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Just wondering how everyone else plays Rimworld, for me there are 4 kinds of play style:
Hard core survival - just set up the production, no micro management of colonists unless there is a raid or other hostile event.
Survival - just plain survival, no cheats at all.
Comforted survival - play with cheats just so your colonists don't die, no spawning in good stuff or lavish meals, just simple meals, changing weather, and force enemy flee whenever needed.
God mode - play with God mode on and do everything with cheats.

Other game modes:
Mostly hardcore - it's hardcore but you can micro only in non hostile emergencies, like fires.

If you pick other, decide on a name for how you play and explain what you can and can't do, what's allowed and not allowed

Survival/Hardcore. i micro where it needs it cause they still wont PRIORITIZE THE SOLAR PANELS THAT ARE ON FIRE D:<

Other, i... save scum alot when one of my colonists die with a lucky shot, yet i do not cheat in any other way so i cannot pick any of the other options.

Quote from: Mechanoid Hivemind on September 02, 2015, 11:56:38 AM
Survival/Hardcore. i micro where it needs it cause they still wont PRIORITIZE THE SOLAR PANELS THAT ARE ON FIRE D:<

^
That!
I don't trust them to get things done without setting their priorities and so
but I mostly let them go about their business on their own

Edit: This is only when I play though
Most time spent with Rimworld is not playing at all mostly just fiddling with my mods ;D

Quote from: Mechanoid Hivemind on September 02, 2015, 11:56:38 AM
Survival/Hardcore. i micro where it needs it cause they still wont PRIORITIZE THE SOLAR PANELS THAT ARE ON FIRE D:<

Lol, I've had problems like that,  it's very annoying

Added mostly hard core to encompass the tiny micro managing you may do.

Survival, but I save scum a lot of the frankly boring and irritating things. The Wanderer joins event, for one. The game thrusts this idiot upon me without my having a choice. So I save scum them until it rolls a colonist worth a damn. I'm not having a 70 year old medieval minstrel added to my roster EVER, let alone without my say so. Actually, the age is irrelevant, there's far, far too many backgrounds in the game that just mean the person is worthless, and the minstrel is at the top of my list for that.

Some events are just plain irritatingly boring to deal with, like lightning or flashstorms in jungles. Practically the whole map will burn down on far too regular a basis, because of the idea that lightning starts uncontrollable magical fire that burns across any and all vegetation. You'd have trouble starting a wildfire in a rainforest with a plasma cannon. Mechanically it's exceptionally poor gameplay because there's no way to stop it besides your colonists beating out fires, which is impossible for larger fires, or having ALREADY built a firebreak around your colony and just watching the rest of the map not matter anymore. Oh, you wanted to play in a jungle? Doesn't matter, it's mostly going to be sparse vegetation by the time the first year is out....but hey, just consider yourself lucky you didn't roll a temperate map! Then I'll just toxic fallout murder all forms of life within about six months! The very first mod I ever download will be to simply remove lightning fires from the game. The second will do for the toxic fallout.

Does reloading when something happens that I really don't like (e.g. a colonist death, sometimes) count as cheating?

Quote from: SaintD on September 02, 2015, 12:17:29 PM
[complaints about flashstorms]

If you haven't re-downloaded for A12d (https://ludeon.com/blog/2015/08/tiny-hotfix-to-alpha12d/) yet, you might want to.

Hard core mostly. The only "cheating" I do is when the storyteller think it's funny to drop a toxic ship followed by an Evil ship after about 5 months of in-game time.

Usually play on Classic Challenging difficulty though, so I'm willing to deal with the random bullet that rips my 14-skill Miner's arm off. But those f(*^& ships! Can't kill them with a pistol and survival rifle and can't afford the resources to build turrets all the way across the amp to them. So... Dev console, here I come!

Quote from: Cimanyd on September 02, 2015, 12:44:53 PMIf you haven't re-downloaded for A12d (https://ludeon.com/blog/2015/08/tiny-hotfix-to-alpha12d/) yet, you might want to.

Thankyou for not reading and understanding my post?

Sorry, I thought A12d made the whole effect of flashstorms less, but after reading the comments it looks like it's still supposed to make a big fire, just not do as much damage if it happened to be right over your base. Never mind.

Quote from: Lerxst on September 02, 2015, 12:47:44 PM
Hard core mostly. The only "cheating" I do is when the storyteller think it's funny to drop a toxic ship followed by an Evil ship after about 5 months of in-game time.

Usually play on Classic Challenging difficulty though, so I'm willing to deal with the random bullet that rips my 14-skill Miner's arm off. But those f(*^& ships! Can't kill them with a pistol and survival rifle and can't afford the resources to build turrets all the way across the amp to them. So... Dev console, here I come!

Same here, I dev mode destroy them as soon as I get em

I'm still pretty new, but I made the mistake of diving straight into Cassandra Extreme difficulty for my first few games. I played it straight except for reloading saves in rage when one of my first three colonists died.

I've sobered up a little and dropped the difficulty down to Rough with the promise that I just won't savescum. It makes the game less serious when you can cheat and reload, and I like seriousness.

The only thing I use dev mode for is when I can't find something. I spawn in a duplicate of the item, double click on it to find my original item, then delete the duplicate. Saves hassle!

Aside from all that, I do a lot of micromanagement. I do tons of allowed areas stuff to make my colonists go where I want them to, tinker and fine tune the priorities to maximize efficiency, and manually prioritize tasks whenever I need to. My colonists have a bad habit of going to sleep instead of staying up to fight forest fires or repair walls during raids, so I give them all an allowed zone strictly within the danger and repeatedly micro them to do their job.

Quote from: NuclearStudent on September 02, 2015, 01:31:05 PM
I'm still pretty new, but I made the mistake of diving straight into Cassandra Extreme difficulty for my first few games. I played it straight except for reloading saves in rage when one of my first three colonists died.

I've sobered up a little and dropped the difficulty down to Rough with the promise that I just won't savescum. It makes the game less serious when you can cheat and reload, and I like seriousness.

The only thing I use dev mode for is when I can't find something. I spawn in a duplicate of the item, double click on it to find my original item, then delete the duplicate. Saves hassle!

Aside from all that, I do a lot of micromanagement. I do tons of allowed areas stuff to make my colonists go where I want them to, tinker and fine tune the priorities to maximize efficiency, and manually prioritize tasks whenever I need to. My colonists have a bad habit of going to sleep instead of staying up to fight forest fires or repair walls during raids, so I give them all an allowed zone strictly within the danger and repeatedly micro them to do their job.

I just set everyone's priorities to 1 for firefighting and it works like a charm. Never really needed to force anyone to do anything that way.

Quote from: Lerxst on September 02, 2015, 01:42:39 PM

Quote from: NuclearStudent on September 02, 2015, 01:31:05 PM
I'm still pretty new, but I made the mistake of diving straight into Cassandra Extreme difficulty for my first few games. I played it straight except for reloading saves in rage when one of my first three colonists died.

I've sobered up a little and dropped the difficulty down to Rough with the promise that I just won't savescum. It makes the game less serious when you can cheat and reload, and I like seriousness.

The only thing I use dev mode for is when I can't find something. I spawn in a duplicate of the item, double click on it to find my original item, then delete the duplicate. Saves hassle!

Aside from all that, I do a lot of micromanagement. I do tons of allowed areas stuff to make my colonists go where I want them to, tinker and fine tune the priorities to maximize efficiency, and manually prioritize tasks whenever I need to. My colonists have a bad habit of going to sleep instead of staying up to fight forest fires or repair walls during raids, so I give them all an allowed zone strictly within the danger and repeatedly micro them to do their job.

I just set everyone's priorities to 1 for firefighting and it works like a charm. Never really needed to force anyone to do anything that way.

Yeah, I do that and works ok, acts strangely at times

Eating, and sleeping take priority over firefighting. Colonist will sleep through a fire, or stop in the middle of fire fighting and eat.

Quote from: TLHeart on September 02, 2015, 04:54:57 PM
Eating, and sleeping take priority over firefighting. Colonist will sleep through a fire, or stop in the middle of fire fighting and eat.

Makes sense, if they were working all the time firefighting, they would probably starve of get burned while sleeping

Quote from: Lerxst on September 02, 2015, 12:47:44 PM
Hard core mostly. The only "cheating" I do is when the storyteller think it's funny to drop a toxic ship followed by an Evil ship after about 5 months of in-game time.

Usually play on Classic Challenging difficulty though, so I'm willing to deal with the random bullet that rips my 14-skill Miner's arm off. But those f(*^& ships! Can't kill them with a pistol and survival rifle and can't afford the resources to build turrets all the way across the amp to them. So... Dev console, here I come!

I got slapped with an early poison ship with an evil ship a couple times too before the rebalance (not the kind of thing Cassandra basebuilder should be pulling). The last time it happened I hung around a little bit before ragequitting, and at least got the amusement of a raid being dropped on me soon after....a raid which would path right past a pair of poison ships. While a large group of visitors was also on the way out.

Absolute carnage ensued.

Quote from: SaintD on September 03, 2015, 08:07:23 PM

Quote from: Lerxst on September 02, 2015, 12:47:44 PM
Hard core mostly. The only "cheating" I do is when the storyteller think it's funny to drop a toxic ship followed by an Evil ship after about 5 months of in-game time.

Usually play on Classic Challenging difficulty though, so I'm willing to deal with the random bullet that rips my 14-skill Miner's arm off. But those f(*^& ships! Can't kill them with a pistol and survival rifle and can't afford the resources to build turrets all the way across the amp to them. So... Dev console, here I come!

I got slapped with an early poison ship with an evil ship a couple times too before the rebalance (not the kind of thing Cassandra basebuilder should be pulling). The last time it happened I hung around a little bit before ragequitting, and at least got the amusement of a raid being dropped on me soon after....a raid which would path right past a pair of poison ships. While a large group of visitors was also on the way out.

Absolute carnage ensued.

If you recorded it and put it on youtube, please tell me because I want to see that!

I'm thinking maybe you shouldn't get an evil ship on Phoebe Basebuilder? Everyone survived, but only just

Quote from: Futrettamer on September 04, 2015, 04:08:44 PM
I'm thinking maybe you shouldn't get an evil ship on Phoebe Basebuilder? Everyone survived, but only just

If you don't have a sniper rifle and know how to deal with them, it really isn't a "basebuilder" kind of story being told but hay, that's just my opinion.

Quote from: jega on September 04, 2015, 04:28:21 PM

Quote from: Futrettamer on September 04, 2015, 04:08:44 PM
I'm thinking maybe you shouldn't get an evil ship on Phoebe Basebuilder? Everyone survived, but only just

If you don't have a sniper rifle and know how to deal with them, it really isn't a "basebuilder" kind of story being told but hay, that's just my opinion.

That's why I would just reload an auto save to keep it from happening, works well

I just do what ever

Quote from: MultiDavid on September 02, 2015, 11:57:18 AM
Other, i... save scum alot when one of my colonists die with a lucky shot, yet i do not cheat in any other way so i cannot pick any of the other options.

This. I never cheat in any game I play, no matter how easy it would be. I do, however, save scum A LOT. "I see you are on the brink of starvation, yet you have fields full of crops about to be harvested. I think you need a blight!" Yeah, screw that! :P Re-load last autosave!

Quote from: MisterVertigo on September 08, 2015, 04:28:23 PM

Quote from: MultiDavid on September 02, 2015, 11:57:18 AM
Other, i... save scum alot when one of my colonists die with a lucky shot, yet i do not cheat in any other way so i cannot pick any of the other options.

This. I never cheat in any game I play, no matter how easy it would be. I do, however, save scum A LOT. "I see you are on the brink of starvation, yet you have fields full of crops about to be harvested. I think you need a blight!" Yeah, screw that! :P Re-load last autosave!

Yeah, the game can be a biatch sometimes

Normally I play with Cassandra or Phoebe on "Challenge,"

I like to use EDP's "prepare carefully" mod so set up my initial four colonists (I prefer four over three since it lets me specialize them a bit more for specific tasks) and give them some starter gear better suited to the terrain they're landing in. (no more parkas when landing in the desert.)

Once they're dirt side I let things happen as they will mostly without cheating, but do plenty of micro managing since they seem incapable of properly prioritizing tasks on their own even with the work list set. (A raid is gearing up to attack, but instead of finishing up the turrets they'd rather build a shiny new kitchen and bedroom set?)

The only cheating I do is re-queue the "wanderer joins" event until I get a colonist I consider "acceptable." (No room in my colonies for crippled prostophobes with cataracts, lazy neurotic slowpokes, or dilettantes that refuse to haul or clean.) Those that are unacceptable I just hit with the dev mode destroy button before re-queuing the event.

Quote from: Lady Wolf on September 08, 2015, 05:07:46 PM
Normally I play with Cassandra or Phoebe on "Challenge,"

I like to use EDP's "prepare carefully" mod so set up my initial four colonists (I prefer four over three since it lets me specialize them a bit more for specific tasks) and give them some starter gear better suited to the terrain they're landing in. (no more parkas when landing in the desert.)

Once they're dirt side I let things happen as they will mostly without cheating, but do plenty of micro managing since they seem incapable of properly prioritizing tasks on their own even with the work list set. (A raid is gearing up to attack, but instead of finishing up the turrets they'd rather build a shiny new kitchen and bedroom set?)

The only cheating I do is re-queue the "wanderer joins" event until I get a colonist I consider "acceptable." (No room in my colonies for crippled prostophobes with cataracts, lazy neurotic slowpokes, or dilettantes that refuse to haul or clean.) Those that are unacceptable I just hit with the dev mode destroy button before re-queuing the event.

i really need to stop being lazy and experiment, but does adding the fourth or even a fifth colonist to your initial party prolong how long you can skate before you have to toss the obligatory "you don't have five colonist" joins?

Quote from: Lady Wolf on September 08, 2015, 05:07:46 PM
Normally I play with Cassandra or Phoebe on "Challenge,"

I like to use EDP's "prepare carefully" mod so set up my initial four colonists (I prefer four over three since it lets me specialize them a bit more for specific tasks) and give them some starter gear better suited to the terrain they're landing in. (no more parkas when landing in the desert.)

Once they're dirt side I let things happen as they will mostly without cheating, but do plenty of micro managing since they seem incapable of properly prioritizing tasks on their own even with the work list set. (A raid is gearing up to attack, but instead of finishing up the turrets they'd rather build a shiny new kitchen and bedroom set?)

The only cheating I do is re-queue the "wanderer joins" event until I get a colonist I consider "acceptable." (No room in my colonies for crippled prostophobes with cataracts, lazy neurotic slowpokes, or dilettantes that refuse to haul or clean.) Those that are unacceptable I just hit with the dev mode destroy button before re-queuing the event.

I need to start doing that. And yeah, I abuse the heck out of edb prepare carefully

Quote from: Lady Wolf on September 08, 2015, 05:07:46 PM
Those that are unacceptable I just hit with the dev mode destroy button before re-queuing the event.

How do you re-queue this event? Is that in Dev mode? Like I said, I never cheat so I don't know how that works! :)

Quote from: MisterVertigo on September 08, 2015, 06:43:55 PM

Quote from: Lady Wolf on September 08, 2015, 05:07:46 PM
Those that are unacceptable I just hit with the dev mode destroy button before re-queuing the event.

How do you re-queue this event? Is that in Dev mode? Like I said, I never cheat so I don't know how that works! :)

was wondering that too, worse comes to worse i can get more ore from trade ships.

Quote from: Too-DAMN-Much on September 08, 2015, 06:46:46 PM

Quote from: MisterVertigo on September 08, 2015, 06:43:55 PM

Quote from: Lady Wolf on September 08, 2015, 05:07:46 PM
Those that are unacceptable I just hit with the dev mode destroy button before re-queuing the event.

How do you re-queue this event? Is that in Dev mode? Like I said, I never cheat so I don't know how that works! :)

was wondering that too, worse comes to worse i can get more ore from trade ships.

Basically you just use the execute incident menu, if that's not it then I don't know

Quote from: stranger080 on September 09, 2015, 11:05:56 AM

Basically you just use the execute incident menu, if that's not it then I don't know

Yep, it's the last option in the execute incident dev mode menu, "Wanderer Join" or some such name.

With how rarely the event pops (about once per session right within the first month or three) it's not what I consider a really "huge cheat" and mostly I just got sick of the event generating useless people nearly as often as someone that's worth keeping.

Even then if the wanderer is highly skilled in a needed area I'm willing to tolerate it; and a frail cataracted doctor with 12+ skill can quickly earn their keep after a bad raid.

Even those incapable of violence might not be really desirable, but as long as they can clean, haul, and (hopefully) perform some other useful task  they earn their keep well enough, but it's those lazy high borns that are incapable of pretty much everything (I.e dumb labor, intellectual labor, and crafting) that get kicked to the curb without hesitation.

Quote from: Lady Wolf on September 09, 2015, 12:23:25 PM

Quote from: stranger080 on September 09, 2015, 11:05:56 AM

Basically you just use the execute incident menu, if that's not it then I don't know

Yep, it's the last option in the execute incident dev mode menu, "Wanderer Join" or some such name.

With how rarely the event pops (about once per session right within the first month or three) it's not what I consider a really "huge cheat" and mostly I just got sick of the event generating useless people nearly as often as someone that's worth keeping.

Even then if the wanderer is highly skilled in a needed area I'm willing to tolerate it; and a frail cataracted doctor with 12+ skill can quickly earn their keep after a bad raid.

Even those incapable of violence might not be really desirable, but as long as they can clean, haul, and (hopefully) perform some other useful task  they earn their keep well enough, but it's those lazy high borns that are incapable of pretty much everything (I.e dumb labor, intellectual labor, and crafting) that get kicked to the curb without hesitation.

Yeah, I usually don't get wanderer join events but the next time I do I'm using this tactic

I personally like the challenge of having that colonists that I would not pick... adds another dimension to the game that I would not have played with otherwise.

Quote from: TLHeart on September 09, 2015, 01:53:06 PM
I personally like the challenge of having that colonists that I would not pick... adds another dimension to the game that I would not have played with otherwise.

It's interesting yes, but if you get someone who can only hunt or make art, I would probably just use them as a suicide/sacrifice shooter with maybe a pistol or something

I love those assassins that can only fight and do art. A great combination. 

The hardest one to deal with is the noble, who can only research, and I have already completed the research... I give them a personal shield to be used as a distraction for the enemy.

Quote from: TLHeart on September 09, 2015, 03:39:07 PM
I love those assassins that can only fight and do art. A great combination. 

The hardest one to deal with is the noble, who can only research, and I have already completed the research... I give them a personal shield to be used as a distraction for the enemy.

Yeah, those too, they're a major pain, I wouldn't mind just strapping a bomb to them and throw them at the enemy

Classic challenge with no save scumming, dev mode or anything else like that. What I get is what I get. I will manual control everything I see necessary though, for their own good.

Though if I happen to get a useless colonist, they might suffer... lets say, an accident. Every body is useful in one way or the other. Also, I will never have two hunters. Hunting accidents for me have a riddiculously high chance of fatal headshots or other slower ways for the unlucky colonist to die.

Quote from: Jarwy on September 10, 2015, 03:52:26 AM
Classic challenge with no save scumming, dev mode or anything else like that. What I get is what I get. I will manual control everything I see necessary though, for their own good.

Though if I happen to get a useless colonist, they might suffer... lets say, an accident. Every body is useful in one way or the other. Also, I will never have two hunters. Hunting accidents for me have a riddiculously high chance of fatal headshots or other slower ways for the unlucky colonist to die.

I run two hunters all the time, with SHORT range weapons. I never hunt with a sniper rifle. Shotguns are great tools for hunting, short range and pack a punch. Proper tool for the job.  I have never had a hunting accident with hunters using shotguns. Different story with survival rifles, sniper rifles, or any weapon that shots multiple projectiles. If I don't have two shot guns, then only one hunter.

Quote from: TLHeart on September 10, 2015, 10:37:49 AM

Quote from: Jarwy on September 10, 2015, 03:52:26 AM
Classic challenge with no save scumming, dev mode or anything else like that. What I get is what I get. I will manual control everything I see necessary though, for their own good.

Though if I happen to get a useless colonist, they might suffer... lets say, an accident. Every body is useful in one way or the other. Also, I will never have two hunters. Hunting accidents for me have a riddiculously high chance of fatal headshots or other slower ways for the unlucky colonist to die.

I run two hunters all the time, with SHORT range weapons. I never hunt with a sniper rifle. Shotguns are great tools for hunting, short range and pack a punch. Proper tool for the job.  I have never had a hunting accident with hunters using shotguns. Different story with survival rifles, sniper rifles, or any weapon that shots multiple projectiles. If I don't have two shot guns, then only one hunter.

Smart, I havery animal guy hunt, he's out a lot anyway so I figured, why not?

since a10 or so i only play on RR extreme. when a new alpha comes out sometimes RR challenge, if i want to make like 10 colonies in one day for testing.

my goal is not survival, but getting schedule, areas, jobs, wtc setup so well, i barely have to micro anymore except in raids. even then, just for lulz the other day i left game running at x3 while having a shower... my autoturret setup took care of 2 small raids on itself and i only lost a couple of pets.

HOWEVER, i savescrum way too much at the beginning of every of my colonies. later on not needed anymore.

i want to get into twitch streaming at one point, and then it's gonna be ironman, without saving...but my PC cant handle both game and streaming.

what i enjoy now, after 900h. of game, is still trying new stuff... like min/maxxing colonists, perfect balance of pets to not run out of food without having to cover 100% map in crops, improving schedule/areas/work even more
and above all: try different base setups.

my next base is going to have huge ventilation shafts and only a/c and heater at one spot. i tried that a few alphas back and worked great but was ugly. i wanna make it prettier.

Quote from: zandadoum on September 10, 2015, 01:09:49 PM
since a10 or so i only play on RR extreme. when a new alpha comes out sometimes RR challenge, if i want to make like 10 colonies in one day for testing.

my goal is not survival, but getting schedule, areas, jobs, wtc setup so well, i barely have to micro anymore except in raids. even then, just for lulz the other day i left game running at x3 while having a shower... my autoturret setup took care of 2 small raids on itself and i only lost a couple of pets.

HOWEVER, i savescrum way too much at the beginning of every of my colonies. later on not needed anymore.

i want to get into twitch streaming at one point, and then it's gonna be ironman, without saving...but my PC cant handle both game and streaming.

what i enjoy now, after 900h. of game, is still trying new stuff... like min/maxxing colonists, perfect balance of pets to not run out of food without having to cover 100% map in crops, improving schedule/areas/work even more
and above all: try different base setups.

my next base is going to have huge ventilation shafts and only a/c and heater at one spot. i tried that a few alphas back and worked great but was ugly. i wanna make it prettier.

Yeah, I want to do twitch but one thing stopping me is my parents, for testing, I use a different colony, I just use 3 random colitis and build in God mode

Quote from: TLHeart on September 10, 2015, 10:37:49 AM

Quote from: Jarwy on September 10, 2015, 03:52:26 AM
Classic challenge with no save scumming, dev mode or anything else like that. What I get is what I get. I will manual control everything I see necessary though, for their own good.

Though if I happen to get a useless colonist, they might suffer... lets say, an accident. Every body is useful in one way or the other. Also, I will never have two hunters. Hunting accidents for me have a riddiculously high chance of fatal headshots or other slower ways for the unlucky colonist to die.

I run two hunters all the time, with SHORT range weapons. I never hunt with a sniper rifle. Shotguns are great tools for hunting, short range and pack a punch. Proper tool for the job.  I have never had a hunting accident with hunters using shotguns. Different story with survival rifles, sniper rifles, or any weapon that shots multiple projectiles. If I don't have two shot guns, then only one hunter.

I don't know, it seems dangerous if the pack you are hunting goes berserk. I have had a pack of deer go crazy and they are pretty fast. With survival rifles / snipers, my guys had a good head start on their run back to the turrets.

Ai is far too stupid to not micro manage your pawns even with perfect priorities.

What's that? Bob's been stabbed and will bleed out unless I give him medical attention right away? but I have been awake for 8 whole hours now so I am going to bed I am sure he will be fine when I wake up.

I play Hardcore Micromanaged, with mods that give no shits about raid numbers and your pawns, 4 colonists and 30 raider sure!, 12 colonists and 1200 raiders yep that too.

Quote from: Mrshilka on September 10, 2015, 05:03:16 PM
Ai is far too stupid to not micro manage your pawns even with perfect priorities.

What's that? Bob's been stabbed and will bleed out unless I give him medical attention right away? but I have been awake for 8 whole hours now so I am going to bed I am sure he will be fine when I wake up.

I play Hardcore Micromanaged, with mods that give no shits about raid numbers and your pawns, 4 colonists and 30 raider sure!, 12 colonists and 1200 raiders yep that too.

So mostly hardcore, and yeah I know how you feel, I play comforted survival mostly cause I like to keep everyone alive unless I want them to die, if I want to kill someone, I'll throw them headfirst into a raid, probably just cremate them, but I'll bury any pets.

I eat pets if they die, Meats back on the menu boys!

Quote from: Mrshilka on September 11, 2015, 08:09:05 PM
I eat pets if they die, Meats back on the menu boys!

cannibal colony motto, suspiciously similar to the roach motel.... hehe. :D

Personally I'd like to say I play survival, but due to the massive load of mods I have installed I would say it's probably much closer to comforted survival. I mean I don't use any cheats, but they do give a massive edge to the point where keeping people alive is a lot easier.

Quote from: chaotix14 on September 12, 2015, 07:30:54 AM
Personally I'd like to say I play survival, but due to the massive load of mods I have installed I would say it's probably much closer to comforted survival. I mean I don't use any cheats, but they do give a massive edge to the point where keeping people alive is a lot easier.

Yeah, the glitterworld tech mod is my difficulty amplifier. The commandos are a pain, of course I use edb prepare carefully to give myself a good amount of armor to start off with

I use the console for simple stuff, so I guess I fall into comforted... but I never force flee and have been enjoying a two colonist start and keeping my colony small and efficient. I hope the dev console stays in the final game. It has seriously added hundreds of hours to gameplay for me. Sometimes if I get bored I'll add traits to my two colonists or trigger weather events.

Quote from: Kelian on September 14, 2015, 02:52:32 PM
I use the console for simple stuff, so I guess I fall into comforted... but I never force flee and have been enjoying a two colonist start and keeping my colony small and efficient. I hope the dev console stays in the final game. It has seriously added hundreds of hours to gameplay for me. Sometimes if I get bored I'll add traits to my two colonists or trigger weather events.

I try and avoid modifying colonists, I usually try and keep the weather clear, but I will end some map conditions like toxic fall out or solar flare if needed

In the late game, I've recently started calling raids in on myself at random using the dev console.

Quote from: NuclearStudent on September 18, 2015, 02:36:34 AM
In the late game, I've recently started calling raids in on myself at random using the dev console.

I've got the more factions mod active and thought I'd do an "end of the world" raid doing that exact same thing but called in 7 or 8 raids at the same time... who then proceeded to fight among themselves without ever touching my base... end of world fail!

Quote from: Loki88 on September 18, 2015, 02:40:30 AM

Quote from: NuclearStudent on September 18, 2015, 02:36:34 AM
In the late game, I've recently started calling raids in on myself at random using the dev console.

I've got the more factions mod active and thought I'd do an "end of the world" raid doing that exact same thing but called in 7 or 8 raids at the same time... who then proceeded to fight among themselves without ever touching my base... end of world fail!

Lol , and with the raids, yeah, I have done that at times when I get bored and need some gear

I dont cheat, i use only one save ( XCom style Ironman when ?? ), i use manual priorities and i micromanage in battle.
So pretty much this. :)

Quote from: Canaris on September 20, 2015, 10:10:18 AM
I dont cheat, i use only one save ( XCom style Ironman when ?? ), i use manual priorities and i micromanage in battle.
So pretty much this. :)

I think I have loaded more auto saves this alpha then I ever have, I think I care more about my animals then my colonists...

Quote from: stranger080 on September 21, 2015, 02:53:57 PM

Quote from: Canaris on September 20, 2015, 10:10:18 AM
I dont cheat, i use only one save ( XCom style Ironman when ?? ), i use manual priorities and i micromanage in battle.
So pretty much this. :)

I think I have loaded more auto saves this alpha then I ever have, I think I care more about my animals then my colonists...

Oh dont even start with animals ...
I wept like a child when i had to put down Shrapnel, male labrador who lost both front legs defending his handler from Rhino attack :(
And to boot it was mere month after my teenage urbworld prostitute/colony mascot got decapitated by collapsing rubble :(

But no reloads for me - XCOM made a complete ironman nut ;>

Quote from: Canaris on September 21, 2015, 03:32:47 PM

Quote from: stranger080 on September 21, 2015, 02:53:57 PM

Quote from: Canaris on September 20, 2015, 10:10:18 AM
I dont cheat, i use only one save ( XCom style Ironman when ?? ), i use manual priorities and i micromanage in battle.
So pretty much this. :)

I think I have loaded more auto saves this alpha then I ever have, I think I care more about my animals then my colonists...

Oh dont even start with animals ...
I wept like a child when i had to put down Shrapnel, male labrador who lost both front legs defending his handler from Rhino attack :(
And to boot it was mere month after my teenage urbworld prostitute/colony mascot got decapitated by collapsing rubble :(

But no reloads for me - XCOM made a complete ironman nut ;>

Yeah, every time anow animal dies in combat, I put them in a sarcophagus in my tomb in respect of their sacrifice, I don't butcher or cremate them, I let them have a place where the will be remembered

Quote from: stranger080 on September 21, 2015, 04:23:06 PM

Quote from: Canaris on September 21, 2015, 03:32:47 PM

Quote from: stranger080 on September 21, 2015, 02:53:57 PM

Quote from: Canaris on September 20, 2015, 10:10:18 AM
I dont cheat, i use only one save ( XCom style Ironman when ?? ), i use manual priorities and i micromanage in battle.
So pretty much this. :)

I think I have loaded more auto saves this alpha then I ever have, I think I care more about my animals then my colonists...

Oh dont even start with animals ...
I wept like a child when i had to put down Shrapnel, male labrador who lost both front legs defending his handler from Rhino attack :(
And to boot it was mere month after my teenage urbworld prostitute/colony mascot got decapitated by collapsing rubble :(

But no reloads for me - XCOM made a complete ironman nut ;>

Yeah, every time anow animal dies in combat, I put them in a sarcophagus in my tomb in respect of their sacrifice, I don't butcher or cremate them, I let them have a place where the will be remembered

Speaking of combat, I actually took down 2 or 3 scythers and a centipede using animals only, I think I lost maybe one husky