welsh said:
Darek said:
Skeltek said:
regarding '2': If you do not optimize the Powerplant, Gecko remains useless for VC. There is no reason at all to take over Gecko, which is not able to produce enough power for itself and a second town anyway(First citizen would never realize it's able to produce more).
If VC took over Gecko they would kill all the ghouls and redirect the power to their own city. No more Gecko, only a power plant.
wolfsrain said:
You have two dialogue options when you give the economics disc to McClure: one it's saying that he'll discuss with the VC Council to TRADE with Gecko for Gecko's surpluss energy. You need good speech and INT.
Does this have any real effect in the game. Does it change to a good ending for Gecko now?
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Honestly, I am also curious about this and whether the new restoration changes this. Wonder what the Fallout Bible says.
Does anyone know if the Gecko ending has changed? Perhaps the best thing is just go for the experience and see.
The Gecko reasoning is simple:
0- Unfixed power plant => Dangerous radiation => VC invades to neutralize the threat.
1- Fixed but unoptimized plant => Not enough power for both VC and Gecko => VC invades to secure the extra power they need.
2- Optimized power plant => Enough power for both VC and Gecko => Everyone lives happily ever after!
This is one of the bits fixed in the restoration project as "The best ending for Gecko, which would require you to optimize the plant and get the Gecko Holodisk from Gordon after talking to the Brain, is impossible to get due to a silly bug in the endings script", according to v1.2 of Per's definitive guide.
IMO, option #2 above is unrealistic and inconsistent with VC's policies as portrayed in the game. It seems obvious to me that VC will eventually outgrow the output of the optimized plant and ultimately still invade Gecko.
I admit that this is highly conjectural on my part, but it seems to me that the evidently prevalent "want. Take" mentality of VC will not stop at any boundary: they already are much better off than anyone in the wastes. Yet they will kill off the ghouls in Gecko, we are told, just because they need the power Gecko has even after the Chosen One fixes the power plant and eliminates the radiation threat to VC.