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[mALX]

Here is my totally unmodded (just using the in-game Editor) Sanctuary Hills Settlement. (working on making a modded one; not tested it in game yet). I haven't put a beacon up yet; so no Settlers yet. (Just Misa; Codsworth; Dogmeat; Trashcan Carla and her Brahman).




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This post has been edited by mALX: Jan 19 2019, 05:02 AM

[RaderOfTheLostArk]

Boston Airport is easily the lamest settlement in the game.

While I was making some updates to my Nordhagen Beach settlement, I saw a couple of Mirelurk Hunters across the water at the airport. I figured I'd go waste them while exploring some more of the airport, because the last time I was there I hadn't really searched it thoroughly.

Lo and behold, I find a workbench! This is a neat little place, I thought. Small, but I'll make it a cool mini-town. The rugs that were still there from pre-War times could be like little streets. I was planning 5 two-story homes in my mind along with a little marketplace in the back. Sounds cool, right?

After making the first floors for each house, I started making the second floor. All of a sudden, I was almost out of room. I then had absolutely no space left, the other houses weren't close to finished, and I hadn't even put anything inside the houses yet. And then I found out there is LITERALLY NO SPACE FOR FOOD IN THE SETTLEMENT. And I do mean literally, because placing food is not even an option in the settlement builder menu.

After finagling some more with the place and finding out that I had to make a supply line in order to bring food there, I decided that it wasn't worth the trouble. So right now it is a ghost town. There are first floors, 9 beds, and a platform for my marketplace, but I can add almost nothing more to the settlement and it isn't going to be worth the hassle.

TL;DR: Boston Airport is absolute garbage as a settlement and none of you should bother with it.


Speaking of running out of room, Bethesda made that way too restrictive for some settlements and the amount of space to work with isn't distributed well across them all. Some places have plenty more room for me to do something with, especially some of the bigger ones, but it won't actually allow me to build much more. And then others have so much space left I don't know what to do with it (e.g. Spectacle Island). Dalton Farm, which I was just building on a few minutes ago, is a small or medium-sized settlement, but the settlement builder HUD is telling me I have loads of space to do stuff with.

Oh, and one more thing: Does anybody have their workshops menu on their Pip-Boy show incorrect stats for some of their settlements? Because I have been getting that quite a bit. For example, it said Nordhagen Beach had 32 people, no water, and no food, which wasn't even remotely true. But then when you go to the settlement the stats are fixed. What gives?

This post has been edited by RaderOfTheLostArk: Mar 10 2019, 04:44 AM