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Question Are there conditions when the Scav Dispatcher Beacon won't turn on?

C B Wright

C B Wright

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The initial Scavenger Support plot is one of the first resources I assign in a city. In my latest playthrough I was surprised to find that when I assigned it, it did not create a Scavenger Beacon. Usually what happens is it takes you through the initial Q&A and then you get a message that a Scavenger Beacon is detected. This time around, it took me through the initial Q&A and then... nothing. No beacon at all.

I suppose I could have fat fingered the Q&A and simply not activated the alternate recruitment. Is there a way to check in-game to see the settings? Are there situations in-game when it won't turn on?
 
theres a holotape "robco AFMS" if you don't have the tape look for a terminal on the plot. Or do the console thing.
 
Ah! Thank you for that. I completely forgot about the holotape. Unfortunately you don't get a terminal until you build the second plot.

I'll toggle the recruitment settings off and on again, and see if that makes any difference...
 
... well, nope. That didn't do anything. I wonder if it's a load order issue? Not sure why it would be...
 
C B Wright said:
The initial Scavenger Support plot is one of the first resources I assign in a city. In my latest playthrough I was surprised to find that when I assigned it, it did not create a Scavenger Beacon. Usually what happens is it takes you through the initial Q&A and then you get a message that a Scavenger Beacon is detected. This time around, it took me through the initial Q&A and then... nothing. No beacon at all.

I suppose I could have fat fingered the Q&A and simply not activated the alternate recruitment. Is there a way to check in-game to see the settings? Are there situations in-game when it won't turn on?
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The radio should turn on if:
a) the plot is powered
b) the plot is worked (occasionally folks forget this one)
c) alt-recruitment is enabled (this is a bug with the new custom radio station, it requires alt-recruitment to be enabled although I'm going to fix it so it will be on regardless when the plot is on and worked)
 
As far as I am able to determine, all three conditions are true in both my settlements... But neither are using the scavenger beacon.
 
As far as I can tell, my city meets the requirements but I'm not getting new settlers. Is there a way to tell if it is on and working? When I 'look' at it there is an option to activate it but that doesn't seem to do anything. I am using the interior plot.
 
I have had three scav plots in Sanctuary for a while now (dispatcher, sorting facility and scavver shed) and I only just noticed that there is a beacon on top that requires 1 power xD

I thought that all power requirements are handled by RotC when the plots are placed (the plot itself is powered, however). Took me a while to realise that you can't attach a wire to this beacon either BUT now that I've finally powered it by putting a pylon next to it I don't see any scav radio station or anything ...
 
Nafen said:
I have had three scav plots in Sanctuary for a while now (dispatcher, sorting facility and scavver shed) and I only just noticed that there is a beacon on top that requires 1 power xD

I thought that all power requirements are handled by RotC when the plots are placed (the plot itself is powered, however). Took me a while to realise that you can't attach a wire to this beacon either BUT now that I've finally powered it by putting a pylon next to it I don't see any scav radio station or anything ...
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You don't have to power that, that tower showing a power need is an engine limitation, it receives power through the plot itself
 
Nafen said:
I have had three scav plots in Sanctuary for a while now (dispatcher, sorting facility and scavver shed) and I only just noticed that there is a beacon on top that requires 1 power xD

I thought that all power requirements are handled by RotC when the plots are placed (the plot itself is powered, however). Took me a while to realise that you can't attach a wire to this beacon either BUT now that I've finally powered it by putting a pylon next to it I don't see any scav radio station or anything ...
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Most of the folks having this issue turned out to not have recruitment enabled in my holotape, which turns off the radio stations as well.

It's a bug I plan to fix, I just haven't so far.
 
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