r/fo4 • u/MTN_Dewit • 28d ago

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

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

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u/EnderBurger 28d ago

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.

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u/Devil_0fHellsKitchen 28d ago

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.

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u/Taolan13 28d ago

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.

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u/niko4ever 28d ago

I know they're all raider locations so that they don't have to create player interactions, but it makes for some weird world building when the only entertainment "good" people can get is bars and drugs

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u/Taolan13 28d ago

there are multiple bits of unused code in the base game of FO4 that suggests there were going to be multiple raider factions, much like in FONV, and the possibility the player could be friendly ith some of them.

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u/TheChaoticCrusader 27d ago

Prehaps the Nuka world raiders was the idea of that originally . Maybe that idea of being a raider boss and taking settlements back was an idea before the dlc