Train your Settlers!

[kurikinton]

Train your settlers!

You are the sole survivor. You've been in combat (supposedly). You have all sorts of skills.

Why not create a repeating quest mod where you can designate settlers for training and then train them yourself or have them trained.

I'm thinking something very simple. You build a "classroom" in your settlement, or perhaps a "gym", or something else appropriate, and assign settlers to it. Really a classroom would just be at least 1 designated assignable classroom chair, and 1 podium. A gym would be at least one piece of assignable equipment, and a trainers rug for the trainer to stand on. There could be others. How about a shooting range? Skyrim cities all had archery ranges.

So, you'd assign a settler to a particular piece of workout equipment, or to a specific chair or desk. After a certain number of in-game days has passed, the settler's stats would have a chance of increasing by one permanently, or alternately, they could receive a specific perk appropriate to the type of training. Optionally, you could have a certain fail rate for realism, if that's what you wanted (maybe configurable).

You can start out by using, say, an interactive podium object to "conduct the class". Interact with it and several hours will pass (like waiting). Or later you could simply assign other trained settlers to take over as the instructor. Just assign them to the podium and they'll stand there in front of the class doing teacherly things (i.e. boring the students silly I suppose). The medic's clipboard idle animation would be fine to use on them.

You could also optionally edit shop assignments so that, for instance, you would have to train settlers to give the the Medic perk before assigning them to the clinic stands. Medic 1 for tier 1, 2 for tier 2, and so on. I personally find it immersion breaking that you can just assign any random settler to suddenly be a tier 3 surgeon.

It is generally easy to attach scripts to objects in the CK, so this sounds doable to me at the moment.

This mod would go very well together with mods that remove invulnerability from your settlers (which I use for better immersion). Trained guard settlers might last a bit longer in combat, for instance, if they are slightly better shooters.

This would also fit nicely with my other suggestion posted elsewhere to assign settlers to craft things for you. In that one, I suggested there would be some quest to clear before you could get crafters in your settlement. Well, how about train them yourself? You would be able to train them up to whatever perk level you have, or, say, one rank lower (maybe that could be optional), in guns, armor, science, etc.

[darkekun]

Only if activating the training starts a cinematic montage.