What to do with Boomers?

[JuiceSauce]

I'm playing a Yes Man/Wild Card/Independent playthrough and I'm not sure what to do with the Boomers. I almost always get them to help me, but I realised leaving a bunch of xenophobic isolated people who kill outsiders on sight with a massive bomber might not be that good for the wasteland. What should I do with them?

[Bansheebutt]

What do you think you should do?

[A New Player]

Make them go boom.

[Zen_Disaster]

Originally posted by MakeBanterNotWar:

What to do with Boomers? I'm playing a Yes Man/Wild Card/Independent playthrough and I'm not sure what to do with the Boomers. I almost always get them to help me, but I realised leaving a bunch of xenophobic isolated people who kill outsiders on sight with a massive bomber might not be that good for the wasteland. What should I do with them?

They're not so bad once they've identified you as friendly. Stay on friendly terms with them --- you might want some of them and their assets later in the game particularly if you choose to fight for an independant Vegas.

[Yautja]

Keep them as friends they may return the favor later.

[MannsOverMeta]

Yeah, their motives are something to worry about, but I like to think that you keep them in check after the Independent quest line. They do have a reputation of being hostile towards outsiders, so few people would die to them. And when New Vegas becomes anarchic, you don't want just anyone running around with a rocket launcher.
More positives to keeping them alive than negatives, and they make good allies.

[Washcloth Repairman]

Wipe em out.

[psychotron666]

It's up to you. If you don't feel like they're gonna help contribute to Vegas after the war, then maybe wiping them out now before they become a threat later is a better idea.

[JuiceSauce]

I don't really care if they help me or not, my character's pretty OP, I just wondering what's the best for the wasteland, as I am playing a very good karma character.

[Curious Incubus]

If I had it my way, they'd be wiped out. Too many dead on their isolationist hands.

[rept]

Originally posted by The Adversary:

If I had it my way, they'd be wiped out. Too many dead on their isolationist hands.

Nah they don't have enough kills. They'll never top frag with their isolationism.

[Hammer Of Evil]

I would waste em. I wouldn't risk a strategic asset incapable of protecting itself(due to isolationism) from falling into NCR/Legion hands.

I would waste the BoS too. As president of the New Vegas Courier Free Nation, I wouldn't want NV citizens to have their valuable energy weapons and other items that they worked hard to salvage stolen by BoS turds. BoS is no different from Fiends/Raiders, they just dress in thicker armor.

[GKTCMTY]

just ♥♥♥♥ these fascist pricks
they are killing everyone that come near its enough for me to kill them all
if you help them they will have a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bomber plane and their first target is bombing all wasteland settlers so after game they could ♥♥♥♥ up new vegas easily

use fatman or any kind of explosive to kill them hehe

[Akasaki]

They kind of xenophobic and tried to bomb every living thing that come in the connon range. But because they considered how cruel this wasteland can harm, so they just shut all the outside communication and stay prisoned by their own armed cage.

In some point of the quest, their Mother still worry in the same issue, she said The Boomers have no future if they stay like this.

They start to change after you open the trade route and pretty in good way tho. So it would be good to understand their worries and help them change. For the both side profit.

Just separate another save to go do fps minigame in their base is also pretty fun too.