You know it's 200 years later right? This isn't a "last survivors," kind of post-apocalyptia. It's been rebuilding and has rebuilt already in a lot of ways.

Quite aware, but I find it believable that the population would still be low, especially considering the hundreds of raiders slaughtered by the PC alone.

Look at it from Bethesdas point of view. They said theres no level cap in the game, that we could keep on leveling up until we have all the perks in the chart. If locations remained cleared throughout the entire game we would have a harder time leveling up. So yeah, I dont mind if after a little while raiders moved back in on their old location. Keeping the capital wasteland/mojave desert/commonwealth safe is a never-ending struggle.

Good point. I suppose there are surrounding areas outside the map that people can come in from. I like your idea though. Minecraft has baby mobs(enemies) and so maby one day Fallout will too xD

enemies do respawn at certain locations after a while. i'm a level 48 on xbox one and i keep going to corvega assembly plant and heres why.

1. raiders drop good weapons at my level e.g combat rifles etc then i sell them

2. it's where i get my supply of aluminium (yes items respawn to and you can loot the same chests over and over)

3.plus i like pwning raiders with my op gauss rifle (154 ish damge if i can remember?)

and that's it have fun