Vasler posted:

1. How do I get a reliable source of chemfuel to make mortar shells? Train up a bunch of boomalopes?

2. Is it a good idea to set up a killbox once I have autoturrets researched or are normal bog-standard turrets sufficient?

3. Is it ever possible to manufacture components? I've been cranking out poo poo tons of joints, beer and yayo and selling it to buy components but ye god they're expensive.

4. I just research flak stuff. Should I start building outfits of flak armour? I also have devilstrand (or whatever it's called) that I can make into equipment. What's a good complement of clothing to use?

5. I'm researching the gas weapons right now (LMGs and such). When I finish it, should I transition exclusively (assuming I have the materials) to these types of weapons?

6. When is it actually feasible/advisable to use mortars? I have like 20 chemfuel and 3 explosive mortars so its gonna be tough.

Coolguye posted:

It’s even easier to make lavish meals and stuff people so silly they’re happy from the sheer amount of food they’re eating

Leal posted:

Hell, relateable.

Coolguye posted:

bro my life the last year has been hellish and cooking absurd amounts of high quality food from meal kit services has been the literal only thing that has held my psyche together at times. last week i was in a good mood for all of tuesday, wednesday, and thursday because i made steak and shrimp with jasmine rice and roasted zucchini and i stretched out the meals over two days. the experience was so good that i was in a good mood for almost 36 hours after i finished the last serving.

lavish meal buffs are extremely real and i don't gently caress with it at all.

Razakai posted:

I've seen a few mods try to solve the issue of raiders sending endless human wave attacks with no regard for losses, but they inevitably end up making the game way easier. Stuff like giving an abstract resource that is consumed by factions when they send raids, and being able to affect it by destroying outposts. Neat idea but tricky to implement.

Moon Slayer posted:

Since seeing how others build their bases is a good way to learn, here's my setup:



I always seem to default to compound/small town bases. Yes it's far less efficient, and mine in particular involves a lot more walking than needed, but it grew organically over time, especially when the first warehouse ran out of space. Note the proto killbox design in the lower right.

Long-term goals involve adding a second and third layer to all the walls and draining the marshes when I research moisture pumps. Also getting around to fully replacing all the wood walls from the initial landing.

Kafouille posted:

Here's my latest base, it was an experiment in designing a killbox-less base that's still defensible.



There is no open path to the base itself, so the raiders will individually dig at a random bit of wall. The double wall makes it incredibly unlikely that they will ever get trough, since non-sappers will target another random bit of wall when they manage to break down the first, and there is a vanishingly small chance that that will be the inner layer that is exposed. The corner rooms that stick out are bunkers with embrasures covering all the walls, the purpose is not to shoot at incoming raiders (The outward embrasures are mostly to shoot manhunters), but to cover the walls and kill anyone digging at them, while being protected from any other angle. You can shoot at any part of the walls while being protected.

Kanos posted:

During a poo poo period of my life I was buried under nearly constant crushing anxiety and migraines and treatments weren't really working; I was skipping my college classes, had lost my job, all that poo poo. One day, on a class day, I was hungry as hell and had no food in the house, so on a whim I decided to try out a local sandwich shop that had just opened and got their daily special that day, which was a homemade brisket sandwich on fresh-baked bread.

It was like I had downed a magic potion. It didn't make my problems go away, but it put me in such a good mood that I finished out my classes for the week and honestly probably saved my semester.

LonsomeSon posted:

There’s definitely a reason that the preferred reaction from rank and file soldiers to the idea of assaulting a star fort was to shoot the officer suggesting it before anyone else heard.

BULBASAUR posted:

I tried mountain bases and found the bugs too tedious, I'd rather deal with drop pod raids

BULBASAUR posted:

I tried mountain bases and found the bugs too tedious, I'd rather deal with drop pod raids

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Ideology adds social roles and rituals
How your colony can throw sick parties and human meat feasts
Welcome back! I’m Tia, and I’m here to bring you more Ideology preview info while we wait for the big release day.

Today, I’m talking about Ideology’s new social roles and rituals. I’m also including another UI shot since everyone loved Spacer Manporkism so much in the reveal announcement. You can wish list Ideology on its store page here!

Social roles

We’ve all had that one favourite colonist. The soldier who made it through hell and back, the medic capable of defying death, the one guy who refuses to do anything useful and spends most of the day binging on insect meat due to lack of tables…

Now you can make use of your colonists’ special strengths by assigning them formal social roles. Each belief system in Ideology defines a roles that believers can take on.

There are three categories of roles:

The leader
role can only be assigned to one colonist. Leaders give inspirational speeches, buff combat allies around them, encourage harder work, and play a special role in some rituals. They can even accuse prisoners or colonists of crimes. If they successfully prosecute the defendant in a trial you can punish the accused without social consequence. (Whether the accusations are true or false is up to you.)



The moral guide
role can be assigned once for each belief system which is represented by at least three colonists. Moral guides support the mental well-being and spiritual strength of your people, and lead many rituals including funerals, sacrifices, and more. They can preach health to the sick to speed up healing, provide counsel to sad colonists to lift their moods, reassure believers that they are correct, and convert non-believers to their own belief system.

Finally, the specialist
roles can be assigned to any number of believers. There are a variety of specialist role types - one for each skill. Specialists are better at their primary skill, and also gain a unique ability related to that skill. As a tradeoff, specialists become more focused on their specific skill and won’t do some other work. Different belief systems each have a specialist type related to their core beliefs. For example, a colony of darkness-worshipping tunnelers will probably have a specialist role focused on mining.

Colonists with social roles will want a change of appearance to suit their position. They may ask for elegant capes, creepy visage masks, solemn hoods, painful torture crowns, or anything else to set themselves apart according to their traditions.

Rituals

Celebrate your colony’s unique belief system by holding rituals. These player-controlled events are special gatherings that have a variety of impacts depending on how they are carried out, and really contribute to the story of your colony.

You can hold somber funerals for fallen soldiers, quell rebellious behaviour with public executions, pit slaves and prisoners against one another in vicious gladiator duels, host parties in dance halls or drum circles or around Christmas trees, set hated effigies on fire to watch them burn, or breathe in smokeleaf fumes from a giant bong. There are also scrumptious feasts of human meat, ceremonial blindings and scarifications, skylantern festivals on moonlit nights, and majestic trees with creatures inside of them.



How a ritual plays out depends on the circumstances - who is there (and what roles they hold), the quality of the room it takes place in, the equipment and buildings available, and so on. For example, colonists can have fun at a dance party with just a few people outdoors by clapping and stamping feet. But if you build them a giant nightclub with speakers, a lightball and a richly-decorated room they’ll have more fun and get better outcomes. Early-game rituals are less demanding than those in the late game, so you’ll get benefits at every stage.

Participants that have a good time will leave with mood boosts, and if the ritual was truly spectacular, there may be additional bonuses. We’re talking unlocked psychic powers, new recruits, improved goodwill with your neighbours, and locations of treasure-filled ancient complexes. At the same time, certain rituals may upset spectators and cause a mood deficit - it depends on their personal beliefs.

More on the way



That’s it for now! I hope you’ve enjoyed this post and have gotten a chance to try the 1.3 beta. Remember to wish list Ideology on the Steam store page. You can also read the original 1.3 update and Ideology announcement here.

And we'd love if you joined the discussion on Reddit!

Bye bye!

Tia

OwlFancier posted:

Leal posted:

.... So deep storage updated and now all my walls built near a storage item has loving imploded.

I cannot loving believe this

Hungry posted:

Here's hoping the Ideology systems are easily moddable. I want to build a spider-worshiping Feralisk cult for real this time.