Am I the Only One Frustrated at Figuring Out which Settlement Mods to Use?

[mrenfrew]

At one point i had 140 mods and 3/4 of them settlement mods. They worked fairly well,amazingly since I had no idea what I was doing. I made a 15 story glass pyramid that began just above the roofs of Santuary and covered the entire area.It had a grocery store,hardware store,electronics store, shoe store, cannabis store, pharmacy,all of the regular armor,clothing and weapons store (with a testing range),a clinic and hospital with research department,resteraunts including one with Takahashi,bars with different themes ,a lounge with a nightclub singer, a pool with waterfalls,a library,a church,an art gallery,a zoo with a radscorpion,a yao gui,a deathclaw and a goriila(who kept morphing through the floor,Id have to go looking for him on the building roofs),a fire department,a rescue squad, a police squad,recruitment centers for the brotherhood, and railroad,a school with its own gym,cafeteria and library,a landing pad for brotherhood vertibirds with a nearby hotel,housing for all the settlers with working showers(great mod),a synth replication building,a robotics construction and repair room, 20 milking brahman,scores of ragstads,rabbits and chickens, a mirelurk habitat, fish nets,a fishing boat that was just too big for a lake, an entire floor went to an elaborate run of machinery to sort almost everything i brought back into individually marked machines set into blocks so only the fronts showed(that took forever), i had a transporter but it went wonky,and i was able somewhat to assign my settlers to do tasks like buthcher fish and meat (i got tired of them banging on walls). i cant begin to descibe my bedroom which was in the center accessable by an insitute elevator( just think Aztec pyramid with "from dusk to dawn" overtones) and i was adding in a house of ill repute.(i may have missed one or two) I was around level 50-55 before i ever left Sanctuary. Every one of the took at least one mod and some several. They didnt always play nice and I crashed a few times but Id work on this or that to try and fix or tweak it.Untill I finally just got tired of building.I dont know how many hours I spent doing this but it was fun..So tell me what you want to do and i bet i can come up with some great mods that work well together.Sorry this was so long

Edited September 22, 2017 by mrenfrew

[Oblivionist]

Hi there, i got another question on this topic.

 

How does Homemaker compare to Workshop rearranged and how compatible/redundant are they to another?

 

Is WR essentially a full replacement for HM or does it lack some crucial elements in comparison (which other building mods cannot provide)?

 

Can/should one use both or are the benefits too lackluster and one of them suffices fully?

 

I know WR adds a lot more than mere settlement objects, it edits a lot of the existing ones to make them more practical to use etc.

 

My goal is to remove as much redundancy of items as possible and streamline my building menus.