The Great Boston Cleanup (Mod idea)

[charwo]

I'll be upfront in that aside from wanting green mods, I like the "Wasteland" but I loathe Boston. I was really hoping for a fortified 'city of adventure' that was rebuilt and self sustaining, and that quests inside some huge part of Boston would be reliant on skills, skill checks and subterfuge. I wanted more places that looked like Cabot house in terms of maintenance, clean streets, and the worst parts to be like Goodneighbor. Sadly we didn't get that, we got MORE f*#@ing shootemups.

 

I'm wondering if anyone besides me would like a 'compromise' with the vanilla game. While it's unreasonable at this point to make Boston peaceful, what about a mod that at least makes it look rebuilt: a fortification wall, check points with Diamond City Security, clean streets with no rubble and no cars and the city looking like it's well maintained except at vanilla interiors. I probably won't be able to lurk around Boston Commons looking for the Railroad like it's a day in a fully functioning and peopled park and then meeting the pastor at Old North Church and passing a speech check to get him to trust me I have the Railroad's best interest at heart, but if the areas could at least look clean and inhabited, that would be enough.

 

Anyone else want this?

[GoodfellowGoodspring]

I think it would be impossible to completely protect the whole of Boston even excluding Lexington and Cambridge, simply because its so big and there isnt enough people to do it. Creating the region's main hub within a stadium was a great idea as the walls are already there, you just need protection. Maybe if the Brotherhood settled sooner then they could have created more safezones but the city is already overrun by ghouls, raiders and super mutants. The only person who has the power to do anything about it is the player. There is no government, structure or major faction which can take on the whole city to protect it. The idea of having a 'clean' city doesn't really make sense ethier, people have food and water to worry about not some cars blocking off a road. People are trying to live and sustain themselves in new settlements and not the existing ones.

Dont get me wrong, I would love more friendly settlements within Boston, fortified walls, tyrant leaders etc but the whole city just seems implausible.

I am planning on editing Diamond city's defences when the GK comes out, placing more turrets and guards and closing off some streets to create a better defence strategy, other than that im okay with just having two major cities within Boston.