settlement shops?

[BSNB]

Is it worth setting up vendors in your settlement?

[Quint]

I think so, they generate some caps to your workbench as well as offer an easily accesible spot to trade your purified water for ammo, junk (if you're short on building materials) and/or caps.

I like having atleast a general store and a weapon-store in my more frequently visited settlements.

[BLÀde]

later on you can recruit special vendors for your stores and real high quality and rare equips start appearing at your stores to buy.

[Janetsky]

I'd say no. I have over 20 settlers in starlight drive-in and several emporiums (lvl 3 shop). I move around the wasteland and after many days I have generated a few measily caps from the shops. But I guess if you want the benevolent leader achievement, you have to have several shops.

[Social Diseases]

Honestly, there's no reason to build ANYTHING in settlements other than the big water purifiers if you're looking to make money. The settlements don't actually add anything and it doesn't really matter how many you have or how much you build them up; all they do is generate endlessly repeating radiant quests at the same locations.

The only reason to build level 3 shops is if you plan on recruiting the special vendors for them - but some of them never show up even if you do recruit them, and some of them repeat dialogue endlessly even if they're at the shop, and the only thing you get out of it even when they DO work is a couple extra magic items added to their inventory.

[BSNB]

I got 5,500 caps right now... What lvl 3 stand should I build first? Armory?

[Larry]

I can't buy stuff from my stores... I even assigned people to them but they don't sell anything...

[morph113]

Originally posted by Dr.Larry:

I can't buy stuff from my stores... I even assigned people to them but they don't sell anything...

Are you sure you picked "barter" in the dialogue wheel instead of "trade"? Because trading just lets you trade items with their personal inventory. Bartering is what makes you use their shop function.

[Janetsky]

Originally posted by morph113:

Originally posted by Dr.Larry:

I can't buy stuff from my stores... I even assigned people to them but they don't sell anything...

Are you sure you picked "barter" in the dialogue wheel instead of "trade"? Because trading just lets you trade items with their personal inventory. Bartering is what makes you use their shop function.

Some settlers as vendors are a bit buggy. I believe the shops are open from 8 a.m to 7 p.m or something like that. But one settler often refuses to barter with me even when the shop should be open.

[Noodlesocks]

Yes. Just remember to keep some idle settlers to shop there. If everyone has jobs, nobody will go to the shops and they won't generate caps.

[Janetsky]

Originally posted by Noodlesocks:

Yes. Just remember to keep some idle settlers to shop there. If everyone has jobs, nobody will go to the shops and they won't generate caps.

Wow, interesting. I didn't know that the caps are generated from other settlers. But doesn't having idle settlers lower the happiness?

[God Taint]

In my experience, the settlement shops are super buggy (sometimes they just straight refuse to barter with you, or to offer any dialogue options), and the caps generated are negligible compared to your initial investment (even with all 6 tier 3 shops, and 14 other settlers having no job, you will make barely any caps). I wouldn't bother with them honestly unless you want to increase settlement happiness with them.

Originally posted by Social Diseases:

Honestly, there's no reason to build ANYTHING in settlements other than the big water purifiers if you're looking to make money.

+1 Purified water is easy to produce in large quantity, and sells for a lot when you consider the initial ivestment in building costs.