Todd did say that while people would just show up, there are also people you can go out and recruit. If that's the case, then there might be a mix. Some generic NPCs, and some named ones that are a bit more interesting.

Seriously hoping they let us recruit super mutants, so tired of super mutants being big bad enemy.

I'd be happy with that as long as some members of my town were...sentient...

Yup. When I first heard Marcus from the Fallout lore (I didn't play 1 or 2), I was interested in him. And when I met him in Jacobstown personally, I am intrigued, because like Marcus, some super mutants are capable of being so wise and civilised, even surpassing wastelanders, like Uncle Leo from FO3 and that guy in Black Mountain who stopped you before going further and help you free the mutants from Tabitha... It's like they are really super mutants that are in ways superior to normal humans...

Anyway, back to the topic, for those who support the idea of a multi-racial (human+ghoul+super mutant) settlement like broken hills, I am in the same boat!

They'd realize that it is a game, and they might revolt and escape the Internet!

One thing I'm interested in in settlements is economy. Like a scavenging settlement in the outskirts or middle of boston, a farming village in a nice small plain and a mining settlement along the mountains. Each one provides a different bonus or effect and can be needed for building up another settlement but not 100% required.

One thing I'd like is rebuilding a neighborhood in the city of Boston and make it into a thriving area, like using concrete and wood from other areas and showing a rebirth of boston through that settlement. Kinda like the strip in the Mojave.

If those different settlements with those kinds of different economies are linked with the brahmin caravan system that Todd Howard mentioned, it might even come true!

It'd be awesome if you could restore a ruined vault, put people in there, close the door and rule them as Overseer with an iron fist.

Ok, I want two settlements.

A normal settlement, and at the center of that settlement a vault entrance to an underground vault. I am going to call it... vault city.

Try to make a platform at high as I can for superior lookout and for a great view.

And also nestled near raiders and muties to snipe...


This can become quite the money dump armsing caravans and gaurds...

Even if its pretty basic, I can imagine the mods that can be built around this...

You just gave me an idea for the best guard tower....

Anyway it would be good if we can building 3 or so storeys high so I can make an entrance to the town like a medieval gate tower minus the iron gate.

Before I realised this topic had been made, I put on a previous thread that I would love to be able to reprogram protections or something to pretect my town, and perhaps electric fencing, you know to keep the bugs out.

The way settlement seems I actually wouldn't hold that as impossible, maybe even Vault 111 becomes the vault settlement. I really hope it's not just you can build a settlement but you can control it 100%

I personally hope that we can find, refurbish, and reprogram robots from around the wastes, or even build our own 'Scrab-Bots'. As much fun as turrets are, they're not quite as cool as having actual robotic guards that move and patrol the town.

I plan to build a high-tech haven for the like-minded. Technology, Humanism, and Pragmatism will be the pillars of New-Canada (the character will be a Canadian-American immigrant).

i wanna make a raider clan, but at least trying to fit in with civilized society as opposed to the crazy raiders who keep human gore and viscera as decoration, think more like the Saviors from walking dead. I would love to be able extort local communities for tribute to keep themselves safe from both my group and others, honestly it would be fun to have a raider war because they attacked a town under my protection.

The implications of this new system is limitless! Honestly, after discussing this topic just for hours, I feel really impatient for Fallout 4 just to come out right now!

Sorry if its been asked already. But any hints about:

1) Being able to build underground / down
2) How high you can build? Eg: Tenpenny tower MK2

Sadly, we still haven't got the details about that

The only info that we have is that we have no limits in the designated area for settlement building, like Charles97 has gained below:

Cheers ^^ Hopefully more info later on.

I doubt we will get to build underground though due to engine limitations.

lol I said the same thing about robots. But sorry to say but in the fallout universe Canada was annexed by the America.

*sigh* if that happens, that be real sad isn't it?

But you got point though, underground places are usually treated differently in the games as cells... So, yeah, maybe it will be not possible

I still really hope that it's possible though! ^^

Oh, I know! But it was annexed in the late 2060's to early 2070's. Nora Richards was born in Canada and her family emigrated to the United States in 2050.
Now, with the war destroying the existing nations of the earth, she will bring back Canada! >

http://i.imgur.com/fKJ4YPs.jpg

Needs more maple and hockey sticks though! Hahaha

My hope is to make a multitiered city. Take the foundations of each building and make towers out of them, then connect those towers into one platform and add stores. Make another platform above that for housing, etc. I doubt it'll work out the way I want, but a man can dream...