I want my gravestone to read "4067 plastic spoons baby!"

I always thought it was funny how in FO3 and NV I would check absolutely every corner, and container for stuff..and most containers had stuff, even though in those 2 games half the crap you found was just that..crap...now in FO4 I run around a room checking all containers and most are empty..and in FO4 you can use all junk for something..weird..

I thought it was pretty fun in the beginning. "I can pick up all things that seem useless and actually use them for something!" Until I had an infinite amount of junk in my inventory and my follower's inventory and I couldn't get myself to sell or drop any of it.

Also, that has nothing to do with OCD. I wish people would stop using that term so lightly.

I prefer to think of it as "Attention to Detail" thank you very much

Yeah, I tend to hoard a lot of different weapons and armors in Bethesda games, but after a while I start selling them as well. Sometimes I strip off use weapon mods before selling 'em. I now have a growing collection of various but useful weapon mods like night vision / recon scopes, marksman / recoil rifle stocks, quick eject barrels, and long finned / ported barrels to name a few.

As far as junk goes I only pickup things that are "useful". Anything that has aluminum, copper, oil, wood, gear, and springs I always pick up. The same goes for cement / concrete since I like to build concrete walls around my settlements. I recently started picking all the fertilizer I can find since there is someone at Vault 81 that will pay 25 caps each so it give me a reason to go back there, but not sure if it is really worth the time to do.

The thing I am OCD about is quests. I cannot stand for one to remain open in my quest log. I must complete it. And that is why 2 of my 4 characters bypassed Concord altogether and left Preston and his merry band to figure it out on their own.

I am OCD especially as regards collecting junk. It's mostly though because despite my picking up absolutely everything that isn't nailed down, I still never have enough of lots of stuff. I use that stuff upgrading weapons and armor for my settlers, building settlements and their defenses, etc.. Because I KNOW that I will pick up everything regardless of the fact that it will require me to constantly be going back to a workbench to drop stuff off, I deliberately installed a cheat. I boosted my carry capacity to 10,000. This is technically a cheat, but doing that has enabled me to simply play the game the way normal people do without adding insane quantities of tedious housekeeping to my play.

I am so with you on that "picking up everything" and having an urge to outfit all my settlers with great gear. Then I realized that the way the settlement system works right now basically makes it irrelevant how good their gear is.

True that, but I am anticipating modders fixing that issue and I want to prep my game for that eventuality. I guess that's part of my OCD.

I look through every corpse and every container but I gave up on the minute men, all of my settlers are dead to me, why can I not just have a rescue quest when I ask for it instead of whenever you want game? Why?

I'm not OCD about it, but I collect a lot of junk simply because every time I DON'T, that's the one item I need to do what I want. Last time it happened (about an hour and a half ago) I had passed up quite few ashtrays. So there I am at Starlight wanting to build a Brahmin feed trough for the brahmin that had unexpectedly appeared in the hopes that it would stay. Yup, no ceramics, and I'd already scrapped every bit of ceramic in the area.

The time before that was selling off a bunch of the sack hoods, then discovering three more settlers had arrived, and I need 15 pieces of cloth...

I tell ya, whatever you pass up in this game will be the next thing you need for sure...

And Preston is literally a stalker. I have my fast travel mat at Sanctuary on the carport. I went back there to grab stuff out of the workbench, which is like 4 paces from the mat. I realized I was in danger of getting interdicted by the Garveymeister, but figured. . . . "Just fast travel in, grab the stuff, and FT out. He'll never know you were even in town . . ."

Ha! Soon as I arrive I hear "Got something a bit different for you this time . . ."

The Adoring Fan was a passive-aggressive troll. But Preston Garvey is orders of magnitude moreso and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX7rxLUAtts on top of that.

I actually have legit OCD, and playing is like therapy. I still search every nook and cranny, but I accept I can't find everything, and it's theraqeutic.

Although I admit, whenever I open a vault or other structure, and it's wide open, multileveled, and packed full of stuff, I usually sigh and say, "Well, crap."

Once No Man's Sky is released, you won't see any of those players again. That's the real tragedy, they will die with an unfinished game. I'm awaiting lots of lawsuits.

I have partial OCD...

And yes, even that is a nightmare at times.

if I really had OCD I would spend years cleaning up settlements with "clean up all junk" mods that let me break down small piles of junk.

I collect a lot of stuff, but I have to run through an area pretty quickly, otherwise I get bored. It reminds me of a time when I was a little kid and I went to the hardware store with my dad and he would take SO long to get all the things he needed and I struggled to occupy myself until he was done. So that feeling comes back to me sometimes when I'm in an area in Fallout 4 so I get in there, run around killing everything, opening every door, but then I'm out of there. Yes, I probably miss a lot of stuff, but I just can't get too obsessive with it. If I DIDN'T still have my ammo glitch due to not installing the patch, I would probably pick up more stuff, but I just don't have the time or patience to grab everything.

What is the "ammo glitch" MsABomb?

I still haven't patched either.

I find it fun, annoying, but fun. Plus RP is fun too. I just hate how wood/steel doesn't transfer from workbench to workbench.

well I'm using a mod right now that makes them killable, So I do have reason to continue giving them badass gear. Recently my settlers (around 15 of them) killed a legendary gunner and two regular ones on their own, I was quite proud

It does with a supply line though..

I feel sad for the populous that have adopted the misuse of this psychological disorder when referring to accomplishing anything. It's a specific condition where people are compelled to repeatedly check something. It is like pausing a game every 5 minutes to check the door for being locked. It is unlike those who complete every quest in a game. That would be defined as thorough.

Um... explain. Please?

There you go:

http://attackofthefanboy.com/guides/fallout-4-workshop-guide-how-to-establish-supply-lines-between-settlements/


You can take the Local Leader perk, assign a settler to a supply line and share your resources between connected settlements.

Its actually a must for the airport settlement as there is no other way of getting food there unless you haul it yourself.

Hopefully Bethesda implement build-able planters in the future. It would be perfect for a green fingered picket fences perk.