A few mod ideas

[reptiellover1995]

I've got a bunch of mod ideas, having posted a thread in the discussion forum to see if anyone would like to form a sort of "team" that would work together to make mods that we came up with, but having garnered no response I'm just going to post the ideas here and hope someone would be interested in working on them. I will try to keep it relatively brief, since I want to make sure that there is some interest before spending a long time writing a huge post. Here are a few of my ideas:

 

1. I'd love to add my parents' house (having moved out) as a location in the game. I know where it should be on the map, and the house itself (and surrounding area) would be a very interesting location. The house is very large, and even has a bowling alley (one lane, in a building separate from the main house), and a pond in the driveway. It might make an interesting potential settlement, and the size of the house would mean you wouldn't even need to build any separate buildings, as you could fit an entire settlement's worth of beds and whatnot in the house itself. It's also near the Blue Hills, which would be an interesting area to have, as there is a Weather Observatory there that could make for a cool location.

2. Another cool location would be my father's office building, in Boston. My father has a vivarium with poison dart frogs in there, and perhaps there could be some big mutated version of them in the area, eating things like radroaches and bloodbugs. Plus, it's very close to the New England Aquarium, which would be another great location to add.

3. This one is more open-ended - I've already finished the entire main questline and all the side quests in the game, and while I love the game I am still a bit disappointed in the low-amount of post-game content. I think it would be great to make mods that add new side quests, perhaps these could even be related to the locations I mentioned above.

 

The next few are related to crafting and settlements:

4. I don't know if it's just me, but while I like the idea of building settlements, I find building all the structures such as buildings and all the furniture in them from scratch very tedious and somewhat boring. I think it would be nice to have presets of some sort that include not just structures, but also some furniture already placed, such as beds, lights, etc. You could have the furniture objects still able to be repositioned as the player sees fit.

5. I also don't really like the restrictiveness of the area in which you are able to build things. I think a cool idea would be to instead have that boundary expand as more people settle there.

6. Another thing I have problems with is the fact that it's not really possible to place walls within a structure to create separate rooms on a given floor (well they don't snap into place like they do otherwise). I'd like to be able to create walls to separate a bedroom from a living room, or separate a bathroom from a kitchen area.

 

I'm sure I'll think up more, but I don't want to make this into a miniature novel. If anyone wants to make some of these please let me know, I'd love to help in any way I can and learn how to actually make mods myself :)

[ToxicWhiteout]

These are all nice ideas, but the main problem is that the GECK/Creation kit is not out yet, so we can't actually build in the world and see what we're creating as far as buildings and all of that stuff goes. I can look into making something like this once we get the creation kit, but for now we are very limited.

 

Good luck to you!

[reptiellover1995]

Yeah, I know the Creation kit isn't out yet, I figured it'd be a while before some of them could be added. I don't know much about modding, but it seems strange that something like that would be necessary for some of them, like the one about adding prefabs with some of the furniture already in there, since the furniture could just be the ones that are already in the game. The other two seem like they'd be possible without a creation kit, but again I don't really know anything about modding so I could definitely be completely wrong.

 

If you do decide to look into making some of those other mods once the creation kit comes out, I'd definitely love to know - I've been hoping to get a few people together to exchange and work on mod ideas, though due to the fact that the game has only been out for a very short time I have not gotten anyone yet.