NCR Patrol? Or Rangers? Rangers and NCR Army are seperate things.
NCR Patrol. Rangers are quite the same, it's true, but they have a solid background and a different purpose (and some special armor). I don't think we could say NCR Patrols and Rangers are the same things. However, when you look at the actual "NCR Army" encounter and then at NCR Patrols (not mentioning NCR Caravans), then one could thing - hey, I want to join the patrols, not the army! Which is strange, since the army should be better (more men at once, better gear) than the patrols (and patrols should be more frequent than the NCR Army).
I highlighted two problems with NCR Army :
- They're not enough at once, and with ridiculous gear (Also, according to Fallout Bible this army had divisions, which makes the huge differences in gears from one soldier to another quite strange) ;
- They are too different from the NCR patrolmen standards (High tech gear). BUT! If you give them the same gear as Patrols and Caravans guards, then you should make them different in another way, either by increasing their number or by making something fancy with them to make them look like an army (lines of soldiers, different gears according to the location of soldiers (All the RL in one side, all the laser rifle first, etc, f.e.), howitzer, etc, etc).
Masters army aren't stopping loot?
From what I've seen, they keep looting everything. The problem is also that they make the corpses explode, which makes it easier for the players to loot.
Masters army aren't stopping loot?
The Army encounter needs top be increased, it was just impossible to guess at a decent level for them to be set at, so I'll increse them based upon feedback. Willl also increase things such as Rangers, VC Patrol, Masters Army, Enclave Patrol, BoS patrol - so that they are actually a reasonable challenge, but also the only source of the higher tier stuff (which will disappear from the other encounter types.[/quote]
If by increase you mean the frequency..? Then I think you already encounter the Army ways too often, especially when they fight mutants.
As for where Masters stuff occurs, it comes from the Masters vault - I tried to have a logical spread of things - certain raider groups occur centred on an imagined raiders base for example. These groups are currently identical, but will change over time.
A yay for that!
Cents did get a little too close to the Hub though and should (hopefully!) be further away after an update.
The best would be to have large packs in the desert, and packs with less and less centaurs are you go further from Gordon's Gas Station.
