As someone who's been expanding slowly overall, I send my excess dwellers who I have no training slots or jobs for, out to explore. It works great to ensure I'm stocked full of weapons and outfits all the time and gives me a lot of caps as well as gives my surplus of stimpaks and radaways a purpose.

However... due to how poorly optimized the game is overall, just tapping the wasteland to check my explorers takes 1-2 minutes to populate info on the first explorer then about 5-10 seconds for each explorer after, nevermind the insanely poor frame rate while doing so. When it's all said and done and I've checked stimpaks and radaways on everyone, my resources can go from being at 95% happiness and totally maxed out, to red simply because I've been unable to collect resources for so long just trying to check explorers.

I understand that 50 dwellers is a lot and I don't intend to have this many as I expand to accomodate them, but really.... the optimization is atrocious. This is a mobile game, being run on a wide variety of devices and while my iPad 4 isn't brand new, it has more power than most mobile devices and still runs crappy.

I love this game so far, it has a lot of potential and bugs seem to be rather seldom overall, but really, the optimization issues are really frustrating.

wow...i' at 60 dwellers and i've only been sending 7 people out at a time. i never would have thought to do that...sending all the guys i can't decide what to do with, outside.

i currently have 33 production rooms, each with 1 dweller, 7 out exploring, 10 training luck, and the rest training various other stats,and i'm sitting here wondering...wtf am i gonna do with these 20 odd dwellers that don't need to be placed anywhere?

It also helps happiness as the people lulling around without jobs sit at 50% happiness or lower usually. I did ramp up my stimpak and radaway productions to two 3 slotted maxed out rooms for each but it's definitely helpful.

Makes me think of Russia at the end of WW2, a bunch of soldiers left with nothing to do.

I've got 60 dwellers playing on an iPhone 5s and haven't encountered any sort of delay in responsiveness.


I've also never sent more than 5 people out at a time.. and I train all the lowly people that are birthed or brought in via Radio Studio.