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RotC Upgrading and Load Order help

Saiyaness

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EDIT: I forgot to mention upgrading Tenpines causes CTD's! That's my problem! :p But it didn't do it at Starlight on Level 2 (tl;dr all are optimized plans)

Hi all! I posted a few weeks ago about not being able to upgrade Tenpines Bluff to level 2 (even on optimized) and only have Starlight, Oberland and Jamaica using RotC atm. I just decided to try upgrading Starlight to Level 2 and it upgraded without a problem! Ran around with very little fps drop and it even let me open workshop mode and I fast travelled back and forth a few times without a hitch. I feel happier now. Maybe Tenpines just doesn't like me (I think it looks amazing at Level 1 anyway. I usually ignore Tenpines :p)

I'm just posting my load order below in case something jumps out at someone that may be buggy. As you can tell, I don't shuffle it around properly...

I read today in another thread how troublesome scrapping mods can be. I like deleting the goddamn leaves and rubbish inside houses, damn it! :p But my people can live in squalor, that's fine :p

I'm happy to cull problem mods (I'm starting to regret all the clutter mods too). Let me know what you think!

And thank you in advance if anyone even glances at this post!! I really, really appreciate it!!!!!! :D

Computer specs:
I7 5930k 6 core
GeForce GTX 980ti
C: 500GB
D: 4TB
Ram: Asus 32GB



1. Unofficial Fallout 4 Patch
2. True Storms: Wasteland Edition
3. HUD Framework
4. Sim Settlements
5. Armor Keywords (not really using)
6. Pinup Red Lipstick (I need it, okay? :p)
7. SS - IDEK Logistics Station
8. Salvage Beacons
9. Backpacks of the Commonwealth
10. Dinoshelf
11. Dino_extra ammo (clutter mod?)
12: Thematic and Practical
13. Buildable Burning Campfires
14. Settlement Menu Manager
15. DD-Khassar-de-templari (the settlement size increasing one)
16. CREAtive Clutter
17. Woodys wasteland stuff
18. Moddable robot settlers
19. Rickety Restored Sanctuary bridge
20. SS Xpac Industrial
21. WV Sims Add-on
22. Industrial City - Ss
23. Altairp's Animal Farm
24. B84's Themed Residentials
25. NoRespawns - Red Rocket (fence)
26. SS Xpac Rise of the Commonwealth
27. Jibs Residential Add-on
28. Autumn Overhaul
29. Snappy Housekit
30. More Outfit Variations
31. Better Settlers
32. BS - Clean Faces
33. BS - No lollygagging
34. Orphans of the Commonwealth
35. Diverse cats
36. G2M- Fish farms
37. Driveable motorcycle
38. Driveable boats
39. Busy settlers
40. Housekeeping
41. Scavenge Sandbox mod
42. Northland Diggers
43. School Desks
45. Rainbow beds (kids)
46. Conquest (unused as of yet)
47. Everyone's Best Friend
48. Pocket UFO
48. Useful Shaun
49. Workshop rearranged
50. Grounded
51. Scrap Everything
 
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DD-Khassar-de-templari
Just remember they need Time, Scrap and Happiness to upgrade. Sometimes booze... lots of booze! hehe
Oh, you don't need Increased Build Limit Enhanced. SS has a build limit increase in the holotape. Saves a mod slot! :)
 
You cud try some of these https://simsettlements.com/web/wiki/index.php?title=Performance


But if starlight is ok for u tenpinnes should be fine .You could try scrapping it again and rebuilding it as a last resort.

Conquest wont break vanilla/DLC settlements but plots in a conquest settlement wont work as well and it takes more work to get a good settlement .
 
My answer might not be really helpful but... sometimes this can happen, I don't know why. I was playing yesterday and the same settlement (starlight) was ready to upgrade to lvl 2, both scrap and time count... but the option "upgrade city" wasn't showing. I kept playing for hours and many ingame days later I tried going back there and finally the option was there.
 
Just remember they need Time, Scrap and Happiness to upgrade. Sometimes booze... lots of booze! hehe
I am sorry but I have to disagree with you @woodfuzzy , that booze is mine and I dont like sharing :drinks
Sorry could find one that punched the other one for drinking his beer, best I could do lol

Any one got a funnel?

My problem was with CTD's upgrading Tenpines. I'm sorry!
I had this issue with a couple of places, if you mean when you are upgrading, the game crashes, if thats the case then as @Zonary said above is exactly what I did and all was well with the world, except the booze shortage :(
 
Tenpines Update: I removed the Salvage Beacons Communications Station from the little hut a generator builds in, Cleaned the Settlement, did a city refresh and tried upgrading to Level 2 and....no problem! No CTD's!

I also updated to 3.4.1

I ran around, fast travelled back and forth a few times and it's fine. So weird!!!

I tried using the mod Insignificant Object Remover but it was doing weird things to the Autumn Overhall trees (maybe) so I turned it back off for now.

My Oberland will be the next test but I'm a bit worried as it's already a fairly hefty settlement (but Starlight was fine and that's huge).

Anyway, thank you for the help all!! The performance link was also very helpful!

In future I will just savesavesave before upgrading and try cleaning and refreshing cities before (and maybe after) upgrades.
 
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