Closed [Settler assignment] Weapons dealer & Armour dealer considered as guard

[Ragna]

My case:
- 6 shops (each of a kind)
- 3 guard posts (plots, not vanilla guard posts)
- When everything is assigned, the game sees 5 guards in the town.
- Tried to have all-manual assignment and full-auto assignment settings.

Subjective Minor Issue:
Game considers Weapons dealer & Armour dealer as "Guards" (as they generate "shields" by working at shops(?))

Subjective Major Issue:
The Weapons dealer is camping at the Guard post, instead of being a salesman at his shop (annoying/confusing gameplay ensues).

Screenies:
(lucky, the NPC was at shop to get this screen)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1133297945

(the same NPC is now camping a guard post - you can see that his real "workplace" is highlighted in background)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1133300922

(the real guard who "owns" the guard post is waiting near the guard post, because the wanna-be-guard merchant is there)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1133300998

(here is vocation summary...confusingly Weapons Dealer is not on the list at this time...had issues of weapons shop to not being assigned randomly)
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1133325362

P.S.
Kinggath, you are an inspirational modder, thank you for your awesome creation.

 

[kinggath]

The Weapon and Armor shops provide a defense boost - apparently the game has decided to take that to mean it can re-assign those settlers to guard duty... The only solution I have for this so far, is to tell people not to keep vanilla guard posts unless they have someone assigned to them.

I'll try and find a better solution, but Sim Settlements is at constant war with the vanilla scripts - so I'm not positive I'll have one.

 

[Ragna]

Thanks for info.

Hmm, I've never had Vanilla Guard posts in Sanctuary, I try to have my settlements completely Null, before I start putting down plots.
Then again, its Sanctuary. I'll see whether this works weirdly in a fresh clean settlement.

 

[Kana292]

The Weapon and Armor shops provide a defense boost - apparently the game has decided to take that to mean it can re-assign those settlers to guard duty... The only solution I have for this so far, is to tell people not to keep vanilla guard posts unless they have someone assigned to them.

I'll try and find a better solution, but Sim Settlements is at constant war with the vanilla scripts - so I'm not positive I'll have one.

Processed by wiki team.

Kinggath, does this apply to both PC and Xbox?

 

[kinggath]

Yes, but it won't happen all the time. It depends on how which script finishes first. If Sim Settlements finishes its assignment first, the NPC won't be given a guard post and will still be a shopkeeper. If Bethesda's finishes first, the opposite.

 

[kinggath]

Ultimately, the solution is going to be to just remove those bonuses - which is sad, but it will make for better gameplay.

 

[Kana292]

Ok. Thank you for the extra info.