All posts by RavensOfLondinium

The problem with Little Lamplight is that the system would have to persist for two hundred years -- eight or nine generations -- for it to appear in Fallout 3. I just don't see that many parents over that long making the decision that feral children were a good idea.

@MadMikeRyan , I did have a similar thought. Paper isn't something that wouldn't have been in high demand by people who were trying to survive the immediate aftermath of the Earth Shattering Kaboom. And there would be warehouses full of it... Piper could run Publick Occurences for a long time on just a couple of days worth of what the Bugle required.

The problem is that it's been two plus centuries since the Kaboom. Paper decays, is eaten by insects, etc.

Of course, decay doesn't work in the Fallout world the way it works in ours, so... maybe. There are all those folders sitting around across the Commonwealth, after all.

There are strong hints that VaultTec was in fact working toward off-world colonization. There've been some indications there may be an Enclave vault on Luna or Mars.

C.B. Titus wrote the Deadman series, which is Fallout with the serial numbers filed off... or at least, it starts that way, and gets progressively further from Fallout as the series goes on. You can still see Ghouls and the Enclave all the way through, though.

And I guess I should mention that I enjoyed it.

Thanks, @DuskyCreeper0 . I guess that answers my question completely.

Much of the bad press came from the way the game launched, but it's had years of ongoing development since then. If you like Fallout, and MMOs, give it a shot.

I agree with what @The Appalachian said above -- it was intended as a balancing mechanic. That said, it doesn't succeed very well, because there are enough fusion cores available in-game that with moderate effort and a bobblehead that comes your way pretty early, you can stay in power armor the entire game.

I have to mention that posting this poll in a Fallout focused forum almost guarantees that the result will be a Fallout title.

It's one of your mods. Try disabling them one at a time to figure out which one, and then eliminate it.

Dude straight up asks you to kill him rather than do that.

Sounds like an opinion, and those can't be factually argued. But, as @Saxhleel12 suggests, perhaps you could start a discussion with the question, "what did you dislike about it?" or "what led you to that conclusion?" Then you might offer the things you enjoyed about the game, and they might be interested in giving it another shot.

Decay in the Fallout world in general doesn't work the same as it does in our world. The only way you'd have an area like the glowing sea still spitting radiation like that two centuries later is if a bomb comparable to Tzar Bomba was dropped on a plant equivalent to Palo Verde in Arizona.

The most-nuked place on Earth, Bikini Atol, isn't that radioactive 80 years after the last bomb was dropped there. It has been estimated that it could be made habitable again today, but that it's not worth the expense of remediation.

From a meta-game perspective, the colors help create the feeling the developers wanted. Remember, the original game was heavily inspired by Mad Max, and that movie takes place during the fall and winter. Likewise, Fallout 4 takes place during the winter, mostly.

You can pick up mods to give seasons to the scenery, from snow to summer greenery. But the original developers didn't see the need to spend that kind of time on something, when the game isn't intended to take months to play out.

I suspect that they'd really like you to pay for the server time you're using.

Is the origin of Supermutants that widely known? Or does the average person just accept that they're a thing that happens in the world, and doesn't think too deeply about it?

And yes, @GothamRockstar , Trogs are a kind of ghoul-like creature from F76 that shows up in The Pitt.

You talk about Humanity going unculled, but I would counter that the descriptor "unculled" applies much more to our modern world. Thanks to modern medicine, many more people with life-threatening conditions, whether mental or physical, survive than was the case even a hundred years ago.

In a world with barely any medicine, harsh environmental conditions, and actively hostile fellow Humans, are the conditions you describe more likely or less likely to result in survival and reproduction?

In short, I suspect heritable mental illness would go down; acquired mental illness would likely go up.