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Think I would look at a meaner processor first. Should still be able to find 8th i7's for reasonable prices. Ram is good. Meaner video card (with more vram) might be in order as well.

I can see how that would work pretty well. :) Maybe I will give that a shot. I haven't gotten around to killing Kellogg yet, in this playthrough......:D

:) Exactly. I am thinkin' that even after a year or two, most cigarettes would be unsmokeable...... They would taste terrible, and rip your lungs out by the roots. (which would certainly encourage folks to quit smoking..... :) ) I could see Cram lasting 200 years though.....

Everything in the game is distributed via leveled lists. There are something that are 'set in stone', but, not very many. Very powerful items SHOULD be hard to find, and rare. It would be possible to configure the lists to reflect that. Of course lower-tier stuff is going to be more common, as are pipe weapons, as opposed to things like the 10mm pistol, hunting rifle, et. al. Considering no one has made new ones for more than 200 years...... one would think they would be EXTREMELY scarce by the time the player emerges from the vault...... Likely firearms in general would be rare..... and melee weapons, bows, crossbows, etc, would be far more common. The problem is, everything is distributed by leveled lists. :D Which means, there are a LOT of them. So, the 'unleveled' project would be tedious in the extreme, and probably rather hard to balance out..... As it is, in my current game, I think I am just over level 30, and I have a STACK of Mossberg shotguns..... (modern firearms) probably a couple dozen. I can't count the number of AKM variants that I have. I could probably outfit an entire army, with nice weapons and armor....... In a world where no one has made a new firearm for more than 200 years.... that just seems kinda odd. :) But of course, FO is about firearms, and fight with/over them. :D So, I don't expect to ever see such a mod come about. :D

Try simply renaming all your ini files, fire up the game launcher one, to regenerate them, do the archive invalidation thing again, and see if that doesn't solve the issue. (I think it should..... its kind a shotgun approach, but, I know how tedious playing got QUICKLY when I was loading every three seconds.

Might be better to post in the thread for this mod, on the Mod download side of the site.

Sorry. :) We'll stop now. In your case, I think about the only choice you have, is to go back to a save that actually works, and alter your save habits a bit. So far as I know, there aren't any tools to "fix" savegames. There is Resaver, but, all it does is remove orphaned scripts. (I think....) You could try it, if you haven't already, not like it can make things any worse for you.

BoS wipes out ghouls/supermutants/raiders for their own reasons. They don't care about settlements. At all. They are a potential source of resources that they don't have any problem taking at gunpoint. The only person that *might* offer them a fair deal is the player. And the player pays for it out of his own pocket...... he doesn't get reimbursed for his expenses. (so far as I know.) BoS wants tech. That's it. Ostensibly they are keeping it from being 'exploited', which I suppose could be a good thing, if the tech is simply designed to kill as many people as possible, as quickly as possible..... But to them, it doesn't matter. The hoard ALL the tech they find, and do nothing for anyone else. Now, bear in mind, I dislike the BoS considerably, to the point that I have never played thru the BoS ending.... so, they may have some points in their favor by the end of their part of the story, but, so far, I haven't seen/heard about it.

I think I remember a mod that makes momma murphy younger, and cuter. :) (but still with the same voice......)

See, I have a slightly different take on that. I think EVERY weapon/armor should be availble right from the get-go. Of course, that also means that the NPC's ALSO have a chance of having those weapons/armors...... I find the whole idea of 'level scaling' to be abhorrent. Beth really took it to extremes in Oblivion.... the entire world scaled with the player. Regardless of where you went. I played for about 45 minutes, and hated it. Leveling was pointless. I didn't play again until a couple years later, when FCOM came out. The ENTIRE world was instantly unleveled. You could find any enemy, anywhere, sorta..... The further you got from civilization/roads, the meaner the enemies got, regardless of what level you were. It was possible to run into enemies that were 30+ levels beyond you. (and yes, they would make very short work of you.) THAT made the game fun to play again. You actually had to be careful. I would love to see someone come up with something like that for Fallout. Make the world a whole lot more dangerous.

Check out the AA-12, full auto shotgun. Skip ahead to about Six minutes to see it in action. :D Recoil on that appears to be very mild. (for a shotgun.....)

Oh, there are other crimes that carry the death penalty.... Treason..... for one. (and how many companies have sold technology to our enemies.....) There are also assorted crimes that if caught in the act, the use of deadly force is authorized. (rape, for instance.) How many communities have been raped by corporations. Of course, Union Carbide would have been a PRIME candidate for the death penalty. They wiped out (literally killed) 15000 people in india, thru negligence.

If you are installing the latest and greatest version of the game, then you need the latest and greatest version of the script extender as well.

It relates back to politics...... and the Citizens United decision. I will believe a corporation is a 'person' shortly after Texas executes one. As they are most certainly NOT 'people', they have no individual rights. They have no free speech, and they should not be donating to politicians. If I had to pick one single thing, that spelled doom for the american way of life, that particular Supreme Court decision would be it. We already had the best government money could buy, that decision simply made it legal.

Well, this caught my eye: OS Install Date: Jan 01 1970 Really now? Have you been time traveling again? Now you know the time lords told you to stop doing that....... :) I am not seeing anything in there that should cause the problem. I wish I could find the thread that I found the 'fix' in, but, no such luck. I will keep trying.

A fair bit of it is luck of the draw. Some folks never have issues with them. I have seen others that even loading ONE quicksave, and their game is toast. I learned not to trust them playing Morrowind...... and old habits die hard. :D Makes no sense as a quicksave is exactly the same as a regular save. The only thing it does is overwrite. If you got a bonky computer/harddrive then yea that might cause issues. In terms of what the quicksave is. There's litterally no difference with a normal save. Exactly. Theoretically, there shouldn't be a problem. In reality, a significant percentage of folks reported problems. Did they all have 'wonky' computers/hdds? Odds of that are pretty low. That's where the luck comes into it. If yours isn't good, you end up with problems, same as overwriting the same save file over and over again. Every previous beth game has suffered from the same problem. (well, all of them using the gamebryo engine......)

I experience that one too...... I kept wondering why I was dying all the time.... Until I realized that the 'explosive' effect has an AoE, so if the enemies get close enough to you, you take damage from it as well...... That was an embarrassing moment. :D

That's right, the submachine gun. Thank You. Naaaaah, I'll keep the pancor. Other than no real sighting options, I like the model a lot better, and the sounds are just sooo much bettah! You could always fire up the cs, or FO4Edit, and point the combat shotgun at the sounds for the pancor. :D

The BoS likes to pretend to lofty goals, but, do they actually help anyone other than themselves? Nope. They charge you with gathering supplies, and they really don't care how you get them. I find them to be arrogant, egotistical, narcissistic pricks, and I take great pleasure in making them dead. Knight Rhys (Rheis??) ticks me off the first time I meet anyone from the BoS, Danse keeps referring to me as "civilian", even though I am a Vet, and probably have just as much, if not more, combat experience than he does...... Does he ask about that? Nope. The only question about my past that ever comes from him is "are you from around here?". That's it. No questioning why a 'civilian' would wade in to a battle where there is essentially one guy (albeit, in power armor....) taking on a couple dozen ghouls. The odds are terrible, yet, the 'civilian' comes in anyway, and does a reasonable job of helping out. (assuming you don't get killed. :) ) Danse just accepts it at face value. Suspicious as he is........ Is this the whole 'don't look a gift horse in the mouth' type of thing?

Isn't the quest to take out the railroad done before the BoS??? Or is it optional which order you do it in? (I have only done an institute playthrough once......)

To quote a line from the Movie "Heavy Metal"..... She ain't gotta talk for what I wanna do with her...... Of course, shortly after he uttered that line, the speaker was a head shorter...... :D Gotta remember, the raiders wouldn't really care what she had to say, they would do whatever they wanted anyway, and leave her to wallow in her own misery. Once I get them to sanctuary, I just assign them to farming, and ignore them. Once sanctuary is up and running, I only go back to visit Preston anyway. (I like the experience points......) I have mods that prevent settlement attacks, and Preston can only give me one quest at a time. (when I turn one in, he can give me another.) Of course, through the course of the game, you run across settlements that Preston has NOT given you a quest for, and if you help them, or even so much as talk to them, (and get their quest....) then when you go to turn it in, Preston gives you one, along with the one you get for turning in the quest he DID give you.... So I still end up with numerous quests from that idiot. I think once the castle is secured, he stops giving quests for a bit?? I think??? That may be a mod as well.

Well, considering the Brotherhood, and the Railroad, have basically diametrically opposed positions on Synths, that really shouldn't come as a surprise. :D

It's called a DVR. :) I am waiting for an ad-blocker for smart TV's. :D I just don't watch broadcast television any more. Anything I want to watch will eventually show up on some streaming service or other, sans commercials.

Some folks are evil on purpose.

A fair bit of it is luck of the draw. Some folks never have issues with them. I have seen others that even loading ONE quicksave, and their game is toast. I learned not to trust them playing Morrowind...... and old habits die hard. :D