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:? Is this going to be one of those 'everyone knows' deals that, hey, everyone knows to be true because everyone knows it? Maybe there's a radical difference in what we consider slaves here. Or what makes a society slave-based, as opposed to having slavery but not being slave-based...

There's a difference between a slave-holding society and a slave-based society, primarily the focus/weight of the economy depending on slave-labor. The Confederacy in US history, for example, was a slave-based economy: slave labor was the basis of most of the cash-crop production that underwrote...

Slavery wasn't the primary labor source for the Roman Empire. They had slaves, but they weren't a primarily slave-based economy. Nor were slaves the reason for the Roman stability vis-a-vis the relative lack of any serious rivals during most of its existence.

I think you missed the word 'literalism.' None of the answers you mentioned, from what we can see in the game, could supply real-world needs of the scale we're talking about. There aren't enough caravans and pack-brahmin, not enough farms being worked producing not enough crops, and not enough...

Why not? Plenty of people enjoy an 'evil' play-through for the contrast. Besides the 'side with the bad guys' appeal, which really only works when there are bad guys and not a field of equally flawed factions, if they hadn't allowed us to side with Caesar's Legion the complaint would be 'why...

His rather blatant anti-technology stance and policies, one would presume. And technology is rather integral to productivity. As for the OP, one can't deny that the game tilts NCR, or rather really tilts anti-Legion, but then the game never implied or promised equally-detestable/likable...

101. The same firearm, in the same condition, shot from the same position and hitting the same point, will do radically different damage depending on the person firing it.

The most relevant aspect of Karma is that Cassidy will leave you if you talk to her while 'Evil.' So you can lose a companion, if you talk to her, sort of. Karma was appropriately nebulous. It was very general to an extreme, but had only a general affect on anything else. It wasn't much more...

I'd put a vote in for gameplay adequacy over literalism any day. You could pick on just about any location in the game for improbable logistics if you wanted. How do the hotels get supplied with food? Where are the brahmin-feed troughs? Who restocks all the stores in the game every 3 days or so...

I'll be the first to admit that FNV is far from impossible, but it's also pretty easy to adjust difficulty for yourself if you want a harder play through. Not rushing for the better weapons is a big one, but your choice of perks and traits is another: some make the game too easy, it's true...

I'll add a vote to the Elite Riot Armor, if only on looks. Which is to say, the NCR Veteran Rangers are among the coolest looking characters in the game, and anything that makes me look like them rather than a scrounged trashcan from a football stadium is A-OK with me.

New poster. Tend more towards the Bioware RPGs myself, but I've enjoyed FO3 and FNV. (Que screams of 'newb' and old-timer FO1/FO2 purists.)