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Nope, he just nukes the Long 15. Cuts them off from the Mojave. Sure they'll struggle without the power and water from Hoover Dam, but desalination and solar power are things, and the NCR will survive it.

Samosas?

I'm guessing the Vaults would be kept at a positive pressure to prevent leakage of contaminated air from the outside in. With that in mind, the door seals would work better if the doors opened inwards, as the pressure would be pushing them outwards against the seals. You'd need to overdesign...

The real Roman Empire was to a large extent reliant on conquest for its strength and prosperity for long periods of its existence. When they finally stopped expanding and plundering they went into decline. The same could well apply to the legion. They're an amalgamation of tribes, which suggests...

I agree. The NCR is explicitly said to be suffering from poor management, bad luck and weak intelligence. Their best troops are away on another campaign in Baha. One of their potential supply routes from California just exploded one day, taking a load of their troops with it. Another got overrun...

Yeah this is true. Although a lot of it is just people's opinions. You could find a lot of people in the US today who think that the government is in the pockets of big corporations, or that they are power-hungry socialists, or a million other things. I don't think we know enough to say that the...

I-15 to Vegas could simply be more heavily guarded. I can imagine that the NCR have already fortified it against raiders, whereas the Divide was a new route, less developed, and easier to shut off. Caesar is already working on stifling I-15 at its weakest points, closer to Vegas, by stirring up...

Well we have no idea what life in the NCR is like. How cohesive their society is etc. Countries have survived recessions before. They would do in the future. If, on the other hand, the NCR is like the Ottoman Empire, with separate national and tribal identities bubbling away under the surface...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Induced_gamma_emission is one possibility. Basically, radioactive elements have stored energy that is released gradually as radioactivity as the nuclei decay to a more stable state. Some elements can theoretically be induced to release all this decay energy in a...

In general, order is stronger than chaos. The NCR could have walked over each of the 57 Tribes of the Legion, probably without even breaking a sweat. Band them together under Caesar's banner and you have a real existential threat. Anarchy is never going to last forever. A bigger fish is going...

I would say that the fact they're not mentioned in New Vegas is pretty strong circumstantial evidence that they're not major players in the west. Either dead or amalgamated into the NCR.

Different people gonna have different things they'd hate. Some folk would love to be out roaming the wastes as a gun for hire, having adventures. In real life, that would scare me shitless. Going to have to say the worst job would be the slaves working on making jet out of Brahmin dung in New...

I'm pretty sure he was the Overseer of Vault 13 as well as the head of Vault Tec. Didn't sound like a great script to be honest!

I think I go against most of the community here when I say that I don't really mind the presence of the Enclave and BoS in DC in itself. But I do think it was handled in a bit of a ham-fisted way. And I don't really like the Purifier main quest. Imagine how much better the story could have been...

With enough people, DC could actually by a pretty good fortified city. All the access points are blocked off by rubble, so the only reliable way in is through the subways, which are natural chokepoints and kill zones. A few hundred decently-armed people could man the walls and the subway...

Qualified as a mechanical engineer, worked in the nuclear industry for a short while, then went back to uni to do a PhD. I'm just writing up now, hopefully finished in the new year

The world of New Vegas has kind of gotten beyond the point where wildlife is an existential threat. Sure, tunnelers are dangerous and numerous, but they're not intelligent or organised. Fifty tunnelers are still no match for a few hundred NCR troops who plan their operation well. And if they...

Heck, even say they were trying to capture something else. Brahmin or even a deathclaw. They left out bait in a trap, and now they have a VERY angry behemoth that they don't know what to do with. Part of your quest to take down Evergreen Mills can be to release the behemoth who goes on a rampage.

It would be great if there were more (or any) nonlethal options. I usually play as a "good" character, but it doesn't really fit when your only option for dealing with raiders is to massacre them or run away. Powder Gangers, for example, aren't supposed to be crazy. If they see a power-armoured...

The US spends significantly more per capita on healthcare than the "single payer" nations in Western Europe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_total_health_expenditure_per_capita (yeah, wiki, I know, but the figures are from the WHO) There are a few reasons for this, but the...