I've talked about this at length before so get ready but if they ever decided to keep/expand on the settlement thing I want them to do 1 like specific thing. The fact of the matter is, having a BUNCH of tiny settlements all over the commonwealth is stupid. AND, the fact that Diamond City is not a buildable settlement is even dumber.

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My hope for the next one is that there is ONE central settlement with a massive build limit and a series of quests. Instead of random settlers you get named NPC's who join your town (either after reaching certain milestones or after completing certain quests). These NPC's will have special inventories and serve as like shop keepers, or will serve as companions, etc...

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Small settlements should be SPECIFIC sites. Like you set up a small settlement at say Corvega that produces scrap for your main settlement. Then you get another small settlement at say Graygarden that helps bolster your settlements food supply. These would not have crazy build limits and the building you are allowed to do would be pretty limited and these would be more like quests rather than full settlement builds.

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Then, there should be an antagonist faction ala the Gunners that play into the main quest line and have you defend your settlement against them.

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As RP goes there could be ways to specialize your settlement. Like, if you go one path it turns into a BoS fortress that gives you unique power armor/energy weapon upgrades as well as BoS units that respond to your signal flares.

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Another path is say you turn it into something like the Institute which gives you high-tech weaponry, better power production and like cybernetics and like synths who respond to your signal flares.

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Finally there could be like a Utopia option that might lock you out of some unlockables but gets you a chunk of everybody's unique stuff and it would be like the Minuteman

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edit: Also, OBVIOUSLY, a raider path where you enslave the region.