I chose a wealthy merchant as the primary quest-giver to get players interested with the promise of a hefty reward and present the worldview of trying to keep the economy stable. This time though, I went for a more wacky tone, exploring a what-if scenario in which a secret Nuka-Cola plant threatens the economy of the Wastelands by flooding the market with new Nuka-Cola and thus new bottle caps, the primary unit of currency in this world. Like my previous Fallout 4 mod, I wanted to make a quest that felt like it would fit well into Fallout lore. Regular placement of Blue and Green Line signs helped tell the player directly which space they were in and where the next one might be. Maintenance tunnel pieces served as a good way to connect subway chambers and other rooms together in the desired configuration, while teleport doors allowed transition to spaces those maintenance tunnels couldn't reach.Īs for visual variety, I took lessons from my previous Fallout 4 mod, 'The Ones Who Fear The Gods', and focused on lighting, using different colors of maintenance lights and mushroom glow to draw the player's eye onward and differentiate spaces. However, these challenges weren't ultimately insurmountable. The mod kit was extremely rigid, with very few ways to transition to other areas, create new space shapes, or generate a sense of visual variety, and those difficulties made it hard to create contrast in the space on the merits of the mod kit alone. However, that choice also led to production problems. Subways were somewhat underused in the main game, there were other stations and lines in real life that weren't included, and subways can lend themselves very well to an enclosed, 'dungeony' feel.

The choice to use the subway systems underneath Boston as primary setting of the mod was in some senses a natural one.

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