EDIT: With feedback and more testing, I now believe the exact cause for her bet to stop decreasing is when she is has enough caps to bet higher than you could match. That means the best yield is produced ONLY by ensuring that she has enough caps to bet your TOTAL CONVERTED CAPS (including legion or NCR money) in a single game. Example... if she has 800,000 caps and you have 100,000 she will only bet 100,000 each time since that is the most you can bet. However, if she has 500,000 and you have 400,000 she will bet 400,000 each time. So if you arrive with 10,000 caps, you should be able to give her 6,000 and have her bet back about 5,000 each game; five games later you would have 25,000 caps.
This video will show you how to get unlimited caps by playing Caravan against Lacey in the Mojave Outpost. This method requires no hacking or modification and exploits what appears to be a bug which may later be patched. I have tested this only on PC and am uncertain that it works on PS3 or Xbox 360.
For those of you unfamiliar with Caravan, the goal is to get a higher number than your opponent, between 21 and 26, on the best two our of three stacks of cards. Your cards must be played in numerical order. Queens can be played on a card to reverse that order. For example, you can play 2, 5, 10 but cannot play 2, 5, 3. But you can play 2, 5+Queen, 3. Playing a King on a card doubles its value (this can be used on your opponent's card to make them 'bust' by going over 26.) Playing a Jack on a card removes that card and any face cards attached to it. Jokers are silly and I don't find them useful, you can look them up if you like.
To win easily, I play 10+King - 6 = 26, 9+King - 8 = 26, or 10 - 8+King = 26. As a backup, I can play 10 - 6+Queen - 10 or 9 - 8+Queen - 9. Then, if I don't have the card I need, I just use Jacks to remove high value cards from the opponent (only 8, 9 and 10s are worth your time) or use an excess King to bust them, since they then have to use a Jack to get rid of that card, and 1-2 cards to replace it (you play one card and set them back three turns.)
Keep in mind, you only have to win two of the three stacks. So focus on whatever stacks your opponent ignores, and let them win one if you can. That way, in 7 cards, you win the game. This takes, on average, about 30-40 seconds and each time I can win well over 100,000 caps depending on how much I have.
If you make it to the Outpost with only 12,500 to 20,000 caps or so, make sure to save the game before you start and give ALL of it to Lacey. Then keep winning until you have around 100,000. Then stop, sell it all back to her AGAIN and continue. Then once you have 300,000, again sell it all back to her and start over. At that point, you'll be winning around 150-200,000 caps per game and you'll be done (have a million or more caps) in about 15-20 minutes depending on how fast you play.
I don't get it. If you are giving her caps from buying stuff, than when she plays caravan, aren't you just winning those caps back, how is that profit?
Rawesyn 1 year ago
@Rawesyn Initially, but then her bet never decreases as you continue playing. That is, when playing Caravan, she never runs out of caps once she bets more than 12000 roughly, so you can keep winning over and over until you have as many as you want. For my video, I started with about 400,000 caps I had won this way (I started with 12500 originally.) I gave her about 380,000 caps and each time I won I got around 120,000 caps. I played her 8-9 times and then had over a million caps.
RaethFennec 1 year ago