About the gippers (Spoilers ahead)

[crushcommando]

So I just finished my first playthrough today and definitely am going to do a round two. There's just 1 thing I was unsure if I could've fixed or not. So in my run I decided to help the commune get reagan out which of course had me plow through the gippers at the end (I arrested Valor); while overall satisfied with the situation I realized now nobody was going to send oil to Denver as the godfishers also forced me to kill them.

I thought I had a workaround when i met fish lips and offered him the base, I'd assumed I could use my influence on them to send oil to Denver in repayment but I never got dialogue with him again. Is the only way to get oil to denver is to keep the gippers alive? Cause even if I go their route I doubt Saul would want his Son returned possessed by a simulation of an ex president.

[Heau]

You can upload the AI to your HQ. It will make both the gippers and machine commune unhappy (so if you wanted cyborg tech buy it before, same for gear from a nancy), and it will make the gippers unhappy...

But you can coerce or blackmail the gippers into releasing valor into your care since you hold their god hostage.

This restores the flow of oil to colorado and returns valor unharmed. It's definitely the only path to achieve both deeds.

https://wasteland.fandom.com/wiki/Reagan_Reborn

I don't remember if there's a way to restore oil via hard heads. I assume not since their occupancy is independent of Valors life/death so if they restored oil too the above wouldn't be the only path for Patriarch's satisfaction.

I think I only played hard heads occupancy once long ago and the pieces of the puzzle are really all over on the wiki since oil restore is not a quest in its own right.

[crushcommando]

Originally posted by Heau:

You can upload the AI to your HQ. It will make both the gippers and machine commune unhappy (so if you wanted cyborg tech buy it before, same for gear from a nancy), and it will make the gippers unhappy...

But you can coerce or blackmail the gippers into releasing valor into your care since you hold their god hostage.

This restores the flow of oil to colorado and returns valor unharmed. It's definitely the only path to achieve both deeds.

https://wasteland.fandom.com/wiki/Reagan_Reborn

I don't remember if there's a way to restore oil via hard heads. I assume not since their occupancy is independent of Valors life/death so if they restored oil too the above wouldn't be the only path for Patriarch's satisfaction.

I think I only played hard heads occupancy once long ago and the pieces of the puzzle are really all over on the wiki since oil restore is not a quest in its own right.

Thanks for letting me know, I'll probably do that on my next run through as i wanted a pure blind experience for my first playthrough (ignoring my previous post about not knowing how lvling/respec worked lol).

[Crazed Possum]

I'm pretty sure on my 2nd play through I restored oil to Denver but I had to kill Valor or let him be taken over or something like that.

[Baloo]

Here are the possible outcomes:
-Side with gippers, I don't know any further, never did that.
-Send Reagan AI to your HQ: Gippers are angry, but will restart oil shipments. Commune loses faith in humanity, and starts stockpiling weapons.
-Send Reagan AI to MC, Vanilla game: You'll have to kill the Gippers. Commune will begin trying to help Reagan, and will help out any humans they come across. Colorado Springs will lose oil. November Reign ending is not possible at this point.
-Send Reagan AI to MC, Cult of Holy Detonation DLC: Same as Vanilla, but if you choose to keep "The Holy Detonation" as a power source, you can compencate lack of oil. November Reign ending will be availible.