I have TONS of Raider armor, ****snip****
I know that you made a comment a while back about wanting to play as a character with Good Karma. I am playing through this game again because I finished it before the Trophy Patch came out, and I couldn't earn even one trophy with the first character. However, even with that Very Good Karma character, I got a kick out of placing Raider Sadist Armor in the inventory of the named NPCs in the game, and although I lost some Karma, it wasn't ever enough to lower my rating from Very Good.
My present character is Evil. She is at Level 14, and became Evil by stealing everything she possibly could.
I found it much easier to obtain the three Karma related trophies at Level 8 and Level 14 by playing as an Evil character. Get within a few points of the required XP total for the next level, SAVE, and level up as an Evil character to earn one trophy, but DON'T SAVE. Reload, go to the Rivet City Church and donate just enough money to become Neutral, level up, and earn the second trophy, but DON'T SAVE. Reload, go to the Rivet City Church and donate enough money to become Good or Very Good (probably not necessary), level up, and earn the third trophy. You can then reload the original save and continue playing without actually having spent one single cap.
Oh, and I keep hearing these loud "BOOMS!" when I play the game. Are those weapons going off? I read that an 'alien spaceship' crash lands while you're in the Wasteland, and wanted to know if that was it. Do I follow where the noise came from and look for a crash site? I understand you can get a different 'alien blaster' if you find it.
There are numerous locations throughout the Wasteland where you will come across a
Random Encounter. Keep in mind that once that you have 'activated' a Random Encounter at any particular location, and then saved your game, it won't change again. There were some Random Encounters that I never experienced during my first play through. On my second play through, for example, I made a save on the hillside a little ways to the west of the Super Duper Mart before I had ever visited the place. I reloaded this save many times and then approached the Super Duper Mart. I saw the Firelance encounter twice during this experiment. It was during daylight hours, and it consisted of a loud explosion, a cloud of black smoke up in the sky, and then Alien Power Cells and the Firelance in the parking lot in front of the building, with a slight radiation level that lasted only a minute or so. I understand from reading various posts throughout the web that this event is a bit more spectacular during the night time. I have that weapon on my first character, but never used it because it is overpowered, and ammo is very scarce. I was looking for one particular Random Encounter, which I finally got, but I saw many others in between....some of which I had never seen before.
You've probably already been to the Super Duper Mart, so try to find one of
the other Random Encounter locations that you've never visited before, and perform your own experiment. By the way though, I know from experience that the Firelance encounter can be missed if it happens during the daytime. On my first play through, I heard this very loud boom while walking near the north end of the Jalbert Brothers Waste Disposal Site, didn't see anything dramatic at the time, and many real days later found the ammo and weapon near the entrance to the facility.
