Well I think I completely bricked Sanctuary. After my previous post and reconsidering the complexity I had with too many city plans I switched all but a couple to the basic plans . Sanctuary I had built with no plan but using the ASAMS to complete the the SS2 quests up to the end of chapter 1. Once I had completed the Chapter 1 quests I decided to try out the basic city plan for Sanctuary. The scrap and re-plot seemed to go as expected and I hung out there until I saw that people had been assigned to rebuild the plots.
I went on my way and quested away on Chapter 2 and did not come back to Sanctuary for quite a while. I only came back to Sanctuary very rarely only to sleep and didn't play enough attention to notice any problems at first. Any new settlement I took I used the basic plan only and eventually got as far as wiping the Gunners and setting up the HQ.
Anyway, fast forward about 10 hours of play time and going from level 25 to lv 33. I returned to Sanctuary as part of the process of recruiting people for trade routes and personnel. I discover that while all of the plots were set, and they show that a settler is assigned for construction NOTHING had been build. Every single plot is still in the state from when it was originally spawned. The town meeting gavel shows that there are no unemployed settlers, and all the plots show an icon that a settler has been assigned, but everyone is just standing around and nothing has been built. There is no food or beds and happiness has plummeted.
I have tried eveything to get them moving. I tried refreshing with scrapping and without. I have tried manually refreshing each ASAM. I have tried changing to a different city plan. After one refresh I noticed that the building supply menu showed zero resources. I transfered resources via the desk and was told they are full. I went into the settings and dumbed them all down so no resources are required, and the building supplies quantity changed to the infinity symbol. Still they do nothing but stand around doing nothing, while mousing over them shows them as employed.
I did make a manual save back before I went from a manual build to the basic plan and tried again, but it made no difference, same outcome. Also that's 10 hours of play and backtracking 8 levels and nearly an entire chapter of SS2 I am reluctant to do.
So as I see it my options are just play on with a completely bricked Sanctuary. That makes me a bit sad as I did like the idea of my main sleeping spot being my old pre-war bedroom for role play purposes. I even kept Shawn's bedroom untouched. Or the other option is to back track way too far and play from when the manual settlement was humming along fine. It wasn't idea as I was still learning SS2 while doing the quests, but I guess I could tweek it by changing the plots manually.
Is there any way to force the settlers to actually start building?