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Originally, I had only planned on making it a new settlement with a super short little story reading thing to do (a day's work). But then I decided to make it as best and as entertaining as I could while keeping it within the Creation Clubs limitations. Just as an experiment. To see what kind of content could possibly come from the Creation Club.

In case you don't know, here's a little bit of info. ESM files are Game and DLC files (rare occasions mods too). ESP are (almost always) mod files. ESL files are Creation Club files. ESM and ESL are masters and can't be moved in the load order. The CC uses this newer ESL format because it doesn't count towards load order total, so the user's game doesn't screw up if they max it out by buying content. The downside is that there can only be a maximum of 4096 records in an ESL. Records are just bits of information.

With this in mind, I created Settlement Story 3, up to the 4096 records. Realizing it doesn't quite finish the mod, I continued to about 4300 records. Just so I could consider it done.

This just took me a week. And I took a few days off in between lol. So, basically 4096 records, and what do you get from Settlement Story 3? New settlement, a 20-30 minute quest to obtain it, as well as a new underarmor and power armor frame. The quest is more of a dungeon fetch quest with story interlaced within it. The underarmor and Frame are retextures with glowmaps I did. The previous post with the Hellfire armor will give you an idea on that.

In the video, I didn't want to show too much of the quest aspect so there's only like 30 seconds of that. Then there is some settlement building fun and finally the power armor frame under various power armors. And it works with any power armor mod.

So, is this the maximum the CC could offer?

There are many types of mods. In terms of a new settlement and quest, this is what the Creation Club could supply. It's not a whole lot and definitely not DLC lol. The CC's major physical limitation is a bit disappointing but what if they don't use ESL forever? I'm not sure they will leave the ESL format. The point of it was to eliminate the damage to load orders for people who have maxed out their games. But who knows. This will at least give you an idea on what kind of content to expect from the Creation Club. I wouldn't hold your breath for any real DLC lol.

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