well, if you played fallout 3 for a couple hours, youll notice that theres a horrable lack of cities. i mean, theres 5. and 3 of them are really small. so my question is, if you had the ability to make an entire settlment, what would you do? where would you build it? what would it be for? would it be a trading center, or scientific research city. or maybe just another slaver city like paradise falls.

if i could, i would build it in the old robco facility, i would make the protectron guards, and make an army of robots, then i will march over the whole wasteland... sorry, im going power mad.

Just somewhere with a natural barrier, like rivet city-river. And closer to Megaton, Tennpenny, and Rivet City

id make a town out of sticks! it would be a massive 7 inches tall and atleast a meter in diameter!, id make shops and houses, id free the slaves from paradise falls and tell them to live there with the bobble heads in harmony. but if any refused or told me im mad...well...that wouldnt be very sporting now would it hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm... :nono:.

I would capture a boatfly and get it to teach me its ways *picture LW trying to buzz round like a fly* then id convince the rest of the boatfly population to join forces with me to take over the land. id ride on a molerat into battle like a true king and appoint sticky as my second in command! he will tell tales of my victories and convince people to join me.

ALL SHAL TREMBLE BEFORE THE WRATH OR THE BOATFLY KING!!

Assuming I had the skills of the Lone Wanderer, I would rebuild Minefield. Simply kill Arkansas, disarm all the mines, kill the roaches, clean the houses of skeletons and the like, and voila! The perfect foundation for a town. I'd recruit a few people that'd fit in my settlement (ghouls need not apply), pay the caravaners to stop by on their rounds and probably build a few little shacks for shops or houses for the poorer ones who can't afford one of the more luxury abodes.

As I said, I'd have the skills of the LW (that comes with influence), so I doubt it'd be that hard. We wouldn't need to hire a doctor; LW can do it. Don't need a repairman; LW can do it. Don't need to pay for many guards at all; LW is a one man army.... etc.

I think Evergreen Mills is a great location for a civilization. If you clear out the Raiders and Behemoth first.

You see, it can be relatively well guarded. As the raiders did, have snipers on the roof. It has plenty of indoor and outdoor space,

and it has a big cage thingy. I can't really think up a use for it, but it has potential. Maybe line it up with steel plates, and convert it

into the town hall or something.

As for location, Im not too sure though, its kinda out there, but I can get traders to mark a new spot on their map to come to.

Overall, I think it would work well, but this is just a spur of the moment thing, if I think things through I might have better ideas, and solutions..

The caravaners already stop there, so that wouldn't be a problem. I still think it'd be pretty easy to attack from above, though. Just throw grenades down on ya -- snipers can't see eveything.

Evergreen Mills is a very good idea, but you'd a very big guard force.

I've always wanted to make a settlement in the remains of the Capitol building.

I'd throw Tenpenny off his balcony and take over the tower.

Super Duper Mart. Move the shelves into "Cubicles", get the generators working, turn on the lights, and bam! People would flock to it. Set up some tents in the parking lot, get some snipers on the roof, build a wall out of cars and assorted junk (ala bigtown), and you have a pretty nice town. Rent out the counters to vendors, and setup a nice little home somewhere inside.

The Museum of Technology, it'd be like Underworld but for intelligent Super Mutants (or Meta-Humans). Help Fawkes clear out his less-intelligent brethren, invite Uncle Leo, and send out an open message seeing if there are any others like them.

Good plan, but there is already a http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/The_Roach_King... and he always fails miserably in my games. Bugs just make really terrible followers, sorry.


I think the Germantown Police HQ would be a good location. The med-evac camp outside could be the slums, while the interior of the building could house the upper class.
Plus, it already has all the aminities...
A jail, a cafeteria, a lab, a shooting range, and plenty of living space and areas for merchants to set up shop.

Not to mention it's right down the road from Paradise Falls, so getting labor to set it up and maintain it would be a snap.

Since Point Lookout is pretty empty, I think I might move there and make a settlement. I know the Church with the Tribals is the closest thing you get to a settlement, but I'm talking about a real settlement with shops and a doctor.

I think the Turtledove Detention Camp would make a nice place. It has small wooden houses for the residents, an office for my character (who will be mayor), and the morgue could serve as the hospital. All we'd have to do is clear out the ghouls, and reprogram the robots to be our security. I'm aware of the irony of using a place that served such a horrible purpose in the past as a human settlement, but I think my people could see it as an opportunity to correct the evils of the past by using it to save lives in the future.

Unlike the Settlers of the past who screwed the Natives out of their land and killed most of them off, I would try to have a friendly relationship with the Tribals and we could work out some sort of deal. Like they could trade us those very valueable refined punga fruits and we could trade them something of equal value.

id say super duper mart
clean the place of the dead bodies and move all the wood and make a few shops it would work

No towns, cities or settlements for me... I would build a Swamp... large and treacherous, even include quicksand!

I'm not sure if any of the settlements can be called cities. More like towns or villages. We have Megaton, Tenpenny Tower, Rivet City, Big Town, Paradise Falls, The Republic of Dave and Little Lamplight. I don't think there are any more than those.

"Minor" spoiler below.

I would probably rebuilt Vault 101 (I sabotaged it during Trouble on the Homefront). It would be a scientific paradise, but it should be a "war centre" too, where you could get anything related to weapons, armor, stuff like that. The trading caravans should stop outside all the time. Especially Doc Hoff, Crow and Lucky Harith.

I would build a settlement within the capital building as well, I would get the presidential metro completely cleared of ghouls and slowly rebuild it and allow either the Enclave or the BoS depending on who is most succesful at the time. Forming a government would be #1. And purging the whole Wasteland of Super Mutants would be #2. Finding any Raiders and imprisoning them and also making them help rebuild the building would be #3. Putting a gun to Mr. Tenpenny's head and making him pay for some repairs with his hefty amount of caps would be #4. And finally a new president must be elected to gain control of the wasteland and to bring the people togethor. If there was a mod for this that would be absolutely amazing.

If I wanted a highly defensible settlement, I'd develop Cliffside Caverns: remove the Raiders and Yao Gui, then set up security checkpoiints at both entrances, mounted miniguns and/or flamers, plus guards with rifles. Its natural shielding would make it nearly impregnable. It's not near Tenpenny or Rivet City, but it's right between them, so the traveling merchants could service it conveniently, and there's plenty of good hunting outside it. I might even leave the Yao Gui alone for a time, we could start a trade in bear steak.

The room on Mothership Zeta filled with Giddyup Buttercups. More than this, the room with a lone Buttercup in the center surrounded by dead Wastelanders.
When I went into Little Lamplight, did something wrong, and ended up with a town of unkillable kids attacking me.
Once in Andale, after I had killed the families there and left the kids in the care of the old man, I saw a group of Outcast attack the little boy. With a minigun and flamer.

Kind of like the Republic of Dave I guess... "The Commonwealth of Shane" sounds good to me.

I'd build an elite training academy for BoS assassins. Mmhm.

the Roach King shal know me only as "your royal bugness" lol na, id take over TPT with jerico and start an army with the pit raiders and smuglers from point look out, then using the ammo press id suply my whole army with armour and weapons. id asassinate Ashur with a sharpened bobbie pin...lol

I like the capitol building idea.

I would go for Oasis. Keep Harold protected while he spreads his seed all over the wasteland. It also has a natural barrier in the cliffs and appears to have one path leading in and out. As the settlement grows the actual Oasis bit would become the central well defended part of an old world style Mott n Baily castle. Naughty people will be taken to the death claw sanctuary and the next goal would be to re-build Old Olney.

I'd say there are three good locations

nuka cola factory-well for supply
robo co factory for security
or the national guard building-its EPIC
:intergalactic:

The National Guard armory has no frickin' ROOF in the main area. I'm pretty sure it still rains.

Anyway, any of the abandoned Vaults would work for settlements, with the possible exception of 92 with its flooding and population of Mirelurks. Well-protected underground and there might still be a way to get the water purifiers and power plants going again, since neither 108 or 106 reported any problems with those. Maybe make some hydroponic gardens inside. The main Talon base would also be good, but the mercs would have to be dug out first and that would be difficult.

i had thoughts about vaults to but they were already settlements that failed plus i havent played in a while cut me some slack :brokencomputer:
EDIT:what about rockopolis thaty could be a prime location