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Coolguye posted:tynan declined to do pregnancy officially pretty much entirely because the infancy, childhood, education affair was so complicated to do in a way that felt even remotely good, and to boot most games didn’t last long enough to see even half of it. Yeah, I just finished a particularly long (for me) run and was still done in 8 years. I know some people run a colony in perpetuity, but I kinda like having an end goal. Plus the mid-game is probably the most interesting I think. I'm not sure my last base would have ever fallen despite me hamstringing myself with a load of self made rules.
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Coolguye posted:tynan declined to do pregnancy officially pretty much entirely because the infancy, childhood, education affair was so complicated to do in a way that felt even remotely good, and to boot most games didn’t last long enough to see even half of it. Nobody wants to think about the actual life of a real child in a friendly rustic agricultural settlement, much less hyper-optimized dystopia fortress settlements that most folks at least dip their toes into, while they're trying to chill with a videogame. It's terrifying enough having to look after children in the real world, and my hometown doesn't even have to WORRY about murder bots or toxic fallout.
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I don't think it's some kind of moral or micromanagement issue at all - Rimworld being a horrifying warcrime dystopia is kind of part and parcel of the game's image at this point, and I don't see taking care of kids being that much more micro intensive than most colony management stuff. I think it's definitely more along the lines of timescale as said above. Only the absolutely longest lived colonies would see a child hit their teens, nevermind having some kind of generational play that would make a parent/child system really worth it. Kanos fucked around with this message at 09:58 on Jul 29, 2019 |
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Jul 29, 2019 09:56
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Yeah it was bad enough when the colony's cat got headshot in a crossfire yesterday, let alone someone's kid.
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Coolguye posted:tynan declined to do pregnancy officially pretty much entirely because the infancy, childhood, education affair was so complicated to do in a way that felt even remotely good, and to boot most games didn’t last long enough to see even half of it. I removed that one mod and started a new game since the mod set without it is pretty nice. But yeah, multi year games are uncommon enough, multi decade isn't going to happen. That's probably why the mod just spits out 14 year olds.
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I wouldn't mind pregnancy and children as a challenge element. Like, oh my best fighter is now pregnant and is going to have to care for a kid and if the kid dies she will lose her poo poo.
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I like the children & pregnancy element though I set their age to like 11 starting. It is a good source of characters you want to put to work but also have some stakes with. That said, something in my mod list stopped colonists from caring about anything. I think it might be "sell prisoners without guilt" mod? I have to redo my mod list after getting a new laptop, hopefully I can figure it out. I want people to give a poo poo if other colonists die. It's loving me up when a parent dies and the kids are like "no big, this paste is bullshit tho"
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I mean, it's Rimworld, so there's a high chance that the parents were lovely assholes and / or the kid's a psychopath.
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:I wouldn't mind pregnancy and children as a challenge element. Like, oh my best fighter is now pregnant and is going to have to care for a kid and if the kid dies she will lose her poo poo. Yeah, that's how I see it. I have them start at 0 and when I get a few kids I make a nursery/school room and start devoting some pawns to teaching kids. I enjoy the added bit of realism and I like the idea of creating a future, even if I almost never see them make their own kids. One of the mods actually had the kids getting far more involved at like, 8, and even had them spawn in with caravans and raids. I found it hilarious with the 7 year old, high social, pirate caravan vendor selling slaves (well, hilarious for Rimworld) wearing quality devilstrand gear, and when pirate raids included 9-12 year olds carrying crappy automatic weapons I felt it was an accurate (if still gut wrenching) portrayal of awful morals. Sometimes prisoner rescues would be kids, sometimes visitors would bring a load of kids. For some reason, that all really made the game feel alive to me. That mod kinda fell behind in getting updated though, so the one I use now just has kids related to your colony only. It's not the same. Current game had a pregnant pawn fall to a massive mechaniod raid - 30 each of lancer, scyther, and about a dozen each of skullywags and crawlers (More mechanoids mod). I think I lost almost a dozen in total arms and legs and shoved one stomach-less colonist into a cryptosleep until I could make a prosthesis. At the same time though, I had an item quest for 2 resurrection serums in my quest log but was waiting for spring (and would probably not get there in time), so I sent some colonists off to get them while I shoved the dead pregnant colonist into the freezer (and told the huskies NOT to eat her! bad dogs!). The item stash wound up with no enemies, so they came back and resurrected the mother.
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You could ~kinda~ fudge things if you take the concession that time is compressed for game-play sake in Rimworld. Each year in a 365 day calendar is about six years in Rimworld's 60 day calendar. Ergo, pick your age of majority (say, 18), divide it by six, and you get roughly three Rimworld years for a human child to reach adulthood. Ok. A bit more fudging, we can divvy this time up into three life stages: baby/toddler, child, teenager. First stage is worthless, it consumes food for a year and does nothing. Second, they can learn from a mentor and clean. Third they can do most everything except say "high skill" labor. Once they pass out of those stages, they become an adult and have their age set to the age of majority. This gives you a three year turnaround time from birth to adulthood. If you think the baby/toddler stage sucks and has no purpose, roll it into the pregnancy stage: the mother consumes twice the normal amount of food and is severely weakened until the hediff ticks over. This would require some work to get it to properly shuffle around the pawns, and is probably more trouble than it is worth.
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Any of you run the starwars mod with CE? Wondering how balanced force users are in it.
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GenericOverusedName posted:I mean, it's Rimworld, so there's a high chance that the parents were lovely assholes and / or the kid's a psychopath. Sometimes they aren't! But anyhow you get better stories when people care about the tragedies so I've gotta figure it out.
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HelloSailorSign posted:
What mod is this? It sounds great, in a hosed up hellworld way HelloSailorSign posted:
Did she come back still pregnant?
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:What mod is this? It sounds great, in a hosed up hellworld way I thought those things erased any Hediffs on the pawn, but maybe not? OP please answer, we must know.
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:What mod is this? It sounds great, in a hosed up hellworld way In the former, it was this mod: https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=28747.0 In the latter, yes! When she pops the kid out I assume it's going to be totally fine, but for the sake of the story the kid's getting luciferium and every other season I'm going to devmode increase age by 1 until they're considered an adult by the game. These days, this is the kid mod I use: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1541438230
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Is there any trick to finding a good mountain base location? One with more than 1/3 of the map or so as a mountain. I've never done a mountain bunker base and want to try one, and I'm trying to pick starting hexes that are mountainous and completely surrounded by other mountainous / impassable terrain tiles but i keep getting the one sided wall type maps.
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metasynthetic posted:Is there any trick to finding a good mountain base location? One with more than 1/3 of the map or so as a mountain. I've never done a mountain bunker base and want to try one, and I'm trying to pick starting hexes that are mountainous and completely surrounded by other mountainous / impassable terrain tiles but i keep getting the one sided wall type maps. Keep trying or look for pockets, i also find that increasing map size helps. I have honestly never had a problem with raiders starving or whatever due to increased size
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metasynthetic posted:Is there any trick to finding a good mountain base location? One with more than 1/3 of the map or so as a mountain. I've never done a mountain bunker base and want to try one, and I'm trying to pick starting hexes that are mountainous and completely surrounded by other mountainous / impassable terrain tiles but i keep getting the one sided wall type maps.
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Thanks, I rolled a 300x300 and did exactly that with Map Reroll. I'm starting to think that 2 / 3 sided enclosures don't really exist and are just a revealed areas phenomenon. I rolled up a nice map with a long but narrow valley in the center, with open areas on either side but limited chokepoints. Usually I play as tribals with minimal research, this go round I have a more curated mod list removing / substituting some of the less well balanced stuff and I just want to dig a bunker into the mountain, do Rimefeller / Rimatomics for the first time and get my 2006 Dwarf Fortress / SCP fanfic on.
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metasynthetic posted:Thanks, I rolled a 300x300 and did exactly that with Map Reroll. I'm starting to think that 2 / 3 sided enclosures don't really exist and are just a revealed areas phenomenon. I rolled up a nice map with a long but narrow valley in the center, with open areas on either side but limited chokepoints.
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:I wouldn't mind pregnancy and children as a challenge element. Like, oh my best fighter is now pregnant and is going to have to care for a kid and if the kid dies she will lose her poo poo. Fond DF memories of new mothers carrying their babies into combat and all the hilarity which resulted.
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metasynthetic posted:Is there any trick to finding a good mountain base location? One with more than 1/3 of the map or so as a mountain. I've never done a mountain bunker base and want to try one, and I'm trying to pick starting hexes that are mountainous and completely surrounded by other mountainous / impassable terrain tiles but i keep getting the one sided wall type maps. There's a mod that I can't quite think of the name of that lets you customize generated terrain - I have mine tweaked so mountainous tiles are ever so slightly more mountainous, leading to more.dense concentrations of stone. You can also tweak things like what percentage of the map is ocean on coastal tiles, ore density, etc.
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Epsilon Plus posted:There's a mod that I can't quite think of the name of that lets you customize generated terrain - I have mine tweaked so mountainous tiles are ever so slightly more mountainous, leading to more.dense concentrations of stone. You can also tweak things like what percentage of the map is ocean on coastal tiles, ore density, etc. Configurable Maps, I think.
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HelloSailorSign posted:Configurable Maps, I think. This is the one, but they seem to have removed being able to make the map mostly ocean  I usually play mountain maps with the mountain level as high as possible since I like burrowing
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Danaru posted:This is the one, but they seem to have removed being able to make the map mostly ocean I've been thinking about doing this as my next colony, at the highest setting how much of the map is mountain if you start on a mountainous hex and jack the mountain level to max?
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If you just want MAXIMUM MOUNTAIN go grab Impassable Map Maker and go nuts.
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pokchu posted:I've been thinking about doing this as my next colony, at the highest setting how much of the map is mountain if you start on a mountainous hex and jack the mountain level to max? I did this before and you can get it to like 75% mountain with some rerolling, though the result of that was that I had to mine my way through a couple valleys to get to where I actually intended to build my base. It also broke the poo poo out of NPC pathing for some reason, so I'd have caravans show up and hang around after officially announcing that they're leaving (until they collapse from starvation). Lately I've just been running max mountainous flat maps (which is like only 25% mountain), rerolling for a map arrangement where I can connect three or four mountains and lakes to create my own 'valley'. Leave one side open and raiders will always funnel there with the exception of sappers and drop pods so it's easy enough kill box construction. The best part of settling on flat map tiles is that caravans can go super fast, I can hit two or three towns easily in the time it'd take to crawl out of a mountain range.
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Using map reroll on a huge river + mountain map can give you some crazy defendable locations. Creative use of walls across the river can make non-drop pod raids into Normandy levels of carnage.
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Hey FYI, there is a little game in Steam early access called Embark, and it has a lot of things in common with the low-tech side of Rimworld, except it's 3d sorta Minecraft like: http://embarkgame.com/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/1055090/Embark/ http://embarkgame.com/Home/Roadmap it's pretty solid for early access and the developer is really regular with updates, I bought it and I like it a lot. FYI!!!!!!! e: Nookrium does a lot of gameplay videos of games like this and did several on Embark: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9-L-1JQBHdg&t Flesh Forge fucked around with this message at 23:36 on Jul 31, 2019 |
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I usually disable infestations even in Dwarf Fortress looking maps. It's just an incredibly annoying event, gently caress infestations.
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New game on Randy Rough about a month in, got my 2nd raid - one Feral with a nail gun. I already had a mini bunker set up and made a clearing with zero cover about 20 tiles out in all directions so I wasn't too concerned. Then a goddamn bee hive spawns in the EXACT worst location about 3 tiles in front of my bunker in the direction of the raider, blocking LOS. He takes the perfect path in, none of my guys even fire a shot, then he tucks around the corner at the last second and unloaded a nailgun clip into my doctor at point blank range  edit: this poo poo right here, he came from the southeast. gently caress you Randy 
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Coming back to rimworld after playing mostly vanilla my last two or three gos of the game. Are there any guides on how to make a bunch of mods stable and work together? General load order and such? I'm really familiar with morrowind/elder scrolls modding, so I realize I can't just Chuck 200 mods together and expect them to work.
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Gyshall posted:Coming back to rimworld after playing mostly vanilla my last two or three gos of the game. Actually you pretty much can, most mods are only dependant on Hugslib. Just check the description of anything you want to add and itll usually say if it needs to be loaded before/after something else you installed.
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Gyshall posted:Coming back to rimworld after playing mostly vanilla my last two or three gos of the game.
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metasynthetic posted:New game on Randy Rough about a month in, got my 2nd raid - one Feral with a nail gun. I already had a mini bunker set up and made a clearing with zero cover about 20 tiles out in all directions so I wasn't too concerned. I don't think the beehive had anything to do with this, I think it's just your bunker design. Using solid walls gives better cover but with single tile gaps you will always have a lot of trouble shooting at anything beyond mostly straight angles, so either you have a killbox that funnels enemies into those straight angles or you redesign your bunker to accommodate off-angle targets.
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Optimal wall placement for a bunker is like this: []x[]x[]x[]x[]x[] Where [] is a wall segment and x is a sandbag, as long as you need. Two segment walls will trash your LOS horribly.
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Gyshall posted:I realize I can't just Chuck 200 mods together and expect them to work. Yeah actually you can do just that. You pretty much have to try to crash this game. I'd recommend starting here: https://youtu.be/Arr0f8-_olw
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I'm about to flip a loving table with this CE thing, anyone got a good modlist for it that includes things like dub's mods, medieval times, and other stuff?
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Anyone has an idea how to use stone on wetland maps? Barring occasional pockets of normal soil, I have to build bridges everywhere, which pretty much force me to use wood.
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I'm pretty sure you can build stone walls on bridges. Just not stone floors and other "heavy" objects (god knows how a marble wall isn't heavy)
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