How many people?

[ProfileName]

Fallout 4:

In the game you can have 42 settlers or so in each settlement, since there are 30 settlments, thats 20 x 42 which is 1260, so the Commonwealth has at least 1260 people, Diamonds City is likley scaled down and probaly has a few hundred, lets say 200, the BoS has a whole army so likley a battalion, which can be anywhere from 300 to 800 soldiers, the Institute is way to small in game to have a healthy population and would be forced to inbreed eventually, a website I found says that the college has 4 thousand and 503 people attending, after 210 years, I say 1 thousand, as many likley died from radiation when the bombs fist fell, the Railroad is even smaller likley only having 100 or 200, so for the Commonwealth I think the population is 2810 for the main factions, for the whole area I say 10 thousand, for Raiders, Gunners, loners, etc.

Fallout 3:

For the Capital wastland, the BoS beat the Enclave and got Adams, which likley brought more to the BoS, so for the East Coast BoS in the Capital wastland I say 1200, by the time of 4 the Enclave fully pulled out of the region so I wont count them, Rivet City looks like a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier (to me at least) and can hold 6000 people, I will say 3 thousand for it being the biggest in the region, the BoS likley destroyed Rivet City getting the fusion plant from it, leaving the residents to go to Megaton, Bigtown, Canterbury, or the richer members of the ship might have gotten to Tenpenny Tower, assuming they survive the trip, Megaton likley has 400 people since the Wastland Survival Guide has put it on the map, Moira says this in Afterward, Tenpenny Tower has 100 at most, Girdershade was possibly remade and so it likley has 200 people, Bigtown was always small and probally has only 50 people, give or take a few, Raiders have likley been killed off by the BoS and probally only have 200 in the region, Underworld probally has 100 to 200 Ghouls, so the area has 7300, I didnt count loners and smaller areas such as Dave so count the 7300 as all the smaller groups of people, loners, merchants, etc.

Fallout New Vegas:

For New Vegas its quite similar, by 2287, a victor is at Hoover Dam and the Mojave, I wont say the victor since we dont know, I will just analze the factions, New Vegas is a major city in the waste and will have 3 thousand people, Freeside is larger and has a higher crime, so im going to say 2 thousand, as the crime rate would make regular people not stay, while others like the kings will keep "peace" where they can, the surrounding towns likley have a hundred or two, so I will say 1 thousand for the surrounding areas, time for the big groups, the NCR at the time of 2 has high thousands, by the time of New Vegas have 700 thousand, by the time of 4 it could be as high as 1 million, the Legion rivals the NCRs size and could have the same amount of people, I will say they both have 800 thousand at the time of 4 to make it easier for me. For the New Vegas area I say it has 6 thousand in settlements in towns, I think it has 10 thousand for the whole area for loners, drug addicts, and small Raider bands like the Vipers and Jackals who have way smaller numbers as the BoS killed a whole bunch in California and parts of Nevada. The NCR and Legion toghether have 1 million 600 people, possiby to 2 million if you go by they both have 1 million each.

For the three new games I think the total population across the three games is 1,627,300.

[mrmike_49]

fo4 I got all my settlements up to 30 people

[ProfileName]

Originally posted by mrmike_49:

fo4 I got all my settlements up to 30 people

Do you use mods that affect settlments in any way?

[Chaosium]

That math isn't reliable; if your 20 settlers die, another 20 new folks will show up

[HunterOfPinkBunnyWabbits]

Originally posted by TicklishPicklewickle:

Originally posted by mrmike_49:

fo4 I got all my settlements up to 30 people

Do you use mods that affect settlments in any way?

Without mods but all DLC, you can have 54 settler per settlement.....

[ProfileName]

Originally posted by Chaosium:

That math isn't reliable; if your 20 settlers die, another 20 new folks will show up

Thats why there is the other few thousand.

[ProfileName]

Originally posted by HunterOfPinkBunnyWabbits:

Originally posted by TicklishPicklewickle:

Do you use mods that affect settlments in any way?

Without mods but all DLC, you can have 54 settler per settlement.....

Source Please? I looked all this up and the most I find is 21 per settlment, 10 original settlers per settlment, plus your charisma skill, with another 1 with the bobblehead.

[=EGC= kansasterry]

Originally posted by TicklishPicklewickle:

Originally posted by HunterOfPinkBunnyWabbits:

Without mods but all DLC, you can have 54 settler per settlement.....

Source Please? I looked all this up and the most I find is 21 per settlment, 10 original settlers per settlment, plus your charisma skill, with another 1 with the bobblehead.

Some of the dlc add chems, clothes and armor that will add some to Charisma if used.

Edit.

yes there is also that mentioned in post 8. I forgot about those since it is so rare I actually can save all the settlers.

[Ratselhaft]

Originally posted by TicklishPicklewickle:

Originally posted by HunterOfPinkBunnyWabbits:

Without mods but all DLC, you can have 54 settler per settlement.....

Source Please? I looked all this up and the most I find is 21 per settlment, 10 original settlers per settlment, plus your charisma skill, with another 1 with the bobblehead.

Rogue Robot Missions.

If you do the radient Automatron missons given by Izabelle Cruz then you can ask any saved settlers to join one of your settlements.

Any settlement even if you have reached your Cha + Cha gear + Cha Chems +10 max.

[Sevrojin]

https://steamcommunity.com/app/377160/discussions/0/492378265894795907/

[ProfileName]

Originally posted by Sevrojin:

https://steamcommunity.com/app/377160/discussions/0/492378265894795907/

I will just make 42 my final number for the settlers, the highest I ever got was 15 before I killed them all.

[mrmike_49]

Originally posted by TicklishPicklewickle:

Originally posted by mrmike_49:

fo4 I got all my settlements up to 30 people

Do you use mods that affect settlments in any way?

Springcleaning : Lets you delete/scrap lots of junk
another one I forget the name of, but it keeps Raiders from (mostly) spawning inside settlement borders. AFAIK, none of them affect number of settlers you can have, that number is related to your Charisma

I did max out CHR, have lots of CHR boosting gear, and make liberal use of Grape Mentats

[ProfileName]

Originally posted by mrmike_49:

Originally posted by TicklishPicklewickle:

Do you use mods that affect settlments in any way?

Springcleaning : Lets you delete/scrap lots of junk
another one I forget the name of, but it keeps Raiders from (mostly) spawning inside settlement borders. AFAIK, none of them affect number of settlers you can have, that number is related to your Charisma

I did max out CHR, have lots of CHR boosting gear, and make liberal use of Grape Mentats

Yeah after another small amount of research I did find out you can have more settlers from gear and chems, not just Charisma skill.

[jonnan.west]

The scaling of fallout to the real world is about 20 to 1, or 400 to one in two dimensions. I basically figure for every 'in game' character there's about 400 people in the wastes which is where the raiders/Supermutants/et alia repopulate from.

[ProfileName]

Originally posted by jonnan.west:

The scaling of fallout to the real world is about 20 to 1, or 400 to one in two dimensions. I basically figure for every 'in game' character there's about 400 people in the wastes which is where the raiders/Supermutants/et alia repopulate from.

Thats why I added in a whole lot more people live in the end for Raiders/Gunners as we dont know how many there are, so thats why there are a few extra thousand Raiders/ people in every area.

[HunterOfPinkBunnyWabbits]

http://fallout.wikia.com/wiki/Charisma

Sorry it is max 48 charisma aka 58 settlers without rogue robot