[REQz] Pack Brahmin

[DuskWulf]

The Idea

 

I like the wanderer ideal of Fallout 3 and New Vegas, but I'm not a fan of having to acquire or use a home for my odds and ends. I love the portable doodad mods, but it's a shame that I have to go back to a home whenever I want to sort through my stuff. I like staying on the move, and I see these traders with their pack Brahmin, and I can't help but wonder why I can't have one of those. That would be very handy.

 

Possible Features

 

• A trader, possibly with his own Brahmin ranch, that sells various sorts of trained Pack Brahmin.
  
• As mentioned above, Pack Brahmin and come in various types, weak to strong, with differing amounts of HP.
  
• Stronger Brahmin have multiple bags (since they can carry more), for sorting purposes.
  
• Script to stop Pack Brahmin from following the player into interior cells, forcing them to wait outside until the player returns, then following them again when they do (for balance reasons).
  
• An essential Pack Brahmin can be purchased, the best of the range, but is prohibitively expensive.
  
• Other Pack Brahmin are non-essential, but offer an option (when the corpse is activated) to have the goods they were carrying delivered to any mailbox location that's been discovered.
  
• The Pack Brahmin carry portable goods; such as a bedroll, workbench, reloading table, and campfire. These can be unloaded from the Brahmin temporarily into a campsite.
  

Further Notes

 

This might not be too hard, since a lot of the resources that are already in the game could be used. The Bighorner pen can be utilised as a stable for the Pack Brahmin, trader Pack Brahmin can be used for decoration, and there need be no texture changes for the purchased ones, just change the visible name of the critter to reflect the class of Pack Brahmin. The part that seems trickiest to me will probably be keeping them out of interior cells, as I don't know how possible that is.

 

I'd be willing to donate to any modder willing to do this, as a commission. I've commissioned art before, so I'd certainly be willing to commission a mod. I'd be willing to pay a non-trivial amount of money for a feature complete version, with all the elements described above.

 

Yes, having to go back to a 'home location' bugs me that much. I'm a wanderer, blast it all! >_>

[DuskWulf]

Not sure if it's okay to bring this to the top again, but I expanded on my original idea, a little.