A simple mod that makes five characters essential so they don't die during those chaotic (but fun) raider attacks.
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More to Megaton is by far one of my favorite mods as it gives you much more to do in the beginning of the game. One of the best features (in my opinion) are the repeatable quests, defending the town which makes for a nice exp grind in the beginning. The most fun part being when the town is under attack by a raider gang in full force.
The problem with this, however is that certain characters are pretty much guaranteed to die during this event which could ruin other parts of the game like investing in caravans. An easy fix is to just make some of those characters essential.
Characters that are now essential:
Stockholm, Doc Hoff, Lucky Harith, Crow, and Crazy Wolfgang
Characters that are not essential:
The Caravan Guards and Cows
Micky, because he's supposed to die anyways during a Broken Steel side quest, so giving him essential might cause problems.
Deputy Weld, because there were some rather hilarious issues with him becoming hostile and remaining hostile even after being knocked unconscious. He would just get up over and over and attack anyone and everything in sight, even after several days went by. My guess is that he does this because the raiders with all that gunfire must have destroyed his combat inhibitor. Luckily, even without his essential status, he seems to come back good as new in a few days. Sparks probably does the repairs on him.
Now you can enjoy those knock down drag out gun fights without worrying about the caravans and you can still bother Stockholm while he's on the job!
Oh and M2M is not required if you want to used this mod without playing M2M. This mod just makes some characters essential to compliment it, that's all.