The same thing about the Children of Atom, why are they non-hostile in some zones and completely hostile in others? What if I'm wearing their clothes? What if I helped them in Far Harbor? Nope, still hostile. You'd talk to tommy to fight the Arena, and so on. And when you entered the combat zone you wouldn't have everyone attacking you, obviously, those raiders would keep doing what they where doing, minding their own bussiness and that's it. When it comes to the combat zone, it might be possible to restore it using those unused sound files that where found in the game perhaps? Make it a real arena, and only after you defeated Cait Tommy would give her to you. Just because you started raiding caravans that doesn't mean you need to also paint your face, dress in wierd garments and wear all those metal pipes around you. Just because they're a group of criminals doesn't mean they have to attack everyone they see, that doesn't make sense, how would they know who I am? That I don't want to join them or something? And lore-wise, they'd let settlers live in their territory as long as they paid them tribute with either money or food(most likely fish).

And altough their story should remain the same, about them no longer being 'actual' minutemen, and having to resort to criminality to survive, they should still be dressed as minutemen(instead of raiders), without any painted faces and so on. While the main ship would be where the old Minutemen where. Same thing with Libertalia, it was such an interesting zone, with all those ships connected through makeshift bridges, they could be actual houses for normal people to live in. Perhaps a few watchers would be placed with scoped rifles to guard the ship, stuff like that. Some would be cooking food, others fixing stuff, others simply walking across the ship. The ghouls would probably have a 'far harbor' look, in terms of clothes perhaps, and everyone would be seen doing different things. Or perhaps some of them where actual Norwegian Ghouls and there where also some human settlers who lived there with their permission. For example, the Northern Star would still have Norwegian Ghouls but who lived organized into a community. Perhaps not full of new quests(altough that would be awesome) but just filled with non-hostile people. So what I have in mind is if someone can turn these interesting place in actual interesting places. It's really annoying, everytime you find an interesting zone and you probably think it must be a unique settlement with new people and quests, nope, just more raiders to kill. Basically my idea is to make Fallout 4 zones more interesting, instead of raider outposts everywhere.

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