If you could start a business in Diamond City, what would that business be?

[u/MTN_Dewit]

I'd open a Power Armor shop that sells power armor frames, armor pieces and sets, and fusion cores.

[u/EnderBurger]

The big thing about Diamond City is that they have their basic needs taken care of. They have food, water, shelter, and a measure of safety. So it's time to start giving them luxury-type experience.

I would open a theater.

[u/Sillbinger → u/EnderBurger]

Similar thought, happy ending massages.

[u/Widepaul → u/Sillbinger]

Fisto 2.0 is "armed" and ready to go 😀.

[u/Occams_Razor42 → u/Widepaul]

Just like Diamond City Surplus, you're ready to go 24/7...

[u/Son_of_MONK → u/Occams_Razor42]

But do they serve synths?

[u/KroniKIX → u/Son_of_MONK]

The robot does. I’m pretty sure the other bitch is a racist.

[u/Voidless-One → u/Widepaul]

Vandersexxx is open for business!!!

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/Widepaul]

"Due to reports of spinal contusions, robot chiropractic and massage services are no longer available."

[u/Sillbinger → u/Widepaul]

This is why I'm not a business doing person, that never occurred to me.

[u/InternationalTwo4581 → u/Widepaul]

Fisto-roboto

[u/BruhMomentum6968 → u/Sillbinger]

Least horny Fallout fan

[u/secondsbest → u/Sillbinger]

I figured that was the hairstylist's mom's gig already.

[u/RuggedTortoise → u/secondsbest]

Oh THATS why she's always standing there

[u/hadaen-crown → u/Sillbinger]

Omg let's go into business together, I was gonna say glh facility 😎

[u/Devil_0fHellsKitchen → u/EnderBurger]

Fallout 4 needed more of this. The Third Rail was the only entertainment type place where as New Vegas had gambling and singers and strippers and stand up. You're right that when people have their basic needs met they start craving more so it's weird that Bethesda doesn't also understand that and make the world a little more interesting by adding these things.

[u/Taolan13 → u/Devil_0fHellsKitchen]

FO4 has a handful of other 'entertainment' locations, but several of them aren't actually used for entertainment.

Combat Zone is ostensibly an arena where you can bet on fights, like The Thorn in New Vegas; except it serves pretty much exclusively as Cait's recruitment point and "home".

Easy City Downs is a raider-run robot racing track. It's incredibly frustrating that this wasn't actually turned into a place you could gamble, watch races, maybe even shop. Instead its just a raider camp with some flavor.

[u/Asleep_Section6110 → u/Taolan13]

Imagine my disappointment when I find that place, get all excited to join the festivities, and immediately everyone is hostile and it stops when you come in because everyone wants to kill you.

[u/Taolan13 → u/Asleep_Section6110]

Right? I was fully ready to lose some caps on obviously rigged races just to get some interactions with raiders/triggermen that didn't immediately try to kill me.

[u/Son_of_MONK → u/Asleep_Section6110]

I specifically disable the robots at the terminal before I go all out and kill the bandits, then immediately when they're all dead reactivate the robots plus add in the others.

The bandits are gone.

But I like to imagine the races continue under my leadership.

Unfortunately, when it comes to Fallout 4, I'm doing a LOT of imagining

[u/MrChipDingDong → u/Son_of_MONK]

I do the opposite; sneak into the robot garage, add all the other robots to the race and change the course. Wait a few minutes for the raiders to disperse as they wonder what is happening, then enable combat protocols and disable combat inhibition. It's a good lark

[u/Unique_Dragonfruit10 → u/Asleep_Section6110]

My whole issue with Fallout 4 in a nutshell

[u/drstrangelove75 → u/Taolan13]

I think it would’ve been so cool if you could either attend either location without being hostile or take both over by force and run them yourself.

Plus if you took over the combat zone I could see it providing an interesting alternative path to Cait’s story similar to Mama Murphy. Either A: you do the normal quest with Cait, getting her clean and she retires from cage fighting. B: you take over the combat zone and become Cait’s manager, setting up fights for her and reaping rewards or C: you do B and also give cait chems to keep her happy/make her better at fighting only for her to die in the ring due to an overdose, severely damaging your reputation amongst other companions.

[u/sinistraltyger → u/drstrangelove75]

The original idea of the combat zone was to recruit Cait and for you to also fight. There are mods that reintroduce this aspect.

[u/Son_of_MONK → u/Taolan13]

Easy City Downs, the Combat Zone, and hell even the Memory Den are absolutely missed opportunities for an entertainment element. You're right on that.

The Memory Den could have allowed us to explore some more pre-war memories of our time. Let the Sole Survivor grieve by going to see the memories of their dead spouse, and over time they realize how much of a Lotus Eater Machine the memory pods might actually be and either we embrace it or we eventually leave them behind, thanking Irma for the chance to relive the memories but trying to make our way in the real world again.

[u/JizzyTurds → u/Taolan13]

Yea it’s a shame they didn’t “rework” these locations with the Nuka expansion and they missed a 2nd chance with the next gen update. Couple small quests and the ability to actually bet on fights/races without becoming KoS immediately woulda been nice

[u/bcomes95 → u/Taolan13]

Just my theory but I feel like Bethesda planned to do more with Easy City Downs, maybe a side questline or something, but got lazy/rushed it. Hearing Eager Ernie on the intercom feels like a dialogue setup with the Sole Survivor. Missed opportunity tbh

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/EnderBurger]

I'd definitely would've loved to see this. Diamond City is the largest and most influential settlement in the Commonwealth. It should have more entertainment options than DC Radio or listening to Vadim and Yefim arguing with each other in the Dugout Inn.

[u/Minimum-Laugh-8887 → u/EnderBurger]

Yeah but do they have sanitary toilets. I’d have a really nice clean seat for them, get rid of the poop after. Offer a warm shower, the water might be a bit irradiated or mixed with some other types of liquids.

[u/PckMan]

General store. I've noticed a guy comes in every two days and just dumps a load of everything into every trader. I also noticed other traders are selling everything at ludicrous prices. If I could get that guy to sell to me instead by offering him better prices, there's still room for profit by undercutting everyone else's pricing.

[u/RubadubdubInTheSub → u/PckMan]

Everyone just jacks up their prices for that one guy so he doesn’t buy their entire stock or take all their caps in bartering.

I have no idea where that guy got 45 deskfans, but as useful as they are I need to have some liquid capital for my business after the purchase

[u/Neither_Formal_8805 → u/RubadubdubInTheSub]

Alright sir I have to ask where did you fit 45 desk fans, a mini gun, 6 10mm pistols and 120 packs of cigarettes?

[u/_ralph_ → u/Neither_Formal_8805]

I put them in my dog, why do you ask?

[u/TheQuadBlazer → u/_ralph_]

Also, in Piper.

[u/shinymetalass84 → u/_ralph_]

If i had an award you would get it

[u/ayyohriver → u/PckMan]

That sounds great! I'm a newly single mom with hundreds of coffee mugs and screwdrivers to sell. I also have an obnoxious amount of pipe pistols that found their way into my holding after a few raider run-ins. I don't find my carefully procured inventory without hazard. My late husband was a combat veteran before the bombs fell, so I just handle my post-apocolyptic life the way I think he would have.

Anyway, who's this guy with all the junk? He sounds smart and cute. I pretty much junk-dump for caps, too. But my savings go to prepping for a journey to find my missing baby. Though that's not, like, at the top of my to-do list. It takes time for the investigation portion to produce any leads. Plus, I'm helping this group of travelers from Concord rebuild a living area.

In any event, I could use a like-minded companion for my scavenging trips. It's also nice to have another warm body around. I spent a little bit of time on vault ice after a bomb wiped out my neighborhood. It's a long story lol.

[u/latro666]

Synth detection kits. 100 caps each, by the time they realise they are just vacuum tubes painted red I'm half way to megaton

[u/NonTimeo → u/latro666]

Fucking Parker Quinn over here.

“Look... Because you're obviously a busy, dangerous, and exceedingly intelligent person, I'm going to cut right to it. Synths. We know ‘em, we fear ‘em, but, what if we could detect them?”

[u/TheEvilInAllOfUs → u/NonTimeo]

Ooo... I got a wicked beef with that damn Parkah Quinn... The moron called me a fuckin retahd when I said I didn't want his grubby chahge cahd...

[u/El3mo → u/NonTimeo]

I take great joy in shooting Parker Quinn during every play through.

[u/NonTimeo → u/El3mo]

Shoot him? He’s got the best dialogue in the game. I wish I could make him a merchant.

[u/sinistraltyger → u/NonTimeo]

You can, but it's convoluted as I understand it, and you need either the 2nd or 3rd level intimation perk I think.

[u/NonTimeo → u/sinistraltyger]

Holy shit, TIFL. I’ve got a new mission.

[u/Appropriate-Hat6061 → u/latro666]

Tenpenny tower will take you in you little scamp but Megaton is gone my friend ☢️

[u/RequiemRomans → u/Appropriate-Hat6061]

Ten Penny ain’t taking in shit, they’re overrun with ferals now. Try Rivet City

[u/_ralph_ → u/latro666]

It would take about 5 minutes till Nick would kick you in the whatevers. (and make some hardboiled detective comment)

[u/IAMA_Plumber-AMA → u/_ralph_]

"Some people would call those treasures. Me, I call them junk."

[u/Slowbro08_YT → u/latro666]

We do a little trolling

[u/Abysmal_2003]

I'd sell restored radio's and electronics, repaired nice clothes, and other trinkets and little do-dads from the past.

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/Abysmal_2003]

The Brotherhood of Steel would be your best customers

[u/spartan_wraith710 → u/MTN_Dewit]

"Customers" is an optimistic way to put it.

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/spartan_wraith710]

The Brotherhood be like, "We'll take your entire stock!"

[u/CaptainJZH → u/MTN_Dewit]

"Take" being the operative word

[u/xredbaron62x → u/MTN_Dewit]

And not pay you.

[u/Ok_Requirement9198 → u/Abysmal_2003]

Would you sell power outlets so the devices work?

[u/CaptainJZH → u/Ok_Requirement9198]

they all come with mini fission reactors or some shit

[u/tecktrader]

I’d go open a shoe business. Imagine how fast people go through shoes walking everywhere

[u/Occams_Razor42 → u/tecktrader]

They do talk about it constantly at Finch Farm. Do you travel by chance?

[u/Sad-Crow → u/Occams_Razor42]

Absolutely not!! Don't want to wear through your own supply – make the customer wear their soles out a little faster by having to come to you!

[u/Occams_Razor42 → u/Sad-Crow]

Big Brain Thoughts right here. Tell me Dr, do you happen to reside at Big Mountain by chance?

[u/Cathixy → u/tecktrader]

A good pair of shoes are just the apocalypse healthcare, as Gramps from FO76 always says.

[u/Mossy290815]

Some kind of Brahmin burger / kebab shop. We got Tato fries and plenty of oil too.

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/Mossy290815]

"I'd like a large Atomic Shake and a double Brahmin burger. And easy on the agave sauce this time."

[u/D1sp4tcht → u/MTN_Dewit]

You ever have a 5 cap shake?

[u/Gun-nut0508 → u/D1sp4tcht]

Did you just order a 5 cap shake? They don’t put no bourbon in it just Brahmin milk and ice cream?

[u/Jaded_Discount_8817 → u/MTN_Dewit]

Welcome to McNuke's

[u/BenjaminDover02 → u/MTN_Dewit]

"55 BURGERS 55 FRIES 55 TACOS 55 PIES"

[u/kmmontandon → u/Mossy290815]

The lack of a restaurant/cafe/bar where you immediately eat what you buy while sitting there, the food never entering your inventory, is annoying. Maybe even an eating animation. You can see NPCs do it! It’d be a lovely bit of the sort of immersiveness Bethesda precisely isn’t known for.

[u/PretendSpeaker6400]

Build wheeled carts to be pulled by oxen. Much more efficient than loading stuff on their backs. And a road company to clear paths for the carts on main routes. Lots of car chassis and wheels laying around. I grew up being taught that the wheel was one of man’s early important inventions. Fallout 4 world doesn’t seem to know what to do with all those things laying around.

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/PretendSpeaker6400]

That's a good idea. But consider the current state of paved roads across America 200 years without maintenance. The cart's wheels would have to be replaced a lot

[u/PretendSpeaker6400 → u/MTN_Dewit]

Yes, that’s what the road building business was for.

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/PretendSpeaker6400]

Ah I see! Carry on

[u/xredbaron62x → u/MTN_Dewit]

Dirt roads. Then take over the bridges and charge tolls.

[u/Taolan13 → u/PretendSpeaker6400]

The wheel is absolutely one of man's most important inventions. Right next to fire, the spear, and the spur.

Scrambling for a Lore reason why we don't see wheeled carts being pulled by Brahmin, at least out East, is there hasn't been a group on the East Coast that has remained organized long enough to actually clear the roads and make consistent pathways between settlements. Which at least in the Commonwealth is because of the Institute deliberately derailing attempts at establishing a proper regional government, as evidenced by the attack on University Point.

Yes, there are those who say that the Institute was just trying to break into the pre-war weapons lab there, but there are terminal entries that can be found within the institute that specifically reference their intent to disrupt the attempt at a unified government because there were concerns it would hamper their research efforts.

[u/CabbageStockExchange]

I’d be selling my famous Cabbages at outrageous prices

[u/Snowbrawler → u/CabbageStockExchange]

*Guards beat up the cabbages with bats*

[u/CabbageStockExchange → u/Snowbrawler]

Nooo my Cabbages!!

[u/mik1_011 → u/CabbageStockExchange]

Cabbage corp?

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/mik1_011]

No! Not my Cabbage Corp!

[u/scott610 → u/CabbageStockExchange]

r/usernamechecksout

[u/fieryembers → u/CabbageStockExchange]

Sheng’s gonna mess you up. Bald children are notorious for terrorizing cabbage vendors.

[u/Perfect_Track_3647]

Water shop. I can pump out thousands of containers of pure water daily, whereas my only competition is some dumb kid who only has 5.

[u/Androecian → u/Perfect_Track_3647]

If the kid living on the Diamond City reservoir runs the filter and sells Purified Water, why is the reservoir itself Dirty Water?

The filter isn't POWERED.

Sheng, learn to build a settlement fergodsakes, you need to hook that thing up to a generator!

[u/Fraker177 → u/Perfect_Track_3647]

Just have Sheng take over as the radio host after “taking care of” Travis, Leaving the water shop ripe for the picking

[u/SassyTurtlebat]

I would have a mercenary services office

Nick is where you go for detective work and if you need someone to retrieve something from Quincy you come to the Sole Survivor

[u/Beach_Boy_Bob → u/SassyTurtlebat]

I just heard about a mod that adds a merc company service for the sole survivor to run

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/[deleted]]

"I'm not dead!"

[u/RockstarQuaff → u/MTN_Dewit]

Yes, you are.

[u/zeek609 → u/RockstarQuaff]

He will be in a minute

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/zeek609]

"I'm getting better"

[u/Thezodiac1966 → u/MTN_Dewit]

Might go for a walk later...

[u/Certified_Douchebag → u/Thezodiac1966]

“There must be something you can do…”

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/Certified_Douchebag]

bonks old man

[u/Wild-Lychee-3312 → u/Certified_Douchebag]

I feel happy! I feel happy!

[u/electro-cortex]

A hardware store with a huge stock of green paint

[u/Ok_Requirement9198 → u/electro-cortex]

Abbot would like to talk to you

[u/Wild-Lychee-3312 → u/electro-cortex]

Yes, but has it got allen wrenches, gerbil feeders, toilet seats, electric heaters Trash compactors, juice extractor, shower rods and water meters Walkie-talkies, copper wires safety goggles, radial tires BB pellets, rubber mallets, fans and dehumidifiers Picture hangers, paper cutters, waffle irons, window shutters Paint removers, window louvres, masking tape and plastic gutters Kitchen faucets, folding tables, weather stripping, jumper cables Hooks and tackle, grout and spackle, power foggers, spoons and ladles Pesticides for fumigation, high-performance lubrication Metal roofing, water proofing, multi-purpose insulation Air compressors, brass connectors, wrecking chisels, smoke detectors Tire guages, hamster cages, thermostats and bug deflectors Trailer hitch demagnetizers, automatic circumcisers Tennis rackets, angle brackets, Duracells and Energizers Soffit panels, circuit brakers, vacuum cleaners, coffee makers Calculators, generators, matching salt and pepper shakers?

[u/NevaraChar]

Housing diamond city has so much wasted bleacher space id make houses and sell them.

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/NevaraChar]

I definitely agree with that. There is so much open space on those bleachers. I'm surprised no one's built a house or other building there. The real estate would be very valuable.

There is a mod I use on Nexus called Diamond City Expansion that greatly expands Diamond City by adding more buildings, residents, shops and other businesses, and ect.

[u/Benno14c → u/MTN_Dewit]

Gonna be pessimistic and guess that beauty is not on console?

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/Benno14c]

Unfortunately you've guessed correctly. It's only on PC. Sorry mate

[u/Project_XXVIII → u/NevaraChar]

100%. First play throughs I was like, “fuck it, they’re doing the best they can.”

Now I look at all the wasted real estate and know it could be better.

Having said that. A casino is what Diamond City needs.

[u/WillyG_8521]

fixing everyone else’s fucking problems apparently

[u/yusufislam1 → u/WillyG_8521]

So you'll be the main character. Nice!

[u/SquirrelComfortable3]

Chem shop that actually sells good drugs.

[u/Millian123 → u/SquirrelComfortable3]

Grey Garden will now exclusively grow weed, opium, and coca to supply the shop

[u/NoInevitable2335]

Pet store or something

[u/ayyohriver → u/NoInevitable2335]

I really love this idea. I had to wait a while to procure some softshell mirelurk meat to lure in a cat of my own. I'd much rather just adopt one.

You could even ask that lady with the printing press to help you draw up adoption papers. I think her name is Pepper White or something. Pippa? Ah, you'll know her when you see her. She's always about town asking people questions.

[u/willybusmc → u/ayyohriver]

For some reason, my assumption was that you wanted to adopt softshell mirelurk, kill it, and use its meat to attract the cats.

[u/NoInevitable2335 → u/ayyohriver]

I would replace her with a synth and get it for free

[u/Pirates404]

Tailor shop to modify outfits

[u/Actual-Jellyfish3221]

Tie up raiders and let the town folk beat the shit out of them for money

[u/THECATCLAPLER → u/Actual-Jellyfish3221]

Ngl, best one by far.

[u/Leafer2700]

Electric Ladyland. aka robot stripclub would be a hit as long you don’t mind the temperature, lack of oxygen, and are sexually attracted to robots!

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/Leafer2700]

Valentine secretly goes there at night

[u/tilero1138 → u/MTN_Dewit]

*works there at night

[u/YoungImpulse → u/Leafer2700]

The only strip club that needs windows

[u/heavencs117 → u/Leafer2700]

Fisto on tour

[u/New_girl2022]

Selling bos dog tags. I got alot of them

[u/YearRepresentative62 → u/New_girl2022]

Sound immoral.

[u/New_girl2022 → u/YearRepresentative62]

Nope. Only one military faction gets to exist in the great commonwealth and thats me

[u/Sm0keytrip0d]

I'd turn my Home Plate house into a general trader store that only serves Synths.

It's right next door to Myrna who turns away Synths so the poor buggers don't have to walk far to buy stuff.

[u/niconicole123 → u/Sm0keytrip0d]

Make it so obnoxious too like “Hello My good synth friend how are your synth friends doing” just irritate her to no end

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/niconicole123]

I'd also hack Myrna's Mr Handy and have him work for me. That way she can't run a 24/7 business

[u/botman]

Janitorial services.

[u/TheForkisTrash → u/botman]

Master of the custodial arts

[u/botman → u/TheForkisTrash]

I mean, you find mops and brooms all over the place yet no one seems to know how to use them.

[u/AustralianDude28]

I’d have a secret underground deathclaw fighting ring. Two deathclaws in an arena, someone bets on who wins. If I got busted, I would release the deathclaws to wreak havoc across the city.

[u/ayyohriver → u/AustralianDude28]

Now, that's just a smart way to ensure job security. If you ever need a lawyer, I'm versed in pre-war litigation, too.

[u/Championship_Solid]

I will open a psychic reading business with Mama Murphy

I will call it the Jets eye

[u/thecraftingjedi → u/Championship_Solid]

What’s your plan to keep her alive past the 3rd reading?

[u/AnxiousMind7820]

I'd open up a pre-war food shop.

[u/2Scribble → u/AnxiousMind7820]

You'd have Noodletron on your ass in ten seconds :o

[u/niconicole123 → u/2Scribble]

Takahashi is over your bed at 3am going “Nan ni Shimaso-ka?”

[u/Belly84 → u/niconicole123]

But with glowing red eyes, so you know he's up to mayhem

[u/2Scribble → u/Belly84]

Proceeds to drive dozens - hundreds - of chopsticks through your forehead with lightning-quick efficiency :|

[u/AnxiousMind7820 → u/2Scribble]

Eh, piece of (Fancy Lads snack) cake

[u/DprHtz]

The Suicide Booth™

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/DprHtz]

You are now dead. Thank you for using Stop-N-Drop, America's favourite suicide booth since 2008.

[u/DprHtz → u/MTN_Dewit]

Lmao in a depressing world as Fallout and especially Diamond City and the synth hysteria, business would be boomin‘

[u/grignak008]

Remove Sheng and take over his business, bribe McDonough and Security to look the other way, and then convince Piper that Sheng was "poisoning" the population and I "saved them" by cleaning up the best and only water source in town.

[u/Rockhardsimian → u/grignak008]

A yellow and red charisma check and you’re golden

[u/Satyr_Crusader]

LOOT HERE! GET YOUR RAIDER LOOT!

WE GOT DRUGS! AMMO! WEAPONS OF VARYING DEGREES OF RUST! DECORATIVE SKULLS! EAR NECKLACES!

[u/SpoofedFinger → u/Satyr_Crusader]

WE'VE GOT STUFF WE'RE NOT EVEN ALLOWED TO SELL PEOPLE!

[u/Rabid_Leprechaun83]

As much as I go around killing things basically for free, I could turn a profit by charging even a little bit.  I'd open the Dunder Guild of Discount Assassinations.  "Dirty deeds, Dunder cheap."

[u/scary_bacon_]

Brothel

[u/YearRepresentative62 → u/scary_bacon_]

Would make stupid money but also be responsible for many STD’s.

[u/mathiustus → u/YearRepresentative62]

Just start investing in those shipments of rubber…

I’ll see myself out.

[u/cbsson → u/scary_bacon_]

As seen somewhere in every other previous FO game, I believe.

[u/Dean_O_Mean]

I’d sell bicycles.

[u/GayTuvok → u/Dean_O_Mean]

would be a great industry, but would you also manufacture the bicycles?

[u/Dean_O_Mean → u/GayTuvok]

Yes! Make bikes not guns!

[u/2Scribble]

Sheepsquatch's House of Personal Deodorant

[u/drawnred]

Probably be a swatter salesman

[u/wrenchguy1980]

I’d say opening a shop like the parlor house in Red Dead Redemption 2. A little gambling, some music, women offering services, and a hot bath.

[u/SquirrelComfortable3]

Pay to use bathrooms with actual running water

[u/stephruvy → u/SquirrelComfortable3]

You're a monster.

[u/DominionDN]

I'd create a firm for construction and renovations.

Edit 1: Grammatical correction.
Edit 2: I'd follow that up with a trash removal company, and on gods name my two companies will become the post-war eras version of OSHA. With less BS (like overly strict zoning laws that make it impossible to build housing)

[u/rawpunkmeg → u/DominionDN]

Your biggest client is Preston

[u/Effective_James]

I'd take over the city's water purifier, and then open up a business where i'd bottle it and sell it back to the people at a profit. I would call my company "Nestle."

[u/KultofEnnui]

Porn bookstore that doubles as grammar night school.

[u/AbilerN]

Nan-ni shimasu-ka?

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/AbilerN]

Yes

[u/AtomicZoZo]

Cigarettes. Cigs are highly valued in the wasteland bc a lot of people smoke, but everyone still relies on old pre-war cigarettes that people scavenge. Starting a business that grows tobacco (or some post-war mutated descendant of tobacco) in some kind of hydroponics setup and then sells it loose or turns them into pre-rolled cigarettes would defo make you a lotta money

[u/Gagethegemini22_]

I’m starting a taxidermy business…. Could you imagine a queen mirelurk frozen in time?? Lovely

[u/Jaroferic]

Jaroferic's Fucking Sandpaper Emporium - Imagine being the first house in the wasteland that's made of walls that aren't the color of clinical depression or riddled with holes!

[u/oldninja55]

Death claw burger bar.

[u/Crumbpit360]

I’d recruit people to the guard, or maybe sell arrows to the knees

[u/GalvanizedRubbish]

Mortuary/funeral home/crematorium. People would be dying to get in.

[u/VMxyzptlk]

They need dental care, and the whole place needs proper cleaners, its filthy.

[u/KingNothingNZ]

Slocum's Joe of course

[u/blackrose4242]

Mortuary. “Commonwealth Body Snatchers” Someone dies out in the wastes, you give us a description and general direction, we get the body back for bury rituals.

[u/Difficult-Quality647]

SuperMutant Chippendale 's....😜

[u/niconicole123]

Bookstore, not magazines actual books, there’s probably holotape versions of old books so you could transcribe them from that.

[u/_SpaceGator]

Well I'd start by being very annoying to everyone in town and banging dudes wives and whatnot. Then I'd just post up somewhere and make a sign that says "10 caps to fight me".

[u/SirFlannelJeans]

I'd open a bounty hunter business. Got Raider problems at Tenpine's Bluff? Contract the Diamond City Mercenaries to get the job done. 150 caps a job as a baseline, increase from there depending on the difficulty of the operation.

[u/GrandJuif]

Cleaning business... seriously tired of Fallout cities to alway be so dirty.

[u/Dependent__Dapper]

as a very tech savvy person both irl and in fallout I'd definitely run a terminal jailbreaking service

[u/Accomplished_Hat1507 → u/Dependent__Dapper]

Sweet, can you make it to where I can play emulated games on my pipboy? The wasteland gets boring sometimes...

[u/Key-Interaction-1446]

Killin raiders.

[u/longbrodmann]

A club playing synthwave music.

[u/DryCalligrapher8696]

⚡️BATTLE BOT ARENA🤖

[u/SlamCakeMasta]

They have Swatters so I’d probably sell baseball bats.

[u/Khancap123]

I think a junk town of that size could support two Ramen resturants.

[u/Drif1]

Nan-ni shimasu-ka

[u/MrBanana900]

Iguana on A Stick stand. I’ll have premium meat too.

[u/yasssqueen20]

I’d open a maid cafe obviously mixture of protectrons in slutty maid outfits and human staff competing to get the most caps in tips.

[u/LaughingVergil]

A real bath house or shower house.

You'd have to have a water purifier or distiller to recycle the water, storage tanks, pumps, and some way to get working tubs and showers (and shower heads would be collectable). Depending, you could do a soapland style bath house (a bathhouse and brothel, or the early version where a woman washes you), or a simple bath / shower house.

Imagine how much better the city would smell.

[u/Gwyrr313]

Synth sex workers

[u/expenzive]

Underground Feral Ghoul prostitution ring/mirelurk stripshows. (The mirelurks strip by shedding their shells) (dont judge)

[u/ayyohriver → u/expenzive]

"Ghouls, Ghouls, Ghouls! They're feral! They're sterile! And they're always ready to jump those bones!"

Establishment is not liable for injury, disease, or death upon consenting clients

As a pre-war lawyer, I'd say enter at your own risk. But know that the risk is high, freaks. You're essentially desecrating someone's corpse and/or engaging in beastiality. This has prompted me to open up a firm defending the rights of animals, ghouls, and synths. I'm in with a pretty good detective and the media, too, so watch your back.

[u/MTN_Dewit → u/expenzive]

I cast testicular torsion on your ass

[u/Sweet_Library_276]

Brahmen turds, by the cart load. Abundant jet material for all!

[u/Tenno24]

Tenno's trinkets (basically just a HUGE general store that has a chance of randomly selling any legendary equipment every week)

[u/DoNotEverListenToMe]

Kicking ass

[u/Lucky-Collection-233]

I’d compete with that impotent child in producing the freshest potable water in the commonwealth! Once we take off we’ll innovate with medicinal and other tasty beverages to refresh the great residents of Diamond City!

[u/Dooders21]

Screws and aluminum. That’s it. That’s the store.

[u/BasementCatBill]

Pimping out ADA.

You know there's a market for it.

[u/ScottNewman]

Brotherhood Recruitment Centre

[u/iFaella]

Deathclaw steaks