merrydown Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 (edited) I am not super-knowledgeable about Fallout lore, but it seems to me a strange omission. Surely with all the scrap metal lying around there would be more groups melting down scrap and creating alloys..? I know conventional fuels and resources are perhaps more scarce, there are a huge amount of dead trees to burn though for example. Also, even those who horde tech and develop it seem not to melt down and sell metal as a raw material to create new lodgings and tech etc. Perhaps the answer is that simple, but it feels like a long time has passed since the war and since the vaults opened... You'd have thought they'd have started teaming together to produce raw materials again. Can anyone shed light on this or is anyone interested in speculating? Cheers and hope you enjoy this game as much as I have... Jim Edited June 22, 2011 by merrydown Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marharth Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 Guess the simple answer is most people are smart enough to make a large forging plant. Or they just don't feel like making their own metal with all the premade stuff laying around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malkut Posted June 22, 2011 Share Posted June 22, 2011 (edited) Most people are too concerned with the day-to-day struggle for survival to consider industry. Designing and maintaining an iron mine/recycling center, steel mill, and a manufacturing plant to work with their product would require technological know-how, enough resources to keep non-food producing workers alive, and the strength to protect them from predators . . . human or otherwise. Beyond the Brotherhood of Steel (who are unwilling), there aren't that many people with all of those elements available. They might do it on the small-scale to construct bunkers, though. The exception is the Pitt, which operates a pre-war steel mill with massive reserves of disposable slave labor. Edited June 22, 2011 by Malkut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merrydown Posted June 22, 2011 Author Share Posted June 22, 2011 Most people are too concerned with the day-to-day struggle for survival to consider industry. Designing and maintaining an iron mine/recycling center, steel mill, and a manufacturing plant to work with their product would require technological know-how, enough resources to keep non-food producing workers alive, and the strength to protect them from predators . . . human or otherwise. Beyond the Brotherhood of Steel (who are unwilling), there aren't that many people with all of those elements available. They might do it on the small-scale to construct bunkers, though. The exception is the Pitt, which operates a pre-war steel mill with massive reserves of disposable slave labor. You know I'd completely forgotten The Pitt! Thanks for that one. I agree on most points. I was thinking that with the huge amount of labour especially slave labour around the place desperate for food, there'd be someone producing both and utilising the draw of shelter to induce labour. The Pitt was the get out I was looking for though with slave labour as the obvious solution! Thanks, that provides at least one complete example! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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