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I know nobody but me cares, but hooray, my first really successful run. Just Randy medium, but I started with a tribal start and the last the few I managed to launch with were either on lower difficulties, didn't launch with every colonist, or had a bunch of save scumming.   Had several mods, but mostly QOL stuff or UI improvements. Tribal definitely slowed down the tech gain down quite a bit, but the map was absurdly loaded with resources and I was usually around 20K+ iron and 100+ components until the final stretch of powering up the ship. Raids by the end were almost all mechanoids because after eight years of doing random quests and prisoner releases I wound up neutral or friendly with all the non-pirate factions. Eight colonists died along the way, three of them in a disastrous midgame mechanoid raid where they got burned up by inferno cannons so badly I couldn't even bury them. There's definitely a lot of inefficiencies in base design, but it worked out well and you can almost make out the two hills I built into and between.
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Nov 1, 2018 10:15
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Keeshhound posted:I'm of the opinion that you should keep colonists in flak vests, simply because they protect vital organs in case of bullshit (manhunters, getting caught on the edge of a map by a raid, etc.) without slowing them down too much. If I'm remembering my math right, a default, heathy colonist has 4.6 move speed, and the vest reduces that by .12, or a little under 3%. And yes, that adds up, so it's ultimately down to how optimized you want to be vs. how safe you want to be. Pants give 20% of material armor, and devilstrand has 140 sharp value, resulting in 28 armor rating. Flak pants by contrast offer 40, which is the same as hyperweave (200 * 0.2). That said it's a lot better to armor your torso and head first, since legs in this game are quite replaceable. And if you still need temperature tolerance you might as well have it from fine wool pants. ShadowHawk fucked around with this message at 10:37 on Nov 1, 2018 |
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Nov 1, 2018 10:24
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ShadowHawk posted:Pants give 20% of material armor, and devilstrand has 140 sharp value, resulting in 28 armor rating. Flak pants by contrast offer 40, which is the same as hyperweave (200 * 0.2). What if I just start decking people out day to day in full flak and maybe a wool shirt for temperature tolerance?
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Nov 1, 2018 11:33
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Is there some intro to rimworld series? I've been muddling through but I feel like there's a lot I'm missing I'd suggest firing up one of the various rimworld lets plays on youtube the harder ones will generally show you more about maximizing effectiveness per action. Probably anything about b17/18 on is going to 95% apply to the current release. One of the big things imo is to never gather more resources than what you are going to need in the near future. At least not until you have a bunch of colonists and labor is no longer a limiting factor. The other classic way to learn rimworld is to just play a bunch of games and purposely try to get your first 5 or so colonies destroyed in different ways
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Nov 1, 2018 11:33
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What I really want right now is that Dropship mod for 1.0. Pods are cool and all but christ.
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Nov 1, 2018 11:48
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SSJ_naruto_2003 posted:Is there some intro to rimworld series? I've been muddling through but I feel like there's a lot I'm missing Definitely just muddle through until you lose a colony or two and then ask some questions about it. Half the fun of Rimworld is surviving as long as you can and then laughing about how badly it all went to poo poo, and playing optimally from the word go lessens the experience, in my opinion. Michaellaneous posted:What I really want right now is that Dropship mod for 1.0. 
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Nov 1, 2018 11:51
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I would also recommend save scumming as little as possible and trying to deal with the setbacks. Half the fun in this game is trying to figure out how everyone is going to stay fed when your only cook is kidnapped in a raid. Or your best doctor dies alone in a hospital bed because you were a dumbass and sent all your fighting pawns off on a caravan and got raided a day later. How much loot will raiders take if no one is home?
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Nov 1, 2018 14:47
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Michaellaneous posted:What I really want right now is that Dropship mod for 1.0. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1536615776 not the same mod but it looks like it has the basic features you want
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Nov 1, 2018 15:05
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Asimo posted:I know nobody but me cares, but hooray, my first really successful run. Just Randy medium, but I started with a tribal start and the last the few I managed to launch with were either on lower difficulties, didn't launch with every colonist, or had a bunch of save scumming. What coats are Riley and Nog wearing? I play with a ton of mods too and it's hard to keep track of all the new poo poo in 1.0
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Nov 1, 2018 15:13
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did i install a mod that removed batteries or were batteries moved somewhere else in the last update?
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Nov 1, 2018 18:21
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You have to research them now
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Nov 1, 2018 18:23
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Vengarr posted:Why not use nutrient paste? The tooltip for cooking includes loading the paste hopper. Unless that's wrong (I didn't try building it when I saw the tooltip) they won't load it
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Nov 1, 2018 18:30
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Cup Runneth Over posted:You have to research them now Actually a good change I think because it's not until you try running a batteryless colony that you realize how actually good it is. Batteries have their uses but given the increased zzt lethality using them, I generally prefer to spend the resources on more power production.
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Nov 1, 2018 18:51
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Sten Freak posted:The tooltip for cooking includes loading the paste hopper. Unless that's wrong (I didn't try building it when I saw the tooltip) they won't load it Pretty sure it’s wrong and any hauler can do it now. I’ve seen dogs load the hoppers before, somehow.
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Nov 1, 2018 18:57
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OwlFancier posted:Actually a good change I think because it's not until you try running a batteryless colony that you realize how actually good it is. The only problem with not having any batteries is solar flares completely cripple you while they are active, yesterday I was in the middle of a volcanic winter AND a cold snap when a solar flare hit me. I turned everything off except the heaters and the batteries I had carried me through thank goodness.
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Nov 1, 2018 19:09
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That's almost certainly a bug, since the flares are supposed to shut down everything not just power sources; I wouldn't rely on them for that purpose.
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Nov 1, 2018 19:21
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Yeah you shouldn't be able to run anything electrical during a flare afaik. That's when you just build a bunch of campfires.
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Nov 1, 2018 19:30
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Oh yea, maybe you are right, I am in an under-mountain base, so maybe it was just insulated enough for me to survive. I probably just convinced myself that I was a genius who saved my people! I tend to think I'm far more clever than I actually am! deathbagel fucked around with this message at 19:53 on Nov 1, 2018 |
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Nov 1, 2018 19:40
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If you're in a mountain (and you should be, dorfbase bestbase) that's an even better point, paradoxically, to light a bunch of fires in the corridors in order to solve your heating problem.
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Nov 1, 2018 20:03
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deathbagel posted:Oh yea, maybe you are right, I am in an under-mountain base, so maybe it was just insulated enough for me to survive. Mountains are pretty much the best place to carve out a home. Yes, bugs are an issue, but the trick is knowing that they are coming and preparing for the eventuality. I've never had a full wipe from underground bugs. Significant slowdowns perhaps, and the odd casualty here and there from bad luck, but a good mountain base can let you divide and conquer the bugs well enough to save your colonists. Everything else can be replaced. 3-wide corridors, and airlocks to divide the base into blocks, and then you have a good chance of being able to divide up any infestation and take them piecemeal, or just funnel them through a one-wide airlock with all of your colonists massing fire on the one bug in front of your melee guys.
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Nov 1, 2018 20:09
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Can someone who knows how it should work give a quick and dirty guide to getting Gear Up and Go to work? I've been messing with it but I can't figure out how to make it work. All it does is draft the colonist for me and I tried setting up an outfit for it but no dice. Feels like I'm missing something obvious. I have Better Pawn Control too.
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Prophecy120 posted:What coats are Riley and Nog wearing? I play with a ton of mods too and it's hard to keep track of all the new poo poo in 1.0
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Nov 1, 2018 20:27
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Cup Runneth Over posted:No. Play the vanilla game until you think "this feature annoys me/I wish I could do X" and then find a mod for it. Rinse and repeat. This is what I did. A day into it and suddenly I have like 15 mods. Almost all are ease of life mods. Like the colored mood bars, and the more info bars, and the chat bubbles when they talk. My wind farm set my house on fire! Oh, someone made a mod that lets you build FUSES - duh! Why people keep shooting each other, there is mod to not do that. My walls are wood, I want steel! Let a mod help your dudes simply upgrade for you. On and on. Little things, a lot of little things, all modded away. I feel everything I've put into it hasn't been some new thing that drifts away from the game, but rather something the devs should have included in the game anyways.
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Nov 1, 2018 20:41
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OwlFancier posted:Actually a good change I think because it's not until you try running a batteryless colony that you realize how actually good it is.
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Nov 1, 2018 21:14
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God I fucking love Diablo 3 gold, it even paid for this shitty title
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Bugs are free combat and medical practice and a bunch of yucky meat and leather (and bone if you're using that mod), and if you are a serious tryhard you can farm their jelly makers  I turn off the ship part crash incidents because they're super lame and require cheesing but I think infestation is perfectly fine and actually fun, I don't get why people don't like it.
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Nov 1, 2018 21:31
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I wish bugs dropped chitin or something to make armor out of which has 0 temp benefits but high sharp/blunt defense. But the use of insect meat and hay together to make kibble is awesome, except when your 2yo toddler rushes over to your animal handler who is having lunch in the main dining hall, steals a handful of kibble out of their pocket, and then gets both "ate kibble" and "ate insect meat" moodlets. I was actually rather impressed that the children from the mods functioned like that, since it was a pretty realistic thing, which is probably why they put in some baked in +25 moodlet for the "simplicity of youth" i.e. kids are dumb and do dumb things but often they don't care that much about it. Friendly Fire mod has made dealing with insects a lot easier for me. Whereas before I'd be wary of a 2nd line of ranged behind the melee line due to risk of shooting melee line, now I can pile 4 lines of ranged behind melee and the front ranged shoot the bugs hitting the melee while the back line ranged shoot distant bugs. I don't like how the bugs start trashing the room they're in, but as long as I make sure to leave them a room they can spawn in that I don't really mind getting trashed, that's okay. But even without trying to farm jelly, they pop out 20 quickly and then breaking them down gives another 20 or so, so you can wind up with a 500 haul of insect jelly really freaking quick.
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Philthy posted:This is what I did. A day into it and suddenly I have like 15 mods. Some that are a bit off the beaten path but are tremendously helpful and don't really change the mechanics of the game too much: Allow Tool, dozens of useful selectors and designators and various things https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=761421485 Cut Plants Before Building https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1539025677 Replace Stuff, upgrade objects in place and skip tons of fiddly busy work (e.g. you have a lovely double bedroll with a pair of colonists assigned to it, you can simply place a blueprint for a higher quality bed on top of the old one and it will automatically deconstruct the old one, build the new one, AND assign the original colonists to it when completed  )https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1372003680 Flesh Forge fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Nov 1, 2018 |
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Nov 1, 2018 21:42
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How hard would it be to implement something where i keep the same world seed but have different colonies on it? Maybe i could visit the remains of one of my previous colonies or my previous colonists could now be a pirate faction and lead raids into my new colony? Etc., Etc.
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Nov 1, 2018 22:31
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I just read a mod that generates ruins based on a database of bases it has collected - https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1552146295 So potentially, kinda that - but mod person says saving terrain data is more than they want to have, just doing buildings/furniture for now.
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Nov 1, 2018 22:33
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I suspect it's most likely a performance issue, no? Just saving all that data that may or may not ever be used? Better to just create a new world every time.
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Nov 1, 2018 22:37
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DF does surprisingly fine with nearly infinite world-state and history detail. You don't have to load much of anything into ram outside of your base. The problem seems to be having granularly detailed development at near real-time of multiple bases you have to view at once. You can have historical player data influence the world and potentially be a hostile/trading neighboring factions, but going to visit isn't trivial.
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Nov 1, 2018 23:03
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Count me in camp urban warfare with flak vests for all Detail
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Nov 1, 2018 23:44
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I had a base that was nestled in what I thought was an enclosed, U-shaped mountain range. Some tunneling into the mountain however revealed an unexpected hidden pocket of land that later provided a route for raiders to come in from the map's edge. My question is, if I hadn't uncovered that hidden pocket, would the fog of war have prevented enemies from spawning or would they have come through that way regardless?
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Nov 1, 2018 23:53
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Nope, they never would have. They see what you see, oddly enough.
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Nov 2, 2018 00:20
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Mindless posted:Count me in camp urban warfare with flak vests for all Now I know how I'm gonna design my base defenses, thanks friend.
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Nov 2, 2018 00:25
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Thats a lot more access points for your colonists to go in/out than my colony has. Maybe I should add some more.
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Nov 2, 2018 00:41
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Galaga Galaxian posted:Thats a lot more access points for your colonists to go in/out than my colony has. Maybe I should add some more. The downside is untrained animals opening doors at the worst moments.
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Nov 2, 2018 01:12
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Are vehicles a thing yet besides pods?
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Ok I've been playing my rear end off with randy rough and I keep getting hosed. It's all great until I have to actually micromanage and do real loving defense against outlanders with lil more than a wall for cover and rifles/looted guns. I think I need to be reminded how to set up shop again and how to handle this poo poo. Because just having 15x15 blocks and setting my guys up in cover isn't doing it anymore. I need to get a proper defense up ASAP and not get by with no walls or a single perimeter wall like I'm used to. Mindless's setup looks great because it offers alot of entry points+cover points for the hallway incase dudes spill into there. I'm gonna have to setup the death intake as a signature feature of my bases from now on. But as far as combat goes, what could I be missing tactics wise?
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