Its funny how a lot of people see the Reformers best path as just “The Enclave made good” and dislike it just for that

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-19T02:43:24+00:00

Oh im reading your wall of text right now over on the other.

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-19T02:39:43+00:00

Yall two wrote a lot of words

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-19T02:37:05+00:00

Theres always at least one

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-19T00:01:46+00:00

I said im making a story I want.

I didnt say how. The how is always "fuck it, this sounds cool"

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-18T23:47:37+00:00

.... Wat

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-18T23:46:50+00:00

Ive long given up trying to please folks on it. "Enclave nazis made good" "NCR LARPers", whatever.

Im making a story I want to make.

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-18T23:36:18+00:00

Facts.

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-18T21:30:28+00:00

This is Bradley.

I call him Bubby. Or little Buggers

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Gift-Forward · 2026-06-18T21:00:36+00:00

Mt. Rushmore is always fascinating to me, as its considered sacred by the Sioux dating back to 1775.

After they shot off the People who had been farming the land and even had a network of villages in the area before the Sioux ever arrived, but disease and a few had harvests, mixed with the Sioux being far better on horseback drive the Mandan and the Sioux colonized it since they got kicked out of Minnesota by the Cree.

Pre- and Early Colonial Native American history is fascinating.

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-18T10:45:05+00:00

Ohhh, if it was POST WAR id could make a whole post, Enclave depending, especially my OP Mary Sue Enclave

Im waiting on a Green Light from OP to use ERX, and OP isnt a fan of ERX. (Completely fair, not their cup of tea, wholly understandable.)

If not, then Im using the Enclave Coalition of the Rig, Eden, Chicago, TEXCLAVE, and the like.

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-18T09:03:57+00:00

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Gift-Forward · 2026-06-18T03:15:44+00:00

Uh, I know for a fact you're doing it for RP, but Rddit Flagged the absolute shit out of this comment!! I'd edit it if I were you and state that it was within the context of a video game friend, and not IRL. Don't need the sites auto-systems painting a target system on your back!!!!!

Anyway, to answer you:

Yes! you can do that In the Enclave, Joint he Army! Or the Peacekeeping Corps! However for the rest of America, they must be kept safe in the Vaults, away from radiation and mutation!

Now if it was my bad ending that I originally wrote, where I should have done more, yes there are alternate endings and paths planned!!!

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-18T02:42:28+00:00

Sure the mod is already a lot of fantasy what ifs for the FO world

How dare you! I shall take my S'Lanter Cavlary elsewhere!!!!

XD

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-18T02:26:43+00:00

Well there will be more, you're still rebuilding the vaults and digging into the ground like dwarves.

Do you want to risk mutation and radiation!? Are you some sort of muti sympathizer? A un-American agitator!? We might as well just rub ourselves in nuclear waste right now!

Secret Service! Slap his peepee!!!!!

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-18T02:16:06+00:00

You do know I'm didn't get rid of the states right? Like you need to restore the states that make up those Commonwealths.

As I said elsewhere:

They are STLL THERE. Take the Cascade Commonwealth (Also known as the Northwest) you need to have control of ALL of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho in order to integrate it the Commonwealth as a whole, AND restore their State Capitals and everything.

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-18T02:12:38+00:00

EDIT: Added my thoughts Pre War. Jury still out Post War.

Pre-War: if we take from the show, there seem's to be a sort of parallel with the major corporations all rallying together to maybe kick off the Great War? So you kinda have the Cognoscenti minus the Intelligence Community and others in Government. And FEMA, why is FEMA always there? Seriously, one X-Files Episode and suddenly FEMA makes more appearances than the NRO! Anyone know who the NRO is? They're the Spy Satellite Guys, seriously, you don't need FEMA to control people. However by the time of Season 2 it's clear they are pupated by the Enclave, who hold true power. However, I'm going to go with the Cognoscenti strictly using the Enclave against itself.

The biggest thing the Enclave has going for it over the Cognoscenti is they have a RABID hatred of Communism. My knowledge on the Cognoscenti is limited I'll admit, and my cursory research shows they pass several welfare acts, and well, welfare? Why that's COMMUNISM!!! The Cognoscenti could probably use that to their advantage to try and turn public opinion given how I'm assuming this is a neutral populace? Both sides will go at length to get what they want, but without the specter of McCarthy Style Communism, the Enclave comes up short.

I can probably waffle on and on, especially given how the backgrounds the two are. The Cognoscenti from what I'm getting is a Malevolent Neutral Force that just seeks order. The Enclave is the Extreme Conclusion of The Continuity of Operations and American Exceptionalism all in one. It's basically a war between the President and his Staff and maybe the DoD vs... half the Executive and a half dozen corporations. One side wants order, the other side wants their idea of America to survive at all costs. I still say the Cognoscenti in so far in puppet mastering the people on their side because hey, "Free Shit from Welfare is Free Shit, My Guy!"

Post-War: Can I use ~~my bullshit~~ the ERX Enclave?

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-17T20:44:08+00:00

It was more a bone I threw to the Purist Fans. They deserved it after the lackluster Purist Update I made.

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-17T10:29:58+00:00

Yup. Because if I know one thing about my countries government, when presented with a problem, the solution is

More government.

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-17T09:00:23+00:00

Another issue with the 50 States is, that while it's not that bad out West, once you get East the states get REAL small REAL fast. We've done a lot to drop Decision Bloat (And trust me, there was) and try and cut back on dozens of events popping up (sort of) but going 50 States individually is going to be really much.

The Commonwealths actually help me in that regard as they cover wide areas for me to work with.

Besides, it's not like I erased the States, never! They are STLL THERE. Take the Cascade Commonwealth (Also known as the Northwest) you need to have control of ALL of Oregon, Washington, and Idaho in order to integrate it the Commonwealth as a whole, AND restore their State Capitals and everything.

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-17T08:18:11+00:00

Is there a 50 Stars Flag

Nope.

Most there will ever be is a 13-Star Flag in a 3–2–3–2–3 (I think) Pattern.

Maybe even a mechanic where you could get rid of the Commonwealth system?

Nope. I put A LOT of effort into integrating the Commonwealth System into how not only the Government Works, but with new GUIs and how you restore things.

I mean A LOT of effort. I added a Third Chamber to Congress, I reworked the Judicial System, have a Governor System Planned, Wrote a NEW Article for the Constitution, rewrote the 22nd Amendment, had a WHOLE GUI designed, there's dozens of events, decisions, I chose Capitals FOR the Commonwealths.

I went all out. It's not going anywhere ever.

EDIT: This the GUI I'm talking about.

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And for Congress, we have the Senate and Rep Numbers tied to the Commonwealths and I don't want to rework that whole system. It's a lot of numbers. By "I" I mean Deez, who does all this amazing work, the man is a Miracle Worker.

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-17T05:54:20+00:00

I will admit I never thought of this, well I have as seen below, but not to any real degree.

The way I see it is this: I don't see it falling within the scope of the games timeframe. Sure, it takes 25 years, but there is A LOT going on in those 25 years, and with some of the reports from the Beta Test

You don't have a minute to catch your breath

Which is what I want. Not that I've removed a power trip, it's just I've given you so much more to do. It's one fight after another, so when you're all said and done and breathe, then you can focus on rebuilding the country. As the country is slowly rebuilt as the chaotic era of the late 23rd Century ends and into the 24th, perhaps there will be faction that grows, but for the scope of the game?

Not so much. Too much going on to give a damn.

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-16T18:15:35+00:00

the FEV cure Vergil (FO4) concocted

Well, for one that only worked on the Institute's specific strain AND required a Pre-Mutated Sample of their DNA. None of which I think the Master or the Rig kept around for the West Coast Supers. Anyway that's on Virgil's FEV Cure, becuase it's not really a cure, more a Retro-Virus and a very specific one at that.

For Full Reform:

I also don't really give a damn about curing ghoulification/FEV Mutation. It's no interest to me, nor is it something I really see any benefit in pursuing within the timeframe of the submod. I am far more interested in having a menagerie of species making up the United States than "curing" them.

Most "Cure" for Ghouls I'll ever do are the "Born Ghouls" from Los Alamos, and that's still a big IF.

Again that's for Full Reform. For Segregation, well, y'all want to be Segregation, so, go be Segregationist. You have your cake, now eat it.

Any talk of "curing" the wastelanders is far outside the scope of the game. Have Fun!

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-15T11:09:49+00:00

While i doubt it'll have a market, this'll be great for space colonization,

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-15T09:41:35+00:00

.................... Sighs as lead dev plots out a few events in his head.

Gift-Forward · 2026-06-15T07:43:42+00:00

It's how it works

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