So I’ve noticed that if you spam the mod’s settlers onto the same location you can get a lot of chatter; which would be fine if they all took turns, but the NPCs tend to talk over each other. As such, I’m currently trying out limiting commentary to being within a specific radius of the player.

Obviously you don’t want to make the radius too small or else no one will say anything, but 512 units, which is about 10 feet or so, seems like a good distance. In this video, I’m walking through my Red Rocket build with about 15 voiced settlers and they only talk over each other once.

There’s some unvoiced ones in there too though, and I don’t know if that affected the test, but I put most of them on farm duty a good 20 feet away from where I walked so I don’t think there was much interference. We’ll see when those are voiced just how many of them try to talk over one another. But for now, I think I’ll stick with 512 as a good distance.

Just a note, with the new quests for Tales from the Commonwealth released, I think I’m going to go back and focus on adding some settlers next. One possibility is making them separate ESL files so they don’t get added to the 255 plugin limit, although my preliminary test to make one didn’t go so well.

In lieu of that, I could go with an old fashioned ESP with all settlers bundled together (or just add them to TFTC), but I’ll figure that out as I go along.

Regardless of the format I’ll probably release them all at once. That’s because the Casting Call Club has gotten a little more strict in terms of the type of projects that can go on, so I’ll need to put a little more effort into the recruitment instead of just throwing up an ACTORS WANTED DEAD OR ALIVE sign. Posting the auditions in groups of 10 and adding pictures of them in game should help. Meaning, the mod will have to be done before the casting, whereas previously it saved me time to post the scripts first.

The other thing that will be somewhat challenging is trying to find “homes” for potential settlers since I don’t want to fiddle with the actual settler system that makes them show up at your door and decide they’re moving in. Of course, if they already have a home, that presents a bit of a paradox. Especially if they live somewhere cushy, like Diamond City, why would they want to leave?

Maybe they just hate baseball? They wouldn’t be the first to use that excuse.

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Well, I got roped into a family vacation with relatives and such, so I will not be around from October 17, 2016 to October 21, 2016.

If you have any questions, concerns, comments, and/or complaints, I will respond or ignore them upon my return. Should I return. Traveling the high seas is dangerous, especially when sailing in a big metal bird.