Ultimate Settlement Builder (Tentative Name)

[Haarlock]

I don't have the programming chops to do this myself, but I had an idea for a (potentially) collaborative mod;

 

If you're anything like me, settlement building is fun, but not fun enough to justify absolutely maximizing every single spot you can build in the game. There are literally dozens of settlement spots, and considering that it took me 7 total hours of playtime to get what I wanted for The Castle alone (pure basics-no luxuries or fiddling), the idea of individually managing each settlement strikes me as a Herculean task.

 

The mod I am thinking of would consist of two parts, the first of which will probably be more difficult than the second;

 

1) Settlement Planning and Construction; the workstation will be modified to have a third hotkey that will activate the mod. When activated, the mod will automatically build a pre-constructed plan that is designed to A) Completely fill the Space meter, and B) maximize the Settlers, Food, Water, Power, and Defense scores while keeping them all balanced with each other.

 

This is the part that strikes me as potentially collaborative; as I understand it, it is possible to use console commands to unlock the camera and manipulate it freely, allowing people to get panoramic/landscape shots of the game. Depending on what would be required to encode separate plans into a selectable option, you might be able to have a sort of pseudo competition where people use this feature to capture and upload their plans as pictures to the Fallout 4 forums, others vote on them, and the highest voted get selected for inclusion into the mod.

 

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2) Easy Settler Assignment-basically create a hotkey that brings up a menu with all assignable settlers on it; instead of hunting down settlers manually and running around to reassign them to stuff, bring up the Settler Menu, select their name, and that will activate the assignment function.

 

In other words, instead of;

A) Find specific settler by hunting all over the settlement;

B) Move cursor over settler and hit E;

C) Hit the hotkey for assignment;

D) Run to whatever you want them to do (farming, guard, etc.)

E) Move cursor over object and hit E again;

 

it becomes;

 

A) Hit hotkey for new Settler Assignment Menu;

B) Select settler name of choice;

C) Hit E to assign them to object.

 

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That's about all I can think of right now. If you need clarification, feel free to post on this thread-I'll be checking back frequently to answer any questions.

 

I'm also aware of the fact that there is currently no F4 creation engine available-I'm posting this now so that if anyone likes this idea, they have a buffer period to get together and start figuring out the basics.