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Suggestion Affinities

Danest

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Ok, ok, I guess I've been posting like crazy over the last few days but I'm building up a load order for my next playthrough which will be heavy on the sim-settlements side.

Anyway, do/can settlers have affinities?
With mods that add settlers who have genuine personalities and voiced, as well as mods like "what's your name?" that make it so they're not all called "settler," I really end up paying attention to individual settlers.

With factions being involved in Conqueror, and religious conversion mentioned a few times, it got me wondering if settlers have moral affinities/likes/dislikes like the companions. If they don't, can potentially they have them?

Ultimately we sort of forget sometimes that (most) of these people are/were Americans. History is often misunderstood by Fallout peoples, but not completely forgotten. So... they'd know about Democracy in some form. It might be interesting to include the potential for voting on some issues. Letting settlers have a say could be a nuisance to a leader, but maybe add a happiness bonus.
Voting and local laws and a criminal justice system and political/moral affinities -- these are things that a pre-war lawyer would almost certainly be interested in creating, for those of us roleplaying that sort of character. If it could be implemented, would people be interested?
 
Similar to a karma system? Sounds interesting, but I think the engine is stressed enough with current scripts, plus, I would probably just mow down any settlers that disagreed with my choices, lol
 
You'd need an evil character who was willing to fight the minute men then -- they'd definitely turn on you for doing that. The Brotherhood might even turn on you for just random slaughter too. And you might not be welcome in diamond city... or your other settlements.
But if we really can murder off an entire settlement like that with zero consequences, that's really something that probably needs to be looked into. Fallout 4 isn't as deep as some previous fallouts, but it's usually at least a little more reactive than that.
 
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