I noticed a kind of 'Stock' for locking up a prisoner similar to ancient witch hunting torture devices in my workbench menu. Maybe I can use my 'Pacify' perk and force her into a cage or one of those Stock contraptions to keep her immobilized for a while.

Dukman
The player is able to kill Carla, but she is set as essential to everything else in the wasteland.
 
 

What's so essential about Carla? All she does is wander about. She never has any decent Legendary weapons for sale like that whacko from the friendly Vault. Her name is Cricket and her name was in one of the Institute terminals as being a snitch informing them on the location of escaped Synths. Cricket sold me 'Spray and Pray' which is really neat but I have since aquired more powerful weapons. My fingers better wake up soon. I am tired of constantly having to edit my posts because my fingers are typing the wrong letters or getting them in the wrong order. Yes, I know my K70 keyboard is occasionally typing a double-'L' but I am getting tired of dealing with it. Blowing it out with a DataVac didn't help. Slamming it down on the counter top didn't help. Punching it did the least bit of good because now my hand hurts.

I think I already had too much coffee as can be witnessed by my erratic behavior. I urge caution in advising me to have more coffee as my coffee pot is primed and ready for action. Once I 'pull the trigger' on another pot there is no turning back. LOL

Dukman
The player is able to kill Carla, but she is set as essential to everything else in the wasteland.
 
 

 
I thought so.
 
I do a lot of trading with Carla as I find that she does have certain items that have a certain break down that is hard to find in general.

Dukman
Wow...  I think you need more coffee.
 
We went from Carla to spoiler (I didn't know about Cricket yet...) to a keyboard rant to self mutilation.  
 
You'll have to ask Bethesda whats so essential about Carla.  But probably the same reason that Cricket is set as essential, as are most of the other traders.   They can't be killed while out on their route.  The player can kill them, but the critters out in the Commonwealth cant.

 
AGREED!!!! LOL Too many problems for him this fine morning. Poor keyboard. LOL

whiskers54

Zuhl3156
I think I already had too much coffee as can be witnessed by my erratic behavior. I urge caution in advising me to have more coffee as my coffee pot is primed and ready for action. Once I 'pull the trigger' on another pot there is no turning back. LOL

 
Pull the trigger, pull the trigger. 

I might hurt myself!

Pondering to start playing again, but it's been so long that I forgot where my character is and it's history. I'll probably start over again when Fallout 4 VR and Skyrim VR are both out. Putting down a character like Fallout 4 for awhile and then trying to pick it back up is problematic, because how players develop in open world games.

Brad_Hawthorne
Pondering to start playing again, but it's been so long that I forgot where my character is and it's history. I'll probably start over again when Fallout 4 VR and Skyrim VR are both out. Putting down a character like Fallout 4 for awhile and then trying to pick it back up is problematic, because how players develop in open world games.

 
That it is. I usually play weekends and maybe a weekday so my down time is not that great to have that problem that you have mentioned. But even then it is tough.

Brad_Hawthorne
Pondering to start playing again, but it's been so long that I forgot where my character is and it's history. I'll probably start over again when Fallout 4 VR and Skyrim VR are both out. Putting down a character like Fallout 4 for awhile and then trying to pick it back up is problematic, because how players develop in open world games.

That's how it is/was with me as well.  Sometimes I can pick back up where I left off, like I will definitely do if/when I go back to Skyrim, but I'll spend the next few hours afterwards trying to figure out what I was doing.  

Got one of the worst curb stompings I've had so far last night.
 
I was knocking out some of the Cleansing the Commonwealth missions for that ... charming person.   This time it was head over to the Gwinnett Brewery and clean it out.  I figured it would be no big deal.  Go shoot some critters and be done with it.
 
As many of you might know by now, Im running numerous mods.  Two in particular are Modern Firearms and Super Mutants Redux.   The mutant mod improves the look of the mutants a bit, adds Nightkin to the game and makes the mutants tougher overall.  It also adds a stronger "Legendary" class to the mutants as well.   The Modern Firearms adds well, modern firearms including some really nasty things like a Browning M2.  The downside is that both the player and the bad guys can get those weapons.   In particular, Super Mutants get the bigger, nastier guns.  Like the aforementioned Browning.  Or worse.    
 
So I head into Gwinette,  everything was going smoothly.  Lots of Mirelurks until I ran into the pack of mutants hanging out in the restaraunt.  Every single mutie in there was a warlord except for the two Nightkin and one of the Nightkin was a unique character.  Two of the muties were Legendaries.  And all of them with the exception of the non unique Nightkin had .50 machine guns.    
 
I died.  A lot.   It took me several attempts to figure out to get through them.  Because they would basically kill me in one or two shots.  That is when they weren't dismembering or beheading me.  I finally figure out this routine.  Take a hit of jet, shoot like crazy, kill one.  Immediately save.  Rinse and repeat.  Even then I had to reload numerous times because they could still get a couple of shots in if I didn't act fast enough and keep them staggered.   I think the unique Nightkin was the absolute worst.  He liked to jump down and close to melee range, but he would shoot me instead of using his axe.    And with him being cloaked, I couldn't use VATS against him, so it was spray and pray.
 
Can't wait to see whats next...

How do you tell if it is a male Brahmin or a female Brahmin? Strong is always asking for 'Milk of human kindness'. I have plenty of empty milk bottles but don't want to try milking the wrong Brahmin.

I haven't a clue but it didn't break anything for me.

I'm not a heavy modder. I only have two mods installed. One gave me a few quests in new areas added to the map and rewarded me with some 'Rogunz' pistol and the other gave me a Mini Nuke Minigun.

It's just a tad bit on the overkill side of things. I bought the Big Boy Legendary Mini Nuke Launcher from the merchant in Diamond City that launches two Mini Nukes at the same time. That is plenty for almost every enemy on the map. I just got the Minigun mod for shock value. It does take a whille to 'spin up'.

I'd like to get that Legendary Explosive Minigun but it is hard to find. The ammo for the Minigun is plentiful which is one of the few appealing things about them for me. They're really not accurate at all and the spinup time is ridiculous. I have a Gatling Laser with awesome damage abilities but it too is hampered with a stupid way too long time to spin up.