A topic for all of you to share how Rimworld torments and teases you with events and the like.
For example, a solar flare and then three exotic goods traders..
The amount of times I've gone through *Solar Flare ends* -> *Eclipse starts*...
This is why you need batteries.
- Did you enjoy the eclipse? It's over just in time for the late evening, or.. early night. Darkness is good, yes?
- It's a real nice bionic arm, isn't it. Top of the line. What a shame you can't afford it. Also, you'll never see it again, no matter how much money you'll scrape together in the next week or 3 years.
- Randomize and get the three most awesome starting colonists. Proceed to start on a terrible map.
- Looks like your colonists are poorly equipped. Here, have these mechanoids.
- The dryer the climate, the more likely the boomrat raid. Dry thunderstorms only beyond this point.
- I see that your uninitiated grower made a great effort and chiseled 1000 stone blocks. Looks like he even gained one whole point in Crafting. From 3 to 4. Nice.. nice.. Here, take this trader. He has another 1000 blocks to sell.
- Building symmetry permission: denied.
- From here on, all of your prisoners shall be tribals. Enjoy converting them to your cause.
- Ohhhh! That one almost hit! Come on, keep firing those mortars. You'll destroy that crashed ship part. Eventually.
- Let us celebrate your updated arsenal, fortified defenses and idle colonists with a long period of peaceful and uneventful existence.
have half your colonist get malaria at the same time (3/6) when your out of medecine.
Oh wait, here is a combat suplier that always have them at a cheap price!
Oh sorry, just when you send someone to the com console, here is a crashed ship part that goes BOOM on your trade Beacon
This one actually wiped out the colony.
You have been letting your food supply dwindle while dealing with other stuff? Here, let me give you a blight to wipe out everything that is almost ready for harvest.
Quote from: wolfman1911 on October 13, 2014, 04:55:13 PM
This one actually wiped out the colony.
You have been letting your food supply dwindle while dealing with other stuff? Here, let me give you a blight to wipe out everything that is almost ready for harvest.
you can always eat each other. just think of your fellow colonists as "emergency rations". ;D
Your door turrets are killing the wave of psychotic animals for you? Oh look, a solar flare!
Didn't actually cause any permanent damage, since there weren't many boars in the first place and some were already dead, but two colonists got incapacitated.
Did the 50+ Tribals just destroy your defenses? Well here's a wave of raiders and for kicks ill send a wave of psychotic tortoises you penned in at the beginning of the game.
The tortoises ended up taking out about 3 of my colonists. Leaving 5 others to deal with the raiders... Not very fun....
Half of your colony, and all of them your doctors suddenly bed-ridden with disease.
Then being attacked by raiders and drop pod robots.
Quote from: keylocke on October 13, 2014, 05:25:54 PM
Quote from: wolfman1911 on October 13, 2014, 04:55:13 PM
This one actually wiped out the colony.
You have been letting your food supply dwindle while dealing with other stuff? Here, let me give you a blight to wipe out everything that is almost ready for harvest.
you can always eat each other. just think of your fellow colonists as "emergency rations". ;D
Funny enough, my second to last to die was a cannibal. She starved to death feeding a guy that had his leg shot off, because it was alpha 6.
A colonist with a burning passion for Shooting skill, and the Trigger-Happy trait.
Or, as I like to call him, Shotts Missalot.
Quote from: marvinkosh on October 13, 2014, 10:45:57 PM
A colonist with a burning passion for Shooting skill, and the Trigger-Happy trait.
Or, as I like to call him, Shotts Missalot.
Give him a minigun. They really are perfect for trigger-happy colonists.
I think you mean the colonist with any of the medical backgrounds being incapable of caring.
The storytellers are trolls... This explains so much.
You just defeated a siege party on a 400x400 map, and everyone is tired, hungry and sad because of all the bodies, and you need to get back to base asap? Well have a crashed ship part and its accompanying psychic drone, which is conveniently located at the opposite corner of the map. Nobody's making it back this time.
Yup. I had a colony of 5 people, 3 of them had medicine skill level of 10 or higher.
Three people got sick. Guess which three!
Every single morning, my 3 medical personnel would get up, go to the medical ward and all 3 of them would lay down in the medical beds until I turned off the patient job on one of them X.x
It was really frustrating that with medicine priority 1 and patient priority 4 all three of them would always and invariably end up in bed together X.x
Quote from: Railgun Convention on October 13, 2014, 06:15:09 AM
The amount of times I've gone through *Solar Flare ends* -> *Eclipse starts*...
This is why you need batteries.
Haha, yes. I've gone through that cycle SO many times. Eventually I just did away with solar altogether and only built geothermal.
What caused this scarring event?
*Eclipse* Huh, no biggie
*Eclipse Ends, Solar Flare Begins* Hmm
*Eclipse Again* Wait a seco...
*Mechanoid Centipedes, with solar flare* DAMMIT, NOOOOOOOO!
*Colony Destroyed*
*Solar Flare Ends, Eclipse Ends*
(http://i.imgur.com/fJlXxJH.png)
Yeah, the Eclipse-Flare-Eclipse thing is exactly why I made this (https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=6892.0).
Ever been trolled because you were naive? I have... I was trolled because on my first game in A10 I was mining and then I opened a place with a syther and a centipede. It ended with all my colonists dying and funny enough, my beds burning... ???
*Tribal Raid!*
Oh, ok I'll ...
*MOAR tribals!"
Oh come on! Two seconds apart?!?
*evil laughter*
actually what trolls me is that you get the Batteries Needed after a Solar Flare. I am like wut? all the electrical stuff is shut down , you dont need batteries if everything is shutdown but that troll message comes up.
currently i had the mad animal rampage man hunting pack of elephants, and because of their odd pathing a tribe of pirates attacked and they fought each other outside while the colony wondered if anything was gonna come thru , Lots of death, half the map is covered in blood and then another bunch of pirates attacked but because of the huge pile of rotting carcasses outside, they never made it as all of them went mad, broken or got killed going solo into the base turrets... I spend more time burning corpses and mounds of rotting crap then actually building.
-Looks like you're strapped for power. Why don't I just blow those batteries up for you?
-No power for your turrets? How about some raiders!
-Butchering in the freezer? Let's just set this leather in the doorway.
-That's a nice mountain base you have planned out. Surprise! I got you a huge valley!
-Congratulations on getting your entrance defenses ready! Let's celebrate with some raiders in drop pods....right in your dining hall!
-Remember that devilstrand you were growing? It should be ready soon! Oh, by the way, fido is an omnivore.
...and so many more.
poison ship and a ride next to it?
where is my sniper and popcorn?
Nice, 25 tribals wrecked your doors, turrents, and bruised all my colonists, there is some fire in the fields and walls...
Rain? No, you don't need that
Here, have a manhunterpack of 15 rhinoceros.
Oh btw, your hospital door is open.
gg wp
Just posted a related thing in Suggestions:
New colonist joins. Childhood profession disables art. Adult profession? Artist! +8 Art!
sooo Manhunter pack happens, i turn off turrets and retreat behind my wallls and doors. nek minute..
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Got another one, from just today (Randy random, rough). Quite possibly my worst bout of luck yet.
Just got your solar panels up? Congrats! Let's celebrate by immediately throwing a solar eclipse. Oh no, I hit your crops with a blight too! Too bad the growing season is short! I'll make it up to you after this solar eclipse is over with a solar flare, and 4 back-to-back tribal raids, all of which will attack immediately.
RIP Parthos, your poor luck will not be soon forgotten.
Awwww, your epic marble statue crafter is juuuust getting started? Here, have some exotic good traders.
Hey, your marble statue is done and your stockpiles are full of clothes and weapons from all those tribals I've been sending you? Here, have a general goods trader?
And another one...and another one...and another one. Nope, no combat suppliers and the game is just fresh out of exotic good traders.
But here, have some more general goods traders that won't buy anything you want to sell...
Playing on a flat map with no hills to mine... ran out of steel, but there's plenty of slag lying around, so research the electric smelter, yay.
Oh, it requires 170 steel to install. Errrmmm...
...and I have 274 bottles of beer, 811 potatos, 43 normal meals, and 86 fine meals in the fridge. And I haven't seen a bulk trader in *months*.
Guess it's time to scavange some batteries...