Started a new game and set out to strictly follow the quest series. I completed the Sanctuary quest to get it out of the way, then set down a beacon in Sanctuary to get Laying a Foundation. Completed that and Plotting the Future, and started IIHaH, where I once again hit a wall.
The first game I tried, I ended up in a catch-22 situation by starting the quest series in Red Rocket and then starting the city plan, which did not include enough residential plots to meet the 8 required and hit the build limit, which prevented manually setting down any additional plots.
This time, I set down all 21 plots in Sanctuary manually, 9 residential and the rest roughly 50/50 agriculture and industry. The quest progress got to 8/8 on the ag/ind plots and 7/8 on residential, but then it got weird. First, out of the 20 plots I have placed since the end of Plotting the Future, precisely one residence has been built in two hours of gameplay. Every other plot, while assigned according to the listing that appears when talking to a settler, shows 0 settlers assigned on the AR billboards and remains a sad little pile of scrap. Second, after performing a quicksave and quickload while just standing in the middle of the street, the quest progress became 9/8 and 8/8, but the quest has not continued.
The first game I tried, I ended up in a catch-22 situation by starting the quest series in Red Rocket and then starting the city plan, which did not include enough residential plots to meet the 8 required and hit the build limit, which prevented manually setting down any additional plots.
This time, I set down all 21 plots in Sanctuary manually, 9 residential and the rest roughly 50/50 agriculture and industry. The quest progress got to 8/8 on the ag/ind plots and 7/8 on residential, but then it got weird. First, out of the 20 plots I have placed since the end of Plotting the Future, precisely one residence has been built in two hours of gameplay. Every other plot, while assigned according to the listing that appears when talking to a settler, shows 0 settlers assigned on the AR billboards and remains a sad little pile of scrap. Second, after performing a quicksave and quickload while just standing in the middle of the street, the quest progress became 9/8 and 8/8, but the quest has not continued.