taedryn

That's actually pretty easy to do. I use the coastal Cottage as my starting point. I make sure that they are the only one living there, I gear them out how I want and then when the time comes, I spawn something to attack...usually a deathclaw on the second story cuz usually it gets trapped. The settler will fight for a second but then they notice a nice new suit of PA and jump in. Once the fight is over I simply send them to where they will be living permanently and off they go. It gets a little tricky after that depending on where you send them. Some places have a bunch of built in idle locations or something...where they stand next to a wall, or try to fix the place up and to do that they leave their PA. So you either have to assign them quick once they get there on their own, or I use the Moveto Player command and that makes it a lot easier. Provisioners are easy, but Guards seem to more or less stand in the middle of the settlement most of the time. But they react just as good if something comes in range of the guard posts...so...<shrugs> I did have a thought about replacing the damaged pieces but haven't tested it yet. I thought it might be possible to pick pocket the broken pieces, repair them, and then reverse pick pocket them back...but I don't know if they would re-equip them or not... But that is a HUGE hassle once you get a decent number of supply lines going.

So I've seen a couple mods that make companion PA unbreakable or just more durable but neither does what I need. I've been slowly outfitting a bunch of settlers in Power armor...namely my provisioners and a few people assigned to guard posts. It's been working great, BUT, the PA still gets broken and They look stupid. Some of these people go through pretty dangerous territory!! I saw some discussion on changing the fPowerArmorNPCArmorDamageMultiplier to 0 to apply to all NPC's...and I would be totally fine with this. But I tried to do it myself in FO4Edit but haven't the slightest clue what I'm doing and couldn't find where I would have to change or add this to in the first place. I thought it might be listed as an actor value, or...something, but...<shrugs> couldn't find anything remotely close. If someone could do this, or point me to how I might do this myself...?

I have actually hated the whole gain 10 points to your stat when you level. Would it even be possible to make these level similar to skills instead? For example, the more you cast, the more your magicka increases, the more you get hit, the more your health increases, etc? It would make more sense to me than say, a warrior suddenly having a 10 point increase in magicka. Is this possible with what we have right now, or would we have to wait for the CS? I'm not very technical...so...yeah. Any ideas further on? Tae.