LogFAQs > #890721790

Alucard188 posted...

So, even though this is my first time playing, I decided to restart my game and my character to better optimize my stats in my build. I found out that skill books don't raise your skill if your skill's already too high, so there are five Gun and Ammo books in the library that are useless to me, even though I can farm pretty much unlimited caps early on in the game. Seriously, this new character went from Vault 13 down to the Hub, sold the 10mm handgun I had for 250 caps, and now I'm up over 22,000 caps. Hooray for breaking the game early on, although this isn't the most egregious of game-breaking exploits.

Now I'm thinking about restarting the character so I can tag something other than small guns. Probably won't, though; tag skills get two times as many skills per point spent in them.

I believe the cap is 81 or 91 with skill books. So if you're ok with exploiting the casino and buying skill books, then small guns isn't worth tagging. You can also change the game difficulty to hard to lower your stats to get more from skill books, but that only works with non combat skills. I'd suggest tagging energy weapons instead so it can catch up fast when they out class small guns.