True, but I'd honestly say that the benefits outweigh that drawback. My Laser Commander character is using Power Armor, and I plan to take all 4 ranks of Strong Back eventually. The only question is whether or not to spend 6 levels getting Nuclear Physicist rank 3 (I don't use AP a lot, so I dropped my Intelligence to 6 for a more rounded build), or just start trading all my extra ammo to Arturo in Diamond City for Fusion Cores (the character is using Laser Weapons exclusively, so I only need Fusion Cells; everything else is just trade-bait).

The most useful perk if you'ere collecting everything, just lob everything in a container just by the exit of a big dungoen and then fast travel it all home in one go, love it.

If you're not averse to using mods then wearable backpacks is the way ahead . The fact that they are a little more believable and look good is beside the point but, with perks in the right place you can up your carry weight by 200+

I gave it 3 points.

4 points is tempting, but I like to give myself a line of challenge with decision making on which to keep and to drop, and also to give my companion more job by being a mule.

To be honest. I just take everything and store it in a container near the entance to the dungeon I am in from time to time. After I am done with the dungeon I go and take everything to my settlement using god mode via fast travel. I pretend that I did several runs or that I delegated that task to someone else. I don't really have the time to play it all out 100%. It is imho no more of an sbstraction than fast travel itself. Sure strong back is awesome as I don't have to use console anymore.

The only decision I make is whether I want to take everything in four trips or take everything in one trip. The choice was pretty easy.

That sounds Fantastic! Was wondering how that AP thing worked. Definitely doing this on my next character!

Yeah, I was worried about the AP thing too, and whether it would be clunky or useful... but after putting that 3rd point in and seeing how it worked the next time I got overloaded, it was like "Whoa, cool, I like this a lot!" Only caveat would be if you're playing a char with low agility, low endurance, and no points in Action Boy/Girl. If you have real low AP with no recovery booster, then it wouldn't be very useful.

Right. I blew a number of perks on random stuff testing it out and I'm still on my first character. I'll do a new one once mods are out and I'll manage the perks a bit better. Doing a melee character, high S and E, no crafting, so there should be plenty of perks available to set this up to work with the melee perks.

perks/equipment that reduce sprint ap seem to help, with max ap the drain is barely noticeable. Jetfuel is a great help.