Josh Ling @ Adopt Me!

OK I realise now it addresses a narrative issue in previous games that I hadn't picked up but is so obvious

Namely that Raiders are an economic mainstay of the wastelands.

Barter economy that runs on salvaged everything - junk, food, munitions, medicine, clothes.

If Raiders occupy a high proportion of settlements and buildings, then most of these supplies have to enter the market via trade with them.

@AlexBPArt Fallout economy straight up doesn't work. I'd love someone to make a more realistically simulated post-apocalyptic economy model

@AlexBPArt Nobody has bikes? Nobody straps a generator to an axel on the front of a cart? doctors use scavenged medical supplies? what?

@AlexBPArt It's just logically inconsistent, definitely makes the setting feel removed. I care less about the world because it's nonsense

@tactful I understand the lack of reinvention of industrial processes that rely on globalism, BUT