So in the app when you're looking at general stats, there are some that I have no idea what they mean so I thought I would see what other people thought they meant:

Bright Ideas
Pants Exploded
Investments made

they all the number of times you've done these next to them so it'll probably happen a plenty, but I don't know what they mean by these, what are your thoughts?

(Also, there's "plants collected", which means the Skyrim method of plant collecting is back. I just thought I would bring it up.)

Pants Exploded probably related to put grenades on others trow pickpocket.

I would say Investments Made either applies to getting stores in your settlements or like in the TES titles, investing in a store when your speech skill got high enough. I suppose it could also apply to creating a trade route between settlements.

The ones I'm curious about are Bright Ideas and Wasteland Whispers.

Wasteland Whispers is obviously the 'number of wasteland critters 'intimidated' using the Wasteland Whisperer perk' stat.

I posted some minor spoilers in the other thread about the app. Probably needless to say, if you go poking around in the app on your computer you might come across major spoilers. I avoided looking too closely, I just summarized what data the app contained.

Clearly refers to the ability to open a porm studio in the Commonwealth.

1. The idea for a porm studio to make some caps is the Bright Idea.

2. Investments made refers to the amount of money you spent on hiring good, quality actors.

3. And Pants Exploded refers to, well... exploded pants.

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Investments made is probably related to the Cap Collector skill since that seems to be the barter perk. In Skyrim, there is the Investor sub-perk in the Speech skill that allows you to permanently increase a vendor's available gold by investing 500 gold in their shop.

Bright ideas is probably the number of times the idiot savant perk has activated.

Bright ideas could mean that we have a new form of 'discovering' crafted items similar to how Alchemy works. We combine different 'ingredients' until we find something that matches, like unique explosive devices under Demolition Expert, as well as a ton of other items

Nah then it'd be under crafting and not general. I'm guessing there will be some dialog with an "intelligence" success just like we have persuasion successes and intimidations

Maybe there are certain moments in the game where a little light bulb lights up over your head and you have a time limit to figure out a puzzle on how to deal with a situation. "oh no, the little light bulb!" "Let's see, if I take this gas can and place it in the corner and set my gun to self destruct and place it by the gas can, it'll knock over that shelf, flipping a bowling pin into a vial of FEV that will fall on the mouse in the cage, the mouse will become super strong, break out of his cage and tackle the cat sunbathing at the window.. at that time a... Damnit!, ran out of time!"

Bright ideas to me sounds like when you discover new quest solutions, either via dialogue choices or by finding specific items etc.

This sounds very plausible and it will be a lot of fun finding things this way. Well it would be for me.

Its reference to the fact that with the maxed sale perk (cant remember the name) you can invest in merchants to boost their buying capacity like skyrim
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Bright ideas: cooking a grenade for a little too long, taking a chem-induced jump off a high place, and other silliness .