...now then, in the past week by earning/completing quest lunchboxes I have gotten free characters, and I am not sure if they actually add to my population pool.

Now that I have a maxxed vault that has 200 dwellers and the discount/specials are on, I would like to support the game that has provided me entertainment and buy some lunch boxes - Has anyone with a maxxed vault and still able to house these 'card characters?'

Thanx in advance~

I don't have a maxed vault but I can tell you the card characters do indeed take up a population spot

Just read in another thread that at max population you can still pull legendary dwellers and they will just wait outside till you make space for them

The only way to make space... That I know of is sending them out to the wastes to die.

I really don't want to do that, thank you for your response.

For me 170 dwellers is too lagy so i just sent them to death into wasteland and remove them. Same goes for quests deliver babys. Find your lowest dwellers and remove them.

Well, sending them out to the wastes just serves my RP purposes... if you want to off anyone quickly just send them naked to a upgraded (Tier3) room surrounded by untouched (Tier1) rooms and rush it until roaches/fires wtfpwns them.

Remove them after death and the situation is contained by the surrounding rooms.