I store stuff like Potted Meat, Food Paste and some unique assorted junk items there (Undamaged junk etc).

I also have most of my explosives, syringer and miscellaneous crafting materials there.

Better to keep these things away from Settlers imo.

I'm not too fussed about either of your proposals, but I'll agree that a supply line is acceptable. I genuinely don't care about the build options though. You're not missing out on much.

To be brutally honest here. At the moment Home Plate is an utterly useless pile of crap.

It's the same issue I've had with the default Fallout homes in 3 and New Vegas as well. In 3 we get a crappy shack in Megaton which I happily replaced with a Mod home, and then in Fallout New Vegas we got a better looking hotel room suite. Even then, the presidential suite was a cramped, unpleasant mess. Again I needed to use a Mod to refurbish it into a player home that I actually WANTED to use ("Lucky 38 Suite Reloaded").

So no, at the moment I don't use Home Plate. Partially because of the way it's designed (cramped, weird fog effect, etc), partially because it's workbench is was handicapped from the start, and mostly because it's pointless.

I can build amazing settlements all over the place in this game. Hangman's Alley is really interesting and is located not too far from Diamond City, but either way, it's just a quick fast travel/load to get from any settlement to the Diamond City market. I'm looking at the same load time if I'm going from Home Plate to the market. So to get my attention, Home Plate needs to be a better looking and more useful base than anything I can build myself.

I think for many people, just fixing that stupid work bench limitation will make Home Plate livable. But for me personally, they're going to need to replace it altogether to get my attention. I'd rather have a nice big airy house with a great view up in the stands.

Who on Earth actually used the Lucky 38 suite?

Everyone I knew used the Motel Room in Novac. It has a central location, the least amount of glitches and loading screens and was very easy to obtain (and has no Faction affiliation).

As for Fallout 3, Megaton wasn't the only residence, though they were both pretty bad.

The Home Plate is fine as it is. You can turn it into a house or a crafting/storage depot. I have a crafting/storage depot in all of my settlements, so I knew what I was going to do with the space as soon as I walked in.

You've paid for the place so you ought to be able to do whatever you want with it. If I knew it was restricted I wouldn't have bothered buying it in the first place. I understand that prefabs etc wont fit and the fact that the workshop won't allow you to place them should be good enough but it would be nice to add the odd wall, half wall so on and so forth.

Good point, I forgot about Novac in NV.

The original Lucky 38 suite had a lot more room than the Novac Motel room, but it comes down to the question of whether you'd rather live in Novac or New Vegas. The downside to Lucky 38 was that you had to load 3 zones to enter your room (first the Strip, then the casino, then your room) vs only 2 with Novac (Novac then your room). But it seemed that Lucky 38 was meant to be your main home, and it was more like a bunker then a hotel room.

The mod "Lucky 38 Suite Reloaded" expanded the hell out of it by replacing it with a massive suite up in the upper section of the tower (so massive curved window letting in light and a view of the strip). It had a dining room/kitchen, a lounge, lab, armory, master bed room, and a large lobby with pool. It was very flashy and looked the part of "the best room in the hotel". Once that mod came out I never stayed at Novac again.

Honestly, I cannot remember any other homes from Fallout 3. (had to google it) Ok, so Tenpenny Tower had a suite and that's really it. The rest were just rentable rooms.

My problem with doing anything with Home Plate is that it's completely closed off as a location. I can't use it as a depot or a crafting location because it can't connect to any of my settlements. So if I want to craft, I have to haul the supplies there, build it, then haul it back to the appropriate settlement. Hangman's Alley can serve the same purpose while being in the center of Boston because it can be linked to my resources via a supply route.

If you fix the workbench and make it able to connect to the supply routes it might work though and at least you'd gain the benefit of having all of the Diamond City Market stores right there. It wouldn't solve my aesthetic issues with Home Plate though. I think that it's just too small an area for me. I'd much rather have something with the same area as the police station than just a dugout.

Give me a supply line, please! This is can be easily simulated without having to assign a settler to be a provisioner. Hire a courier. The courier, found inside Diamond City, can go to whatever settlement you assign to it.

Also, let me modify the roof. This could be done by adding a workshop up there and automatically supply-line link it to the one inside. Call them Home Plate roof, and Home Plate indoors. With the indoor one being the main one.