fallout-shelter
Do a dweller's level or SPECIAL values affect how effective they are with weapons?
I know this is the case in other Fallout games, but am I wasting my time training up my dwellers in Agility and Intelligence in order to better wield the weapons I have acquired?
My impression is that the list is sorted by maximum damage first, then by minimum damage. The minimum damage value is used as tie breaker. It just happens that, for fixed damage weapons, the minimum and maximum damage values are the same.
If you invert the min/max damage values for each weapon so that the max value is shown first, and represent fixed damage as a min/max range with the same value repeated, we get the following list:
Enhanced Sawed-Off Shotgun: 8-6
Rusty Laser Pistol: 7-7
Sawed-Off Shotgun: 7-6
Enhanced Hunting Rifle: 7-5
Rusty Sawed-Off Shotgun: 6-6
According to this interpretation, the rank of a weapon does not depend on whether it is a fixed or range damage weapon. It just depends on its max/min damage values.
The price for reviving a dweller inside your vault is based on the level of the dweller.
The higher the level of the dweller the more expensive.
But it caps out at 1000 caps.
According to this wiki the formula is as following:
their revive cost scales to the level starting at 100 CAPS for level 1, and increases an additional +20 CAPS for each level afterwards.
That would mean the cap is reached when the dweller hits level 46.
For dwellers in the wasteland it is a bit different.
As you can see it will cost 1000 caps to revive this level 29:
I am unsure the exact math for this, but the cost is still capped at 1000 caps for dwellers.
Best Answer
Agility and intelligence are probably a waste of time for dwellers who won't be exploring the wastes.
The only difference based on level is the dweller's total hit points, and the cost to revive them.
However, there is some thought that some of the SPECIAL stats affect combat. (see this question and the links within the answer). Strength may increase damage (though it's not certain this applies within the vault) and perception may increase aim/hit rate and thus overall damage.
In the wastes, success against a specific enemy type seems to be influenced by a specific stat (excluding endurance which seems to be a purely defensive stat).
Personally, I'm training the primary stat and luck for my stay-at-home dwellers, though I'm phasing out diners/gardens and water production as I introduce more Nuka Cola bottlers. As my vault improves I'll have an excess of workers, so I'll try to train everyone in endurance and possibly strength/perception. Wasteland explorers are being trained across all stats.