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[Chiefwaffles]

Faction mechanics are really confusing.
What exactly are the Minutemen? Who is in it? How is taking settlements helping in it? How do I increase coverage in order to get better likelihoods of support from flare guns?

I'm guessing at this point that settlements I directly own are owned by the Minutemen. Am I also guess I AM the Minutemen. But if my settlements are Minutemen locations, how do they impact flare gun support?
Brotherhood seems to control territory via "Feeding the Troops" repeatable quest? I get a message telling me the Brotherhood owns the area when I convince the settlers there, but what exactly does it mean? Is this a settlement I could have captured myself? Does the brotherhood owning it change anything?

[Aseaheru]

 From what I can tell, the Minutemen are the settlers living in the settlements that let you build there. Coverage is increased by getting more places to join you (mostly by killing everything in a certain area).

Spoiler: Minor spoiler (click to show/hide)

Your char is basically shanghaied into becoming the general of the minutemen by Preston after the first of his "go help out area X by killing everything in area Y" quests

I image that the flare gun support is explained as "everyone who can drop their work nearby comes and helps", but I have yet to use it.

 Also, no clue about the BOS lands yet.

[Flying Dice]

One reason to keep up with the Minutemen is super-cool, and somewhat useful:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Later down their quest line, you gain the ability to build big-ass mortars in your settlements with fairly long range, and get access to a stock of smoke grenades that you can use to mark targets for artillery fire.

Re: my own game, I just found my waifu and used console commands to fix her. Mostly. She still just stands around and spouts two or three brush-off lines while refusing to talk to me, but that's a step up from trying to kill me. <3 Talia.

But. Uh. If you recognize that name, you'll know why I had to use console commands--I didn't exactly want to not get a free fortified settlement. Thing is, there were problems along the way. Funny, gruesome problems. No spoilers, only pictures.

Spoiler: setav aggression 0 apparently doesn't work any more, so I decided to kill->resurrect->stopcombat, which did. Problem is, I accidentally blew her head off in the process; I shot her instead of using 'kill'. She came back... wrong (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Very wrong. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Nnnnnnope. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Thankfully, fast-traveling away and back fixed her. (click to show/hide)

So now I get to keep my jittery traumatized woobie waifu in my new settlement and don't have to kill her because she was helped by [spoilers expunged]. Bethesda really dropped the ball on this particular little story, it's even more hamfisted and binary than Fallout 3's main conflict.

[Putnam]

it's even more hamfisted and binary than Fallout 3's main conflict.

i don't believe you

[Sirian]

Lone Survivor

You mean "Sole Survivor". You're mixing it up with the Lone Wanderer.

Anyways, I just found something interesting while confronting a raider boss who had a minigun. I killed the boss and one of the raiders picked up the minigun, so I killed her too, and when I collected the loot, both the boss and the raider had 500 ammo (a bit less for the boss since she had the time to use some). I reloaded the save because I did something stupid, redid the fight, but this time I tried to kill the boss first. I let two of the raiders pick up the minigun and killed them as soon as they had it, and guess what, both raiders had 500 ammo.

So basically, free ammo exploit, yay

[Flying Dice]

it's even more hamfisted and binary than Fallout 3's main conflict.

i don't believe you

It legitimately is.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

1. Character in her past was harmed in some way by synths.
2. Character is scientist, founds half-assed secret organization to root out synths.
3. They do this with a grand total of four psychologists. Using the GOAT exam from FO3 by another name, aka random-ass questions at the level of internet personality exams.
4. They arbitrarily decide which answers are more likely to come from synths.
5. They kidnap and torture both physically and psychologically anyone who they think might be a synth based on their half-assed pseudoscience.
6. Pursuant to 5, they construct a walled little village to use as a honeypot to attract traders and travelers to test and arbitrarily kidnap.
7. They need the people in that village to lull victims into complacency, but they fill it with people who have had traumatic experiences with synths and give them shitty psychological care while hoping they don't spill the beans.
8. When you confront the woman behind it all over someone she kidnapped and tortured because she was "70% likely of being a synth", she refuses to negotiate at all and gives you the choice between betraying the guy you're helping to rescue the kidnap victim and killing him in cold blood in exchange for caps, or murdering literally everyone she has working with her, including all of the innocent victims back in the town.
9. She and the idiots she has convinced think that they have a legitimate chance of stopping the Institute when they consist of four pseudoscientists and a grand total of around a dozen farmhands with pipe guns and cardboard armor squatting in a converted water treatment facility.

The really sad part? You can walk away with more money and a good settlement location just by helping the guy that starts the quest than if you take the bribes they offer you to ignore their idiotic program.

[Chiefwaffles]

Oh my god.
The Silver Shroud in the radio channel is voiced by the same guy who did the guards in Oblivion. _{I think.} It fits so well!

[sprinkled chariot]

How do I connect electric stuff to generator?

[Flying Dice]

Go up to electrical stuff, hit spacebar to spawn a wire, hit spacebar again when the wire snaps to other electrical stuff.

[Niveras]

Crap. Apparently scrapping weapons with mods doesn't get you the mods or even some of the material used to make the mods, but replacing the mods with standard components does get you the mod. Haven't checked what scrapping the mod gets you, or if you can throw a mod in the workbench and use its rarer materials (like nuclear material) to make a different mod. (Probably not.)

Scrapped a bunch thinking it was the case since I had a bunch of extra mods somehow previously, not having actually picked them up anywhere, but I guess they were just ones I had swapped out of my current weapons. No big loss I guess, but would've been nice to save all the nuclear material from those glow-sighted weapons I brought home.

[miauw62]

There is a perk called "Scrapper", it has two levels. The first level allows you to salvage screws and such from scrapping weapons, the second allows you to salvage nuclear material and things of similar rarity.

[BFEL]

Which begs the question of HOW HARD IS IT TO SALVAGE A GODDAMN SCREW?

[SOLDIER First]

Have you seen a screwdriver anywhere in the wasteland?

[GiglameshDespair]

Have you seen a screwdriver anywhere in the wasteland?

Yes.
We scrapped them into steel and wood.

[SOLDIER First]

Exactly.