Vee: Fallout New Vegas Status

I've spent 74 hours, 29 minutes, and 43 seconds of my life playing New Vegas, and even though it remains to be on my top five favorite games list, I have some problems with the game: First of all, because you can pretty much explore every area, you tend to get stuck a lot, and if that happens, hopefully you've saved recently so you can reload and not lose too much. Second, I hate the vaults. They are too big and have too many rooms, which makes it so easy to get lost. They need to have an option to trail mark because i've skipped over those quests in the vaults.

I generally don't look things up online for help during gameplay, but these are a few things I had to get more information on:

1. How to make people's pants explode (there's a counter for this on your stats) : pick pocket someone, and instead of taking an item, place a grenade in their pocket...and they explode :)

2. This is a guide for the 'A Valuable Lesson' quest: insert your star caps with Festus, and when he gives you the option of claiming another prize, because knowing where and how Sunset Sarsaparilla originated just isn't doing it for you. You walk up the stair case (on the West side of the factory where the production line is), go forward into the hall and turn left, take the very first right, and right again because you have to. Go all the way down to the end of the hall, and there should be a hole in the ground for you to drop down into. And outside of that room, there is a red double door, and you've found it!---you can also get to the 2nd floor by jumping up on the fallen down floor board that's in the big room with all the cubicles.

-There are a ton of Sunset Sarsaparilla Deputy Badges (i've found 315), and I haven't found any use for them at all. [another useless item i've found in a different place is Counterfeit Bottle Caps]