is it okay to have 12 survivor community?

[Dragonborn]

Got myself a 2 new survivors via builder legacy quest, didnt knew you could hop beyond 10 pop limit.
Could my community get bugged/corrupted cuz of that? asking cuz Ive had a lot of bugs recently, from sheriff finale not appearing to my save becoming literally broken out of nowhere.

[Nico]

Soft limit is 9, hard cap is 12.

All 12 survivors won't physically appear in the base at the same time. Don't recall the limit. (I think it's 8)

Devs have stated these limits exist to avoid some bugs, so in theory they shouldn't cause problems.

[worm_master]

O've also had 12, it didn't cause me any hassles, the only hassle i had was with legacy, I had to get my population down before i could recruit from my legacy pool, so if u don't plan to swap players out, but if u swap players via legacy, you wont be able to have 12 again, unless some folks pop over to ya base.

[tenser-spencer]

Depending on your difficulty, having twelve means, you need more food. If you have no issue generating food, then those extra fighters, help out in sieges and to populate defense structures like towers. Plus depending on their specialties, you get more bonuses and perks.

[Segovax]

12 is the coded hard cap, its not a bug. You just cant recruit directly from enclaves past 8 or 9. If you have issues its from something else.

[Protectron]

12 is the best number since you get more specializations and can therefore produce more stuff and get more bonuses.

It also makes the game more unforgiving, since I, at least, am not going to kick out 2 more survivors down to 9 if I lose a survivor - and then grind the game until I get a trio to recruit again. That's game over for me.

Then again, I don't finish legacies anymore. Getting to 12 and maxing everything out is what I play for. So it's sort of a "secret gamemode" you get to unlock when you like the gameplay loop but have tired of the legacy missions. The community building phase of the game is the best one by far.

In other words, if you want to finish the legacies as a goal you have set for yourself, going to 12 survivors and maxing them out is kinda overkill. You're fine with 3 since you only need to kill the Hearts and then do the 3-4 missions afterwards (except for the Builder legacy).

[JustinGayme.TTV]

I had something like this before. Somewhere from 11-13 (a few enclaves will reward recruits past 10, as well as other various “secrets”, like summoning two red talon agents at once, etc.

More survivors can definitely be ok but I found it had pros and cons. You have more mouths to feed, more resources used, and if you’re running red talon agents many of them can have extra bed usage, extra food consumption etc.

I found the pros and cons to pretty much equal out. So I say if you aren’t having trouble maintaining your resources with 12 go for it, but if it gets challenging then don’t bother because It isn’t really necessary.

[X]

Only one game I was able to get 13 at the same time.


Now after experimenting with the Community Editor I had 20 that played well with no problems other than have to fun food all the time.