how the **** do people like the settlement system god its so clunky and weird
also they cant protect themselves even if if they have a defense of like 500
im just gonna strip them of all their resources so they die
tho purified water makes a lot of caps i got like four industrial water pumps running and i have about 300 bottles everytime i check so i can sell em for a lot
Selling stuff is too much effort for me, lol. It meant traveling to different merchants because none of them ever had more than 350 caps - tho I never got the perk to supply them with an extra 500 caps so I dunno if that would have made much of a difference.
I just had a ton of level 3 medic, food, and clothing stalls at my bases and picked up the giant cap stash in the workshop every few days.
But I made some pretty neat places! They defy everything I know about physics, but they weren't difficult to put together. Most of it just snaps together, and if the terrain is uneven, the.. 4th or 5th wooden foundation can be placed at almost any height and it keeps everything pretty even. I found the best way to build was to just build up. And everything either clips or snaps together fine if you do it in the right order.
Like the merchant stalls can go inside. I built a 3-story house with stalls on floors 1 and 2, and a little rec room with couches and TVs on the top floor (it was my settlement to get the 'Benevolent Leader' achievement; they like stalls and TVs). It all fits fine as long as you set the floor/ceiling above them before putting them inside.
And as far as defense goes, I've found that most of my settlements defend themselves just fine,
it only prompts me to show up.
Failing to show up fails the Misc. Objective, but nobody died or "left" the settlements.
But there's an achievement for completing 50 Misc Objectives and they're kind of a pain to find. Unless I was in the middle of a quest, I always showed up, did nothing, and completed the objective.
I just propped everything important up on top of a floating ceiling with that staircase that had the little platform at the top and the bottom. Built a little house on top of that, line up 20 beds in it like barracks, put a large generator on top of the building at each end, and then connect 'em both to a couple missile launchers, heavy laser turrets, and maybe a spotlight. If it needs more, I'll pop in the heavy turrets that don't need power and stick 'em on the corners of the roofs.
Usually end up with about 42-48 defense. Just enough to cover their "required minimum."
If it's a tight space, as most of them were, I just planted all their food underneath their floating house -- I don't understand how it grows without sunlight, but I do not question it.
tl;dr they totally take care of themselves. I fast traveled to the Drive-in place once and a freakin' deathclaw spawned there with me, but it was dead before anyone even left their med/food stalls to attack it.
I haven't played in about a week but I'm getting that itch again.
