There are many vaults with different stories like Vault 11 and sacrifice and Vault 19 with the Red and Blue Sections. In the next update or Fallout, there should be a vault that had no clocks nor calendar. Commment in response to this idea.

i think theyd just find a way to make a clock and be fine. sorry.

Edit: and the calendar? just write down on a paper the days as they go by. again, sorry

Without a clock or the sun how do you know when a day has passed to mark it on said paper ? Even if you made a clock, good luck in making it precise enough to be useful or accurate. You won't know what time it is to set it by.

I don't think people would care too much about time, I mean really, keeping a vault maintained seems much more important.

Vault 42 would be nice (place where you find the meaning of life and other interesting things and old people who has mid-life crysis and such problems

That... Is... An awesome vault experiment.
Simple yet awesome.
Their internal clocks would be shot to hell.

Hmm, since it's best to just keep all vault suggestions in one thread I'm gonna post one I heard about during the FO3 days:

• A vault with glass walls (That kind of glass that cannot be smashed.).

Also very simple but would make for incredible stories on the computer diary entries.

I wonder how it would be like for people in a vault which is completely black as night dark except for one hour each week.
People are basically blind for 167 hours each week.

A vault where the toilets cannot be flushed.

Would it be a social experiment though?
I mean the smell and that they have to put the excrement somewhere else is surely going to cause some disturbance amongst the population.
But still... Ew! :cryvaultboy:

You'd also have to rewrite the programs for every computerized piece of equipment in the Vault so it does not reveal the time to the Vault Residents and can still be operated without time input from them, otherwise they'd be able to access a Pip-Boy or a terminal and learn the correct time. That would be pretty difficult. One workaround would be for the experiment to be run on a test group in a special isolated section of the Vault, the regular section would have the job of monitoring the experiment and performing all the necessary Vault maintenance. The test subjects would not have access to the Vault's computer network or any machinery that requires reference to time....it would be best if they had no contact with the rest of the Vault at all. In cases where it was necessary to enter the section to repair something the test subjects would be hit with sleep gas and kept unconscious until the maintenance personnel leave.

you do know pip-boys tell time and date right

Not if they are reprogrammed to not display time and date. :whistling:

they have termnals to

The clock idea would be a good idea, maybe a jamming signal got stuck on their co-ordinates so most of their machines dont work.

A vault where the only cake recipe holodisc got dropped on the outside of the vault as it was being locked, the horror :cryvaultboy:

as long as theres cookies and milk theyll be okay

Santa and Elvis drank and ate all the cookies and milk :sadvaultboy:

:cryvaultboy: :cryvaultboy: :cryvaultboy:


wait i found one last cookie :cookie:

Need to place a new order for cookies for the forums.
Cookies, owls and computers are the ones to go the fastest.

Anyway, just repogram everything in the Vault, the pipboys, the terminals, take away every clock and calender and confiscate them all once the inhabitants move into it and throw them outside.
Easy.
Now there's no time.

Maybe the vault could worship the cookie :bowdown: :cookie:

Other people worship weirder stuff in the wastland, like worshipping a nuclear bomb only to have it go off in your face

Lets get back to topic.

What if the social experiment was to have Nicolas Cage movies playing all the time. A sample vault terminal could be as follows:

Day 1: Bombs fell today, I barely made it to the Vault. Everyone knew it was coming, but it still is such a shock. I found the rooms comfortably sized. When I entered my room the TV was already on. About an hour later a movie flipped on. It was an older movie, I remember my Grandparents telling me about them. I wonder if they made it to a Vault. On a side note I tried to turn the TV off and the button wouldn't work. I also found no visible cord to unplug and the TV was bolted down. Strange note, I also found a 10mm Pistol with a single bullet in the chamber in my nightstand. I asked around and everyone else had one too. I wonder what it's for, personal protection?

Day 3: Things are going pretty badly. Almost half the Vault has committed suicide or went crazy. The damn movies won't stop, they're all so terrible! Why do they cast Nicolas Cage as a badass! He clearly is not one! All attempts to disable the TV's have been failures. One of the Vault Technician tried to disable the TV in a room, as soon as he opened the casing the doors slid shut and TV exploded. Another Vault Tech said he's close to finding a way to cut the power to the TV by splicing into the circuit board and shutting down the power in the rooms. Sure it will make things less than comfortable, at least it will handle the TVs. The Overseer has locked his door and won't answer to any calls, I don't blame him.

Day 6: SUCCESS!!!!! Earlier today I was sitting in my room, when the lights shut off. For the first time since I've been here I could hear myself think. THE TV'S WERE OFF, THANK THE GOD ABOVE THE TV'S WERE OFF. I managed to run a cord from my terminal to an outlet in the community area. Things are starting to look up.

Day 7: Words cannot describe the pain I feel right now. After finally shutting off those damned TV's this Vault had another trick up it's sleeve. Wall panels in all the Hallways, Rooms, and in the Common Area slid back to reveal TV screens. They then flickered to life and begun broadcasting those movies. And to add insult to injury the sound is now broadcast on full blast over the Vault intercoms. I've decided that I died on the way to the Vault, and I'm actually in Hell, and Nicolas Cage is the Devil.

Day 9: Of the roughly 200 people that came into this Vault, only 10 are still alive. No one speaks, they all just sit there with a glazed look on their eye. Either staring off into the distance, or at their nightstands with their only ticket out of here in it. We tried storming the door, but found it sealed shut. One of the 10 people was a Vault Technician. He tried everything to open the door but failed. We stormed the Overseer's office in hopes of him letting us out. Once the Vault Tech hacked the Terminal giving him access to the door, we entered to find the Overseer dead with a holotape on him.
"I didn't know, God help me I didn't know. They told me all the Vaults were built to be social experiments, and only a few were control groups. When I asked them what ours was they told me we'd figure out soon enough. Well here I am 3 Days in and I already know. I've tried everything to shut the damn TV's off, but I don't have control. I know that they won't believe me if I tell them I didn't know and I can't control it. I don't even care anymore. I also figured out why they gave us the guns, to see how long we can make it. Well, here's to making it to the 3rd day *gunshot*."

Day 10: Well, I'm the last one left. Carlos was with me but I woke up to find him in his room clutching his 10mm. I'm the last one, and the movies still won't stop. I raided the liquor supplies, there's enough alcohol here to keep me busy for a little while.

Day 23: I don't know what to do with myself. I had a dream the TV's went off. After that I found a door leading to another Vault, they explained it was all a test to see if someone was strong enough to be their leader. Just before I stepped through the door I woke up. I've never felt more helpless in my life.

Day 24: I've had enough. I'm going to shut down the main reactor. There's no way that the damn TV's can be on after that, sure I'd have no running water, power, or fresh air, but at least the TV's will be off.

Day 24 B: Some TV's are still on!! I've decided nothing I can do can shut off the TV's. I'm gonna try the front door one last time.

Day 24 C: YESSSSSS!!!!!!! This is my last entry every! The original plan by the Vault Tech Designers was when the reactor is shut down power to the door is also shut down, but the locking mechanism runs on emergency reserve power. But almost by some act of God the wires were mixed up, meaning power is still running on the door mechanism, but the locking mechanism is useless. Finally after almost a month of hell I will now walk into the post-apocalyptic world. Wish me luck, and anyone who finds this, I will be heading to Dino Dee-lite Motel.

-Anthony Crawford


And Anthony goes on to found the town of Novac, see how it goes full circle. :whistling:

only a month after the bombs fell? It's supposed to last hundreds of years. That's way too happy for a vault log! None of them ever have happy endings. At least none that I've ever read. That was really detailed though, and well thought out