Settler Armory

[Daedros]

So, when i first saw the Armory Equipment Rating option on the City Planner Desk, i was hoping you'd be able to distribute gear to your settlers through that, but nope. There was a mod that did exactly that, Central Settlement Armory, but it's been broken for quite awhile now.
Would it be possible to add a similar function to Sim Settlements? I just spent 3 hours running around to a bunch of different settlements, manually swapping the gear of the settlers and equipping the new gear, and it was extremely tedious. And i only got about 30% of my Settlements outfitted in those 3 hours...Doing that over multiple characters (different builds) would be a nightmare as it is right now.

 

[Jonnan]

I'd love to see the Central Armory get fixed, but honestly as a settlement wide use it has always seemed to work pretty well for me. Although I did figure out at some point it was linked with the settler nudist problems I have had in a few games.

 

[Daedros]

Yeah, i've downloaded it anyways, and it seems to still work for the most part. But yeah, sometimes the Settlers don't equip the gear, and i have to manually equip it to them.

 

[DrBossWatson]

This would be a great to have fully functioning with sim settlements. I've been skipping equipping my settlers because of the tediousness of it and all I want to do is equip my guards in combat gear with decent not-pipe weapons and other settlers with nice pistols and more casual clothes maybe with leather armor.

 

[Yhalbey]

I believe kinggath mentioned in one of his videos that while he would like to do this, it cannot be done without F4SE, meaning it cannot be done on Xbox, and would probably end up complicated and ‏unstable. The fact that another mod with a similar function ended up being broken by a game patch shows this.
That being said, since it does appear to be doable, at least on PC, it may be a good idea for someone to make a martial plot or something with this function, but I highly doubt this will come from the official development team.
Until then, you can use town meetings to at least find everyone, including provisioners, if you want to change their equipment.

 

[Rylasasin]

I would propose a compromise:

Adding a "draw your weapon!" option to the town meeting gavel. While this won't automatically equip all the settlers, it would make them draw their weapons for 15-60 seconds, making it easier to spot who has actual weapons and who's still running around with pipe pistols.