Fallout lore: faction flags and colors

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So many armor and clothes have been released recently, the most popular are: Recon Uniform, Courser Strigidae (OMG just look at the 'mod of the month' chart!), Classic Combat Armor (I've been waiting for months and didn't even expect it will be modular and moddable) and B-35 heavy armor, all of them have multiple color variants. Plus new clothes and tons of accessories. And we can expect more armor in the future, cause some modders publish new pictures of their progress from time to time.

 

Since I had many conflicts between earlier (more simple) mods, particularly with levelled lists and instance naming, I merged some of my personal mods, used my own naming based on this mod and this one too, and I add clothes to the game manually (e.g. some gear from Raider Overhaul), it's a lot of work, but since I created my own lists I can make new weapons and armor exclusive to each faction.

 

TLDR: I want to add some weapons, clothes and armors to my game, but I don't want it to be random.

 

Now what I need is to establish what gear should some faction use and what settlement decoration themes.

 

No problem with Gunners - dark green for troopers, like on this picture, maybe some dress uniforms for commanders, I also could use several camo patterns and everything associated with military. And they prefer energy weapons.

The Institute - I just love Doobot's color theme.

 

Now I have a couple of questions about the Railroad

1. Why do Railroad agents usually wear the surveyour outfits, is it because the dead guys I find around are some sort of couriers and the outfit just has a bag?

2. Are there any custom clothes (standalone mods) you would suggest, I mean you saw this and they just suit them perfectly? And what new weapons would they pick if they could choose a couple of models from Nexus?

 

Now the Brotherhood really bothers me:

3. Why is their flag orange? The flag used in Fo3 was 13 red and white stripes and white BoS logo in the canton.

4. Shouldn't their decal be RED? I remember someone mentioned (maybe in the game, maybe I read it somewhere) after the loyalist faction took control and they merged with the Outcast, their logo changed to red in white field. Lyons' DC chapter used grey-black-blue insignia (no decal on PA). So they change the logo to red, but switch the red (and white) flag to... orange? Field scribes wear red sweaters, but knights have orange uniforms (to make them easier to spot, very smart).

5. Is BoS combat armor brown for a purpose or it's just rusty? In previous games I associated BoS with steel or chrome.

And T-60 really annoys me (the torso armor especially), I wish I could replace it with X-02. I'll probably just reduce the amount of PA to replace it with some custom battle armor, I'm just not sure what colors should I use.

 

6. Which colors suit the Minutemen better: navy blue or brown and green? Both look great.

 

7. I wanted to add custom crafting recipes for each item. What are flight helmets made of? They scrap to steel, but they are obviously from some polymers. I changed it to fiberglass and some additional components, but maybe plastic would be better? Synth armor scraps to plastic, so by 'plastic' the authors meant some kind of polymer.

Edited December 5, 2017 by MeetTheFuture