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With supply lines; should they be inter-connected or not? At the moment my centre settlement (and my original) is Sanctuary, all other settlements lead there as it were. Should I create more links?
Also, how do you keep all your settlements happy, what's the trick? There must be one
Also, how do you keep all your settlements happy, what's the trick? There must be one
With supply lines; should they be inter-connected or not? At the moment my centre settlement (and my original) is Sanctuary, all other settlements lead there as it were. Should I create more links?
Also, how do you keep all your settlements happy, what's the trick? There must be one
Wouldn't have a clue! I haven't built a single thing other than what you have to build for quests! I should probably have a look into starting a settlement tbh.
With supply lines; should they be inter-connected or not? At the moment my centre settlement (and my original) is Sanctuary, all other settlements lead there as it were. Should I create more links?
Also, how do you keep all your settlements happy, what's the trick? There must be one
Supply lines can daisy chain. So you can go from Sanctuary to Abernathy, then abernathy to the castle, and they'll have their workbenches linked. Happiness is basically just making sure they have beds, food, water, and enough defence. To get above 80% I believe you have to tart the place up with pictures and decorations etc.
I quite like having Finch Farm as my primary settlement as it has a nice clear space and then you can also build the structure up and on top of the destroyed highway section.
Makes for a nice fortress town.
Your settlements also get a minor boost in happiness from you visiting them and talk to the citizens. Building shops and decorating the houses with televisions and radios is a good way to add a bit more happiness too.
Assigning jobs to your settlers makes them happy too, so telling a couple of them to maintain the food and other things helps a bunch.
If you build a bell for your settlement to call all of the citizens over to your location, it'll speed up boosting the happiness as they get the increase from being physically near you.
Makes for a nice fortress town.
Your settlements also get a minor boost in happiness from you visiting them and talk to the citizens. Building shops and decorating the houses with televisions and radios is a good way to add a bit more happiness too.
Assigning jobs to your settlers makes them happy too, so telling a couple of them to maintain the food and other things helps a bunch.
If you build a bell for your settlement to call all of the citizens over to your location, it'll speed up boosting the happiness as they get the increase from being physically near you.
My finch farm build was also a fortress on the highway section.
Took a couple of attempts to get up there nicely but I totally nailed it (couldn't have measured it better) on the 3rd try. Just simple concrete block stack with a spiral staircase around it and a bit of floor onto the bridge.
Stuck a few "turret towers" (2 concrete blocks wide with 2 rows of blocks, generator and turrets on top) around the bottom farm area and have gone to town (pun intended) on top.
Currently back into long war while we wait for x-com 2 though
Took a couple of attempts to get up there nicely but I totally nailed it (couldn't have measured it better) on the 3rd try. Just simple concrete block stack with a spiral staircase around it and a bit of floor onto the bridge.
Stuck a few "turret towers" (2 concrete blocks wide with 2 rows of blocks, generator and turrets on top) around the bottom farm area and have gone to town (pun intended) on top.
Currently back into long war while we wait for x-com 2 though
I think most people probably think about building onto the highway section when they unlock that settlement, one of the best things about it is that you can have all of the living quarters on the highway and then leave all of the ground available for farming... essentially Finch Farm is supplying all of my other settlements with food.
I'm considering doing a redesign of the structure that leads onto the highway to resemble a makeshift pagoda. Though not sure if that'll go beyond the size limit for the area.
I'm considering doing a redesign of the structure that leads onto the highway to resemble a makeshift pagoda. Though not sure if that'll go beyond the size limit for the area.
In short, I've become a bit bored of playing this... ultimately it's a decent game but the lack of evolution has been disappointing... In fact it has regressed in some areas, such as dialogue.
I'm level 44, I can't recall how many hours I've put in but tends to be around equal with levelling doesn't it? So 44 - 48 hours I would guess.
I have zero interest in the building aspect. I built what looks like a bus stop-come-shack at the Red Rocket station and that's it. It has a bed but only three walls. Haha. Sorry settlers/companions.
Picked it up again over the weekend after weeks without playing and I'd just like to tell me how far I am from the end of the main story... I can't leave it unfinished...
Thanks in advance.
I'm level 44, I can't recall how many hours I've put in but tends to be around equal with levelling doesn't it? So 44 - 48 hours I would guess.
I have zero interest in the building aspect. I built what looks like a bus stop-come-shack at the Red Rocket station and that's it. It has a bed but only three walls. Haha. Sorry settlers/companions.
Picked it up again over the weekend after weeks without playing and I'd just like to tell me how far I am from the end of the main story... I can't leave it unfinished...
I've just met Father. Is it the case that I will have to do a couple of Institute missions to gain favour with them then pick a preferred faction and destroy the others... So just a few more gameplay hours to go if I just do the story missions?
Thanks in advance.
Sadly not too many Custom paint jobs. Having said that, siding with one faction gives you a sweet paint job for the X-01 which comes with some pretty neat stats also.
Depending how quick you play, you could finish the story in a 5-10 hours pretty easily.
For some reason I have started getting frequent crashes all of a sudden. Always during combat and my controller starts rumbling and doesn't stop until I unplug it. I seem to remember getting something very similar in Skyrim bit can't remember what was causing it.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
had anyone had there graphics all go mad
Playing yesterday and all was fine, started today and I cant even see what is going on, reset the graphics to the lowest setting (was in high/ultra) but noting is working.
I have tried loading a earlier save, but that didnt work.
My other games are playing just fine
Playing yesterday and all was fine, started today and I cant even see what is going on, reset the graphics to the lowest setting (was in high/ultra) but noting is working.
I have tried loading a earlier save, but that didnt work.
My other games are playing just fine
Interconnection isn't necessary - links can't be broken (provisioners can be attacked, but not killed), all settlements on a supply chain are treated as being linked and there isn't any time delay. The length of a link also seems to be irrelevant.
When you get more settlements you won't be able to link them all from a single settlement because you won't have enough settlers at that settlement to provision every other settlement.
If you like having one settlement providing the provisioners for many other settlements you could do that with 2 or 3 settlements with a link between the groups.
e.g. A provisions B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J and K. L provisions M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U and V. Link any settlement in the first group to any settlement in the second group and all settlements in both groups are linked.
Also, how do you keep all your settlements happy, what's the trick? There must be one
Happiness ratings up to 80 are quite straightforward:
Enough food
Enough water
Enough beds in shelter
Some shops (with shopkeepers, i.e. working as shops)
Enough defences (not a direct effect, but attacks reduce happiness if they're not killed off without loss to the settlement).
A dog increases happiness too, by 5 as far as I can tell (my Sanctuary, where Dogmeat lives, tops out at 85 whereas other equally or better equipped settlements top out at 80).
To get above 80 (or 85 with a dog), you have to get a bit silly with optimising settlements for happiness by making a lot of shops. You can get 100 by having 18 settlers with 15 running shops and 3 farming to provide 18 food.
Decorations, defensive walls (my major settlements are full on castles with thick stone walls 20 feet high) and entertainment options (radios, pool tables, jukeboxes, chessboards, gyms, bowling alleys, basketball courts, etc) seem to have no effect at all.
TVs are linked to a serious bug with settlements and are generally not recommended as a result. They probably have no effect on happiness anyway, since other entertainment items don't.
Mine patched last night. Since then loading times have drastically bombed. Previously 5-10 seconds, now moving from an interior to a mid-city exterior takes up to 5 minutes. Usually it takes so long that the 3rd-person-view "screensaver" effect has kicked in by the time it loads.
All system and game files on SSD. I'm still enjoying the game but this could really ruin it for me.
All system and game files on SSD. I'm still enjoying the game but this could really ruin it for me.
a random passer by sold me a dog he had trained..and I sent him to sunshine co-op ..he is there as a guard dog, I cant seem to equip him with dog armour though 
but I have never seen the guy again..I need more dogs for my settlements!
but I have never seen the guy again..I need more dogs for my settlements!