Going the Yes Man route, what I wanted was to become the new dictator of Vegas, and use my securitron army to secure the Mojave, and not let it become an anarchy where towns are raided freely because there is no faction to protect them and patrol the desert. That's what the ending slides made it look like.

Same; I just wanted to control Vegas and push it in the right direction!

Thats because you're not really calling the shots. The one who controls the Lucky 38 and its resources is Yes Man.

Yes Man doesn't control anything. he's just a way for me to control said things and micromanage stuff that i can't be bothered with. it's like saying my computer controls the content of this post, but i'm really telling it what to put into it.

Yes Man is exactly what his name implies. He's a "yes man", meaning he's a servant of sorts.

Yes Man was designed as a tool to control New Vegas. Hopefully when a Broken Steel type DLC comes out you will in fact have the outcome you desired. (I also was looking towards being the new 'Mr. House'

Think back to when you first met Yes Man. ....how exactly did you get Yes Man under your "control"?

he was programmed to help anyone who comes across him take over vegas

Just because you took a land at the point of securitron's laser doesn't automatically make you a apt governer. Governance is actually not a skill reflected in the game. Maybe the courier just have 0 skill in it.

Yes, Man can control the securitron, but he has shown no indication of being any sort of leader or administrator.

Taking a land is piece of cake. Holding on to it and making it prosper is the hard part.

I wanted to avoid killing my fellow BoS so I killed Mr. H thinking I could help make NewVegas safe along with the NCR... but... I cant... :nuke: :violin: oops :meh:

Actually, he was programmed to monitor Mr. House's data transmissions. Thats all he was programmed for. The reason why he's called Yes Man is because he has no security lock, so he'll divulge info for anyone who asks. So you never really controlled Yes Man in the first place.

When you finish the game on the Yes Man route, he even tells you he reprograms himself to be more "aggressive", without your input on the matter.

Yes it would be cool if you actually had full control over the securitrons and like literally command them. It would be even cooler if you could continue the game after the end of the yes man ending a send an army of Securitrons to do your bidding. The first order I would have is to wipe out Jamestown, the Great Khans, Caesars Legion, and any towns opposing me. Then I would force them all to pay taxes to me for the property they own so I get super rich with caps. Anyone who goes against it will have to deal with my army. Also I would make certain merchants give me all there stuff and then probably make them leave. Damn I am already sounding like an evil dictator.....lol

keep in mind that they would simply just leave. And you will be ruling an entire Mojave devoid of life.

The reason people don't move in RL is because there are country around that simply won't accept them. But even them people still flee countries not worth living in - like those cubans trying to flee to the U.S.

FO universe is mostly empty space.

wrong. he was programmed to help benny take over New Vegas, which includes what you said he was programmed for. you're saying benny programmed his robot to take control without his input?

and your theory also fits very well with the fact that Yes Man forced you to take the course he thought was best during the main quest. oh wait...

in your theory he is apparently also programmed to be power hungry.

and no, he didn't say aggressive, he said more assertive. does not mean he doesn't still answer to the courier. that line was a stupid plothole anyway. a supercomputer needs to go absent for the simple task of reprogramming it's personality? even if he doesn't still do what i want him to, i can just roleplay that i reprogrammed him to do my bidding.

You're making flawed assumptions. The robot wasn't Bennys to begin with. He never built it, he never programmed it.

yeah, he had someone program it to his specifications.

Yes Man definitely takes over the operation after the ending, the game was rigged from the start , "thanks for your help, I guess I'll see you around!" :wink_smile:

This "someone" is the Follower of the Apocalypse scientist that wanted you to plant a bug inside the Lucky 38 to monitor its network. And if you speak to her about Benny, she'll tell you Benny had her reprogram a disabled Securitron(Yes Man) to monitor Mr. House. Nothing about reprogramming Yes Man to help Benny take over New Vegas.
Infact, if you listened to what Yes Man said when you first met him, he'll say the same thing about being programmed to monitor Mr. House's transmissions.

I think the problem is you don't like being duped by a rogue AI, so you're making excuses like "yes man reprogramming himself its a plot hole!" and "assertive and aggressive aren't the same thing!"(aggressive is the definition of assertive, BTW).

Yes man indeed is just a rouge AI.
Once he was freed from Mr Houses control he was only programed to provide monitoring on Mr House. Everything else he did was simply a manipulation of pathetic fleshy things to ensure there was no power strong enough to threaten him (AKA Legion or NCR). This is why he decides to "go quite for a while" to program a more "assertive" peronality as soon as you take NCR and Legion out of the picture.

I have no doubt that the DLC for FO:NV will eventally see those that took this ending in a confrontation with the newly re-programed "No flesh bag, I'm in control here!!!"