How many Settlements can you own?

[cyberD]

I just tried NMS with the new settlement update now after I paused playing a while ago, I started with the settlement I was lead to via the distress call and it worked so far, I'm now Overseer and building my first installement, and now I wonder if it's possible to discover more than one settlement and be overseer over a few or is this limited to only one per save? Can I change later to a different settlement if the first one is maxed out or I just want some different place? Are there more than one settlements on one planet or only one per star system?

[Lindy Bomber]

You can only be overseer of one settlement at a time. If you accept being overseer of another settlement you will lose your previous one.

[Mr. Bufferlow]

Exactly one per save.

[der_wahre_Nils]

One.

You can switch to a new one anytim (and start new)

I don't know.

[DLM]

Heard that having settlements on different saves could be glitchy, is it still the case?

[Lindy Bomber]

Originally posted by DLM:

Heard that having settlements on different saves could be glitchy, is it still the case?

I have not heard that and see no reason why that would be true, but I have not tested that.

[cyberD]

Thanks for answers. So if I get tired of my village I go to any space station and buy chart from cartographer for another settlement where I can start again

[raybow33]

I have a settlement on 4 different saves without any problems, except for HG moving the buildings and putting weeds, grass, rocks etc, in the overseer's office with updates. Good Luck.

[Krash Megiddo]

Originally posted by raybow33:

I have a settlement on 4 different saves without any problems, except for HG moving the buildings and putting weeds, grass, rocks etc, in the overseer's office with updates. Good Luck.

Same here. I like trying different things with settlements. I can totally mess one up and no big deal. There is no evidence having settlements in different saves can cause a problem. The problems I see are just like everyone else's. The only problem I have is one of my settlements is in perpetual citizen dispute mode (no building opportunities), the other 3 are fine.

[Kitet]

There are only possible problems with event dispenser when having multiple saves. I do have 7 of them and whenever I load I see a message 'building opportunity', I go happy to the terminal and I see two dudes fighting over some garbage and I need to judge who is right. The building opportunity doesn't come then for a long time. I need to stay in this save or load it first the next round.

I wrote this in another thread already, but when you change your settlement to another one, it reverts to it's pre-development state. Pretty sad.

[DLM]

Well thanks for your input. I'll stay safe with my (kinda) nice settlement and avoid this on my other save for now.

[Wildcard]

well thats just fkn stupid!!!!!

[Abyss_Paradox]

well there goes my perfect setlement

[Jaggid Edje]

The answer is 15

because you can have one per save, and you can have 15 saves.

I actively play 5 different save games at the moment, and check in on my settlements on all of them regularly. I have NO issues with them.

[RomanarmoR]

well there goes my dream of becoming the dictator of a communist empire.... smh :D

[DukeSatan]

Actually you can have TWO settlements PER save, BUT and ONLY when there is an Expedition running, you can have your Primary settlement AND you can have the Expedition settlement, all in the same save.

Did it for Expedition 14, when you end the expedition you loose the settlement, any base located AT the settlement remains and once you reload the game the original settlement building you interact with will be removed.

DONT interact with an Expedition settlement building just after ending the expedition, you get the settlement info screen and a crazy set of numbers and the game freezes, only way to exit is a crash, opps, found a bug HG, lol.