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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:that's base biotech functionality. Oh, interesting! I hadn't seen any of them but I suppose I never embarked with any
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A question about security: what are the best ways to set up killboxes and keep enemies from just tearing through my walls? I've seen a few cheesy ones like the Singularity Killbox but I'm not sure if that's really a killbox I should be getting used to since it could end up being patched out (apparently they tried to patch it in Biotech)
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surfacelevelspeck posted:A question about security: what are the best ways to set up killboxes and keep enemies from just tearing through my walls? I've seen a few cheesy ones like the Singularity Killbox but I'm not sure if that's really a killbox I should be getting used to since it could end up being patched out (apparently they tried to patch it in Biotech) Have an opening and just plan for defense in depth with cover, IEDs, turret pillboxes etc etc. Generally you develop this over time, because you will notice certain spots where people bunch up where you can plop down ieds, or areas of cover they tend to take etc etc.
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surfacelevelspeck posted:A question about security: what are the best ways to set up killboxes and keep enemies from just tearing through my walls? I've seen a few cheesy ones like the Singularity Killbox but I'm not sure if that's really a killbox I should be getting used to since it could end up being patched out (apparently they tried to patch it in Biotech) For most raids, which aren't sappers or breachers, the key to getting enemies into your killbox, rather than your walls/doors, is to make sure it's open before they arrive. They need to be able to path from where they spawn to a bed or a pawn or sometimes just a random thing you own or else they'll start breaking down your doors. If they can path to one of those things, they'll go for it, even if they have to walk through the most obvious hellish death gauntlet to get there. The easiest non-cheesy killbox you can make is a narrow tunnel that makes a right angle right before it reaches a room full of your defenders, such that there are only two or three tiles in the corridor where they can stand and shoot you. Have two or three people who are good with melee blocking the exit, and have a bunch of people with whatever weapons you have right behind them- ideally chain shotguns. It's pretty simple to set up, but pretty effective at reducing the number of enemies you have to deal with at once. If you don't want your folks right up in the enemy's face, just make a big empty area at the most effective weapons range for the weapons you have and give your guys good cover (columns with barricades next to them) and give no cover to the enemy. That's the most basic principle of a killbox. Tweak it until you find out what works. There's all sorts of tricks for keeping an enemy from taking cover, but it really just depends on the layout. I will say if you have a column or a barricade in a narrow corridor the enemy should never stop on that tile on purpose, but they might stop there if they get jostled or hit and end up taking cover there anyway. But honestly, if you want, feel free to use the "singularity" killbox when you're figuring stuff out. It will make certain raids trivial, but not the raids that ignore killboxes. If the singularity ever stops working (or you end up feeling to cheaty using it) you'll understand what kind of stuff you want out of a killbox better. Eiba fucked around with this message at 19:11 on Mar 15, 2023 |
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Corn is occurring. Expanding the fields, and an unforeseen difficulty. Barely any trees or vegetation grow on this map, meaning every herbivorous animal that shows up beelines for my crops.  Setting up the cornhole. The shelves are designated as wood, but I can use Replace Stuff and designate them to be made in steel (Or stone, whatever) instead, which clears the forbiddance.  My custom orcs are kinda tough. That was a direct hit with a hellsphere cannon that burned off all his clothes and three of his limbs, and he's still coming to bite my tables. e: Also the game generates the sex of the pawn and a gender-specific name before any monogender genes take effect, which is why he's Samantha.  I'm running a mod that lets me resurrect hostile mechanoids, which is why I had the hellsphere cannon in the first place. I have too much need for steel to use the war queen, though.  A space battle dropped seven living dudes on me, five of whom have joined and I have no idea what to do with. Maybe set up an outpost, maybe just banish them all once they're healed. Dareon fucked around with this message at 22:57 on Mar 15, 2023 |
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Mar 15, 2023 22:53
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Dareon posted:Setting up the cornhole.
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surfacelevelspeck posted:Unrelatedly but alpha animals w/ giddy-up (and some conflict with something else) has caused some very strange people to visit my colony. The most recent was a war trader with a guard riding a slug that arrived 3 days after everyone else made it to the trading spot. Weirdly, after the trader left, the guards decided to just lay down and starve to death instead of follow them off the map, so I'm assuming there's something fucky with my mods I need to fix. I get that something like that sometimes. The guard on the super slow animal arrives so late another guy has to take a nap, then the caravan can't leave because he's asleep, then someone else takes a nap and they still can't leave, and so on and so on till they all die. Solution is to devmode all the pawns sleep and food bars to 100%.
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https://i.imgur.com/WWZLb05.mp4
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oml some master got the title changed to that glorious line too grats dareon, they in fact sent a poet
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Do the biotuning pods pause addiction recovery? I've got a teenager that needs to kick a wicked coke habit and it'd be a lot easier if I could just stick her in a pod for a year.
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Moon Slayer posted:Do the biotuning pods pause addiction recovery? I've got a teenager that needs to kick a wicked coke habit and it'd be a lot easier if I could just stick her in a pod for a year. I feel like the easier solution would be to genemod her to have a psychite dependency so that she can use it all she wants. Alternately, Psychite Impervious, if you happen to have access to that instead.
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Beer has nutrition so I guess you could have a colony subsist entirely on beer with the right gene mods. I wonder how much you would need to stockpile between batches per pawn.
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isndl posted:Beer has nutrition so I guess you could have a colony subsist entirely on beer with the right gene mods. I wonder how much you would need to stockpile between batches per pawn. please do not use ungodly science to recreate wisconsin
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Dareon posted:Setting up the cornhole. you already got in trouble once itt for this
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Moon Slayer posted:Do the biotuning pods pause addiction recovery? I've got a teenager that needs to kick a wicked coke habit and it'd be a lot easier if I could just stick her in a pod for a year. wiki says they are "frozen as though in cryptosleep" and specifically says diseases don't progress unless the medic cycle cures them so i would have very little hope of addictions being affected.
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Moon Slayer posted:Do the biotuning pods pause addiction recovery? I've got a teenager that needs to kick a wicked coke habit and it'd be a lot easier if I could just stick her in a pod for a year. there's always the "can't have mental breaks if you don't have legs" option, or chain-anesthetizing with the power of sci-fi herbs that just magically do whatever your doctor wants them to, with zero side-effects/addiction/etc
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put them in prison, just like irl
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Actually I found that sending her out on a solo caravan trip drops her expectations down to "low" and with a masterwork bedroll the comfort bonus is just enough to offset the -35 from psychite withdrawal. So she's going out to the woods to detox.
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Moon Slayer posted:Actually I found that sending her out on a solo caravan trip drops her expectations down to "low" and with a masterwork bedroll the comfort bonus is just enough to offset the -35 from psychite withdrawal. So she's going out to the woods to detox. ah, excellent, the fallout 2 method of getting clean
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Moon Slayer posted:Actually I found that sending her out on a solo caravan trip drops her expectations down to "low" and with a masterwork bedroll the comfort bonus is just enough to offset the -35 from psychite withdrawal. So she's going out to the woods to detox. That's rather clever, I need to remember that.
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Agnostalgia posted:please do not use ungodly science to recreate wisconsin That quote is going to stick with me awhile
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Moon Slayer posted:Actually I found that sending her out on a solo caravan trip drops her expectations down to "low" and with a masterwork bedroll the comfort bonus is just enough to offset the -35 from psychite withdrawal. So she's going out to the woods to detox. It was a pretty fun system that was easy to keep going- Just send a guy with a couple horses and 50 survival meals out to feed them occasionally and I could keep a work crew out there indefinitely with a minimum of micromanagement. I wish there was more stuff you could do on the world map in vanilla. I know there's some sort of outpost mods, but something simpler where you can just tell folks to forage or gather some resources on a tile without ever leaving the caravan interface would be nice. Sometimes I just don't want to deal with certain pawns, but everyone gets sad if you banish them.
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Eiba posted:I've got a mod that lets you make roads on the world map. I sent out a bunch of colonists I didn't care about and couldn't keep happy to make a road to keep them out of the way. Only after reading this post did I realize why they were just fine after working on that road for over a year. The vanilla expanded outposts mod is extremely simple. Just caravan out, click the setup outpost button and that's it, you never have to worry about those pawns again unless you have raids for them activated.
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lunar detritus posted:The vanilla expanded outposts mod is extremely simple. Just caravan out, click the setup outpost button and that's it, you never have to worry about those pawns again unless you have raids for them activated. Their needs are not satisfied and their wounds are not healed between raids and I didn't want to keep dropping everything I'm doing and rescuing an outpost from a raid every 10 days.
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Having a really weird bug - it looks like combat in my game is just completely busted now. Looks like Rocketman is the culprit - if I disable it, things work normally, but if it's enabled anyone that's drafted or trying to fight just refuses - drafted pawns won't move or attack. Raiders move, but wander aimlessly. The most interesting thing was I tried to have one of my impids spew flame; it created a persistent cone of fire that immediately obliterated anything in it. I used dev mode to spawn a few things into it, and it would take damage from the persistent flame cloud every tick. Wild!
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I bought these DLCs more or less blind and there’s a Christian dog/wolf person living with us now.
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in your colony, or...?
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SugarAddict posted:Their needs are not satisfied and their wounds are not healed between raids and I didn't want to keep dropping everything I'm doing and rescuing an outpost from a raid every 10 days. I'm pretty sure there's a setting that disables raids on outposts in the mod options.
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buglord posted:I bought these DLCs more or less blind and there’s a Christian dog/wolf person living with us now. The Christian and Islamic structured ideoligions (and the mods I have that add Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, and Ancient Egyptian themes) feel very weird to me, it's entirely just slapping a layer of paint on whatever memes you have that may or may not make any sense with the trappings of those faiths. To be fair it does say that the actual strictures may have drifted quite far from the original intent, but it's still strange. Cannibal Christianity I can maybe see, but I tend to go through and remove most of the overt religions from the world's ideos so I don't wind up occasionally thinking "Oh, the Muslims are back to kidnap people."
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Eh, making all religions essentially the same in terms of game mechanics is fairly common in games. It's a huge loving landmine otherwise.
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Dareon posted:The Christian and Islamic structured ideoligions (and the mods I have that add Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Sikh, and Ancient Egyptian themes) feel very weird to me, it's entirely just slapping a layer of paint on whatever memes you have that may or may not make any sense with the trappings of those faiths. To be fair it does say that the actual strictures may have drifted quite far from the original intent, but it's still strange. Cannibal Christianity I can maybe see, but I tend to go through and remove most of the overt religions from the world's ideos so I don't wind up occasionally thinking "Oh, the Muslims are back to kidnap people." There's a mod somewhere on steam which replaces them with made-up religions, I used it last time I played (before an update broke my mods and I was too lazy to fix it or back up beforehand).
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i mean the generated histories of ostensibly abrahamic religions have absolutely nothing to do with their abrahamic roots at any point so i'm kind of with dareon in starting to wonder what exactly you are adding by keeping the name and iconography around
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Letting chud rear end DEUS VULT guys not need a mod I guess
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As part of a quest we adopted some family for 15 days and it had a child and it was kind of cute to see chalk drawings appear around my base randomly.
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Deep Dish Fuckfest posted:Eh, making all religions essentially the same in terms of game mechanics is fairly common in games. It's a huge loving landmine otherwise. I'm kinda sympathetic to that position, but I also like the idea that in the next three thousand years and the massive fracturing of the human diaspora that would result from galactic settlement without any FTL to keep things coherent between star systems, there may be echoes of some ancient religion that bare no resemblance to the original besides some words, with any arbitrary set of beliefs that presumably made sense to the culture that adapted the religion. Just think about how a religion of strict poverty like early Christianity can support Prosperity Gospel stuff today. You can have the exact opposite concepts in the same religion over just a couple thousand years on one planet.
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Is this like, american darts or something?
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Yes. Cornhole.
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OwlFancier posted:Is this like, american darts or something? It's a backyard game that is popular because of quick setup/travel, ability to play with a beer in your hand, and the ability to play on any terrain such as a street or a parking lot
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buglord posted:As part of a quest we adopted some family for 15 days and it had a child and it was kind of cute to see chalk drawings appear around my base randomly. Speak Up Child is great because they go from creepy children of the corn to running around babbling wildly like actual kids l
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Has anyone been playing on the Steam Deck? I am having a hell of a time getting the controls down that way.
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