I want more of everything, especially settlements, and I want it right now.

Once GECK becomes available new settlement features will become kind of redundant for PC players as all kinds of things can be added to settlement building then with little hassle. There for It would make sense for Bethesda to release new features for it early to appease console users due to them having a lot less building options once it becomes available which will (even more so), flood the forums with alot of negativity and trolling. And yes I'm not forgetting about mods supposedly coming to console but that is a long while away yet if it even happens.

I'm still optimistic about them porting popular mods over to consoles. Its one of the major reasons i was excited about the game. I'd personally like to see a largely expanded weapon and armor mod list. One that makes it not so obvious which mods are the clear best.

OP: You DO realize this game was not made *just* for you, right?

And that settlement building and management is one of the most popular new features among players who are not you?

Bethesda, please make DLC the same way you made it for Skyrim and Morrowind: two major story DLCs that add to every aspect of the base game, including settlements, and then a few free patches and some cheapo-DLC that adds new content in a way that modders can't perfectly emulate.

One of the nice things about the modding community is that Bethesda couldn't pull off a $2 "Badass Armor Pack" or "Build Pre-War houses" DLC if they tried, and considering their history with DLC and their desire to get mods on all platforms they probably don't even want to try.

Why has fallout turned into the Sims?

This is my fear as well, that they will go all into farmiville territory. I feel settlement building has no place in fallout. Thats why ive not brought the dlc pass yet as i feel they will turn this game more into fallout sims.

Same thing applies to you, there are many who feel the same way as op and i give you your words right back at you.

It hasn't. If you think it has, I can only assume you have never played either game

From what I have seen and read, the majority of people really like the settlement. I've not seen many complaints at all, a few daft comparisons to sims and farmville aside, the community seems to really enjoy this aspect of the game. YouTube alone is full of videos of settlements, guides, ideas etc, it's gone down very well.

If anything I imagine it will follow same sort of designs as Skyrim - so perhaps a settlement focused DLC a la Hearthfire, but the main DLCs will be probably be full-content ones.

Just my guess, obviously - but I don't think you need to worry that DLC will be all settlement-based and a certainly expect to see some new areas.

I'm obsessed with the settlement building aspect of the game, so I obviously disagree with the OP. That said, I think we'll get a good mix of dlc. Fallout 3 dlc scratched a lot of different itches, and I don't see why that would change now.

Settlement building is awfully annoying. I hope they will add new locations like Point Lookout.

I personally think settlement building has a huge place in fallout, more so than spaceships or aliens and such. The bigger picture is to rebuild society and building your own settlement is the first step fallout has taken towards that. Even if it's just building a house as opposed to a full on settlement it makes sense and fits the game perfectly. Although I hope we get some new content for settlements, I would be surprised if all dlc is settlement related. I'm sure we will get new areas, quests, characters and items

My only real complaint beyond having no idea what every settler is assigned to (I know you can give them hats or clothing to make identification easier, but I've over a hundred settlers so that is not going to be an easy task at this point), is of course the false reporting bug (which for me means no fast travel away from near a Recruitment Beacon) and the attack system being flawed with sometimes no warning of an attack, or no actual attack when you respond and then the invisible stomping monster that destroys the crops in front of you.......so, aside from those flaws I've enjoyed the settlement building. However the bugs are beginning to become to make it more irritating than enjoyable so I'm considering skipping it in future playthroughs or taking the option of convincing them all to join the Brotherhood once i've got past the constructing stage.

I agree with you I hope at least 5 dlc involving new lands and quests as seen in Fallout 3.

But it would be nice if they added some features to settlements in free dlc like they did in Skyrim

I don't really see the need for an settlement DLC unlike it make totally new functions like raider camps.

Mods will do the work in expanding settlement features very nicely.

Yes if they add new landmasses it makes sense to lets us put up a couple of settlements as bases.

We need challenge in this fallout survivability challenge they seriously need the speech system is so dumb and simplified new areas crazy npcs in trouble everywhere not a stupid settler in a town giving you a stupid quest because the raiders are stealing food from his home wth