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| DivinePaladin said: I both love and hate the settlement system right now. I wish it felt a bit more lively, because all the effort feels moot at times. I'm on console so I don't believe there's a way to get more than 20, unless I've been lied to my whole life about the population cap. |
I'm on console too. The population cap depends on your charisma. With cha bonusses on my armor I currently have 24 cha, allows for 25 people per settlement. I can temporarily increase it with grape mentats and Gwyneth stout so I can send more people over, yet it seems they bleed away again over time to match my charisma. The more the merrier isn't really true here, it seems impossible to get the happiness over 83 in my version of Sanctuary. Plus the pathing can get annoying since they can push you, but you can't push them out of the way. They had me stuck in my cafeteria for a while when they all came checking out the new bar.
I don't know about the wooden pillars. But you can place things into other things when you pick everything up by the foundation block. It's hard to do though. For example it took me over an hour to fix the walls at castle and get it all nice and flush. Place a bunch of concrete blocks first, move it into position bit by bit. Save first, since there is no undo and when it gets too close to existing stuff it will grab that up the next time as well.
For interiors, use little rugs to move things into position. Place it on a rug first, then pick upn the rug to put it where you want. For example my new bar at Starlight has 3 bar table elements and 2 food stalls mixed together
Normally you can remove the rugs after, but here I had to leave them. The object sinks a little and in this case the food stall sticks through the top after. Btw the game doesn't realize they're inside and gives everyone a wet look as soon as it starts raining lol.
The editor could use a lot of improvement. I've seen shots online of people with full magazine racks, shelves full with bottles etc. It already took me half an hour to get these damn pool balls on the table.
I had to remove the lamps and the upper floor, stand on top and place them one by one. You can't pick the up in edit mode as they'll sink halfway into the table, ugh. That was enough of that, they can find their own pool cue lol.
Is 7 stories the height limit on Spectacle island? I've got a tower structure planned for there, haven't found it yet though, and I need more steel first.
