Description:

This is a very simple mod I made for myself and decided to share it in case others find it useful.

I like building perimeters around my settlements (usually using Graf's Security Fences) and every now and then putting guard posts in between fences. Looks pretty good and I can't complain, but in order to have a semi-decent covarage of guard posts around the perimeter I would need to assign a lot more settlers for guard duty to populate them all. However, what I like is actually the opposite, I like seeing guards actually move around from post to post in order to visit a few more than they would normally do in vanilla.

In vanilla each guard post has a defense value of 2, and settlers assigned to guard duty will only visit 3 of them to cover a maximum of 6 defense each. So what I did is reduce the defense value to 1 for each buildable guard post to force guards to rotate more among them, which in my opinion makes settlements feel a bit more dynamic as those guards will move around a bit more instead of having boring long shifts where they remain completely stationary all the time (if that's what you prefer, then Stay At Your Post might be better suited for you).

These are the guard posts I've changed to have 1 defense instead of 2:

• Guard Post (WorkshopGuardPostFurniture): this is the short one made out of wood/steel.
• Guard Tower (WorkshopGuardPostFurniture): this is the tall one made out of wood/steel.
• Guard Post (DLC06WorkshopGuardBarricade): requires Vault-Tec Workshop DLC.
• Security Desk (DLC06VaultSecurityDesk01): requires Vault-Tec Workshop DLC.
• Control Post (DLC06VaultControlPod01): requires Vault-Tec Workshop DLC.
  

Suggestion:

If reducing the defense rating to achieve guards rotating more bothers you (it did bother me a little at first), I would suggest using my mod with Settlement Turrets Defense Rating x2 which increases the defense value of turrets. Guard posts having 1 defense kind of makes sense when I think about it considering they need someone assigned to them to even provide any defense value, by themselves they do anything other than just block a path (and even then their defense rating stays at zero if no guard is assigned to them), but turrets do provide firepower on their own and increasing their defense value allows me to build less turrets, which in turn allows me to build more guard posts around the perimeter without using too much of the settlement build budget.


Installation:

- Install using your mod manager of choice.
- Requires: base game + Vault-Tec Workshop DLC.
- FOMOD installer, so you can pick what you want to install.
- All ESP are flagged as ESL (they don't count towards your ESP max limit).
- Load order mostly matters if you are using one of the two compatible mods I've listed below, just load them after those. If you aren't using them then you can probably load my mod pretty early in your load order (just make sure it's loaded after UFO4P).


Compatibility:

I use the following two mods so I've added compatible versions inside the FOMOD:

• Snappable Guard Posts: allows guard posts to snap to other stuff more easily.
  

• Vanilla Extensions: kind of an old mod but I still like using it, check its requirements if you are going to use it as you'll probably need to install The Master Plan as well (fromt the same author).
  

Credits:

• STR4NGERxD4NGER: for giving me the idea for this mod after I saw his Stay At Your Post mod, I've been meaning to make a mod that does the exact opposite for a while and I kept thinking of more complicated ways to achieve it, the answer was simpler than I expected.
  

Check out my other mods:

- Bottle Labels Overhaul - Dirty Water Mesh Replacer
- Concord - Broken Minigun on Rooftop
- Concord - Supermutant Boss Instead of Deathclaw
- Crippled Limbs - Delayed Regeneration
- Dogmeat's Backpacks of the Commonwealth
- Guard More Posts
- Harder Barter - Expensive Prices
- Power Armor HUD - Left and Right Indicators
- Unique - Quest Items Are Not Junk
- VAFS Redux - Awareness perk fixes
- Wedding Rings XP
- XP - GEM (Global Experience Multiplier)