Holotape Gameplay Options Recruitment
Alter the way new settlers are acquired.
Beacon Recruitment
Beacon Recruitment is the default system by which new people settle in your cities over time if a Recruitment Radio Beacon is set up.
This setting allows you to turn this system off for all of your settlements - even those that have Recruitment Radio Beacons set up and running.
Available Settings:
- Options: ON or OFF
- Default: ON
What These Settings Mean:
- ON: New settlers will show up in your cities automatically over time. In other words, the default Beacon Recruitment system will function like normal.
- OFF: New settlers will no longer show up in your cities automatically over time because a Recruitment Radio Beacon is set up. You'll need to recruit everyone yourself out in the world.
Additional Information:
Technically, you could go to each settlement and turn off/scrap/remove any existing Recruitment Radio Beacons to accomplish this but this option allows you to do it right from your Pipboy (or a terminal). Which is a huge time saver if you have a bunch of settlements already running.
Unless you plan to get new settlers via a mod, you should leave this ON as there are very few "recruit-able" settlers/NPCs in the vanilla Fallout 4 game.