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Date:
4/5/2018 8:11:20 AM
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Mods I would like to see
Fallout 4 modmaking is still a very popular activity, which means that the preponderance of it is crap. In amid all the dreck, though, you'll occasionally find those useful, well-made gems. I had an idea for revitalizing the dreck part, which is dominated by "clean" settlements. A clean settlement mod basically gets rid of trash and other intrusive items so you have a better blank slate. Other dreck contributors make idiotic things on top of the clean slates, such as "walled-in Sanctuary," "robot Sanctuary," "my cool Sanctuary base," etc.
I was thinking of a mod that gave you a clean start along with new resources, so you can make "X World." The "X" would be determined by the resources. For example, you have a clean Sanctuary and a bunch of NASA-like resources, and this would be "SpaceWorld."
Here are some ideas I had for various X worlds:
Mormon World (not present-day Salt Lake City, but early pioneer Mormon things -- covered wagons, a few bearded men, lots of women in aprons and bonnets)
HMO World (high rises populated by people in casual business clothes, watching PowerPoints, creating healthcare networks that favor shabby franchise clinics, and devising ways to withhold medical treatment)
Small Town Big Box World (big stores that run off all other retail competition so they can sell disguised seconds, old tech, nearly expired produce, meat products from Pakistan, etc.)
Payment Handling World (strip malls with various numbered suites in a town based on Tampa, Florida, where outsourced employees work through truckloads of payments to companies like AT&T, GMAC, and the credit card branch of Small Town Big Box World)
Talking Dog World (pretty simple -- you just substitute dog heads for settler ones)
Just these isolated examples demonstrate that the modding community has overlooked a vast field of opportunity. My belief is that the future of modding is the X World. More examples may follow, depending on time and inspiration.
