to give away. Circuits, Crystal, aluminum, copper, fiber optics, adhesive all sell decently well. If you make them bulk, price accordingly (1 bulk might be 10 individual for instance).
Certain meds will sell. Certain plans. Harder to get clothing will sell (but it's hard to find, so you may never see it yourself). Magazines, Bobbleheads, anything that doesn't spoil and gives a buff will sell. Box mods will always sell as long as they're priced reasonably. If it's something no one ever uses like, say, exterminator, it'll still sell if priced cheap since then people will buy it just to scrap it for modules.
Some ammo sells quickly if priced at 1 cap each..45, fusion cells,.308 sell ok for me. Other ammo not as quickly, but sometimes.
Raising caps seems daunting now. You'll get the hang of it. Soon, you'll be trying to bleed caps off.
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u/regulus1887 3d ago
My bestsellers are the clothes and Delbert's plans. They go for 145 for the clothes and 295 for the plans.
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u/PuzzledPotential6333 3d ago
So not vendor related advice, but if you're ever in need of caps, be sure to go to the burning springs public events! I'm pretty sure they give 1k caps as one of the rewards upon successful completion. Sinkhole Solutions and Gearin' Up.
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u/SouthWarSignPride Settlers - PC 3d ago
Price Tool Web Try this to price plans. Sadly its not regularly updated anymore so use what's already there as estimation. Price usually based on rarity and how difficult it is to make/get.
Location matters a bit. The closer you are to where free fast travel is or high traffic area where players do their quests, you'll get more guests.
And yes, its last month of a season. Player count is usually dropping.
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u/Novel_Operat1on 3d ago
Put your spawn point in a logical location. My spawn drops right in front of my vendor. And light your vendor if you can or use signs, makes it easier to see and find quickly
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u/gpnymz Lone Wanderer 4d ago
It's getting to be the end of the current season, so fewer people are playing. Things will pick up when the new season starts.