I have never ever seen any bos patrol in any game after dusk like Mr Vegas says in his news story. I gather other people have from their posts, is there any special time that they are out.

There is not way is there of getting the ncr to retake the correctional facility without getting involved with the powder gangers. If there's not I'm just going to kill them all and not worry too much about what the ending says. This playthrough it's my frontier justice character, who won't have anything to do with the pg's.

1.)Mid night actually, and they only patrol around Hidden Valley.

2.)We have to wait for a patch.

I've seen the brotherhood patrols, not outside of hidden valley but at least they've shown up early in the game. After midnight it was as you said, I seemed to need to fast travel to trigger there appearance though, although that may be the just the game getting buggy.

At the Ncrcf , I killed Eddy without being involved in the I fought the Law Quest and when I went back to Hayes found him and Mcgee leaving which is good. It'll be ages before I get to see the ending slides though.

Well, if the wiki is to be believed, killing Eddie is enough to get a good NCRCF slide.