Somewhat immersive location respawning

[pra]

Not sure if this is even remotely possible (or doable with reasonable effort, for that matter), but I'd like for some locations to respawn in a different state than the way they start.

 

At the moment it's like this: you opened up some pre-war building which has been locked off for 200 years, killed all of the ghoulified residents, come back later, and not only are the ghouls back, but they also managed to relock the door and restock the nuka cola machine.

 

It would be more realistic if you came back to find the location being taken over by raiders for example. They left no trace of the ghouls, and instead of the pre-war stuff lying around there, now it's only alcohol, drugs, pipe weapons and raider armor.

 

This would require automatically replacing both the enemies and the loot. Could it be done?

 

 

[chucksteel]

Yes it could be done. If you look at Boston Airport in the Ckit you'll see that the Pridwin is always there it's just disabled before you kill Kellogg then enabled. the destruction state is also there but, disabled until the player chooses to distroy it.

 

Boston Airport is just an example.

 

For your idea of the ghoul filled building being taken over by raiders once cleared you would have your ghouls and loot placed then Place disabled Raiders and new loot. Then you would need a quest or some sort of trigger to enable the Raiders once some time has passed.

 

this idea probably would be easier to do in new custom locations or interior cells just because of the amount of work it would take to do the Commonwealth.

 

Edit and depending on how far someone wanted to run with the idea there could be several states not just Ghouls and Raiders. You could even do fun stuff if for example sake the player cleared the ghouls, the raiders moved in over time, the raiders would be there but, if say they didn't go back for a few months and then goes back to find Gunners attacking the raider or the raiders were over run my Super mutants or more Ghouls.

 

There are a lot of possibilities here for a crafty modder.