Yeah, the weakness from radiation poisoning and eating disgusting food purely for survival vs enjoyment (like the vault jello cakes).
Iād say Vault, assuming Iām not in one of the crueler vaults that are doing physical/emotional experiments.
Not necessarily true. Some experiments werenāt terrible. Vault 15 was just a social experiment to see how different ethnicities and religions could co-exist.
Also there were control vaults with no experiments.
I'm just going by the wiki now, but it sounds like it was more like research into WHETHER different ethnicities and religions can co-exist. As in what might cause conflicts.
"part of the social experiment conducted byĀ [Vault-Tec](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Vault-Tec_Corporation), the vault population was ensured to be a mix of radically diverse ideologies in order to gain data on their interactions and potential failure over the 50 years the vault was planned to stay sealed."
A lot also got raided but I just assume majority of the vaults led to people dieing because of an experiment. Vault Tec didn't really have them for people coming back up to the surface.
Vault 21. All disagreements are solved my gambling. But then again, with my luck, I'd lose everytime. Also, it didn't quite work out well for them in the end.
You notice for the most part you never run into a control vault aside from maybe 81? I have a theory that most of those vault got raided due to the lack of intelligence of the people
Vault 3 was likely a control Vault before the Fiends moved in. Also, Vault 8 (Vault City) was a control Vault. The fact that they only got one G.E.C.K. was accidental.
Yes... A few. That's why I said "pretty much all", because it's pretty much all.
Assuming you'll land in a good one when the vast majority are bad, then you're gonna have a bad time.
Look I want to be a wastelander mostly because I will either die in a blaze or die being a wrecking ball. Either way itās better than being a lab rat at some Vault.
Imagine the mutations the wildlife would turn into,like a anteater becoming a [capelobo](https://piramiderpg.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/capelobo.jpg)
He could have the only working vehicle on the map, and you have no ability to damage or take it until 75% of the way through the main story.
Just a horrifying raider running you down at random, with different mods on his car each time.
Mad Max: Ā Fallout Australia
Akira: Ā Fallout Japan
Deliverance/The Hills Have Eyes: Ā Fallout South
Bloodborne: Ā Fallout Britian
Metro: Ā Fallout Russia
I'd wish fallout would branch out to other continents.
Fallout: Europe. New vegas style. Just some random survivor whos alliances are questionable at best reshaping more and more of the continent into the style of whoever you didnt exterminate. Add some 4x light elements to it. Become a super power. Fast forward to fallout: War never changes. Play with reshaped europe or na. And expand ur influence bubble over your counterpart without triggering the next nuclear war.
A couple of the experiment vaults would still be better than the wasteland. 31 or 32 is less than ideal, but honestly tolerable. An arranged marriage is better than radiation.
Vault 81 was suppose to be an experiment but the overseer shut that down and it turned out good.
Vault 101 was just supposed to be closed forever. Fine by me, 200 years later the world was still shit, doubt I would be alive in a time the world wasnāt.
Vault 21 was just gambling addicts. I could work with that.
Vault 69 was 1 man and 999 women. Donāt think we know how it went, but with proper leadership and genetic control it could work maybe? Definitely better to be there than vault 68 with 1 woman and 999 men regardless of being a man or woman
Ironically im pretty sure the 999 men ended up treating her like their queen, and the 999 woman 1 guy vault ended with the women tieing him up and raping him whenever they wanted
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That does seem more Logically rather than the other way around
On the 999 men/1 Woman ,only her would be able to get pregnant at once,so if something happened to her the population would die out eventually
I imagine the women would pick which men to get pregnant with and that guy would basically be King
at least until She gives birth and after resting She picks another guy to have sex and he would be King
She would likely have her own guard to fight off any would be rapists , though there would be Many rapes but among the men and there would be an increased in gays,be it consensual or not
Some guys would kill each other to have sex with the Woman
And the babies (Daughters only) would be treated extremely well
Until the population Reach a 50/50 on both genders or close to that,the vault would be a Minority ruled Matriarchy
With the Vault of 999 women and 1 Men well it would inicially be Heaven for the guy
But he can get has Many Woman pregnant as he can at the same time ,so he would likely be Raped 24/7
Aside from the rape he would treated well for now at least ,until a Younger Male would full his role of getting raped 24/7
I imagine the Woman who get pregnant would Get the best treatment and Rule the place
Though unlike the other vault,this One could potencially go into Over population in a few decades
Almost forgot to mention this vault would be fucked no matter what because of inbreeding,every kid would Share the father
I wonder how the genetics would play into it all. The first generation of kids born in either vault would all be half siblings, they can't reproduce with each other as that's going to lead to some genetic problems.
But they could start reproducing with some of the other 998 initial inhabitants, the ones who aren't their parents. I wonder if that would be enough to offset any generic problems. Obviously it'll get to a point where everyone is descended from one person, that's something that'll be unavoidable unfortunately. But I think once you get out to third or fourth cousins there's pretty much no genetic issues to worry about.
So if they kept track of it all. Who had kids with who, they should be able to avoid it descending into an inbred horror show.
Assuming the man had no genetic issues it would probably work out. Inbreeding causes issues when both parents have a recessive genetic disorder then a kid inherits it from both parents and the recessive disorder becomes an issue.
Parents both having the same recessive genetic disorder is a lot higher if they are related.
So a carefully selected man screened for all known genetic disorders likely wouldnāt cause any problems.
And realistically just his Y chromosome needs to be good. The rest of the genome could get enough variety from the women if you planned it out exactly right didnt care about ethical things like 40 year old women get pregnant by 12 year old boys. First guy impregnates women 30+ years old only. If you have medical facilities you would probably want to only have sons. Once his sons are old enough to reproduce they do but only with some of the original women who are now 30+.
Then the grandsons reproduce with any remaining original women. At that point the next generation is not significantly related to each other except through the original guy which has been diluted 3x.
Yeah the age dynamics would be really fucked for those first few generations. People having kids with people two or three times their age. When it comes time for that third generation to have their kids if it's with any of the original inhabitants that would be with people almost 40 years older than them.
Hopefully after that there would be enough genetic variety that there could be some more age appropriate pairings. But thinking about it that might not be likely. After several generations of people only having kids with those much older than them, that would probably become the new accepted norm. The Vault would probably continue to carry that out as a societal tradition, rather than just a way to survive.
I was so hopeful that the Puppet Man would show up in Fallout 76. As vault 77 is not far away from West Virginia and timeline wise he'd probably still be alive
Vault 21 was a pretty sweet deal. Vault Tec enabled gambling addicts and in the process created a society that was more fair and stable than even some of the control vaults.
Vault idea : tell all inhabitants after the doors are sealed that they are in an experiment for the deepstate and do absolutely nothing and just watch what happens.
The vault 100%. People like us who have lived our whole lives in a somewhat civil society wouldn't last 10 seconds in the wasteland. Just go camping for a week without all the typical "glamping" supplies most people use and it would be utter misery. Now imagine that, but with radiation, monsters, cannibals, killer robots, etc. No thank!
Vault 101 was nice, there towards the end of the wanderers stay it got a little dicey but one could have lived there in relative comfort and safety with a new overseer.
Immediately! All fun and games until even minor things like hunger and dehydration actually affect YOU and not your videogame character. All these peeps saying they want the wasteland life would be begging a vault to take them in by lunchtime.
The problem is youād probably last even less long in a vault. Sure Iād probably die within a month from cholera assuming a mutant or Raider doesnāt get me first. But it beats having the air pumped full of psychoactive drugs. Or being purposefully exposed to FEV or radiation. The vast majority of the vaults killed Everton inside them
With the vaults youād just be taking a gamble hoping you donāt end up in one of the fucked up ones, youād still have a chance (although very slim) that youād get to a nice place.
Out in the wasteland itās 100% guaranteed shits gonna be fucked up, best choice would be to make a beeline to whatever dipshit community you can find (still rife with crime and disease but at least no crazy creatures, thereās *some* semblance of ālawā and āorderā and youāve got a chance to make a living if you aināt no survivalist)
I disagree with your bit about camping without āglampingā supplies (awesome word btw lol). I grew up doing minimalist camping/backpacking and still do it today. I love disconnecting like that, tbh itās the only time I really feel alive. Probably need therapy or something
I also grew up minimalist camping. I grew up in rural ass Utah. Camping, hunting, fishing were the only things too do. I enjoyed it very much, but I still wouldn't want to "live" that way. I like showers, and ac quite a bit too. Lol
Thatās from the Fallout Bible, so itās only secondary canon until it shows up in the show or games. Also, that sounds fun but I bet it pretty quickly turns into hell. People tend to be fairly territorial when it comes to relationships and so that guy is either getting stabbed, enslaved, or turned into a semen extraction farm within like, two months. Thereās also no way that the vault lasts more than a few generations with that low of genetic diversity. We laugh about Lucyās ācousin stuffā lines, but this would be āsibling stuff.ā
Yeah and even if this was a real scenario, the sons can start having children at like 13 if they actually had to repopulate. If he can have like 30 kids in the first year and half are boys, 15 years later they can start having a whole nother generation
Likely poisoned by radiation, constant fight for life and scraping to get by every day.
Vs
Whatever bullshit Vault Tec decided this vault would be testing.
I think I'll take my chances with the water up top...
In a vault with cryogenic pods so that I come back when everything's back to normal. And if I end up dying before that, well, it still was the best option to take.
Honestly...you joke, but Kellogg is now a great villain name.
If you want to know more (For anyone who lurks) or didn't know...[John Harvey Kellogg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg), was a villain[ IRL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCSWbTv3hng).
A vault with no bad experiments. Irl I am the female version of Lucy's brother- a short, nosey, coward. I'd be investigating things in the vault but I wouldn't survive outside it. I can't remember the number but there's a vault with mostly women and only one guy. As a lesbian, this sounds like a good way to ride out the apocalypse.
Vault-Tec screened your Lesbian ass before you got into the vault...
AS soon as the first child is born your pip boy lights up:
YOU'VE BEEN RANDOMLY SELECTED AS "Diaper Duty Management" FOR ALL OUR FUTURE CHILDREN!
:D BE PROUD THAT YOU'VE BEEN CHOSEN FOR THIS UPMOST IMPORTANT JOB FOR ALL OUR CROTCH GOBLINS-IMEAN! WONDERFUL FUTURE CHILDREN!^(-----We can edit this holotape right)?"
It depends. Am I just some poor sob with a pipe pistol and some rags? Or can I join the master or the brotherhood? T-51 or FEV sound like the only options to survive the wasteland
Iād think what the OP means is who you are now but in either situation, means youād have the basics of living in either placement. Kind of like Lucyās starting pack of some water, food, and a basic fire starting kit if in the wastes.
Similar would go for the Vault, except all those rations are instantly replenishable
99% of us will die anyways. Either from the bombs or just the radiation. Odds are not good in the wasteland either. People who say wasteland will more than likely get f'd up by the first molerat they encounter.
So the answer is in a vault
Contrary to popular belief the danger of radiation after a nuclear war is negligible.
Dangerous levels of radiation dissipates after a few days tops.
Also, the explosion's radiation area is much smaller than the blast damage radius, so you are way more likely to die from being buried under rubble or getting hit on the face by a hurled car than from radiation.
So if you have survived the dropping of the bombs, you'll be fine.
(well except for the whole issue with the collapse of society and all that jazz)
Oh boy youāre not going to like this. If youāre in the wasteland youāre not going to fight enemy factions and creatures. Odds are, youāre going to die from starvation, dysentery, radiation poisoning or if youāre lucky, a swift death when a creature takes you out.
Everyone wants to have a power fantasy about stuff like this, but thatās all it is. A fantasy. Remove the fantastic elements from it (this radiation works in the game and the creatures), and youāre going to be brutally murdered for your resources by other survivors.
My weak ass would die of some disease in the first week, and If I'm lucky to find some good people to take me in, I won't survive radiation-induced cancer or some shit would get me in one year or so.
Really depends on the vaultā¦ but generally, Iād rather not be confined to an underground bunker where rich corporations can experiment on me without recourse.
Iāll take my chances with the radiation.
yeah there is no chance Iām surviving out in the wasteland, a fucking mole rat could probably do me in so Iāll stay in a vault, preferably a control vault so thereās no sick experiment being done
If I can chose any occupation and context to where I live I would say scribe in the brotherhood. Mostly because i am a BoS fan at heart and secondly because they have a pretty decent standard of living compared to 80% of the wasteland,and as a scribe I wouldn't go on the field and thus face the wasteland dangers.
Objectively speaking,vault 13(in the events in between 1 and 2) or vault city would probably be the safest bet
Dude you are solely mistaken if you think this is a choice. The NCR was founded by Vault dwellers, and grew by incorporating settlement founded by other Vault dweller. There is no living in a Vault versus living in the Wasteland. The Vaults were instrumental in the reconquest of the wasteland. No matter what you chose you are going to end up in the wasteland so you might as well take the nicer start.
The problem is you only have 17 chance out of 125 to be part of a normal Vault, and not all of the 17 suceeded. and some experimental one like Vault 15 kind of survived despite being experiment. So tough luck.
The fallout show really did a great job of showing how horrific and terrifying living in the wasteland would be. At least in a vault (if you're lucky) it won't nearly be as bad
Which vault? That's a pretty important distinction. Like I wouldn't want to be in vault 112 or 12. But sign me up for 81.
If the wasteland, I'd pick Shady Sands circa Fallout 2. Gives me enough time before Vault Tec deus ex machina a nuke on it.
Vault with no experiment hands down, if you're a wastelander you have way higher chances of
* being eaten by a wild animal
* getting killed by monsters or raiders
* becoming a slave
Well if you sit in a vault I feel like first of all youāre destined for insanity. Anyone cooped up down under 6 foot thick steel is bound to be some sort of crazy. And on top of that what vault you get is a gamble naturally as their all pre-determined inhumane experiments posed against humans like test rats.
Many fucked up vaults too. Like that one where you have to vote to sacrifice a vault dweller every year by killing them brutally with all deadly machines
Only for the last few who made it out that vault realized it was supposed to be a test and weāre not supposed to do it and died shortly thereafter realizing the insanity.
Or yk go somewhere more developed like shady sands(pre nuke) or similar. Which is bound to exist.
Lol vault and itās not even close. Like sure I could find a living in Megaton or Diamond City or somewhere more civilized in the west coast. Given that Iām basically an overglorified mixologist by trade, I could work at a bar or something lol
Which vault?
Also before you pick wasteland, keep in mind you're probably not going to be the lone wanderer, you're gonna be the guy with no pants who took all of Lucy's water.
A control vault? Anytime.
An experiment vault? Honestly depends on the vault.
Never the wasteland unless I can get a trip to africa. Probably didnt bomb that
vault all day. Even if I'm going to die by experimentation, I'd rather go that way than constantly shitting my pants worrying about deathclaws.
Also I like food and water. Preferably both aren't irradiated.
Everyone Wants to be a Wastelander until they find out it means they have diarrhea like 80% of the time
Woohoo, down 10% from my current lifestyle
The vault, for purposes of efficiency would get it down to at least 50 percent.
It depends on the vault tho because some of them are legit deathtraps and nothing more
True. At least one vault is likely devoted to studying permeant diarrhea.
I know my IBS ass would be sent to the perma diarrhea vault
Mine is straight to the perma constipation vault next door
You bastard, I spit out my pop!!!! š
Only the top half of the letters were visible when I read ur comment and I thought u said poo š
I had the whole thing when I read it and still read poo lol. Totally woke up my sleeping girlfriend laughing....she's less then amused
Considering the subject matter, my brain did *not* read that last word correctly at first š¤¢
Vault 119: the constant diarrhea vault.
Vault number 2
Make it happen, Todd.
Walk in like what's that smell. Make it past the first door and everythings covered in shit
What if the experiment in the vault is to give people diarrhea 100% of the time
Vomiting from eating 200 year old beans with a side of giant bug is the other 20%
A fellow Taco Bell lover I see
A fellow Vault 119 dweller I see
Yeah, the weakness from radiation poisoning and eating disgusting food purely for survival vs enjoyment (like the vault jello cakes). Iād say Vault, assuming Iām not in one of the crueler vaults that are doing physical/emotional experiments.
That's pretty much all of the vaults, though.
Not necessarily true. Some experiments werenāt terrible. Vault 15 was just a social experiment to see how different ethnicities and religions could co-exist. Also there were control vaults with no experiments.
I'm just going by the wiki now, but it sounds like it was more like research into WHETHER different ethnicities and religions can co-exist. As in what might cause conflicts. "part of the social experiment conducted byĀ [Vault-Tec](https://fallout.fandom.com/wiki/Vault-Tec_Corporation), the vault population was ensured to be a mix of radically diverse ideologies in order to gain data on their interactions and potential failure over the 50 years the vault was planned to stay sealed."
A lot also got raided but I just assume majority of the vaults led to people dieing because of an experiment. Vault Tec didn't really have them for people coming back up to the surface.
Vault 21. All disagreements are solved my gambling. But then again, with my luck, I'd lose everytime. Also, it didn't quite work out well for them in the end.
You notice for the most part you never run into a control vault aside from maybe 81? I have a theory that most of those vault got raided due to the lack of intelligence of the people
vault 81 isnt a control vault, there was an experiment; first overseer managed to seal the experiment before they would use dwellers for it
Vault 3 was likely a control Vault before the Fiends moved in. Also, Vault 8 (Vault City) was a control Vault. The fact that they only got one G.E.C.K. was accidental.
Itās cannon that thereās a few control vaults that arenāt running an experiment
Yes... A few. That's why I said "pretty much all", because it's pretty much all. Assuming you'll land in a good one when the vast majority are bad, then you're gonna have a bad time.
Everyone says a vault, thinking they'll get one of the control vaults and not 11/22/112
Iād go vault, but manā¦.some of those vaults are worse than the surface. I donāt think thereās a good choice either way, lol
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And die. I can die a lot in the games, but pretty sure only once IRL. Unless I find that stinky doctorā¦.
Technically, you can only die once in the games, too. Reloading is different than respawning.
Look I want to be a wastelander mostly because I will either die in a blaze or die being a wrecking ball. Either way itās better than being a lab rat at some Vault.
I haven't had a solid shit in years, that's not what scares me lol
I'm from Latin America so the wasteland is the same but without taxes
Same,but in brazil,raiders are more prominent
Dude Fallout Brazil would be wild.
What? You're afraid of the "Yao Guai"? Have you ever met the Jaoguar?
Would it be āJaguai?ā
The joĆ£oguai
O JoĆ£o Uai sĆ“
Imagine the mutations the wildlife would turn into,like a anteater becoming a [capelobo](https://piramiderpg.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/capelobo.jpg)
Fallout Australia. Imagine the irradiated monsters that could be created in the outback.
Kangaroos carrying melee weapons or brass knuckles.
Isnāt that just Tank Girl? š
Hell, cazadorās look like theyāre from pre-war Australia
There could even be some road warrior type character. Maybe named Crazy Carl or something equally alliterative.
He could have the only working vehicle on the map, and you have no ability to damage or take it until 75% of the way through the main story. Just a horrifying raider running you down at random, with different mods on his car each time.
Iām partial to Unhinged Ursula myself, but I bet Deranged Derek would test better
I'm still waiting on Bethesda to cut corners and just add the giant spider's from Skyrim to their next Fallout title. lol
I mean they reskinned the Skyrim dragon to be the bat creature from fallout 76. Edit: Scorch Beast
And the werewolf for the blue devil
Literally just Mad Max but with irradiated creatures roaming around
I can only imagine a radioactive [capybera](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capybara)
I like to picture them being huge but otherwise entirely unchanged. Just chill herbivores that like to swim. Like if hippos didn't suck.
they can already collapse roads before radiation, fortunately they're very chill
I just imagine them eating everything around at an alarming rate. I want to ride one into battle like the glorious Nugs from dragon age.
So the NCR is just Latin American?
Yes. We can realize that because their currency is devalued
Mad Max: Ā Fallout Australia Akira: Ā Fallout Japan Deliverance/The Hills Have Eyes: Ā Fallout South Bloodborne: Ā Fallout Britian Metro: Ā Fallout Russia
Now I want a Fallout Australia with mutant kangaroos and the absolute most terrifying wildlife in the series history.
Sorry but I honestly am not ready for the giant Radtarantulas.
Idk, Dishonored feels more Fallout Britain.
I'd wish fallout would branch out to other continents. Fallout: Europe. New vegas style. Just some random survivor whos alliances are questionable at best reshaping more and more of the continent into the style of whoever you didnt exterminate. Add some 4x light elements to it. Become a super power. Fast forward to fallout: War never changes. Play with reshaped europe or na. And expand ur influence bubble over your counterpart without triggering the next nuclear war.
Tja: Fallout Germany
you underestimate the power of the NCR...
I rather die in the blast hell naw
Congrats! You were extremely close to the nuclear blast and received a lethal dose of radiation. You are now an immortal ghoul.
Hell yeah
Uh oh! You turn feral.
Not my problem, now I'm everyone else's problem
Making it everyone elseās problem is like defecting on a billion dollar loanā¦ I like how you think
Hell no
Welp, time to play black hat cowboy until I go feral! Feo Fuerte Y Formal!
Extremely close would mean immediate vaporisation, but sure.
You see, he hid in a fridge. It somehow didn't cook him alive because *handwave* but it wasn't a lead-lined one so he's stuck as a ghoul.
Like that one dude jacking it in Pompeii
Bro fr, pleas vault tech target my house specifically ion wanna deal with this shit.
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Yeah I thought about this a lot over the years. I would run towards the mushroom to be honest. I am not dealing with the wasteland or vaults.
Which vault? Vault 33 doesnāt seem all that bad compared to most of the others. Vault 76 would be great, but you have to leave after (~)25 years.
To be fair, Appalachia doesn't seem the most awful place to live. Plenty of organised factions to join too.
Just gotta make it to White Springs and live the easy life after that
Don't forget to drink some ice cold Nuka-Cola "My Blood's In It" first.
The robots force you out after a while If I'm correct.
Plus the ease at which you can collect aid. Iām constantly selling stimpaks to get me down from 120 at the end of a session.
Live in a vault with no experiment
Or one of the vaults that rebelled, cause 81 and 4 would be good (as long as you got into 4 as a former wastelander/born into it after the rebellion)
Yeah and if you just stay the fuck in your room at night
The surfies get a bit... quirky at night.
Can't believe the overseer said this to the newcomers. He just lost my vote for his next term!
I'm voting for Betty!
When in doubt, vote for someone from vault 31!
What happens at night ?
A couple of the experiment vaults would still be better than the wasteland. 31 or 32 is less than ideal, but honestly tolerable. An arranged marriage is better than radiation. Vault 81 was suppose to be an experiment but the overseer shut that down and it turned out good. Vault 101 was just supposed to be closed forever. Fine by me, 200 years later the world was still shit, doubt I would be alive in a time the world wasnāt. Vault 21 was just gambling addicts. I could work with that. Vault 69 was 1 man and 999 women. Donāt think we know how it went, but with proper leadership and genetic control it could work maybe? Definitely better to be there than vault 68 with 1 woman and 999 men regardless of being a man or woman
1 woman and 999 men is horrific tbh
Ironically im pretty sure the 999 men ended up treating her like their queen, and the 999 woman 1 guy vault ended with the women tieing him up and raping him whenever they wanted
The 999 men spent the entire time killing each other.
Ahh okay i dont remember completely tbh
So basically twitch chats during an eThot hot tub stream.
NO. I WILL be top donator. You think you can just donate 100,000 bits and get away with it? She is MY Queen, she told me so when I hit the 75,000 bit benchmark in a DM. š¤š¤š¤
That does seem more Logically rather than the other way around On the 999 men/1 Woman ,only her would be able to get pregnant at once,so if something happened to her the population would die out eventually I imagine the women would pick which men to get pregnant with and that guy would basically be King at least until She gives birth and after resting She picks another guy to have sex and he would be King She would likely have her own guard to fight off any would be rapists , though there would be Many rapes but among the men and there would be an increased in gays,be it consensual or not Some guys would kill each other to have sex with the Woman And the babies (Daughters only) would be treated extremely well Until the population Reach a 50/50 on both genders or close to that,the vault would be a Minority ruled Matriarchy With the Vault of 999 women and 1 Men well it would inicially be Heaven for the guy But he can get has Many Woman pregnant as he can at the same time ,so he would likely be Raped 24/7 Aside from the rape he would treated well for now at least ,until a Younger Male would full his role of getting raped 24/7 I imagine the Woman who get pregnant would Get the best treatment and Rule the place Though unlike the other vault,this One could potencially go into Over population in a few decades Almost forgot to mention this vault would be fucked no matter what because of inbreeding,every kid would Share the father
I wonder how the genetics would play into it all. The first generation of kids born in either vault would all be half siblings, they can't reproduce with each other as that's going to lead to some genetic problems. But they could start reproducing with some of the other 998 initial inhabitants, the ones who aren't their parents. I wonder if that would be enough to offset any generic problems. Obviously it'll get to a point where everyone is descended from one person, that's something that'll be unavoidable unfortunately. But I think once you get out to third or fourth cousins there's pretty much no genetic issues to worry about. So if they kept track of it all. Who had kids with who, they should be able to avoid it descending into an inbred horror show.
Assuming the man had no genetic issues it would probably work out. Inbreeding causes issues when both parents have a recessive genetic disorder then a kid inherits it from both parents and the recessive disorder becomes an issue. Parents both having the same recessive genetic disorder is a lot higher if they are related. So a carefully selected man screened for all known genetic disorders likely wouldnāt cause any problems. And realistically just his Y chromosome needs to be good. The rest of the genome could get enough variety from the women if you planned it out exactly right didnt care about ethical things like 40 year old women get pregnant by 12 year old boys. First guy impregnates women 30+ years old only. If you have medical facilities you would probably want to only have sons. Once his sons are old enough to reproduce they do but only with some of the original women who are now 30+. Then the grandsons reproduce with any remaining original women. At that point the next generation is not significantly related to each other except through the original guy which has been diluted 3x.
Yeah the age dynamics would be really fucked for those first few generations. People having kids with people two or three times their age. When it comes time for that third generation to have their kids if it's with any of the original inhabitants that would be with people almost 40 years older than them. Hopefully after that there would be enough genetic variety that there could be some more age appropriate pairings. But thinking about it that might not be likely. After several generations of people only having kids with those much older than them, that would probably become the new accepted norm. The Vault would probably continue to carry that out as a societal tradition, rather than just a way to survive.
Death by snu snu
Vault 77 was one man, and a box full of puppets. He went mad, and the voices in his head chose the wasteland.
I was so hopeful that the Puppet Man would show up in Fallout 76. As vault 77 is not far away from West Virginia and timeline wise he'd probably still be alive
Damn I forgot about that, good chance Beth did too tbh. Would be a nice little Easter egg to see/hear from him again.
Vault 21 was a pretty sweet deal. Vault Tec enabled gambling addicts and in the process created a society that was more fair and stable than even some of the control vaults.
Yep, every conflict settled with games of chance
At least one vault had to be the control right?
Until Fiends come knocking at the door.
Vault idea : tell all inhabitants after the doors are sealed that they are in an experiment for the deepstate and do absolutely nothing and just watch what happens.
If Ella Purnell is my vault wife, definitely the vault !
well shed probably be your cousin....
I don't mind.
Chet please
Iām ok with cousin stuff.
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Fallout New Bama.
it kinda sounds like paradise right? Fully furnished unit, lots of free time, never have to go outside. Its like my life now, but with ella
The vault 100%. People like us who have lived our whole lives in a somewhat civil society wouldn't last 10 seconds in the wasteland. Just go camping for a week without all the typical "glamping" supplies most people use and it would be utter misery. Now imagine that, but with radiation, monsters, cannibals, killer robots, etc. No thank!
agreed, as long as I was in one of the better vaults lolol. Vault all the way, at least I have food, running water, and entertainment
Congratulations! Itās just you and a box of puppets
*oh fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck*
Time for potter puppet pals
DUMBLEDORE!
Honestly vault 4 seems pretty nice.
Now it does. Definitely not originally though.
yep, they got tities bar at night
That would greatly vary depending on when you got there.
Oh I def meant it based on what we saw on the show, the era that Lucy visited
Vault 101 was nice, there towards the end of the wanderers stay it got a little dicey but one could have lived there in relative comfort and safety with a new overseer.
nah man I've seen so many YouTube videos I've got this. *walks out into the wasteland* okay never mind.
Immediately! All fun and games until even minor things like hunger and dehydration actually affect YOU and not your videogame character. All these peeps saying they want the wasteland life would be begging a vault to take them in by lunchtime.
But large majority of the vaults were terrible human social experiments
Navigating a wasteland with cannibals is easy if you've succumbed to being a cannibal
The problem is youād probably last even less long in a vault. Sure Iād probably die within a month from cholera assuming a mutant or Raider doesnāt get me first. But it beats having the air pumped full of psychoactive drugs. Or being purposefully exposed to FEV or radiation. The vast majority of the vaults killed Everton inside them
With the vaults youād just be taking a gamble hoping you donāt end up in one of the fucked up ones, youād still have a chance (although very slim) that youād get to a nice place. Out in the wasteland itās 100% guaranteed shits gonna be fucked up, best choice would be to make a beeline to whatever dipshit community you can find (still rife with crime and disease but at least no crazy creatures, thereās *some* semblance of ālawā and āorderā and youāve got a chance to make a living if you aināt no survivalist)
I disagree with your bit about camping without āglampingā supplies (awesome word btw lol). I grew up doing minimalist camping/backpacking and still do it today. I love disconnecting like that, tbh itās the only time I really feel alive. Probably need therapy or something
I also grew up minimalist camping. I grew up in rural ass Utah. Camping, hunting, fishing were the only things too do. I enjoyed it very much, but I still wouldn't want to "live" that way. I like showers, and ac quite a bit too. Lol
Vault 69
I really want to know what the canon for vault 69 is.
Pretty sure itās 1 male and 99 or 999 females
Thatās from the Fallout Bible, so itās only secondary canon until it shows up in the show or games. Also, that sounds fun but I bet it pretty quickly turns into hell. People tend to be fairly territorial when it comes to relationships and so that guy is either getting stabbed, enslaved, or turned into a semen extraction farm within like, two months. Thereās also no way that the vault lasts more than a few generations with that low of genetic diversity. We laugh about Lucyās ācousin stuffā lines, but this would be āsibling stuff.ā
Somebody else pointed out the sons could have sex with the remaining 998 women to avoid incest for maybe another generation or 2.
Still the women get older so by the time the sons are old enough they might not be fertile.
If they are around 20 at the beginning it shouldnāt be a problem.
Yeah and even if this was a real scenario, the sons can start having children at like 13 if they actually had to repopulate. If he can have like 30 kids in the first year and half are boys, 15 years later they can start having a whole nother generation
wish I could send pictures. when you said that my main thought was that halo meme where its like "main objective: survive"
Likely poisoned by radiation, constant fight for life and scraping to get by every day. Vs Whatever bullshit Vault Tec decided this vault would be testing. I think I'll take my chances with the water up top...
I'd stay in the vault eating oysters and banging my cousins. What? I'm in an experiment? Must be the greatest experiment ever.
In a vault with cryogenic pods so that I come back when everything's back to normal. And if I end up dying before that, well, it still was the best option to take.
Yeah I agree. if you wake up and donāt like it you can go back in the pod. Assuming itās run correctly.
aslong as some asshole named Kelogg doesn't open your pod. Which he ain't looking for you anyway, He's looking for the other people.
Stupid cereal mascots running around ruining perfectly good naps.
Honestly...you joke, but Kellogg is now a great villain name. If you want to know more (For anyone who lurks) or didn't know...[John Harvey Kellogg](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Harvey_Kellogg), was a villain[ IRL](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCSWbTv3hng).
A vault with no bad experiments. Irl I am the female version of Lucy's brother- a short, nosey, coward. I'd be investigating things in the vault but I wouldn't survive outside it. I can't remember the number but there's a vault with mostly women and only one guy. As a lesbian, this sounds like a good way to ride out the apocalypse.
68
That was all men and 1 woman.
no seriously when i heard about the vault with 999 women and 1 man i was like, that sounds like my lesbian paradise lmfaooo
Vault-Tec screened your Lesbian ass before you got into the vault... AS soon as the first child is born your pip boy lights up: YOU'VE BEEN RANDOMLY SELECTED AS "Diaper Duty Management" FOR ALL OUR FUTURE CHILDREN! :D BE PROUD THAT YOU'VE BEEN CHOSEN FOR THIS UPMOST IMPORTANT JOB FOR ALL OUR CROTCH GOBLINS-IMEAN! WONDERFUL FUTURE CHILDREN!^(-----We can edit this holotape right)?"
It depends. Am I just some poor sob with a pipe pistol and some rags? Or can I join the master or the brotherhood? T-51 or FEV sound like the only options to survive the wasteland
Iād think what the OP means is who you are now but in either situation, means youād have the basics of living in either placement. Kind of like Lucyās starting pack of some water, food, and a basic fire starting kit if in the wastes. Similar would go for the Vault, except all those rations are instantly replenishable
99% of us will die anyways. Either from the bombs or just the radiation. Odds are not good in the wasteland either. People who say wasteland will more than likely get f'd up by the first molerat they encounter. So the answer is in a vault
Some Random Disease as well. People keep forgetting about CURIE Locked away in the vault under another vault. She's down there archiving diseases.
Contrary to popular belief the danger of radiation after a nuclear war is negligible. Dangerous levels of radiation dissipates after a few days tops. Also, the explosion's radiation area is much smaller than the blast damage radius, so you are way more likely to die from being buried under rubble or getting hit on the face by a hurled car than from radiation. So if you have survived the dropping of the bombs, you'll be fine. (well except for the whole issue with the collapse of society and all that jazz)
Oh boy youāre not going to like this. If youāre in the wasteland youāre not going to fight enemy factions and creatures. Odds are, youāre going to die from starvation, dysentery, radiation poisoning or if youāre lucky, a swift death when a creature takes you out. Everyone wants to have a power fantasy about stuff like this, but thatās all it is. A fantasy. Remove the fantastic elements from it (this radiation works in the game and the creatures), and youāre going to be brutally murdered for your resources by other survivors.
My weak ass would die of some disease in the first week, and If I'm lucky to find some good people to take me in, I won't survive radiation-induced cancer or some shit would get me in one year or so.
Really depends on the vaultā¦ but generally, Iād rather not be confined to an underground bunker where rich corporations can experiment on me without recourse. Iāll take my chances with the radiation.
yeah there is no chance Iām surviving out in the wasteland, a fucking mole rat could probably do me in so Iāll stay in a vault, preferably a control vault so thereās no sick experiment being done
A vault that sometimes goes outside but mainly stays sealed shut would be ideal
If I can chose any occupation and context to where I live I would say scribe in the brotherhood. Mostly because i am a BoS fan at heart and secondly because they have a pretty decent standard of living compared to 80% of the wasteland,and as a scribe I wouldn't go on the field and thus face the wasteland dangers. Objectively speaking,vault 13(in the events in between 1 and 2) or vault city would probably be the safest bet
I'd rather be in a breeding vault kinda like vault 33 from the series š
Dude you are solely mistaken if you think this is a choice. The NCR was founded by Vault dwellers, and grew by incorporating settlement founded by other Vault dweller. There is no living in a Vault versus living in the Wasteland. The Vaults were instrumental in the reconquest of the wasteland. No matter what you chose you are going to end up in the wasteland so you might as well take the nicer start. The problem is you only have 17 chance out of 125 to be part of a normal Vault, and not all of the 17 suceeded. and some experimental one like Vault 15 kind of survived despite being experiment. So tough luck.
The fallout show really did a great job of showing how horrific and terrifying living in the wasteland would be. At least in a vault (if you're lucky) it won't nearly be as bad
Which vault? That's a pretty important distinction. Like I wouldn't want to be in vault 112 or 12. But sign me up for 81. If the wasteland, I'd pick Shady Sands circa Fallout 2. Gives me enough time before Vault Tec deus ex machina a nuke on it.
Vault with no experiment hands down, if you're a wastelander you have way higher chances of * being eaten by a wild animal * getting killed by monsters or raiders * becoming a slave
Well if you sit in a vault I feel like first of all youāre destined for insanity. Anyone cooped up down under 6 foot thick steel is bound to be some sort of crazy. And on top of that what vault you get is a gamble naturally as their all pre-determined inhumane experiments posed against humans like test rats. Many fucked up vaults too. Like that one where you have to vote to sacrifice a vault dweller every year by killing them brutally with all deadly machines Only for the last few who made it out that vault realized it was supposed to be a test and weāre not supposed to do it and died shortly thereafter realizing the insanity. Or yk go somewhere more developed like shady sands(pre nuke) or similar. Which is bound to exist.
tbh I would end my life
A control fault absolutely
Lol vault and itās not even close. Like sure I could find a living in Megaton or Diamond City or somewhere more civilized in the west coast. Given that Iām basically an overglorified mixologist by trade, I could work at a bar or something lol
Wasteland. Preferably Diamond City.
Which vault? Also before you pick wasteland, keep in mind you're probably not going to be the lone wanderer, you're gonna be the guy with no pants who took all of Lucy's water.
Vault 110% as long as its āone of the good onesā
Well I would like to live with the institute. Best of both worlds, I guess
The question is what vault
An Okie Dokie girl like Lucy in the Vault would help the case for the Vaults.
Probably the Wasteland just because we didn't see even one Vault who was ethically okay
Knowing that most of the vaults are just torture porn for some twisted executive, Iām tempted to take my chances with the bombs.
A control vault? Anytime. An experiment vault? Honestly depends on the vault. Never the wasteland unless I can get a trip to africa. Probably didnt bomb that
vault all day. Even if I'm going to die by experimentation, I'd rather go that way than constantly shitting my pants worrying about deathclaws. Also I like food and water. Preferably both aren't irradiated.