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A few questions about RotC

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Asstronaut

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Sorry if this information is on the wiki but I couldn't find it. I'm using city plans and leaders with medium involvement.
  1. Do settlers use resources to actually build on plots or does it just take time? If so do they take them from the workshop or do I need to donate them at the city planner's desk?
  2. The video on upgrades says that settlers will use scrap in the workbench in addition to donated scrap to upgrade the city, but the upgrade scrap % stayed at 0 until I donated at the desk. Is this intentional?
  3. It's been quite a few in-game days since any new settlers have shown up, I have max homeless set to 3 (default I think), and Charisma modifier off. The recruitment beacon says it needs power but my understanding is that it is in fact on. Do I just need to keep happiness up or what?
Thanks.
 
1. No they don´t use any junk to build plots. It´s like if they go around and gather their own materials
2. It depends on the involvement level, but upgrade % should fill automatically and you can donate to make it faster
3. New Settlers arrive ramdomly each day depending on you charisma. Being it off only disables the settler limit, not the chance of a new one appearing. The beacon is powerless indeed (if it is the one that spawns with the city plan) but you can check if it is working by looking for its radio signal in the pipboy
 
Thanks for the answers. I know in vanilla if there are no extra beds available new people won't come (I think that's how it works), is it the same with sim settlements? Should I just plop down a bunch of beds or will they just build residential plots as per the city plan?

E: Food also, they hadn't gotten food high enough on their own, so should I plant some stuff? I've donated food too but the actual number at the top of the screen doesn't go up.
 
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There's a few. I didn't build any plots, I just let the city plan go. They seem to have put a lot of people on defence.
 
Asstronaut said:
Thanks for the answers. I know in vanilla if there are no extra beds available new people won't come
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No, that is not how It works. It always depends on charisma (i believe It is C +10) and you cand find a settlement empty but full of settlers.

There's some city plans that rely on supply lines. What settlement are you talking about?
 
Sanctuary. How do I know if a city relies on supply lines? Also I thought vanilla supply lines didn't work with sim settlements?
 
Yes they work, but i would recommend you to use IDEK's addon.
Sanctuary i believe is self suficient but there are some like Red Rocket that doesn't have any agricultural plots, or Abernathy I think it doesn't have industrials but is full of agriculturals to supply other settlements
 
I second IDEK's mod. Build one in each settlement and off you go. You'll need to swap one agricultural plot to industrial at Abernathy Farms. Red Rocket has one industrial plot you can make use of.
 
That depends somewhat on what else you're running. If you have workshop framework, that improves the efficiency of a few of the settlement scripts. The scrap crash solurions implemented since the above-mentioned thread were written also seem to improve general stability, at least for me, although, for full disclosure, I upgraded my graphics card around the same time those changes came out so it's hard to be certain which changes came from that vs the scrap crash stuff.
Optimized city plans (which are the default) are also significantly lighter than the original complex plans, especially for Sanctuary.
Generally, it's probably best to start one, upgrade it to level one, and see how your performance is and make a hard save before starting another. Then play with it a while, and go back if needed. Before upgrading the new settlement to level one, hard save again, then test. The load from the settlements is lower for the foundation level (graphics-wise) and for the third level (script-wise, as it's no longer trying to determine readiness for upgrade).
I expect you should be ok with two upgrading at the same time time using the optimized plans if you don't have problems with downtown Boston in vanilla. Beyond that, just proceed with caution.
I'm sorry I can't give better advice than that, but my personal testing and much of the community testing was before the optimized plans were available.

ETA: Generally, xbox one original players sometimes struggle with all 3, even optimized, if they have a generally heavy load order. Xbox one s players can usually use all three optimized. Comparing to those stats might give a useful baseline.
 
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