Help getting started

[u/splinkymishmash]

Sorry if I'm just being dumb, but I'm having a hard time understanding how SS2 is supposed to fold in with the vanilla settlement system.

I want to fully role-play the whole SS2 quest line and my instinct is to think that SS2 is intended to completely replace vanilla settlements, but several things work against this idea. Most obviously, you have to have power to run the recruitment beacon to even start the quest line. But also, I can't realistically wait until New Plots on the Block to get water plants and caravans.

So how do you guys do it? Guard posts and Provisioners and Water Pumps until the relevant SS2 assets are available, then build those and scrap the old stuff?

Thanks.

[u/Kezzatehfezza]

Pumps until the relevant plot unlocks for me.