Friend, I load the save but I'm out of the safe and when I arrive at the settlements they are original, without any construction, am I doing something wrong?
Edit: Sorry, I was dumb enough to load the wrong save.
after reading your description, i figure this is probably the best bet for what i was looking for, and i really can't believe you really did all of this without mods and console commands, that is some dedication bro, and i like that you made this as there are no mods out there that offer anything like this.
i hate the stupid settlement building system as well, i can't believe they are bringing it back in starfield as if people really love that s#*!, for me it's just way too involved and i just want something a lot less hands on, i wouldn't mind maybe setting up the radio broadcast for all locations, but yeah it's the closest thing i will be able to find and use and i thank you for taking the time in creating this mod or i mean save game, i know it's not really a mod.
hey, say i were to add this mod mid-game and that i've built up red rocket already, would this mod replace the the stuff i've added? or spawn alongside it?
I haven't found one. The concept of this mod is a great one, but they've unrealistically over-engineered the settlements. all that's needed is basic stuff - fixed roofs, enough food, water & beds for say the first 6 people. Maybe a bit of walling. Most of my first playthru's sites had 5 to 8 people, except the Castle which had 18 and Sunshine had 12. Some mods rebuild sites with nice repaired buildings but break precombines, some mods just bork the game. All that's needed is a few first-steps, not tons of over-imagineering.
description sounded great, then I looked at the screenshots.... sorry but I thought it'd be basically based on towns like in FO3, seeing as the whole settlement system is mostly made because beth got lazy and wouldn't do more towns/locations. and you just placed resources in each location, which doesnt require much effort in the first place - I think most of us avoid building simply because we don't want to deal with the broken building system/don't have imagination for making cool things in the first place.
Well, I apologize, but no mods were used in the creation except the weightless junk and enable console in survival mods. I mainly built this save for me so I don't have to go build a crapton of settlements over and over and over again, as I'm very much a completionist. I do thank you for your comment.
Let me explain my thought process on this save, and please don't take it personally.
I was specifically avoiding all mods that add anything to settlements as I don't want to force people into using a bunch of mods they don't need, which is my issue with every other prebuilt settlement savegame I've found out there. So, I was forced into the vanilla build areas and vanilla limits. That makes this savegame literally drop and go in any game state, whether it's Vanilla (with all DLCs) or super-modded. Almost every built settlement is hitting the stock build budget of that settlement.
As an aside, If you know of anyone who, in such a modless environment, can build a full town out the the house with yard sized plots of most of the settlements, then I'll give them full props. Just send me a link. Keep in mind, no modded limits or boundaries, and no modded structures.
And after freezes, crashes and having to build the same <expletive deleted> settlement five times in a row, you tend to just hunker down and start putting together quick to assemble barracks instead of apartments anyway.
After the first attempts, I'll admit I was going for an efficient settlement model more than a full town model as 1: there's no room in most settlements both horizontally and vertically. Most of the ones that are vertically capable are also the ones that are also Horizontally capable. 2: by the time you've built out the third or fourth apartment in your compact wooden highrise complex you're out of build budget in most settlements. Unless it's Jamaica Plain. Then you're out halfway through the first apartment. In the rest you're out of budget by apartment six.
What then? In short, I know I'm not going to please everybody, but this is meant to eliminate most of the work in settlement building across the map, and still generate happy settlers that require minimal interaction save assigning tasks, or defending.
If no one person besides me really likes this, I'm still happy with what I've managed to do. I'm going to be looking into modifying some of the larger settlements further in a later update and doing up some of the settlements that have yet to be unlocked.
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Edit: Sorry, I was dumb enough to load the wrong save.
i hate the stupid settlement building system as well, i can't believe they are bringing it back in starfield as if people really love that s#*!, for me it's just way too involved and i just want something a lot less hands on, i wouldn't mind maybe setting up the radio broadcast for all locations, but yeah it's the closest thing i will be able to find and use and i thank you for taking the time in creating this mod or i mean save game, i know it's not really a mod.
Let me explain my thought process on this save, and please don't take it personally.
I was specifically avoiding all mods that add anything to settlements as I don't want to force people into using a bunch of mods they don't need, which is my issue with every other prebuilt settlement savegame I've found out there. So, I was forced into the vanilla build areas and vanilla limits. That makes this savegame literally drop and go in any game state, whether it's Vanilla (with all DLCs) or super-modded. Almost every built settlement is hitting the stock build budget of that settlement.
As an aside, If you know of anyone who, in such a modless environment, can build a full town out the the house with yard sized plots of most of the settlements, then I'll give them full props. Just send me a link. Keep in mind, no modded limits or boundaries, and no modded structures.
And after freezes, crashes and having to build the same <expletive deleted> settlement five times in a row, you tend to just hunker down and start putting together quick to assemble barracks instead of apartments anyway.
After the first attempts, I'll admit I was going for an efficient settlement model more than a full town model as 1: there's no room in most settlements both horizontally and vertically. Most of the ones that are vertically capable are also the ones that are also Horizontally capable. 2: by the time you've built out the third or fourth apartment in your compact wooden highrise complex you're out of build budget in most settlements. Unless it's Jamaica Plain. Then you're out halfway through the first apartment. In the rest you're out of budget by apartment six.
What then? In short, I know I'm not going to please everybody, but this is meant to eliminate most of the work in settlement building across the map, and still generate happy settlers that require minimal interaction save assigning tasks, or defending.
If no one person besides me really likes this, I'm still happy with what I've managed to do. I'm going to be looking into modifying some of the larger settlements further in a later update and doing up some of the settlements that have yet to be unlocked.
Cheers and take care!