My charisma is 6 so I believe it's not 10+charisma but charisma*2.
See my second settlement reached the number of 12.
Okay I guess… I'll have to pump it up to 10.
Won't press it though.
Made it to charisma 9 last night at level 5. Probably going to hurt me in combat but my goal was to make 10 and be a smooth talker. Guess that means I can lead a decent settlement. Too bad my guy isn't smart enough to build the fancy stuff
The settlement stuff is very addictive. I tend to not be big on crafting in games as I often find it tedious. But the settlement has a lot of nice hooks. Since I tend to be the hero type I really like providing a safe haven for the residents. It makes me feel like I am really helping people out.
This thread has been super helpful though! I was having so many problems trying to get things to work. Took me a long time just to figure out the whole "V" key to start scrapping and building.
I got 5 settlers in Sanctuary and learned how to make beds, clean up the junk, placed some turrets, made the water purifier (that took forever as I tried to find water in range of the V command), a generator, and a few other things. Only got 1 food though so today got to hunt down some crops.
Also the "attach a wire" is fairly annoying - that took a bit of work. Wish you had more control over placing things. Like you should be able to let the camera go free and easily rotate and place things. Doing it in the limited space you have is a pain. I was often having to re-place guard posts so they faced the right way.
But it wasn't till I came here that I was able to finally figure out how to assign someone to guard duty. I didn't know you command them then leave command mode and walk to where they needed to be and then re-enter it. I was pointing with the mouse, entering go. Then running fast to catch up to them before they started walking back ... then repeating all the way to the post. Glad to know there is an easier way!
Really like the settlement stuff but a real guide would be nice.