Thanks Solar for looking into the PC encounters, because the life around the cities is much more than before. Which makes sense in a wasteland most people would be near the main hubs. But PC encounters rarely end well in this game for people.
One outstanding problem with Random Encounters. [Good/Neutral] Npc's have this bad habit of not only missing with their automatic weapons but hitting people no where NEAR where they were shooting. I was visually 2+ hexs from a rogue in a random encounter with them and unity patrol, and in turn based most 2 rockets go off instantly and I'm dead along with the rogue that I was soon to be running away from. Before that NCR Army opens up on a group of Marauders, and a 90 degree turn and a few hexes away I take Bullets in the chest. Not good.