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Out of control settler recruitment

Cranky Cat

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I first noticed this last weekend after the latest SS release although I don't know if it was an issue before and maybe I didn't notice.

Suddenly I'm going to settlements and seeing 7 to 10 unemployed settlers after not visiting for a while. I notice happiness was dropping and look at the settler counts and they're ridiculous even in the settlements I kept reasonable; i.e. < 30.

Even settlements with city plans are going over and I have city limit on.

Earlier I wanted to get some settlers for a couple of new settlements so I increased the max unemployed to 5. I've changed it to 0 now. Apparently that limit didn't stop recruitment anyway. That's the only settler related change I had made recently.

I checked iworkshopsettlerpopulationmax in case that changed somehow and it's still set to the default of 10.

I have Industrial City by @mytigio and most settlements have a dispatcher and alternate recruitment is on so it should prevent recruiting more settlers than available beds but that stopped working now.

I have recaptured The Castle and completed Old Guns if that matters.

Here are my current settings:
Beacon Recruitment: On
City Limit: On
Ignore Charisma: On (it's 10 anyway)
Max Unemployed: 0 (was 5 for a while)
Alternate Recruitment (from Industrial City): On

Does anyone know what to look for or if setting the unemployed limit to 5 has an issue? This may be hard to test since it could take time to build up.

I wanted to focus on quests not related to settlements and now I'll be doing that every weekend for the next two months probably :-( I only have 12 settlements currently so my game save size is probably going to expand alot when I get new settlements too.
 
For now I just disabled recruitment completely. I probably have enough extra settlers for 4 or 5 new settlements at max plan capacity this point.
 
Alternate Recruitment (from Industrial City): On
If this is one, and you don't visit the settlement for a while, it seems to keep recruiting in the background.
 
If this is one, and you don't visit the settlement for a while, it seems to keep recruiting in the background.

Maybe changes in how SS performs updates resulted in a value alternate recruitment uses no longer being constantly updated while the player is away. I'll ask @mytigio about it.

Edit: Actually, I don't have the IC dispatch center used with alternate recruitment in all settlements. Taffington Boathouse was stable at 23 settlers for a long time and it was suddenly up to 38! That was enough people for an instant max settler count in a new settlement.
 
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