No percentage ever on city.

[Ash1132]

So i started playing and im about 79 hours in and ive been actively upgrading sanctuary, its currently got 30 food 1500 water 1500 energy 2500 defence and 95 happines with 20 settlers, but my city level percentage is still at 0% and its been at 0% since i started the game. is it a bug or am i doing something wrong? i currently don't have a leader as i am the leader of the settlement or do i need to have a companion as a leader?

 

[jsalemi]

Percentage only applies if you're using Rise of the Commonwealth and have the city being automatically developed according to the city plan. Otherwise, the percentages are meaningless, and the plots themselves will auto-upgrade to level 3 eventually.

IOW, don't worry about it....

 

[Ilja]

Yep. Rise of the Commonwealth Settlements needs an assigned leader, if it is going to update automatically. Percentage is valid then. Otherwise it will not grow, because there is nothing to grow.

 

[DV_Hawkes]

So if I am building the settlements manually and not having a leader do it for me. I don't need to worry about donations and the such? Kind of confused as I took nearly a year off from the game.

 

[jsalemi]

I don't think scrap donations make a difference, but food and water (and esp. drugs and alcohol ) do help raise happiness, which in turn helps them upgrade their buildings faster. And armory donations do help improve their ability to defend themselves.

Also, you can assign a leader and still build the city yourself (just don't choose the option to tear it all down), and you'll still get the benefits of that leaders traits.

 

[Ilja]

Leader traits take effect in the settlement, even if you are not using RotC plan for it. Scrap donations do not have any effect then, but as jsalemi pointed out, other donations do affect on happiness.

Generally donations are most useful, if you are playing the game with deficit mode, but they do have uses outside of it as well.