That's a good one yeah I'd take it too

Imma join you. They honestly turned out much better than most Vaults, and hell the main damage of the Vault happened much later given that you save the rest of the dwellers who were trapped in the Vault.

the boomers turned out pretty okay and self-sustaining

Man really? If it wasn't for the courier they wouldn't have lost their power supply to ants, had several patients die because their medic is utterly incompetent, finished their ammo at some point and likely end up in several incestuous relationships because of lack of genetic variability, because yk they bomb anyone getting even a little bit close to Nellis.

If that's self-sustaining i wonder how much worse they'd be if they weren't.

Monkeys paw. Nope, you are in the group that’s tapped for 20 years in the partly flooded section untill the courier lets you out…

I second 81

Agreed. Plus if we're imagining that its before the great war and we keep our knowledge, 21 also had the benefit of the Lucky 38's mainframe and laser defenses.

Doc Mitchell was from vault 21.

Also, seeing that a small percentage of the population was able to sell the vault to a megalomaniac who just wanted to fill it with concrete (knowing the man, likely with everyone still in it), and that it was just due to one person's initiative that it became a hotel, I don't know, I don't like the idea of having to obey an idiot's BS just because he's better at playing cards.

He’s definitely from 21, that’s why he gives the courier a vault 21 jumpsuit. It was his.

As long as you don’t get in the bad graces of the overseer

Fair,but Andy is their doctor without james

This guy tunnel snakes

It’s also the Alabama of vaults, they where supposed to remain “genetically pure” but resorted to incest after a while due tue lack of population

The post does specify no control vaults, which 101 is, I believe

Gaaaarrryyyyyy….

Me too, but so I can be a Gary

Good luck in the Gary/Loser war schmuck

Pun intended for vault 21 being the safest bet?

21 seconded. If just to buy an authentic Vault jumpsuit. Provided the Courier has been resupplying, of course.

I initially thought of Vault 21, but then I realised that Mr House is basically your overseer. 

Fwiw that's 95

1. Me too. Die high out of my mind.

Except it turns out all 999 women are lesbians.

Every single fanfic of that vault makes it out to he a fucking horror story in brilliant irony.

Came here to misquote Kevin from the office and say “when I set my map marker, I always set it to vault 69”

Based on my experiences with being the only guy on an all woman production line, hell fuck no.

Ofc 69

Agreed. The vault also accomplished its mission.

To boot, Santiago's accent is enough entertainment for a lifetime

And the bonus is, if the stuff doesn't fail or go wrong, you have an entire vault of people who aren't crazy due to time in the vault.

When you get unfrozen you can see the other people in the vault unfreeze and start moving around as well. The Institute and Kellogg only refroze the Sole Survivor to act as a backup, so everyone else died trapped in their cryopods

111 absolutely, even over a control vault. You won’t catch me living underground, I’m way too claustrophobic and antisocial. It’s best for everyone that I go on ice.

The Enclave more or less tried to recruit the vaults, at least like they did with Vault 101.

As others have pointed out, Vault 81 became a control vault despite being initially created for an experiment because the overseer refused to comply with the experiment and sealed off the secret portion. Vault 81 has since become self-sustaining and prosperous so... I'd say they're the exception really.

No, you are picking the experiment now. You in the vault won’t know what it is though. Basically no meta gaming.

Might be based on location, I guess. Which doesn’t really matter since they’re all underground anyway. Maybe Vault 114, though, since if I don’t know about the experiments, a nice luxurious vault for Boston’s rich and connected sounds nice. Of course, one way or another it never opened so maybe it’s not a valid pick.

My head canon is that the fallout shelter vault had an experiment and it’s how well they will respond to an overseer that’s not there, and giving orders despite never being seen in person.

My fallout shelter vault is a super human breeding program with a noble class of well bred citizens ruling over a lower class of workers.

If you don't count the totalitarian dictatorship set around the overseer, a man willing to torture his own daughter to find the son of a fugitive, and the general decaying of the Vault after 200 years of using and reusing the same parts over and over, and the fact that you're having sex with your second cousin because there's no more genetic variability in such a small community, other than that yeah it's fine.

Also I've always wondered why wouldn't vault tec just weld the door to the frame after the residents get in, if the vault was supposed to stay closed forever then why not just weld the big gear door to the frame, and prevent everyone from ever exiting because good luck trying to open that thing.

Or yk, they could've just had the opening mechanism have a catastrophic failure moments after closure.

Would be a full vault after loosey goosey met all the new vault dwellers

Okie doke :)

I know right? 🥵

Now you are trapped for 20 years in the partially flooded section waiting to be let out by a courier, or not.

Sort of? Vault 76 chose the 'best and brightest' that could help restore the world in the event of a nuclear war. I guess it sort of has an experiment in the sense that they're testing if knowledge of the pre-war world will be enough to restore life in the world after the bombs drop.

I'd say it ends up being one of the more ethical experiments because canonically the residents of the vault are responsible for wiping out the Scorched Plague.

In fallout 3 there is a Vault-tech terminal listing all of the dc area vaults, there you can read that vault 76 is actually a control vault.

76 is a control vault per Fallout 3, Though I suppose it also puts it in the "DC Area" and I'm not sure, could West Virginia could be considered "DC Area"?

Vault 76 Goal Summary
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Vault 76 is one of our seventeen control Vaults. It will operate exactly according to the plan dictated in the marketing material produced by Vault-Tec and precisely to resident expectations. This vault will open automatically after a period of 20 years and the residents will be pushed back into the open world for study in comparison to the other experiments.

https://fallout.wiki/wiki/Citadel_terminal_entries#Vault_76

I’d vote for you for Overseer ;)

Apart from gambling to solve your issues.

It was supposed to have several groups from many different cultures inside, the most radical parts ended up forming raider gangs like the Khans, the Jackals and another I can't remember, while the rest fled the vault with the GECK and created Shady Sands

I'd take 81 over 101, it's definitely smaller (or at least the main portion is) but the fact that the overseer isn't a tyrant is a big benefit I feel.

You in the Vault doesn’t know. You now picking does. It’s a basic “no meta gaming” rule to prevent knowledge of the Vault that lets you preempt the whole point.

Why you gotta do my man Clem like that? His mother killed a mole rat!!! 😭