Trade between settlements and Diamond city/vault 81 and others

[DeMocha]

Basically find it really odd that Towns like diamond city don't have any trade despite being eager for it and that the various travelling merchants either don't or very rarely visit those places.

 

Vault 81 will have the occasional trader sit outside it, but theres really no interaction between them and the vault itself.

 

Good Neighbour doesn't have any either.

 

Bunker hill is really the only one that seems to have traders.

 

My request -

My thoughts are that

Player could do something similar to a supplyline to Diamond city/ Good Neighbour/ Vault 81/ Bunker hill, That could bring in an certain amount of caps and make these towns actually seem connected and seem like their vendors are actually continually receiving supplies.

 

Vault 81 has that area outside where the travelling merchants sometimes go to, it could have a Vault 81 merchant and some guards out the front there to trade with those merchants and the settlement trader.

 

Diamond city has that large area out the front of the gate or just inside ti that could be used by the settlement trader.

 

Good neighbour has the area outside the gate or just inside near the 2 vendors.

 

And bunker hill has the obvious area inside it.

 

The settlement trader may be able to do all those towns and connect with a specific settlement or it may be just like a supply line and have one trader per town depends on how its implemented.

Earnings could be determined by number of settlements connected to the town via the supply lines and settlement trader or something more complex like 1cap per food/salvage that the settlement/s gather.

 

I understand that it could be quite a bit of work, but it seems like quite an oversight that the major settlements are isolated and have no form of supply or trade outside of people coming to them, and its not like there are many travelling npcs in the game.