Psychic Drone balance

[Tynan]

Here's a way to counter the old psychic drone event.

Put your colonists in cryptosleep Pop them out when it's over.

Of course you'll need a few cryptosleep pods, but they're the easiest part of the ship to build.

[vagineer1]

Here's a way to counter the old psychic drone event.

Put your colonists in cryptosleep Pop them out when it's over.

Of course you'll need a few cryptosleep pods, but they're the easiest part of the ship to build.

Do the Cryo Pods freeze your colonist's needs and mood for as long as they stay in them?

[Tynan]

Here's a way to counter the old psychic drone event.

Put your colonists in cryptosleep Pop them out when it's over.

Of course you'll need a few cryptosleep pods, but they're the easiest part of the ship to build.

Do the Cryo Pods freeze your colonist's needs and mood for as long as they stay in them?

Of course, they're asleep!

[vagineer1]

Here's a way to counter the old psychic drone event.

Put your colonists in cryptosleep Pop them out when it's over.

Of course you'll need a few cryptosleep pods, but they're the easiest part of the ship to build.

Do the Cryo Pods freeze your colonist's needs and mood for as long as they stay in them?

Of course, they're asleep!

Imagine a bunker built into the side of a mountain. As you enter, you hear nothing apart from a low humming. Upon further exploration, you discover that there is no-one in the bunker. You enter a previously locked room and discover the source of the humming. 50 cryo pods, all full.

[StorymasterQ]

Suggestion: Perhaps the psychic drone can affect colonists in different ways? So maybe some will get -15, some -5, while others could actually get a +5 and +15?

Maybe as a rare occurrence, a semi-random change to their skill passion? By semi-random I mean only a level up or down on at most 2 or 3 skills. So maybe an interested grower can go up to a passionate grower or something.

[Tynan]

Suggestion: Perhaps the psychic drone can affect colonists in different ways? So maybe some will get -15, some -5, while others could actually get a +5 and +15?

Maybe as a rare occurrence, a semi-random change to their skill passion? By semi-random I mean only a level up or down on at most 2 or 3 skills. So maybe an interested grower can go up to a passionate grower or something.

You are correct. I'm planning on embedding this into traits, where people have different psychic sensitivities as well as different base moods.

[StorymasterQ]

Suggestion: Perhaps the psychic drone can affect colonists in different ways? So maybe some will get -15, some -5, while others could actually get a +5 and +15?

Maybe as a rare occurrence, a semi-random change to their skill passion? By semi-random I mean only a level up or down on at most 2 or 3 skills. So maybe an interested grower can go up to a passionate grower or something.

You are correct. I'm planning on embedding this into traits, where people have different psychic sensitivities as well as different base moods.

Yay! SO, are traits finally implemented in A6?

[christhekiller]

Just got hit by the psychic drone and it was too much. It seemed like an effect I could maybe work through but then I got hit by a solar flare and the almost constant darkness combined with the psychic drone effect was far too much and my colony crumbled.

[BetaSpectre]

Just got hit by the psychic drone and it was too much. It seemed like an effect I could maybe work through but then I got hit by a solar flare and the almost constant darkness combined with the psychic drone effect was far too much and my colony crumbled.

Sometimes you gotta wonder if your colonists are the most wanted criminals on the planet/system. Every few days you get hit by hundreds of mercs most willing to lay down their lives to smite 4-5 people all fail consistently and only add to this colony's slave man power.
If that wasn't enough you keep getting hit by radiation and "eclipses" these rare events are a weekly occurance as if manufactured. Then kill bots rain from the sky intent on killing you and only you.

You'd have to call me crazy to not believe someone somewhere wants you dead BAD.

[Telkir]

I encountered the psychic drone twice so far in the colony I'm playing at the moment. Perhaps I was lucky (or Randy is being charitable), but they caused me very little trouble. Both of them together caused only one of the prisoners I was holding to rampage, and two of my colonists - one in each event - to feel a bit down in the dumps. I'd like to thank the power of plantpots, rosebeds, and fine meals for keeping people sane. :p

Even had more bad stuff happened, it's a cool effect - so I won't be updating!

[vagineer1]

I encountered the psychic drone twice so far in the colony I'm playing at the moment. Perhaps I was lucky (or Randy is being charitable), but they caused me very little trouble. Both of them together caused only one of the prisoners I was holding to rampage, and two of my colonists - one in each event - to feel a bit down in the dumps. I'd like to thank the power of plantpots, rosebeds, and fine meals for keeping people sane. :p

Even had more bad stuff happened, it's a cool effect - so I won't be updating!

When the event hits me I make everyone a member of the Holy Sh*t look at all those roses Club.

[Garen]

Here's a way to counter the old psychic drone event.

Put your colonists in cryptosleep Pop them out when it's over.

Of course you'll need a few cryptosleep pods, but they're the easiest part of the ship to build.

its's interesting to see how you make ship components have other uses as well

im thinking 'is the psychic drone affecting the entire planet or just this area? if the former, then surely the factions will hate each other and thus me, more?

maybe that's a way you could balence it for now

[psilous]

Here's a way to counter the old psychic drone event.

Put your colonists in cryptosleep Pop them out when it's over.

Of course you'll need a few cryptosleep pods, but they're the easiest part of the ship to build.

My god that's brilliant

[sparda666]

not to poopoo on current ideas, but would it make sense to nerf the numbers in vanilla? -25 is worse than seeing corpses isnt it? Whats the lore of this psychic drone? some autonomous robot emitting waves that cause traumatic images in the colonists' minds?

[Tynan]

Whats the lore of this psychic drone? some autonomous robot emitting waves that cause traumatic images in the colonists' minds?

Yes. And this event was disabled in Alpha5b.