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How Much Territory Are the Fallout Player Characters Actually Micromanaging: An Analysis

I did some amateur research to figure out which of the Fallout protagonists (specifically 3, NV, and 4) have a reasonable area of land to constantly traverse. I used Apple Maps to find the straightest possible walking path from a point on either end of the game map, then multiplied the north-south and east-west figures to get an approximate square mileage. Since none of the walking paths were completely straight, these numbers will all be a little higher than actual. BUT the game maps also don’t completely correlate to the real-life locations, so consider these numbers to be estimates.

The Commonwealth: Around 600 square miles. This is honestly pretty manageable, especially if you’re teleporting or helicoptering all over the place. It would be exhausting, but you could theoretically get across the map in a day with time to spare for questing.

The Capital Wasteland: Around 800 square miles. Fairfax is the halfway point; very few locations on the western half of the map actually correspond to anything in real life. The exception is the cavern Little Lamplight is based on, which would make the game map 100 miles long. The map definitely doesn’t extend that far into Virginia.

New Vegas: Kind of hard to calculate at this scale, but we’re looking at a little under 3000 square miles! Through. the Mojave. Desert. The Courier is really going to have to commit to a course of action before traveling, because they won’t be coming back for about a week.

If you’re a fanfic writer, remember that you don’t owe realism to anyone. BUT, if realism is something you care about for your writing, keep these distances in mind!

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The Nuka Raider, Niko.  Followed Coltor and Gage into Nuka-World, and was one of the last few to turn against Coltor as Overboss. 

Prior to becoming a Raider, Niko was a loyal follower of the Church of the Children of Atom and his sect had a strict no violence clause.  Niko’s group was discovered by High Confessor Tektus and they were forcefully assimilated.

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I realized that I never made a mass post of all my characters and the games they’re from.  And because I really love my characters, I decided to make a mass post.  

Starting from the top right:

Natalie Talbot Tyler Talbot Angel aka Io Courser Bishop aka Aio Courser Samuel Wanderer Red (cant remember her full name. i made her in vegas originally and that was YEARS ago) Ripley N7 Courser N2 Courser

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And this is Angel.  Have no reason what’s so ever why I created this guy.  I just felt the need to create a someone who wears a mask a lot, and is pretty much everywhere and anywhere.

They like to run around with Dogmeat, anyway.

Angel is currently on the run from Bishop, who is on the run from Red who is trying to rescue/find Angel. 

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This is Red.  Tried to get good lighting for her, but everytime she had face time, the lighting was poop.

Like Samuel, she’s not from the Commonwealth.  She actually gets around a lot more, since she’s a courier from NV. 

I don’t really have much on her though other then she’s part of the reason Ripley was turned into a slave, and half the reason why Bishop moved out of the west and into the Commonwealth.

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There are times I wonder if my characters look different enough.  Then remember 80% are white males with brunette hair.

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I was thinking. About 15 minutes ago. About Bishop and because he was a leader of his group, that I was going to give him a terminal. Like the raider leaders have in FO4.

But I hadn’t a clue what to put on it besides a ‘client’ list. So I was trying to figure out what kind of personal stuff he could put on there.

And I started to hash out a history for him. And somewhere, out of the blue, it hit me.

He’s an escaped Synth. Not just any Synth. A Rogue Courser. He chose the job of Slaver because hunting people was just the same as hunting escaped synths. And controlling slaves was similar the same as making synths return home. It was a same sort of process for him. Mainly because he still remembers who he is. He knows he’s a Synth.

And his ultimate fear is that the Institute will find him, and undo who he is.

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So I did this thing that I call, “Putting a little Commonweath in you” to my characters, Natalie and Tyler, and made slight changes once I got to Diamond City.  

I would like to think that Natalie fared better then Tyler did, haha.

Someone take this game from me before I make 20 more characters…

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This is Samuel.  The character I had dedicated to to making sure I had Hancock as a companion.  The “Samuel Adams to John’s Hancock” was something just said and I regret everything.

His story was supposed to be that he was the Lone Wanderer from FO3(And thats why I was all fudged up about the 200 years).  

ANYWAY. He was the Lone Wanderer from FO3, and he ends up leaving the Capital Wasteland and makes his way to the Commonwealth looking for jobs. He comes across Goodneighbor, and gets hired by Bobbi No-nose.  

He remains loyal to Bobbi, and is in agreement with her opinions about Hancock. (”Untouchable?  *laughs*  I guess that makes you his poking stick?”) His opinions doesn’t change of Hancock immediately, after having taken care of Bobbi afterwards.  (”Even after all your talk, you still need a 20 foot broomstick to take care of your garbage.”) 

Samuel stays around the Commonwealth a few years and leaves after the Brotherhood of Steel arrives as he didn’t get along with them in the Capital Wasteland.  

He comes back a few years later, and in a bout of nostalgia, raids Hancock’s storage supply again.

And that’s all she wrote.  So far anyway.  Still a sort of work in progress.  He does happen across the LS(Natalie/Tyler) a few times but otherwise doesn’t quite make their acquaintance until the Brotherhood arrive, at which point he doesn’t talk to them again(Natalie being Institute and Tyler being BoS).  

Samuel never has any children, and in the Memory Den quest, he relives watching his father die.

His name isn’t actually Samuel Adams(I just thought it was funny).  After getting a history lesson from a Tour bot(to learn about the original John Hancock), he joking started calling his raid with Bobbi the ‘Sugar Act’.  

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Are you fuckin kidding me.

YOU TWO FELL IN A FUCKING PIT.  YOU HANDED BISHOP THE WIN.  WTF YOU GUYS.

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I really want to hive Aio a “brother.” I mean, technically, they wouldn’t be but he would be made an almost exact replica. Just different programming, and better training.

Sadly, he would loose against Aio. Because Aio becomes the slaver, Bishop.

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Fuckin Aio and Io.

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If Bishop had survived the ambush that killed him, he would have suffered the same fate as Ripley.

[rockthevault]

Bishop Due

Name - Bishop Due, A0-66 Nicknames - Aio, Age - 45 as of 2287 Gender - Male Personality -    Prefers to have everything in his control, and pushes things and ideas onto others if they're not in agreement with him. Tends to abandon them if he finds it dull or impossible. Family - None Height - 6'11'' Weight - 215 lbs Skin type - White, almost pale; weathered and dry Eye color - Steel blue, Hair Style - Short, crew cut, keeps it that way through out his life;  beard that varies in length through out his life Scars/Injuries -        Scar on the top and lower lips on the right side of his mouth, Quote/Catchphrase - "You have no choice in this matter."                                      "Would I lie?"

Back Story:  Summarized from Bishop's private terminal -    A0-66 was built 13 years after the infamous Broken Mask Incident, an experimental option of preventing another massacre from happening.  Programed to not attack anyone without provacation.  Was affectionately called Aio by the child known as Shaun.      A0-66 disappeared after sent out on a retrieval mission.      A0-66 became Bishop after visiting Pinkerton at the age of 15, making the decision that he no longer wanted to waste his time as someone's slave.  

  Bishop ran from the Institute in 2256 after an escaping synth convinced him that he was only just a slave. For 5 years, he works with Eulogy Jones to over throw Harmon Jurley.      Bishop leaves Eulogy the leadership of Paradise Falls and heads out to start his own.  In 2263, he takes the young man, Ripley, under his wing.  Using the boy to help him expand his own 'empire.'  In 2266, Ripley sells Bishop his mother and he takes over her business.    In 2277, Eulogy Jones is killed and Paradise Falls is wiped out. 3 years pass before they figure out who it was, Samuel Wanderer from Vault 101.  unbelieving that it was a Vault Dweller that killed Euology, Bishop sends Ripley to take care of him only for Bishop to lose his second best slaver and a large chunk of his slavers.      Bishop enslaves Ripley for the failure. After years of slavery, Ripley escapes, and Bishop leaves him be. Bothered by his escape, but realziing that having to find him boring as he figures it would be too easy.    He crosses the ex-slaver years later after approaching the Ranger, Icarus and kills him as payment for releasing his slaves.  

Ongoing story -     Bishop's attempting to regrow his business after killing Icarus who had been a threat and is struggling to do so.  The Brotherhood is after him for enslaving one of their own and the Institute has caught wind that he was still alive.     And now Ripley is after him for killing Icarus along with Samuel and Hancock.

Weapons -  Mesmetron  Serrated Machete  Puncturing Power Fist

Clothing/Armor -     When he first fled the Institute, he wore a variant of the Synth uniform, as the Courser Uniforms haven't been made a manditory addition.  Otherwise he's outfitted in a set of Cage Armor, and later moves on to wearing the BoS Bomber Jacket, a prize from successfully enslaving a BoS soldier.     Bishop has his own set of Power Armor, once again, a prize from enslaving a BoS soldier.

Misc. Items -  3 Power core  50 Mesmetron cells  240 bottle caps  assorted junk

S.P.E.C.I.A.L. Stats -  Strength - 10  Perception - 4  Endurance - 6  Charisma - 10  Intelligence - 5  Agility - 5  Luck - 4

Perks -  Strength : Iron Fist, Big Leagues, Armor, Blacksmith, Pain Train  Perception : Awareness  Endurance : Toughness  Charisma : Lady Killer, Inspirational, Intimidation

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Ripley the Slaver

Was going to post him on that wiki. But thought better of it.  Working on one for Bishop, also and then going to work on one for each of my Pip-boy wearers.

Name - Ripley Nicknames - Rip, Rip the Slaver, Ghoulash Age - 39 (human) as of 2287           6 (Ghoul) as of 2287 Gender - Male Personality - Pre-ghoul:     Very upbeat and determined, believes times are run by how many caps are in your pocket, lets his greed get the better of his judgement                      Post-ghoul:     Greed still plays a factor in most of his decisions, Very reliant on others, tends to let people tell him what to do, struggles to be his own person, Family - Safia: Mother (deceased) Height - 5′11′’ Weight - 142 lbs (pre-ghoul)               110 lbs (post-ghoul) Skin type - While, light tan; dry and rough from weather exposure (Pre-ghoul)                   Leathery and decaying (post-ghoul) Eye color - Amber (pre-ghoul); Amber right eye enlarged iris, white left eye blinded (post-ghoul) Hair Style - Medium length hair, usually pulled back into a pony tail, Auburn color, Goatee (pre-ghoul)                   Has a small lock of hair on his right side of his head behind his ear (post-ghoul) Scars/Injuries - Burn scars along left side of his face down his shoulders/back, blind in left eye, has a mark of a chess piece on neck underneath chin (post-ghoul) Quote/Catchphrase - “Being good doesn’t bring in caps.”

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