Hi! XG417 here. New guy, as well as Overseer of Vault 417.

So I've played with Fallout Shelter for about a week now, and I have grown my vault to a healthy population of 50 Dwellers, just the right amount of rooms so I can see the entirety of my vault when fully zoomed out, resources at full capacity at all times, security is quite alright, and happiness is around 94-97%. This situation already seem stable for me, and I never really was fond of managing large groups of people or things, so I was wondering if I should continue expanding and getting more dwellers.

I know I've yet to unlock the last four rooms to be able to acquire everything, but honestly, the current sources already provide more than enough. I send a maximum of 3 dwellers out on the surface to gather items, and to me that seems pretty manageable. So, should I still keep going? What benefits do I get apart from the rooms that produce more resources, and are they worth it? I just want to know what other Overseers think of this.

Cheers, mates!

Hello,

Yes or you can send more like 5 dwellers for start the wasteland provide items "defense" for your vault, collect every good (best) weapon / armor and gear up every dweller to teeth.

None right now, check your Stats list to see how much you produce for just info, and yes they are worth it, better more then less.

Consumption will grow with new up coming dwellers, better be prepared for it.

Best Regards

Joe

While you can maintain a small vault - you may find strictly maintaining gets to be kind of boring - but I guess when you get to that point you can start adding on - totally a preference thing.

Expansion seems to be considered progression, for some reason. I never got that. Upwards of 100 starts feeling too big to me, never mind 200. So, I don't expand. There's no reason to, once you get to the last training room at 50. Players just keep going, because I guess it's what we're supposed to do, but you don't have to, and it's not even rewarded in any way.