Hey guys so just like the title says, just bare city building automation without performance issues or CTD, no beauty or massive capital cities, nothing just building settlements with all of it's necessary needs and stuff, any suggestions? mods, setting, tweaks etc.
Hey all! Just started an SS2 playthrough for the first time, and so far I’m absolutely loving it!! I think I’m nearing the end of the Chapter One missions, so I've made decent progress.
Right now I’m really struggling to keep up with the wood and copper demands of my settlements though. I’m playing on survival, so I went with the default SS2 difficulty settings, so I’m managing each category of resources at the component level.
A few points to help give some context:
- I have a good mix of factories at all but one of my settlements. I’m producing building supplies, organics, and machine parts.
- I have three lumber mills to convert my excess steel into wood
- I’ve bought all the wood priority shipments from my lvl 3 caravans. I went through 3k wood in a matter of a single in-game day! But now they are out of priority shipments of wood.
- I have their trading set to receive shipments of both copper and wood
- My charisma isn’t very high, so my settlement cap is 14.
- I have 9 settlements (sanctuary, Abernathy, zimonja, taffington, oberland, starlight drive in, grey garden, hangman’s & sunshine tidings). I didn’t build at Red Rocket so as not to overload that area and risk crashing.
- My typical build strategy in a new settlement is settling, then setting up a caravan station first, then getting 2 farms, a watershed, and a power plant. Then I build factories and a few shops. I typically will build my house plots so they are ready for new settlers.
- Most of my settlements have factories, but Starlight Drive-In is all shops as my commerce hub, and hangman’s alley I gave to those NPCs, so it’s on autopilot with a mayor.
But no matter what, my settlements are just sucking down way more wood and copper than I can keep up with, despite my scavenging and spending tons of caps on shipments.
Am I missing something, easily? This is my first time playing SS2, so I’m sure I’ve missed something vital; I just can’t believe my settlements gobbled up 3k wood in a single day…
Any advice from you vets out there?
Edit 1: Fixed some typos
Edit 2: Not sure why it's downvoted? I don't have any spoilers; I gave a lot of detail in my question, and I think the post follows all the rules. Did I mess something up?
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Thanks!
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