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straw man posted:This evening I realized that there are really only two things that frustrate me about losing in this game. One is selecting a landing site with granite and (other stone), and the other is pressing "Randomize" two hundred times until I get three healthy, skilled, complimentary colonists. I'm not big on modding but I've decided to start using Prepare Carefully to speed up re-starts. There should be a way to search the map for parameters but I don't know of a mod for it. Prepare carefully + editing your scenario can alleviate some of the headache. You can just scatter your crash site with a bunch of granite and marble. For my third fort I made my own scenario and built my people to it. Instead of crash landing and trying to survive with limited resources until they can escape on a ship they're spoiled bored hipster settlers from a glitterworld trying to settle the wild.
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No preparations we play Crashlanding Hard like men. So actually I do prepare carefully, but I can count on at least one of my three people dying on landing, and I'll probably pick up one or two survivors from other cryptopods that hit, but they could be useless sacks of poo poo. This becomes improbably difficult when you're also running the mod that ups plant density because the fires from crashing ships will eat massive parts of the map in no time. You gotta pray for a ruined, stone building, or you're going to be huddling against rock walls two tiles from the flames.
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Slung Blade posted:So I downloaded a mod to give me little robots with really basic skillsets. One is dedicated pretty much full time to rolling blunts. I'm in love with this addon, it's great for a "Rich Explorer" scenario considering of course there would be robot servents in the future. Currently my explorers are starting up a smokeleaf farm/human furniture and meat business!
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Is there a way to change the default medicine settings for prisoners and colonists? I don't want my doctors using herbal medicine on prisoners dammit, it's for crafting real medical kits  Edit: Also holy drat Penoxycyline is a hell of a drug, I accidentally left one of my colonists on no medicine after a rabbit scratched them. They caught the plague so I had them take some of the stuff, knocking immunity up to 60%. She managed to become immune at 83% without any medicine at all 
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I will remember that, the description makes it sound like it's preventative only so it never occurred to me to try to take it after infection.
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Boy this game sure is fun until some asshat with grenades shows up and you're guaranteed to lost at least a couple of colonists as he blows up everything around himself. What a dumb weapon.
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Spanish Matlock posted:Boy this game sure is fun until some asshat with grenades shows up and you're guaranteed to lost at least a couple of colonists as he blows up everything around himself. What a dumb weapon. Grenades are a argument for weapons with ammo.
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Spanish Matlock posted:Boy this game sure is fun until some asshat with grenades shows up and you're guaranteed to lost at least a couple of colonists as he blows up everything around himself. What a dumb weapon. Spread out your defenders or you will always know pain. Be glad it was just a grenade. Clustered defenders against a centipede and their fire launcher thing is a lesson learned in blood and destruction.
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Grenades are no problem if you can micro the thrower. Once you're in melee range, they can't throw, and when they are throwing you can just route around the grenade vector.
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Decided to build a ship and leave my home base just to see what happens, what a cool credit song. It's nice you can continue after the ship launches, that's a nice feature (bug?). Cannibalized almost everything important (took out 3 of the 4 main ship reactors (modded to work underground) powering the vault, I even started stripping power conduit out of the walls for steel towards the end but I got enough to build 2 engines, the AI, and enough ship pods for 10 people. Two guys remained, partially because one went crazy again (even with psychology sometimes they go bonkers if you don't treat them in time, fuckin nutcases) so he and a handler got left behind, also because I only had 10 pods for 12 people. The last humans are in stasis now and the robots rule the land.  I'm really tempted to see if I can keep this going for a while, the base is secure and there are still lots of resources around with effort (deep miners). I'll have to switch the gardens over to exclusively haygrass production to help keep the muffalo herd alive and happy. Maybe I'll get the minerbots and constructor bots to rebuild the hydroponics lab and see if I can get a survival bunker set up with nutrient paste in case I ever have to wake up the cryptodreamers. Though there is plenty of food in the freezer, and so long as the robots can get enough steel to keep making components and repairing broken equipment (and themselves...) then everything will be fine. Until it isn't. This game is incredibly fun 
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Lost my first game outright for the first time ever after blight killed my first round of crops, followed by a cold snap killing my second, followed by raider activity, solar flares and another cold snap killing my indoor crops repeatedly followed by everyone going crazy and berserk due to the resulting cannibalism and finally the survivors dying of frostbite related inefections after all the doctors were killed in the resulting tantrum spiral. Was very sad because this was my first actually planned layout fort. Rip.
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Flesh Forge posted:I started that colony with 1000 wood, 12 herbal medicine and 40 food (plus a little salt) and I just barely got the quarry up in time to survive the winter, I had to burn some of the wood to avoid freezing. There was enough wood left over to finish a couple of wood-only constructions I needed (medieval tailor and smelter, so I can recover a minuscule amount of wood from invader weapons and can make some better cold-weather gear) and then it got too cold to fish safely so I had to leave the fishing piers forbidden for most of the winter. No one came to trade and we had to be pragmatic about injuries, so nobody got any medicine for random injuries and minor frostbite. Plague hit during the worst of the winter and we were grateful for that tiny hoard of herbal medicine. It was -130C outside and even indoors it was touch and go, hovering around -65C most of the time. Sounds fuckin idyllic mate
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And now it is late spring, the indoor temperature has crept above freezing and the cave shrooms are starting to sprout.
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Well drat here's a mod http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=836308268 Adds a hygiene need and bladder need to colonists. Injured pawns that are bedridden are currently unwashable and soil themselves, updating soon with extra jobs to handle this
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This is not so great when fighting a fire. Just lost part of a warehouse because every single pawn involved in fighting the fire decided to take bathroom breaks, allowing an otherwise controlled fire to rage out of control. Imagining a real world situation where firefighters are all struck with inconvenient incontinence and have to visit neighboring houses to use the bathroom in their suits and all is RimWorld as hell.
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Oh, I've been playing around with infestations a bit. Neat trick: If you fill every square inch of your base that is beneath heavy rock with rubble, no infestations will spawn, and because your pawns are never climbing up and down, they will not suffer a speed penalty --- they just move atop the rubble. Sun lamps and temperatures below 0 degrees F also do effectively block spawns. (You can test all this with dev mode by spawning infestations).
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Drone_Fragger posted:Lost my first game outright for the first time ever after blight killed my first round of crops, followed by a cold snap killing my second, followed by raider activity, solar flares and another cold snap killing my indoor crops repeatedly followed by everyone going crazy and berserk due to the resulting cannibalism and finally the survivors dying of frostbite related inefections after all the doctors were killed in the resulting tantrum spiral. Was very sad because this was my first actually planned layout fort. Rip. Accurate colonization simulator.
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Now that there's overworld travel I'd love to see vehicles. Wagons could increase the carrying capacity of animals, cars could run 24/7 with a chemfuel cost, solar charged cars could run slower and only during the day for free. Would be pretty easy to program if they don't do anything on the game map but you can bring it on trips to change the parameters. As a bonus postgame thing the ship could fly super fast over the world, allowing for player prompted orbital trade and assaults. Could even have an easier to build shuttle that will zip over obstacles.
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Mr. Prokosch posted:Now that there's overworld travel I'd love to see vehicles. Wagons could increase the carrying capacity of animals, cars could run 24/7 with a chemfuel cost, solar charged cars could run slower and only during the day for free. Would be pretty easy to program if they don't do anything on the game map but you can bring it on trips to change the parameters. As a bonus postgame thing the ship could fly super fast over the world, allowing for player prompted orbital trade and assaults. Could even have an easier to build shuttle that will zip over obstacles. On a similar note, it would be cool to be able to trade with outlander settlements via transport pod. Contact them on the comms, load up the goods, and once the pods are fired off your purchases are launched at you. Maybe even have more options, like emergency requests for items that you and the outlanders could make in return for goodwill. Would probably need a fair bit of balancing, with say more expensive prices to cover the cost of the pods, but I think it would be a nice addition.
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Carcer posted:There's always some weirdo who wants to add bodily functions to these sorts of games. But my IMMUHRRRSIOOOON!!! Started Smokeleaf Production on my colony and set my restrictions to Every 2 days, below 49% mood and 49% joy, carry 1 Any risk of addiction?
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Carcer posted:There's always some weirdo who wants to add bodily functions to these sorts of games. The mod is actually pretty well done, though it needs some work around the edges as mentioned. I mean, if you want yet more infrastructure to worry about.
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TipsyMcStagger posted:Started Smokeleaf Production on my colony and set my restrictions to Every 2 days loving shameful 
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Flesh Forge posted:Well drat here's a mod Also http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=838508097&tscn=1484076568 which has none of these problems
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TipsyMcStagger posted:But my IMMUHRRRSIOOOON!!! Yes, 1% per use I believe, it says the addictiveness in the drug information panel.
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Is smokeleaf addiction bad? Can't they just smoke a joint every day or two to be cool with it?
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Elendil004 posted:Is smokeleaf addiction bad? Can't they just smoke a joint every day or two to be cool with it? I'm sure it runs off video game addiction, IE you want your fix so much you literally cannot go a minute without going into a debilitating withdrawal.
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Elendil004 posted:Is smokeleaf addiction bad? Can't they just smoke a joint every day or two to be cool with it? I think it probably gives you cancer as well as addiction and addiction means you need to keep taking it and getting more cancer.
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Elendil004 posted:Is smokeleaf addiction bad? Can't they just smoke a joint every day or two to be cool with it? Pretty sure you get a new "smokeleaf" bar of needs and go into withdrawal if it empties. You can just smoke weed every day and the problem is you lose productivity by smoking weed every day and need a constant supply or you go into withdrawal.
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I like this game but it's really missing the "why" and "how" part of events. Why did I get malaria? Why did I get the plague? How did this tribe know I was here? Why do they hate me? Why did my conduit short? The events as they are should be a effect of a cause, not the cause and the effect. There could be roaming swarms of mosquitos in certain climates that "attack" for for a base chance to catch diseases. Rats could carry diseases and be drawn to heated buildings and unsecured food storage. Tribes could have a set of likes and dislikes that you can find out in order to stay on their good side. Factions could send a scouting party then either an envoy or a raiding party to make contact with you. Right now it's a sandbox that rolls dice every x minutes multiply by difficulty.
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It would be nice if the game modeled some of those things a little better (particularly how and why diseases occur) but yes, basically poo poo happens 
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Elendil004 posted:Is smokeleaf addiction bad? Can't they just smoke a joint every day or two to be cool with it? the way all addictions work: you get a new need bar for the addiction in question. if you continue to keep up the habit, nothing bad will happen. the high effects will continue to do the same thing as ever. if your need bottoms out, withdrawal sets in. individual addictions have different effects, and i don't know what smokeleaf's is because quite frankly i've never seen it. it has an addictiveness rating at 1% (for comparison, most hard drugs have 10%, and flake has 20%), and last i checked the addictiveness calculations, one joint every 3 days carries zero possibility of addiction. basically there's no reason to not have a small stash of space weed around. if someone's starting to crack, letting them go smoke a fattie carries absolutely no downside aside from someone moving slower for a little bit.
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Shadowlz posted:I like this game but it's really missing the "why" and "how" part of events. Why did I get malaria? Why did I get the plague? How did this tribe know I was here? Why do they hate me? Why did my conduit short? The events as they are should be a effect of a cause, not the cause and the effect. There could be roaming swarms of mosquitos in certain climates that "attack" for for a base chance to catch diseases. Rats could carry diseases and be drawn to heated buildings and unsecured food storage. Tribes could have a set of likes and dislikes that you can find out in order to stay on their good side. Factions could send a scouting party then either an envoy or a raiding party to make contact with you. Right now it's a sandbox that rolls dice every x minutes multiply by difficulty. Yeah the storytellers are poo poo. Stories aren't randomly generated. They have purpose and thought behind them. The storyteller you choose just determines how the dartboard they use to hit you with events is laid out.
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Lunethex posted:Is there a good dramatic reason the RimWorld reddit is set to private now? The Auto-Mod went rogue and shut it down. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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