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U-235 is a finite resource. Sure, we have technologies like fuel reprocessing breeder reactors, thorium reactors and heavy-water-moderated reactors, but they've not been perfected or widely implemented. By some estimates we only have about 150 years left of economically extractable uranium at...

Indeed. Sure the explosions when a Highwayman blows up even in FO3 are only equivalent to a tank of normal petrol.

Yeah, anything done in Gamebryo would be a lot more kludgey. I'd also love it if the combat AI was better. Covering fire, snipers, flanking, running away/surrendering if they're clearly outmatched. Just having everyone rush you out in the open gets a bit old after a while, as does "single...

Yeah I think it would be very cool. And it could actually be managed with the current AI. You can add custom AI packages and patrol paths by random events, or by time. So, for example, you can trigger NCR patrols to leave McCarran and Forlorn Hope during the day to patrol the roads. Deathclaws...

Well at least you're a physicist. I'm a mechanical engineer.

Hmm... Interesting point. This is getting well above my pay grade, but this would seem to suggest that a neutron will try and decay into a proton and an electron if there isn't a nearby proton occupying the relevant energy level. I guess with your background you'd be better placed than me to say...

Or it could invert the quarks composing the proton, changing up quarks to down quarks and vice versa, which would transform the proton into a neutron, leading to disintegration of the atoms and a shower of radiation. Again, not very good for anyone standing nearby. But yeah, pop culture, mainly.

"Crazy with low prices on Wind-Brahmin. You buy one! All caps!"

I tried to find it in another discussion and couldn't, so I might just have dreamed it! But on the face of it, it does make sense. Sort of like how early firearms were actually less accurate and effective than a bow and arrow, but only needed a few days training to use, instead of years.

1. Yeah, I don't like the vending machines either. The whole "rearrange things into edible food, weapons and medicine at an atomic level" is just ridiculous, and game breaking. If that technology exists, a lot of the lore doesn't make sense. I usually headcanon it so that they're not matter...

I found it fun. Not engaging and awesome in the same way as New Vegas, but a bit of a medieval, swords 'n spells power fantasy is a guilty pleasure I can enjoy from time to time.

Really depends on the application. Power Armour would be ideal for urban warfare. Lots of cover from heavier weapons that could pierce the armour, and pretty much complete invulnerability from small-arms fire. Fighting house-to-house you're going to be hard to stop. On an open battlefield you're...

This is very true

There's a difference between the acute and chronic effects of radiation. Acute effects are basically radiation sickness. Direct damage to your tissues and organs, faster than the body can repair them. Take a lot of radiation in one go, and it will kill you. Chronic effects are a random process...

I think having reliable, widespread small-scale fusion creates more problems for the setting than it solves, so usually handwave away "Microfusion" as a brand name for what is just a very good battery.

Yeah, the Enclave themselves, and all they stand for, is awful. The people... You can see how easy it would be to convince them that anyone left on the mainland is no longer human and a thread, especially when you show them evidence of Super Mutants, feral ghouls, deathclaws, even raiders and...

The NCR don't need to capture Flagstaff to win the war. If Caesar dies and the legion fractures, that suits them just fine. The Allies never captured Berlin in WW1. And the more the legion get pushed back, and the longer the NCR hold the Mojave, the harder it gets for the Legion. If the NCR...

I'd tend to go the other way with that. We see seven missiles in Ulysses' Temple. We have no idea how many of those are still functional. The one you launch while entering the Ashton silo pretty much instantly malfunctions and crashes. In either way it's impossible to say with any certainty...

I read the entire exchange differently, there's this bit: Courier: You can't destroy the West, even with all the missiles here. Ulysses: {Scoffs}No need to destroy the Bear, just cut its throat. You taught me that at the Divide - only need to cut off the supply line, the road, to watch...