Needs to be some additional uses for them....say a settlement generator that is powered by them?

On a side note, where does the fuel for our current generators come from?

LOL... You are almost as bad as me. I think I finally decided to visit Diamond City when I reached level 46. I still have yet to speak with Nick Valentine to progress the story. Currently level 62.

Yep. I remember thinking how great it was when I found another power generator that yielded a much desired Fusion Core.

Now I have over 70 in my inventory. Obviously, I will never use them all up.

There's a mod that gives Companions infinite ammo (as long as you give them ONE of the ammo type they need). This is the behaviour settlers and non-current Companions normally use.

I assume 1 oil is more than i imagine and enough to last its lifetime. But you also get 1 oil from a zippo lighter so just pretend.

as for too many cores, You could have saved the ammo perk and the physicist perk and it comes after dozens of hours scrimping and saving. Most of mine were bought as i didn't get the ammo finder perk. At around 200 I stopped buying them. I was worried about them at first and didn't use PA until level 40.

I'm 56 hours into my main file and only have 11 (after buying 4) so I disagree about there being too many. That said I haven't taken any loot perks.

If the US military was using PA and PA needs fusion cores it stands to reason that the landscape would be littered with the things, because the military would have had literal truckloads of them manufactured. There are enough that the BoS is apparently still fielding entire platoons outfitted with PA nationwide. So for the SS to have a hundred of them when he spends most of his time exploring doesn't seem so far fetched to me.

I was level 60 by the time i went into the Glowing Sea and didnt even realize i had 80 cores saved up. used two or three cores on that character before my current melee play through. not sure if i will use any cores this time around. i seem to remember they were rare finds up until they started popping up in ever other ammo crate. i think it is a leveled thing so that a late game character can just stay in power armor.

So sell them for the caps?

Don't forget you can use them as gatling laser ammo, and grenades with a perk, extra cores become really useful later on.

so if I understand the OP right he took the perk to make them last longer and wonders why they are so hard to use up?

I am not using any ammo perk, and I am finding stacks of 4 cores in containers often. But I only did it on my last character playing on survival difficulty, maybe that difficulty not only increases the legendary enemies rate but also fusion cores rate? at least I don't remember to have 30 cores at level 15 on my first characters but on this one I am on power armor all day like if it was not a problem.

On the whole. To many cores and WAAAAAYYYYYY too many PA's. I'm only level 12 on my PA/BoS runthrough and I already have 8 PA's (6 45's and 2 60's!). I only have 10 cores at the moment, but I happen to know where I can get another 20 or so in quick order and all close to each other. Plus I just joined the Brotherhood so there's another 60 and more cores (haven't accessed them yet).

Sheesh! You could equip an entire settlement in PA by the end of the game in most cases. Last playthrough I had of 30 sets and on my current main (she's level 18 right now), she has 12 sets (full and various extra parts) and she doesn't even use it. She also has 34 power cores.

Yes, fusion cores are surprisingly abundant. Bethesda must really think highly of power armors so they really want you to use it. Sadly, I stopped using PA long ago. At least the cores sell for good bucks. Don't wait till a core is used up. If it's used up, it disappears from your inventory and you can't sell it. Sell a core when it is low in power. A 100% core sells the same amount as a 1% core.

Speaking of excess cores and power armor.... after turning on the Brotherhood, I find myself in possession of TONS of pieces of Power Armor... but no frames to put them on. I've seen Frames for sale before, but usually only one (at high prices). If we can strip and carry all the pieces of the power armor (even broken ones) then why can't we carry the frame, too? Too heavy, I suppose would be the rationale. Although I'm already carrying a metric crap-ton of power armor ~parts~ as it is.

If you kill them while they are wearing the PA you cannot get the frame anymore. You have to either steal the Fusion Core, or shoot the Fusion Core until it explodes. Either way removing the fusion core from an enemy wearing a power armor will give you a frame available for stealing.

That's right! In the Mass Fusion Building, I think, there was a guy in power armor and I snuck up behind him and yanked the power core and he got out of it and I whacked him and then could get inside! No way to do that with a regiment of Brotherhood Knights charging down on me, unfortunately. Even that one time was more luck than anything --- I usually get detected pickpocketing.

The stuff is all over the place and 1/2 of it is missing pieces anyhow.

stimpacks should have weight like other chems. i have over 100 of them. i would cut that down to 20 if it had weight. i had to limit nuka colas. because of the weight.

I'd have them and not need them, than need it but don't have them... so... yeah.

I have a mixture of feelings on this topic, which I'd say is one example of a larger topic we might call "The Abundant Wasteland" (a thread title from some time back).

On the one hand, Boston was a major metro area, much of it built on top of landfills and the America we are presented with in the era between "divergence" (from our universes' timeline) and the Great War was both a very consumerist, industrial and excessive society. So from that standpoint, one could even argue that should be a LOT more stuff than there is.

But then there is the effect is has on gameplay and that overall effect is: as you level up, you become flush with stuff. Not just fusion cores but pretty much everything. Even your ammo of choice never really runs short, cause you can go explore and or shop for more, and there are enough different ammo types that you can just switch to a different weapon for a while if necessary. Day-Z this is not and I think we probably all agree on that.

But I'm not so sure the game would be "better" if everything was more scarce. It would surely be different, but my concern would be that, if other aspects of the game were not also adjusted it might make it a bit ridiculous or even "unfun."

Once the GECK is out, I look forward to experimenting with this stuff and trying out other folks mods too. But for now, vanilla only.

Non-GECK mods involve some risk long-term and I'm just not up for that yet.