Mod recommendations for a more living commonwealth/faction prescence?

[Richard I]

Just finished a couple New Vegas playthroughs, best playthroughs I've ever had. Mainly due to the addition of several mods, such as Living Wasteland, NCR & Legion Patrols, and Factions Reloaded. Looking for something similar for Fallout 4.

Are there good mods that increase the Brotherhood/Institutes Presence in the Wasteland? More fights, more encounters? Increase raider presence? Maybe some smaller factions?

Possibly more attacks on settlements? I love playing the minutemen and building a great defense, but then I never get to use it because nobody ever attacks. Harder, more frequent attacks would be great. Maybe some radiant raids on brotherhood/institute/raider camps that always respawn after a certain amount of time that I can take a few minutemen to?

I don't know, just trying to give some ideas. You guys recommend anything? Also, quick question: Does Nexus have any more mods than Fallout 4 does in-game? Wondering if its worth looking on Nexus.

[I Throw Spears.]

Nexus has SIGNIFICANTLY more mods than the in game mod menu. Download Vortex and go ham my dude.

[Six of Saturn]

If you can run the Storywealth collection on Nexus that would do it and then some. If want to go lighter just do the Sim Settlements 2 bundle and all is related SS2 mods. Yes there is way more on Nexus.
Edit: some more recs if you want to go lighter: We are the Minutemen, and NPCs Travel.

[socialmediaaddress3]

-Better Settlers and
-Tales of the Commonwealth are the first ones that come to mind.
-Also Commonwealth Captives (when you bust raider/gunner/mutant lairs you get to rescue tied up damsels in distress, which you can then add to your settlements, you can also have a setting to include dudes to rescue but thats always a bit creepy to me because of the way these NPCs are tied up if you get my meaning)
- There is a mod called "more attacks on Settlements" but it is said to be buggy (I read up on it since I was thinking the same way you do). But i get you. when you have built a great defense at great expense it means no one will show up to challenge it. Deterrrence in action.
- Also yes Nexus has tons more mods and is well organized. However a number of creators have recently left nexus (and locked thier files) due to a lot of heavy handed moderating and forcing files into collections and a few political censorshop things even.
So a number of Mods can now only be found on Discord.

[Zekiran]

Originally posted by Six of Saturn:

If you can run the Storywealth collection on Nexus that would do it and then some. If want to go lighter just do the Sim Settlements 2 bundle and all is related SS2 mods. Yes there is way more on Nexus.
Edit: some more recs if you want to go lighter: We are the Minutemen, and NPCs Travel.

Highly highly recommend against downloading any "collection".

Research your mods individually. At best, use a collection as a GUIDE to figure out what you want out of that grab-bag of potentially broken stuff.

"- Also yes Nexus has tons more mods and is well organized. However a number of creators have recently left nexus (and locked thier files) due to a lot of heavy handed moderating and forcing files into collections and a few political censorshop things even."

"a number of creators" - about 6 of them, with very, very bad results for them.

[AG2590]

Magnum Opus pack from Wabbajack

[Jack Greedy]

Travelling NPCS or something like that, Aslo try Sim Settlements 2 + chapter 2, and Bleachers.

[orangepoppy]

I'm enjoying Sim Settlements 2 quite a bit