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14/02/21

Hello all, I am closing this thread after some years of working with these mods. I have thought about it, and decided maybe it's time to move on.

When I say move on I mean rebuild all the mods from the ground up, coding and texture wise even if it takes forever. If you're interested, please wait out on the new thread.

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What exactly do I want with Project Red Horse?

- Minimize micro-management
+ Silver acquisition
+ Food
+ Casualty treatment
+ Training skills
+ Power
+ Colonist recruitment
+ Carrying capacity

- Equipment Expansion
+ Weapons
+ Armor
+ Apparel

- Faction Expansion
+ Difficult enemies
+ Helpful allies
+ Reinforcements in emergencies

- Quest acquisition
+ Mission board

- The long term goal
+ Up to the player, will their own war ever end?

(https://i.imgur.com/ZWTRHdp.png)

Features successfully added as of 1.0:

- Backpacks (Rimmu-Nation: Clothing)
(https://i.imgur.com/I7gXWJo.png)(https://i.imgur.com/TnC39w8.png)(https://i.imgur.com/hntxCig.png)
Description: Allows pawns to have more carrying capacity, useful for caravans.

C# work by: Jecrell

- Mission Board (Red Horse Furniture)
(https://i.imgur.com/rtoL19u.png)
Description: Allows players to start their own operations, triggering in-game events at the cost of silver along with recruiting new colonists and "contractor" unit types.

C# work by: Albion

- Reinforcements call through communication devices (Red Horse Furniture)
(https://i.imgur.com/4Ps46Si.png)(https://i.imgur.com/9Ua8WWv.png)
Description: Allows players to call friendly factions for reinforcements, at the cost of silver there is the "QRF" option (Quick Reaction Force) that guarantees drop pods at the centre of the map, and there's the patrol version free of cost where the friendlies arrive by random means.

C# work by: Albion

Current mods in progress:
Rimmu-Nation - Weapons
Umbra Company - Faction
The US Military - Clothing/Faction mod

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Description: Here's the plan in my teeny tiny head on what's gonna happen, what needs to be done in the right order before moving on to what's next. In terms of importance, Phase 1 Alpha is up first, once these main mods are done the others are easy to follow.

Phase 1 Alpha
- Finish Rimmu-Nation Clothing
- Finish Rimmu-Nation Weapons
- Finish Chicken Mitchell Hairs
- Finish Red Horse Furniture

Phase 1 Bravo (Optional)
- Mod trailers

Phase 2
- Finish US Military Kit
- Finish British Military Kit
- Finish DOOM Kit and others

Phase 3 Alpha
- Faction Mods

Phase 3 Bravo (Optional)
- Mod trailers
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Known Incompatabilities:

- Rimmu-Nation Weapons + Rimworld of Magic
Currently awaiting for the .dll stuff to be fixed by Jecrell. Hoping for the best innit mate. Cheers, see ya later.
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Note: Please consider all B19 versions Unfinished, Unstable due to the fact that they are no longer supported. Many bugs present in B19 versions are fixed for 1.0.


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Outdated Thread Opening:
Note: All statuses on progress of these factions are now on hold until I say otherwise, the statuses they have in this post does not reflect their current one since this is only here for reference as the old front page.


Goal:
Finish multiple faction mods to be released in Steam Workshop altogether. Mods with finished statuses will be uploaded here in Ludeon for early access.
(in my mod thread, link available in my signature!)

The factions created will be from various games, some are inspired original ideas. After Project Red Horse is finished, I will create the US Military and British Military factions so Rimworld will have more variety in terms of enemy or friendly groups to find within the world.


Hostile Factions Checklist:
(https://i.imgur.com/6TPuKZD.png)
Elite Crew -  Finished!

(https://i.imgur.com/35fvPXv.png)

Umbra Company - Finished!

(https://i.imgur.com/lzSGjp6.png)

War Mongrels - Finished!

(https://i.imgur.com/o7ZBlNi.png)

X.O.F.

Friendly Factions Checklist:

(https://i.imgur.com/LQVJtYb.png)

British Army -  Finished!

(https://i.imgur.com/R8Gu2x4.png)

Royal Marines Commando -  Finished!

(https://i.imgur.com/WYykvEJ.png)

U.K.S.F. -  Finished!

(https://i.imgur.com/N9RSXNS.png)

Diamond Dogs

(https://i.imgur.com/HpCrrqY.png)

Space Marines (DOOM: Factions) -  On hold

(https://i.imgur.com/tmYLMnQ.png)

Task Force: 141 -  Finished!

(https://i.imgur.com/W3bLS8X.png)

Task Force: STALKER -  Finished!

(https://i.imgur.com/GJHz9BB.png)

Union Aerospace (DOOM: Factions) - On hold


(https://i.imgur.com/fNmcQ29.png)

Wasteland Republic - On hold

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Got bored of patching DOOM - Factions, went to start working on Task Force 141 instead.

(https://i.imgur.com/tmYLMnQ.png)

Here are some sneaky peaky of unit types:
(https://i.imgur.com/fkW9erx.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/19PVrbQ.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/GPmzuvs.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/tEJ2KXY.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/ARvsFnO.png)

will the weapons and clothes Combat Extended be in Ludeon studios?

all your series of the mods is outstanding. can do to add in their modach easter eggs e.g Orange King?

(https://i.imgur.com/YfO1vLd.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/3uyXslq.png)

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Quote from: Robloxsina66 on March 18, 2018, 09:47:00 PM
will the weapons and clothes Combat Extended be in Ludeon studios?

Hey there! What do you mean? Will my weapons and clothing be combat extended compatible?

If that is your question, the clothing are already CE compatible, but for weapons, someone else has made a steam patch (currently not up to date at my rate of updating)   :o

Quote from: Slaugveng Moriar on March 19, 2018, 06:03:50 AM
all your series of the mods is outstanding. can do to add in their modach easter eggs e.g Orange King?

Hello! Thank you so much for your kind words, what is this you are talking about though, I looked up modach and the robots from Fallout turned up, is that what you meant? Also, what is the orange king?

Hey man, great job on these mods, the graphics are just stellar! I'm especially curious about the Slavic faction you previewed a while ago (War Mongrels?), may I ask how far back they are on your priority list?  :)

Your mods inspired me to try and create something by myself.
I learned alot from looking at your artwork.
Thank you for that Mr Plucker. Hope you keep producing this great apparel.

Quote from: Malinov on March 19, 2018, 08:32:13 AM
Hey man, great job on these mods, the graphics are just stellar! I'm especially curious about the Slavic faction you previewed a while ago (War Mongrels?), may I ask how far back they are on your priority list?  :)

Not very far, they just have a few outfits need finishing and the faction coding, they're almost ready, but they need more work compared to the smaller factions like Task Force 141 and Elite Crew, because the War Mongrels need new tank textures and tank coding, being their UGVs are stronger than Umbra Company

Quote from: SzQ on March 19, 2018, 04:27:04 PM
Your mods inspired me to try and create something by myself.
I learned alot from looking at your artwork.
Thank you for that Mr Plucker. Hope you keep producing this great apparel.

Hey SzQ! I'm happy to hear that, if you ever need some of my assets and .psd files, I'd be more than happy to send and you can modify them as you like

Quote from: Chicken Plucker on March 20, 2018, 11:34:38 AM
Not very far, they just have a few outfits need finishing and the faction coding, they're almost ready, but they need more work compared to the smaller factions like Task Force 141 and Elite Crew, because the War Mongrels need new tank textures and tank coding, being their UGVs are stronger than Umbra Company

Ah that's great to hear, keep up the good work!  ;D

War Mongrels, sneaky peaky like

(https://i.imgur.com/lzSGjp6.png)

Leader outfit:
(https://i.imgur.com/DPCJX6M.png)

Normal units:
(https://i.imgur.com/dXIdMZp.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/nxqXCwo.png)

Spetsnaz units:

(https://i.imgur.com/uYVBkPf.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/Cwg21jc.png)

Sniper and recon units:

(https://i.imgur.com/JUekEXg.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/dSpiC14.png)

Hound units:

(https://i.imgur.com/nDYS4Lc.png)


BTR-70 Re-used:
(https://i.imgur.com/vZeFVFS.png) (https://i.imgur.com/tWQLI2s.png) (https://i.imgur.com/9gAIOFx.png)

Note: Tank textures are frustratingly small, and the game limits it to be the size of the mechanoid sprites. I can only enlarge them in-game and risk pixelation.

More tanks coming soon, also there is a unit type that will call in airstrikes by playing "Serbia Strong" with an accordion, they will sport a Serbian brown beret.

Unfinished tank textures (appearances may change)

Gonna get to sleep. Finishing up on War Mongrel textures by doing the tanks next, then I can do coding.

T-72 MBT
(https://i.imgur.com/5CLJzrL.png)  (https://i.imgur.com/tni3YKC.png)  (https://i.imgur.com/2qWwu8H.png)

Will have a cannon with a wider blast radius and more damage than the M551 Sherridan, the T-72 will have more health and explosive resistance too.


BMP-3 IFV
(https://i.imgur.com/oPs2aXl.png)  (https://i.imgur.com/p0ezZWe.png)  (https://i.imgur.com/qxGoRH0.png)

The BMP-3 will also have more health and protection than the M551 Sherridan (scratch that, I'll think about it.), plans I have for this IFV is to equip it with a three burst cannon that does less damage than the Sherridan cannon, and a smaller blast radius for each shot.

BTR-70 for War Mongrels is now scrapped, I will use a different APC. I'm probably gonna go with BTR-80.

(https://i.imgur.com/J6reyVp.png) (https://i.imgur.com/fVyOXzc.png)(https://i.imgur.com/M6hFx87.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/zbeSglr.png) (https://i.imgur.com/aHbA9DU.png) (https://i.imgur.com/XcJMMQS.png)

All textures 100% done, made a new bench for slav gear, I honestly got stuck, couldn't think of what to make the bench look like or what to call it so I got lazy and will call it "Vodka Bench" just for cheeki jokes.

I picked the VAB APC for war mongrels. Coding will start for this new bench, and the new clothes, then finally finish up on the faction coding and for release.

(https://i.imgur.com/tHud9Xt.png)

Latest news on Umbra Company and how tanks will work, the tanks that fire HE shells will now be more accurate and deadly. Armors and health will be buffed so now it will be impractical to send infantry with rifles against tanks, you will need explosives.

Update not live yet.

Glorious breekiness, gotta love the tracksuit dudes and the accordion pawn.

(https://i.imgur.com/AvMAmN6.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/UWi6DqZ.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/L6cVvwT.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/FPDDv7O.png)

Quote from: Malinov on March 23, 2018, 02:41:44 AM
Glorious breekiness, gotta love the tracksuit dudes and the accordion pawn.

I am glad you like it, I am gonna go sleep now, I have spent day and night squashing cheeki bugs for this mod that caused infinite errors, but now all is well and more importantly, the spetsnaz spawn with vodka.

I would make President Putin so proud.


Note to self:

Stop procrastinating and update DOOM already (even though you are procrastinating from your university work with Rimworld mods, plus that music video you promised that certain somebody, rip)

Quote from: Chicken Plucker on March 22, 2018, 07:33:37 PM
(https://i.imgur.com/J6reyVp.png) (https://i.imgur.com/fVyOXzc.png)(https://i.imgur.com/M6hFx87.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/zbeSglr.png) (https://i.imgur.com/aHbA9DU.png) (https://i.imgur.com/XcJMMQS.png)

All textures 100% done, made a new bench for slav gear, I honestly got stuck, couldn't think of what to make the bench look like or what to call it so I got lazy and will call it "Vodka Bench" just for cheeki jokes.

I picked the VAB APC for war mongrels. Coding will start for this new bench, and the new clothes, then finally finish up on the faction coding and for release.

(https://i.imgur.com/tHud9Xt.png)

Latest news on Umbra Company and how tanks will work, the tanks that fire HE shells will now be more accurate and deadly. Armors and health will be buffed so now it will be impractical to send infantry with rifles against tanks, you will need explosives.

Update not live yet.

So i was thinking why vehicles doesn't seems right for RW style and i found it.

Mr Chicken could you spend some of your time and make low quality vehicle but! draw it from the above perspective same as all buildings.
This way:
(https://i.imgur.com/J6reyVp.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/fVyOXzc.png)

I am very curious about the results.

So I still wanna procrastinate on DOOM, and I also now want to put away MGS factions till later, so I thought "Hey, why not do a faction that isn't on the list because everything on the list is super duper scooper hard?"

The following are updated British Military Kit textures that aren't live yet, and some new items that will appear for the faction and the base mod soon.


Items:

(https://i.imgur.com/B5LYWd5.png)
British Army MRE

(https://i.imgur.com/zO1WowV.png)
Harrybo

(https://i.imgur.com/MAErf9W.png)
Daily Milk

(https://i.imgur.com/6v71z4X.png)
Runners Crisps

(https://i.imgur.com/xXanq44.png) (https://i.imgur.com/1sbx4J1.png)
Locozade energy drink

What kind of self respecting British grunt would you be if you went in the battlefield without proper British food?!

...

A Scotsman.
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(https://i.imgur.com/LQVJtYb.png)

British Army:

(https://i.imgur.com/q0xdBcl.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/9BUUOzh.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/ZS2WbKD.png)
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(https://i.imgur.com/R8Gu2x4.png)

Royal Marines Commando:

(https://i.imgur.com/erQdVOx.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/85mQvyN.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/ff5wLzq.png)

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(https://i.imgur.com/WYykvEJ.png)

U.K.S.F.

(https://i.imgur.com/1X0XOw4.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/iJDvyXG.png)


Tank textures in the works.

3 of which will be:

ASCO Ulan (Ajax) - IFV
FV101 Scorpion - IFV
Challenger 2 - MBT

Quote from: SzQ on March 24, 2018, 01:56:44 PM
So i was thinking why vehicles doesn't seems right for RW style and i found it.

Mr Chicken could you spend some of your time and make low quality vehicle but! draw it from the above perspective same as all buildings.
This way:
(https://i.imgur.com/J6reyVp.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/fVyOXzc.png)

I am very curious about the results.

Hey SzQ, you just put me on "the spot" :o

Well the truth is (not that I tried to keep it a secret) I do not draw any of the tank or fighting vehicles by hand, instead I take 3D models from this website: https://hum3d.com/3d-models/cougar-he/#360view

I use the 3D viewer and take the angles I need, and use photoshop to add them in Rimworld. I couldn't think of any other way to gather vehicles since ones that allow you over the top view may require for you to purchase the model, while this website gives it away for free.

I'm sorry to say, but I am not skilled enough to draw a vehicle not only from those views, but from any view at all!

Been working on new stuff all day, scrapping all the old SAS headgears for S10 for something more new and consistent. I'm also leaving a post of comparisons for the old textures, just for good ol' morale and progress.

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British Army headgear comparison:

(https://i.imgur.com/4Xmed8R.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/EsGJ7V3.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/fQVby0W.png)

S.A.S. headgear comparison:

(https://i.imgur.com/G7yfVOT.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/SeJRqOm.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/n7m0AXw.png)
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(https://i.imgur.com/WYykvEJ.png)

22nd S.A.S. Counter Terror Unit:

(https://i.imgur.com/s4BVfrf.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/ogdaHyJ.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/C20evDH.png)

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There's a planned feature for "Mementos" that regular soldiers will have on them that will go in the accessory slot.
There's so far 20 memento items I have, I will leave some notable ones here to show everyone what they would look like.

(https://i.imgur.com/K3SppTg.png) (https://i.imgur.com/ijf3KBA.png) (https://i.imgur.com/uoEmxCZ.png) (https://i.imgur.com/xWi0hb7.png) (https://i.imgur.com/ICGtDgA.png) (https://i.imgur.com/uSB07r2.png) (https://i.imgur.com/ysQMm70.png)

These random items will be found in regular soldier's accessory slot, they will all add -1% mental threshold because they are morale boosters, they are uncraftable for the player and are only available to the randomly spawned soldiers, I wanted to do this to add more depth to the pawns, so when you see one dead you can check out their inventory and see that they had a family photo, a journal, a letter or an MP3 player, which reminds you that these are men and women far away from their homes and they had their own interests and dreams, or something melodramatic like that.

Time for a goodnight's rest!

I also helped a newcomer "Fierydraken" with this new mod:

(https://i.imgur.com/2UflRfn.png)

Link: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1342263292&searchtext=

It's just a small faction with some custom textures he made, they use vanilla stuff. I helped code and it's based on the comic "Gone with the blastwave". So far it's only available on steam, would be happy to hand over a download if anybody is interested, though the mod balancing isn't exactly finished yet, and I'm not the one in charge of maintaining it because I only helped get it released.

Anyway, take care all, till tommorrow's grind again!

This "before>after" is amazing. No idea how you are doing that. How you are doing that?
Do you learned it by some tutorials?

Quote from: SzQ on March 26, 2018, 05:40:55 AM
This "before>after" is amazing. No idea how you are doing that. How you are doing that?
Do you learned it by some tutorials?

Hey SzQ, thank you!

I haven't learned from tutorials, when it comes to Rimworld modding, everything I have learned is from practice and from watching others.

My good friend Odstriman who did the German Imperial Army had these amazing WWI helmet textures for the Germans, and he added this shine effect by playing with a white brush with low opacity. From this I took my existing helmets, did them again from scratch, tried to be more accurate with helmet shapes and added the detailing I learned from him.

(Odstriman's Stahlhelm with gasmask, you could see the resemblance in shine effects with my latest MICH and AC100 helmets.)
(https://i.imgur.com/lka241O.png) (https://i.imgur.com/n8YJLBt.png) (https://i.imgur.com/oh2NRv0.png)

I also went ahead and borrowed techniques from Zombieland author Pardeike, he would add .png images of dust, scratches or blood to show worn effects in the zombie clothing. He would reduce the opacity of these effects to make them blend in the clothing and seem to be a part of it.

(https://i.imgur.com/kLTV6xS.png) (https://i.imgur.com/ZXjkXZg.png) (https://i.imgur.com/yUwD4L8.png)

So combined with the "shine" technique I got from my friend Odstriman, and Pardeike's dirty zombie outfits, I came up with the AC100 helmet showing worn effects:

(https://i.imgur.com/PIjFRPS.png) (https://i.imgur.com/jrLrFt6.png) (https://i.imgur.com/yNP9a75.png)

Obviously the new S10 gasmask is from the 3D model of CSGO S10 gasmasks, I was just unhappy with trying to draw them, so I ended up using the technique from making my tank textures (ripping 3D models and their views) and I threw it onto my headgear that are painted with Photoshop's stroke effect. (plus the other added details)

(Stroke effect turned on and off, automatically adds black outlines, all you have to do is paint and add details.)
(https://i.imgur.com/qVefvhn.gif)

(Usually I paint over the shape of a cutout helmet, or .png helmet view so I can get the shape right, then add stroke)

I combine whatever I learn and the end product ends up looking like stylized chickens!

I'm gonna carry on with some art now, hopefully I don't fall asleep, not too much progress today, just a couple of new helmets and one redone uniform for the SAS. I have one more uniform and vest needing to be redone, then I can do the tanks and finally code the faction.

Added note:

Jecrell is coding a reinforcement feature for future and all existing faction mods!

(https://i.imgur.com/ZnRGkLI.png) (https://i.imgur.com/kUOlPuX.png) (https://i.imgur.com/BPdiIre.png)

This is the red phone, it will become your best friend, I might change it's texture.

It will allow communications with Factions without the need of researching to get to comms tables, it will be available to build from the start. It will allow reinforcements at the cost of silver, not -25 relations, and at +50 relations with a faction, reinforcements are free.

It will also allow to call for peace talks if the faction is hostile, so starting game could see you negotiating with the likes of Umbra Company or War Mongrels before they even start torching your colony.

Progress update:
(https://i.imgur.com/LQVJtYb.png)

Typical British Army grunt inventory loadout:

(https://i.imgur.com/0sPU06e.png)
- British Army MREs, enough for at least 42 hours of eating, even more if eaten sparingly
- IFAK (Individual First Aid Kit)
- Randomized British sweets, iced tea, energy drink or Medic Bag selection
- Random memento in accessory, gives morale boost and other effects, depending on item (e.g. playing cards give +25% social impact boost and -1% mental break threshold)


(https://i.imgur.com/ldeScjS.png)

Note: Mementos do not get affected by dead man apparel effect, when a person dies with a memento, you can take it and equip it for yourself, despite being an accessory.

(https://i.imgur.com/ggW3Dhl.png)

Did some testing, of course the typical British Army soldier is not strong enough to take out Spetsnaz or an Umbra Company operator, the budget cuts they get from the Queen result in stuff such as the MK7, incapable of stopping pistol rounds, and the magnificent L85A2 (SA80) rifle, which you will have trouble using if you are left handed, you have to learn how to become right handed. _{(That or try joining the SAS, they will torture you just so you could use the C8 instead)}

News on the phone

(https://i.imgur.com/WbzFoYz.png)
Jecrell has been making great progress on the "red phone". So far he has the peace talks feature working, in where you are able to call a faction to trigger a peace talk event if they are hostile to you.

(https://i.imgur.com/GBSqh0t.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/qVbIfcR.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/ZsrSkM8.png)
And voila, a peace talk event!


Extra note:
I'm just finalizing some British Army stuff, tomorrow I try to sort out the Royal Marines, and then finally the two branches of SAS. Active Duty and Counter Terrorism. The British Armed Forces are the biggest faction I've done yet, since they are in total 4 factions in one, I can't imagine when the US Armed Forces are next.

Also I can't wait to implement all of Jecrell's awesome features when he's all done!


EDIT:

Forgot to add:

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Since I found the infantry too inferior against the likes of existing factions like War Mongrels and Umbra Company infantry, I ended up deciding to arm the higher ups of the British Army with existing Rimmu-Nation airstrikes.

(https://i.imgur.com/kEen0LQ.png)

Leaving this post as an announcement, I'm gonna take a break with modding for now, I have my last month to finish university work.

Thanks everyone for the feedback and the thoughts, I'll see you later

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This is a backstory promo video for the steam release of War Mongrels, it's unfinished, there will be one for Umbra Company as well, the US Armed Forces and British Armed Forces. I hope I can get them all finished, along with the uni project I still haven't done.

Hope to see you all there!

Note: Animation is done through Sourcefilmmaker 3D environments, the rest are photoshopped Rimworld assets and textures keyframe animated in After Effects with the 3D footage.

Planned update for artillery and more security stuff for Rimmu-Nation (it wont look crusty, it's just the way it was exported), I gotta finish my university short film (which is pretty much the War Mongrels backstory, except with 3D models) before May 4. I'm gonna go and be away for a bit because I have approximately 2 weeks to sort my stuff out.

When I return, I hope Jec has made progress with the huge backlog of features that are pending (mission boards, reinforcements, tank sounds, tanks and fighting vehicles dropping units on death etc.) I'll finally get on with Diamond Dogs, X.O.F. the US Armed Forces and who knows, I already got permission from Project Fallout's "Ashborn" and Halo Weapons "O Negative" to do Halo and Fallout themed factions. Possibilities are endless (until I get a job and inevitably leave Rimworld modding, rip)

In the not-so-great words of the teuhminahtuh "I'll be back."

Damn this one is a huge project. I assume player won't able to deploy tanks and the like, thats why you can call for reinforcements?

Quote from: Madman666 on April 22, 2018, 03:20:34 PM
Damn this one is a huge project. I assume player won't able to deploy tanks and the like, thats why you can call for reinforcements?

I would have wanted tanks to be produce-able anyway, but there's no easy way to do it since I don't know anybody who has explored coding mechanoids to be used for the player yet, maybe in the future I could throw coffee at Jecrell when he is all done with everything else and see if he can do this

That would be hella noice :D

Hey, can you guys also add in a way to actually point your called reinforcements where they should deploy? There are mods that add a trading spots which tell caravans where they should stay, that should be a thing for reinforcements called in too. Because on big bases they usually just hang around in the center of it and just stay there until they leave. while most fighting happens near walls and in killboxes. Just a thought. A minimal control over allied forces would be damn cool to have.

achtung plus this would be -A_M-A_Z-I_N-G_
would be good for sorta kinda immersion

Hi all, I left an announcement here:

https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=37014.240

My HDD is currently dead and it may stay dead, Project Red Horse and my modding stuff is now on hold and it may stay this way.

Again, I'm sorry for unanswered questions and lack of replies, I cannot do anything relating to modding for now since a huge fireball came down on me and I've got to wait until the flames subside.

Wow, shitballs, i hope you didn't lose anything important. We'll wait and hope everything s fine for you.

For when you ll have the time and means to get on with the project (i sincerely hope you will), couple points to consider:
1) I already mentioned, but it would be really nice to have some way of pointing reinforcements in the right direction. Like in Trade Caravan Spot mod which designates caravan "parking" place.
2) Tanks and other "vehicles" of the factions probably shouldn't just evaporate with a boom, maybe let them leave a wreck you can deconstruct for resources. Or at least leave several steel slag chunks.
3) Maybe a way to request different type of reinforcements? Like small spec ops team, medium sized armed brigade or a full-scale asssault squad with vehicular support. With different costs. If thats possible to code that is.
4) Dunno if it can be fixed, but vehicle texes do look blurry and their movement feels real weird, because they're basically 1tile entities with several tile sized sprites... I hope something can be done with, but even if not - still its nice to have tanks!

All those are just my 5 cents after playing around with factions, raids, waves, etc and pitting different factions against each other. Hope you ll be able to sort your problems out without any trouble!

I bought a new HDD and installed a new Windows, all my files are still lost but I have managed to find some of my older presets passed around in Discord, such as uniform templates and headgear templates.

(https://i.imgur.com/PIjFRPS.png)

Sadly, I have still lost a number of works in progress. Stuff like MICH helmet presets, which means, I can't see myself ever reusing that gear again until I can afford to recover the older HDD (not that bad, lots of other helmets are useable) and stuff like the Russian gear presets, which means I may have to make a new template, which sucks but whatever.

All animated films in progress are gone, presets for animations are gone such as the Donald Trump .png files of his emotions, heads and etc. (press F to pay respects)

This is what gets to me the most:

(https://i.imgur.com/QETLEh9.png)

This was a planned MJOLNIR power armor (from Halo) to be introduced to Rimmu-Nation, a gear that would highly augment the user. It would have been a gear used by Wasteland Republic for their special units, to contend against HOUND units.

Sadly, this is the only sample I had saved, the gear separated from each other is in the old HDD.

(https://i.imgur.com/HEw4Mw1.png)

News on all the complicated Jecrell coding stuff:

Ran into some financial issues, had to ask to cancel all the projects Jecrell was working on, sadly. Which means all the cool stuff like reinforcements, tanks carrying people, missions etc. won't come until I can afford a re-commission.

Unfinished Animation, recovered:
(https://i.imgur.com/f6uolb1.png)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZUbvIjHnuA&feature=youtu.be

Sadly, original project is lost, but I can redo the animation with new assets for the steam release. Planning on making animations for almost if not all faction mods.


In summary:
- Lots of cool things gone, very sad. Press F to pay respects, but they may return one day.
- Certain cooler tacticool things on hold, but not gone or cancelled.
- Development for project will not stop, even if the progress is slow, it's time to carry on.

Quote from: Madman666 on May 12, 2018, 07:58:32 AM
For when you ll have the time and means to get on with the project (i sincerely hope you will), couple points to consider:
1) I already mentioned, but it would be really nice to have some way of pointing reinforcements in the right direction. Like in Trade Caravan Spot mod which designates caravan "parking" place.
2) Tanks and other "vehicles" of the factions probably shouldn't just evaporate with a boom, maybe let them leave a wreck you can deconstruct for resources. Or at least leave several steel slag chunks.
3) Maybe a way to request different type of reinforcements? Like small spec ops team, medium sized armed brigade or a full-scale asssault squad with vehicular support. With different costs. If thats possible to code that is.
4) Dunno if it can be fixed, but vehicle texes do look blurry and their movement feels real weird, because they're basically 1tile entities with several tile sized sprites... I hope something can be done with, but even if not - still its nice to have tanks!

All those are just my 5 cents after playing around with factions, raids, waves, etc and pitting different factions against each other. Hope you ll be able to sort your problems out without any trouble!

Hello Madman, I'm gonna respond to each requests

1) Yes, I want this too when I can afford re-commission for Jecrell, because nobody likes watching the British Army calmly and slowly drive 10 scorpion tanks towards a platoon of pirates while they burn down your colony because you only have about 4 colonists, then they arrive too bloody late and they only manage to shoot one pirate that was already shot off the leg anyway.

2) There was a planned rehaul of this, the tanks wouldn't explode and they would carry units. Again, this was affected by the callback of all unfinished commissions for Jecrell, this will be on hold.

3) I don't believe this is possible, from the dev mode you can spawn raid events and they have these numbers or tickets e.g. [ Enemy Raid (3000) ] which lets them pick randomly depending on unit cost, adding up to 3000, it's vague how this works, but it's difficult to force the game to let you pick specific units.

I'm sure it could be possible to make the events handpick specific unit types on C#, but I believe it would be more simple to make a one-in-all raid ticket to be compatible for all factions, and not have to ask Jec to modify each unit type in C# for every faction mod.

4) Yeah, this is a limitation issue, sadly the game forces me to use a centipede mechanoid texture as the biggest I can do, I had to squish in all the main battle tank textures into this small square, and enlarge it in-game, which caused it to be so wierd and pixelated.

(https://i.imgur.com/1kY77cC.png)
(here it is, not very large if you have to fit for example, an M1A1 Abrams in there due to the cannon forcing you to shrink it to heck)

As for the one tile issue, I'm not sure if I can fix that, since even giant monsters from Call of Cthulhu are one tile, again, game limitations on letting you make big creatures. I'll take a look if it lets me modify the tile size when I can mod again, after my 3 day holiday.

Thanks kindly for all your answers, Chicken Plucker! I ve been playing with your weapon mods for a long time now and tried out faction mods as well. Gotta say it feels real nice to have some tacticool guys running around shooting each other. I hope Jecrell will have some time to work on those features you mentioned - vehicles dropping units, red phones and other stuff. I really enjoy the balance and hope the project will live on :D

UPD: I guess i kinda rushed there about the balance. Got utterly trashed by 8 slavs with 3 APCs at wealth level ~70000. I literally couldn't do anything since best weapons i had were greatbows. Against their armor and Rushbinov nullifying any pain my shots were like mosquito bites to an elephant. Replayed several times, employing various tactics - the only plan that was successful letting them divide beating on outer walls and ambushing one by one like 8 on 1 in melee, where they can't use their firearms. I was lucky that when i beat all the people, APCs have decided to scram. If they didn't  - i wouldn't been able to even scratch them. Without red phone to call in some cavalry, playing with new factions is quite harsh.

Quote from: Madman666 on May 25, 2018, 03:10:49 PM
Thanks kindly for all your answers, Chicken Plucker! I ve been playing with your weapon mods for a long time now and tried out faction mods as well. Gotta say it feels real nice to have some tacticool guys running around shooting each other. I hope Jecrell will have some time to work on those features you mentioned - vehicles dropping units, red phones and other stuff. I really enjoy the balance and hope the project will live on :D

UPD: I guess i kinda rushed there about the balance. Got utterly trashed by 8 slavs with 3 APCs at wealth level ~70000. I literally couldn't do anything since best weapons i had were greatbows. Against their armor and Rushbinov nullifying any pain my shots were like mosquito bites to an elephant. Replayed several times, employing various tactics - the only plan that was successful letting them divide beating on outer walls and ambushing one by one like 8 on 1 in melee, where they can't use their firearms. I was lucky that when i beat all the people, APCs have decided to scram. If they didn't  - i wouldn't been able to even scratch them. Without red phone to call in some cavalry, playing with new factions is quite harsh.

Sounds horrible! I'm happy to hear these stories, it's hard for me to see other people's experiences, sadly I don't have a lot of people playing with these mods in gameplay videos yet, and with me I don't usually go through too much difficulty because I don't start without... *cough* resource replicator *cough*

Anyways, I am in progress with DOOM Factions now, followed by MERICAAAAAAAAAAAA

In about 4 weeks, I will be paid and I can re-commission Jecrell to resume to the old tacticool stuff so we can tacticooly fix this tacticool error.

My best recommendation to you is using the PC comms table for asking for backup, Task Force 141 is always so nice, they have the highest starting good will during beginnings so you should be able to at least ask for 1 backup.

They send lots of tacticool operators with tacticool high quality gear, and with the player's help, they can dispose of the enemies even faster.

Thanks for the advice, I'll definitely make use of it next time! Sadly for now i can't show reinforcements the way, so i ll just hope they'll stumble upon the enemy eventually. I am overjoyed that you are working on Red Horse again. Even with all those difficulties i've encountered - its incredibly fun to actually have armored adversaries with good weapons and looking so damn good too. I'd tone down alchohol pain reduction a bit, since its even better than go-juice though.

Will continue to play around and will readily provide any feedback needed.

(https://i.imgur.com/GJHz9BB.png)

Union Aerospace is in progress, with some new stuff:

(https://i.imgur.com/ncp0X6c.png)

UAC Nano Healer:
It's a mech serum, but UAC patented. Whoever made that Mech Serum better have a good lawyer because UAC is gonna sue lol

(https://i.imgur.com/fS2oJ9K.png) (https://i.imgur.com/leqyJrG.png) (https://i.imgur.com/2sx232B.png)

UAC Hellcat:
It's a four legged unmanned vehicle, has a GAUSS cannon on it to blow things up with heat damage.

(https://i.imgur.com/GFaQSQr.png)

Weaponized Cyberdemon:
Okay, last but not least and my favourite planned upcoming creature in the UAC Faction arsenal.

It's a Cyberdemon, but it works for the "good guys". You will probably never get to see this due to it's high ticket cost to appear for raids, unless you tick off the UAC and you are at war with them.

I have not finished the side and back view yet, this is the most ambitious thing I've done yet because it's new, not just another mechanoid, I have to figure out how to make the size of this thing in the game be the same as Jecrell's Cthonian, except the Cyberdemon has a huge freaking cannon that kills things.

It's specifically built to kill angry space marines that won't stop smashing UAC property, but, it's also built to destroy humans, so I'm excited to see this thing come out and have all of it finished. Will need to ask Jecrell for advice for in-game sizing, which may potentially fix Tank resolution issues.

Quote from: Madman666 on May 29, 2018, 12:38:24 PM
Thanks for the advice, I'll definitely make use of it next time! Sadly for now i can't show reinforcements the way, so i ll just hope they'll stumble upon the enemy eventually. I am overjoyed that you are working on Red Horse again. Even with all those difficulties i've encountered - its incredibly fun to actually have armored adversaries with good weapons and looking so damn good too. I'd tone down alchohol pain reduction a bit, since its even better than go-juice though.

Will continue to play around and will readily provide any feedback needed.

Hey Madman! I appreciate your support and posting around to keep the thread lively, I 100% agree that the reinforcement feature right now isn't very good because the reinforcements are too relaxed.

Instead of allowing them to spawn where you want them, would you be okay if they just drop podded in the centre of your colony? This is because as soon as a friendly raid arrives, if they are near the centre of your base, they then proceed to engage enemies on their own. If a player got to point where they go, accidents may happen and they might miss the target spot, or end up just walking casually again.

I guess I'll see when I can afford to re-commission Ol' Jecrell


(https://i.imgur.com/I64m9fI.png)
(end result of the current game's reinforcement system)

Oh P.S. about the Vodka, I'll think about it. It's not as powerful as Go-Juice, all the drinks I have done, but they sure do better due to the fact that they arent as addictive (except for the vodka)

I just tried to be accurate you know, because we all know Russian military grade vodka makes their soldiers feel no pain when they rush B

Hehe, i don't think our soldiers are so scary thanks to vodka, but mostly to skills, quantity and wild russian mentality combined with some vodka :)

As for reinforcements - yeah if they proceed to actually go for the enemy once they reach the center of your colony, then yeah, i guess dropping them right into colony center will be an improvement. Still the way to actually tell them where to go would be much more awesome, since you could even use limited tactics, using your own and allied forces to flank the enemy. But if thats impossible or really hard to do - then dropping in the center shuold work fine.

Choosing their drop spot would interesting for another reason - you could prepare a nice and tacticool landing spot they could use too :D

Progress report on Union Aerospace:

(https://i.imgur.com/2U7LBCJ.png)

I made up my mind, I am redoing all the old UAC armors because they are outdated and it would bore me to death leaving them the way they are. I also got a complaint before about lack of symmetry, and yeah, I suppose its a minor issue.

(https://i.imgur.com/C3R0Scd.png)

UAC Sandvich - A sandwich that won't expire, has Lavish Meal nutrition+mood boost effect. Non-craftable for the player, will be sold by UAC and carried by UAC units.

(https://i.imgur.com/Y2ocAkh.png) (https://i.imgur.com/lKKQlhi.png)

UAC Go-Juice - A less potent and less addictive version of the Go Juice. Will have to tweak it's stats.

Will be carried by UAC units.

(https://i.imgur.com/RZOxXYZ.png) (https://i.imgur.com/qXTVNoK.png)

Cyber Demon got some minor cosmetic fixes for front view. Side view has been done.

The side view looks off since the arm cannon was actually on the right side of the pawn, but I decided that whenever cyberboi faces sideways I want the cannon to be seen, since the alternative is a big blank area with only part of the cannon sticking out the belly.

Back view is up next.


I have updated all my mods, still need testing to make stuff live. Its plenty of changes to lessen the likelyhood of mod conflicts.
(will be live after some testing)

Gonna carry on back to work!

Special thanks again to Madman for his feedbacks, and all those who come by to take a sneaky peaky of stuff.

The new armor look's sharp/detailed then the old before. Good work.
But too bad it is wasted artist work for this little grafic ingame IMO.

Ok, some more feedback. I am now at spacer level of tech (can start consrtucting SAMs) and have crapton of wealth - (more numbers tomorrow evening), pirate raids are getting extremely scary due to drop pods and sappers even though I am armed to the teeth with excellent weapons i stole from War Mongrels. Red Horse faction raids however stayed at somewhat mild level. While i get like 20-25 pirates with 1-2 Doomsday launchers, some with power armor pieces, War Mongrels still only send like 8-10 guys and 1 to 2 of those light machinegun cars. Maybe i am getting numb to threat level, since they absolutely trashed me early game, but late game i am way more scared of pirates getting through my walls before i snipe the sapper or landing in drop pods on my head, than i am of War Mongrels coming and squashing me.

So scaling part needs some solid work. Early game (bow-pistol level tech, 5-6 colonists) you get like 8 unarmored guys with plasteel Karambits which is kinda crazy (plasteel level melees are harsh at that point) and can only be beaten with cheesy many-door-hide-n-seek tactics of poppin in and out shooting them one by one, while they have fun beating on your horseshoe pin. A bit later with 8-10 guys and some crappy survival rifles you get 5-6 armored, drugged to hell guys with LMGs, excellent rifles and 1-2 APCs which absolutely destroy anything you can offer, but the cheesiest of tactics and melee ambushes, hoping to make APCs flee, because you can't even scratch them.

And then at lategame part we have nearly the same picture, but +2-3 guys and +1 APC, no sappers, so they can't do a thing, but to go obediently into a killbox and die. Of course that said i have some other security mods like More Vanilla Turrets, which has mud moats slowing targets to a crawl, but lategame raids from Mongrels i repelled with 4 turrets (vanilla ones) and just 10-14 of my guys with stolen weapons.

Suggestions:
1) Early game needs to be more mild (if melee weapons - then no plasteel, as with high quality the damage is way too harsh)
2) Mid game needs ti have non-drugged, lightly (medium) armored raiders with Armor Vest level of equipment, without too high grade weapons as they either crush you utterly, or you cheese them, get those way too good weapons and breeze through everything else.
3) Late game needs a bit more quantity of both guys and vehicles, armed to the teeth, drugged as hell, with the possibility of sapping through walls, so that calling in drop pod aid is way more viable to deal with those pesky types that don't like going into killboxes.

Thats my small input for now. Madman out.

Quote from: Madman666 on June 02, 2018, 02:57:48 PM
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Hey Madman, I appreciate this, but I fully intend on keeping the difficulty early game. War Mongrels and Umbra Company are coded to spawn with CQB weapons early on, but early-mid game is when the vehicles appear.

I didn't like the idea of melee only units for the two since I just felt that it didn't fit their theme or backstory, though the 1337 Krew or Elite Crew do utilise weaker gear quality and melee weapons early game.

I just got bored to death of the pirates or even Rimsenal units spawning with pistols and weaker weapons early-game, there is no real sense of danger or powerlessness. 

As for the odd spawn rate, I'm guessing it's due to the pirates having a cheaper ticket for their heavy units, which is why they get the Doomsday launchers. WM has rockets that wouldn't be disposed of after one use, so I kept their ticket higher than the pirate heavies, especially since as you said, the quality of their items are high.

As for late game and you feeling as though their threat is now underwhelming, I believe that needs more testing. It's odd alright that they are sending weak units to you, since as I showed you earlier on I got a platoon of HOUND units to attack me that absolutely destroyed like 4 separate reinforcements from British SAS, Royal Marines, Army and Task Force STALKER.

It took me spamming the PC Comms for reinforcements to lessen my casualties, even then I lose 3 good colonists.

I suppose it's all the luck of the draw, if you get War Mongrels with high quality gear early game to fight you, or Elite Crew/Pirate with measly knives. Then there's endgame as well, when sometimes they do not send special units or the MBTs.

Whatever's the case, there will be worse enemies to come, I'd say these need more testing. Hope you understand.

I have plans for animated backstory trailers of the faction, and this would explain their quality of gear. Especially with Umbra Company being a colony that was there before you, and War Mongrels being funded by shady megarich people with ka-jillion dollers. Really it was all an excuse to make their units stronger.

At the end of the day, there are more sci-fi themed mods out there, and weaponry. The modern tacticool factions I do are no threat when you get to endgame gear, especially after I finish developing these new DOOM techs meant to make it easier to have super soldiers.

Please feel free to let me know what you think of this response, I'm sleepy so I may have not made sense and I need to know for chickening reasons

Well, hey, i enjoy it even though at times it seems overwhelmingly hard earlygame, so don't mind it - keep it the way you like. I mean there isn't even whole functionality of the mod in, like red phones which has the potential of changing gameplay entirely and reinforcement waypoints stuff too (i still hope for it). If you intend to keep it that way - i am more than fine with it. I ll play more and give more feedback on lategame balance stuff a bit later - got my 24 hour shift done and i am hosed as all hell. Will be trying to get to 3-4k threat points level raids.

I hope you'll consider adding sieges and sappers to your factions, because those will make for a lot more diverse and fun experience late game. Like assaulting a siege camp with allied forces.

Quote from: Canute on June 02, 2018, 02:07:52 PM
The new armor look's sharp/detailed then the old before. Good work.
But too bad it is wasted artist work for this little grafic ingame IMO.

Never a waste if little people on-screen get to look tacticool, it is a lifetime mission for men and women alike to dress tacticooly so everyone can tactically get along

Quote from: Madman666 on June 03, 2018, 12:33:09 AM
Well, hey, i enjoy it even though at times it seems overwhelmingly hard earlygame, so don't mind it - keep it the way you like. I mean there isn't even whole functionality of the mod in, like red phones which has the potential of changing gameplay entirely and reinforcement waypoints stuff too (i still hope for it). If you intend to keep it that way - i am more than fine with it. I ll play more and give more feedback on lategame balance stuff a bit later - got my 24 hour shift done and i am hosed as all hell. Will be trying to get to 3-4k threat points level raids.

I hope you'll consider adding sieges and sappers to your factions, because those will make for a lot more diverse and fun experience late game. Like assaulting a siege camp with allied forces.

Sieges are broken for the factions with mechanoids, the 1337 Krew since they have no tanks have it. Maybe some crazy Artillery vehicle one day? Bwahahaaha.

And youre right, gameplay will definetely change when more features come, mission board and reinforcements

Why and how exactly sieges are broken for factions with mechs though? Can something be done about it?

Quote from: Madman666 on June 03, 2018, 01:01:17 PM
Why and how exactly sieges are broken for factions with mechs though? Can something be done about it?

I couldn't specify which units can siege, so the game automatically picks, they order APCs to build sandbags and to operate the mortar. Unfortunately BTR-70 has no hands, just wheels, so the game bugs.

Mechanoids themselves have seiges disabled, and if you went to dev mode to force them to siege, a bug happens and they are stuck with blueprints since they dont know how to build sandbags.

I'm sure it would be possible to make a custom raid event for each faction with custom units, but its more unecessary work and commission money spent for something so minor, hope you understand

Yeah, i see now. What about sappers though?

So for the old praetor suit, I will keep the cartoony version for DOOM kit, I have a lost WIP of the 2016 version, this will be scrapped and I will make a version which I hope will be even better to match with the other new UAC styles.

I've got multiple projects to help others with at the moment, as well as important jobsy lifey stuff, so I won't have the same amount of time to give modding as I used to, but thankfully, with all I've learned, I know how to make mods twice or even more times faster than I did when I first began.

Quote from: Madman666 on June 03, 2018, 03:59:01 PM
Yeah, i see now. What about sappers though?

I believe sappers are the "Smart" raids, I do have those already on, sometimes in cases like Umbra Company spec ops raids where only special forces spawn, they have every other raid strategy disabled except for an immediate smart attack

Edit: Brand new front page art!

(https://i.imgur.com/legZBUs.png)

Old

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One more thing which would be extremely nice to have - a collection of all your tied mods in one archive. Its a bit of a pain to update all of them once update hits, so it would be really convenient to just one single file and extract it to your mods folder overwriting old versions, or clearing old ones first.

Quote from: Madman666 on June 15, 2018, 01:17:37 PM
One more thing which would be extremely nice to have - a collection of all your tied mods in one archive. Its a bit of a pain to update all of them once update hits, so it would be really convenient to just one single file and extract it to your mods folder overwriting old versions, or clearing old ones first.

Can you please explain what you mean? I'll see what I can do for the new 1.0 files



- Commissions are back! (as soon as Jecrell isn't busy updating his own mods)
- First priority for commission is mission board that allows recruitment and a reinforcements beacon
- First faction to be updated and converted to 1.0 will be Task Force 141 and the other small ones that do not have vehicles, or at least as planned.
- Many items will be removed (e.g. Multicam sleeping bag, multicam IFAK) to reduce clutter and unecessary duplicates
- Parkas from the US Military Kit will be temporarily removed until I solve the "tribals with tacticool parka" issue, which Canute already gave a solution for.
- DOOM Factions update is once again on hold now, won't be able to be released for B18, sadly since there's not enough time to make it, assuming 1.0 doesn't get delayed for months.
- Many more to come, when I'm not bleedin' busy

1.0 and the many defname changes such as "ComponentIndustrial" and other silly things like building rubbles are kinda annoying, I found it a bit unecessary, along with the complete removal of electric damage, which means more fixing for the weapons I made that used electrical damage and armors that used electric protection.

Oh well, it's what we're here for.

I think Madman666 meant "Putting all your mods into one giant mod, so we can download one big thing rather than a dozen and one small things"

Quote from: Chicken Plucker on June 25, 2018, 04:12:18 AM
Can you please explain what you mean? I'll see what I can do for the new 1.0 files

I meant creating one zip (or rar) archive, that contains all your mods. So that people can download whole bundle with one click and quickly extract with a second click into mods folder. Then decide and delete what they don't want to play with.

Quote from: Madman666 on June 25, 2018, 03:49:14 PM
I meant creating one zip (or rar) archive, that contains all your mods. So that people can download whole bundle with one click and quickly extract with a second click into mods folder. Then decide and delete what they don't want to play with.

Oh, so like Vegetable Garden does?

Quote from: Umbreon117 on June 26, 2018, 08:33:24 AM
Oh, so like Vegetable Garden does?

Yep, VG has a way to just download all mods from one link. Though with VG i get it all updated through Steam.

Oh wow... didnt know you were funding a MJOLNIR project.

I have great interest in such a thing, personally.

He stopped working on it? If I wanted to fund it myself should I go straight to him? What are your thoughts- was gonna maybe wait to commission anything till after 1.0.

Quote from: RimworldOx on July 04, 2018, 02:38:20 AM
Oh wow... didnt know you were funding a MJOLNIR project.

I have great interest in such a thing, personally.

He stopped working on it? If I wanted to fund it myself should I go straight to him? What are your thoughts- was gonna maybe wait to commission anything till after 1.0.

Yellow, pardon the late reply. No I haven't commissioned any SPARTAN project, just thoughts. Meanwhile, that's O Negative's department since he's the author of HALO weapons, he's handling some HALO uniforms, I only proposed to him a full-scale project.

All these big plans are starting to get further and further away from my grasp since I'm getting busier now.

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Just working on some more clothes for Rimmu-Nation clothing, since I feel the small amount of selection has gotten bland. I wanted a break from the stress of bigger projects anyway, especially with the coming 1.0 mass updating (rip).

Took some clothes from PUBG and one jacket from The Division, maybe I'll do more, but there'll be headgear and onskin outfits coming with these for the player generation. I thought it would spice things up for Rimmu-Nation clothing users.

PLAYERUNKNOWN's Trench Coat
(https://i.imgur.com/0bBRa54.png) (https://i.imgur.com/md8eT21.png) (https://i.imgur.com/Hk706fo.png)

Trench Coat
(https://i.imgur.com/bWf9x3h.png) (https://i.imgur.com/t6VWAPF.png) (https://i.imgur.com/vUxmgAo.png)

Urban Camo Jacket
(https://i.imgur.com/avNAFBy.png) (https://i.imgur.com/n3aX59C.png) (https://i.imgur.com/XeSIO6J.png)

The Division Jacket
(https://i.imgur.com/HkeKl9s.png) (https://i.imgur.com/DTGu7m8.png) (https://i.imgur.com/HsRd6iX.png)

In the meantime, I have to help with wookiees mod, bug fixes now and then when tgrimm92 breaks the mod, and albion with texture requests.

I'm trying to get by one day at a time with the physically demanding college I go to, and the job I do every saturday that requires me picking up trash and lifting other heavy crap.

If you guys ask me if I miss doing all nighters doing Rimworld mods, yeah I miss it, but I can't say I wanna turn back on what I have now.

It's been quite the adventure outside. Till next post guys.

These outfits are planned for an upcoming Rimmu-Nation update, which might be pushed during my 2 week holiday after next week as of this post.

They are some tacticool gear from games I've played that some of you may have either, I thought it would be cool to include them for Rimworld. Some of these outfits cost a TON of money on the virtual market, which is nuts cause they're virtual items for physical currency. *cough* PUBG I'm looking at you *cough*

Special thanks to "Richard Nixon", not the president, the Discord user. Approached me this weekend to talk about modding, and it sparked my interests again, so I went out my way to try and get progress.

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"Nomad" outfit from Ghost Recon: Wildlands
(https://i.imgur.com/1yuZHa1.png)

"Agent Ryan" outfit from The Division
(https://i.imgur.com/5Rjpjlx.png)

"PLAYERUNKNOWN" outfit from PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds
(https://i.imgur.com/rUW7Nlq.png)

Other generic player outfits from PLAYERUNKNOWN's Battlegrounds

(https://i.imgur.com/6MMjDqs.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/b4Tepxq.png)


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SITREP:

Hello all, I'm sleepy. I have had several months of physical progress at MPCT college here in the UK.

I've lost a lot of weight since I started at June the 5th, the military college has helped me a lot to work towards my goal of having a career as a combat medic in the future.

Of course progress comes with costs and sacrifices, my hobby modding and making Rimworld content has taken a huge hit, by now I would have several 1.0 updates, but unfortunately, that's not the case since I have had little time for it.

My struggles have included dealing with temptations and thoughts of quitting since living outside of the comfort zone comes with a huge price and a demand for dedication.

I hope I can at least leave some functioning mods before I am completely consumed by the real thing, if I make it to boot camp.

I'd like to thank you all for the support, that's no generic thank yous, every comment, suggestion and complement or download has kept me going on these. I can't have you all running around in 1.0 stable without proper tacticool equipment under fire. I'll be with you shortly.

Take care all, till next post!

So, I'm looking at Emerson Tung's work from his ArtStation stuff. (As I have with DOOM power armors)

I felt like making a power armor along with the Rimmu-Nation update, and I thought the Utilitarian Power Armors would be the perfect choice since I'm removing it from the UAC mod anyway.

The Utilitarian power armors would be outside of the UAC faction, players could use it for just running around with some advanced protection before the DOOM factions mod get remastered.

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This is the original A17 UAC Utilitarian power armor.

(https://i.imgur.com/bzg2oGC.png)

I am no longer leaving this in the future UAC factions update, because it's not even UAC equipment. There was an armor for the utilitarians, but no helmet. I find this super outdated and not accurate to the original product I intended to copy.

(https://i.imgur.com/3UYsqyN.png)

This is the current thing I have. This will be a new piece of equipment for end game Rimmu-Nation gear. I bleedin' struggled drawing the helmet, but I'm happy with the results. I think there's an improvement there somewhere.

Took me around an hour to do just a front view for the hulk plus the helmet, but when I get the hulk views done, the other body types follow, easy peasy.

Based on of the concept arts of the Utilitarian Power Armors for DOOM 2016 multiplayer.:
(https://i.imgur.com/9vWYU8J.png)
by Emersun Tung

I'm looking forward to this Rimmu-Nation update, lots of crossover outfits from other games. I'll be looking at possibly some Resident Evil or Tomb Raider outfits and some hairstyles.

I actually haven't finished the PLAYERUNKNOWN onskin yet, and I already start another outfit. I like doing new things to keep things fresh I suppose, it can get boring if you are three days in and you're drawing the same bloody shirt still.

Till' next time.

I'm looking forword to some weapons capable of allowing my colonists to hold out against the massive raid swarms without half the base being broken down

Quote from: rawrfisher on August 21, 2018, 06:33:39 PM
I'm looking forword to some weapons capable of allowing my colonists to hold out against the massive raid swarms without half the base being broken down

There's firepower available from this mod:
(https://i.imgur.com/o33l9ez.png)

especially with the last update that included these:
(https://i.imgur.com/b6UK8Sq.png)

There have been complaints about the SAM Turret being too overpowered, but it was an endgame solution that required about three different things researched: Sentry Guns, Mortar and Multi-Analyzer. Not to mention they take about 3000W to run.

They're also not too effective against fast moving hostiles, unless you have more than one, activating the SAM too close to your base can cause your own hardware damaging your home.

If that wasn't enough or the other turrets, there's the end game weaponry from Resistance Retribution. Auger allows you to fire through walls, Longbow 1S-1K has a 1000 damage towards durability, guaranteed loss of some body parts if you manage to miss anything important.

The current stuff I'm focusing on now is more variety for outfits on creation screen, plus a taste of DOOM gear because the update is far away for now.

Current Goal: Get Rimmu-Nation out first for 1.0, so even if the other military themed mods are not updated, there will be enough tactical advantage for players who wanna use these equipment. Assuming they prefer my mods. (rip, fat chance)

(Rimmu-Nation B18 source here: https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=37014.0)

I play the unstable.  Been waiting for compatible versions of your mods.  Even if just rough ports

love your work going to miss you if you leave .

(https://i.imgur.com/YPeiyng.png)

So, "Wasteland Republic" is actually a colony I made up during A15. The lore of this faction pretty much goes with the game's lore, it's heavily inspired by the NCR.

Before I was in the modding business, the standard outfit for everyone in vanilla is a duster, a helmet and a body armor. I'm gonna do something like that for this faction, they're gonna be using some basic looking M4s or M16s, keep close to that apocalyptic feel hopefully.

(https://i.imgur.com/4C8brku.png)

Soldier uniform, I thought it looks cool anyway despite it being for common grunts. I chose the desert DPM cover for the PASGT helmet, navy blue shirt and some jeans. IBA, standard.

(https://i.imgur.com/IwFW9Dw.png)

Rangers were tricky, had to come up with an original power armor cause I didn't wanna take power armors from other games. This one is heavily inspired by the Recon armor in Halo as well as Raven armor from the UAC. I wanted to move away from the NCR but not too much.

I call this "Sentinel A1", you will be able to wear this with a jacket unlike most power armors.

For the black or dark grey cowboy hat? I took a look at Arizona Rangers for that. The badge for the W.R. Rangers were taken from Arizona Rangers also.


(https://i.imgur.com/C3r39F5.png) (https://i.imgur.com/jJT7Y5B.png) (https://i.imgur.com/i8Kdezx.png)
Commander: Betty "Five-O" Lester

Marty Robbins - Big Iron
"Now the stranger started talkin' made it plain to folks around
Was an Arizona ranger, wouldn't be too long in town"

Lore Stuff:
Wasteland Republic, originally established in 5474. Disbanded in 5477 due to the loss of their main headquarters and all major leaders. After the fall of their main base, remaining soldiers either abandoned their posts or were hunted down for their ideologies.

The Republic's core values were courage, respect and selfless commitment. Their plan was to create law and order in a dog eat dog world. This disrupted pirate band drug and human trafficking crimes, which caused the Republic to be infamous among outlaws.

One surviving Ranger (Betty Lester) of the old Wasteland Republic has braved the Rim Planet and slowly rebuilt the colony piece by piece. Since the fall of the original Republic, equipment has improved. Funding comes from seized resources taken from enemies, anyone deemed a threat to the peaceful lives of law abiding citizens.

Betty being a junior Ranger, lost all her friends and mentors during the fall of Wasteland Republic's main base. She was the only one left standing among the rubble and ashes. She buried her comrades one by one and left the base to start over, doing mercenary and bounty hunter jobs to survive. After some time, she has inspired and given hope to many that needed help.

5500, Wasteland Republic has officially been re-established.

"We must expend steel and fire, not men" - General Van Fleet

This principle is also something the brave men and women of the republic believe in. They go through such lengths to expend as much resources as they can to make sure that lives are not placed over silver and gold.

If your colony is in need of help, the Wasteland Republic is a friend you can rely on.

Coming soon to 1.0..

(ETA 1-2 weeks for RN: Clothing and RN: Weapon updates, after that all else follows.)

Sounds good. 

shes awsome :D is she a premaid leader we will see in game ?

Quote from: Smexy_Vampire on August 26, 2018, 04:08:46 AM
shes awsome :D is she a premaid leader we will see in game ?

Hey there, unfortunately I can't do that in the game since Tynan super mega hardcoded naming colonists without epic C# knowledge, so it's just a backstory I had.

I had plans of a Rimworld animated webisodes, she would've been a major character

What do you would think to add a scar to betty ?
Like a blade scar through the eye or cheek ?

Preview artworks:

(https://i.imgur.com/F3HzjEM.png)

Final logo version

(https://i.imgur.com/T0TRnRv.png)

Five-O in a duel

Quote from: Canute on August 26, 2018, 02:16:43 PM
What do you would think to add a scar to betty ?
Like a blade scar through the eye or cheek ?

Well, I didn't get too much into the character. I had this whole backstory for Betty, I really wanted this character for the animated series, the problem is finding a voice actress that I won't spend an arm and a leg for.

I'll type a lot of story related stuff about her character, but if you don't wanna read it all, the thing about Betty is that she has a curse.

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Exposition time:

"what the hell kind of name is Lester for a little girl like you? I knew a Lester once, he touched little kids. He ended up getting Five-O all over him!"
"FROM NOW ON I'M GONNA CALL YOU FIVE-O YOU UNDERSTAND?!"

- Instructor Ernie

Betty joined the Wasteland Republic at the age of 15. Had a best friend nicknamed "Fancy Pants" by Instructor Ernie for raising her hand during the first day of training and asking if she gets to have a better bedroom.

A year into graduating, she and Fancy Pants went missing during a sandstorm a few miles away from the main base during a patrol, and found themselves within the reach of an ancient site.

This ancient site had strange markings, Betty being a foolish young girl tampered with this stone right before being reunited with their section commander who was yelling at her and Fancy Pants for getting separated.

Fast forward to two years, it is now 5477. She is a Junior Ranger in training, her and her best friend are battle hardened. They are the ones called for dangerous situations, especially ones involving Mechanoids.

After sundown, Pirates land in drop pods to attack Wasteland Republic's power station which has a warehouse full of batteries connecting to everything else. The pirates set the building ablaze destroying and cutting out several sources of power which lead to gun turrets being disabled.

Rangers were sent to breach and clear out the warehouse after peacekeepers have failed to neutralise the invaders. Several peacekeepers were recovered and sent to the clinic, some not making it.

Soon after, another group of pirates land within drop pods near the heart of the base close to where new recruits train and live, they were taken out and Rangers arrive late, wounded and were still rescuing survivors of the earlier attack.

A huge group of Manhunter wargs suddenly come from the south during the second pirate attack. Several peacekeepers are now out of action, Rangers are mostly what's left, picking up the wounded, nobody is able to tend to all the ones already in hospital beds. People start bleeding out.

Mechanoid hive attacks immediately, a large swarm of Scythers and Centipedes.

Mechanoids take the lives of multiple Rangers and whatever remaining Peacekeepers left.

Betty is downed within the burning barracks that is build inside a cave. Both entrances have mechanoids waiting outside, one is burning down.

Fancy Pants attempts to kill the remaining centipedes with a triple rocket launcher taken from the armory but dies from a headshot. She was trying to clear the entrance to rescue her friend.

Betty miraculously gets up, picks through the cave walls to access the armoury room which is built nearby. She kills the remaining mechanoids with multiple triple rocket launchers.

Morning comes, all the wounded in the clinic have bled out.

After the series of events, Betty Lester realizes during her career of bounty hunting and mercenary jobs, she cannot die. She has never lost a limb, she has never had a single scratch on her. Though she sustains injuries, it's never fatal.

She looks back during her time as a young peacekeeper, she remembers the ancient site. Attempting to find the ancient site again, it's never been found by her again to this day.

-End of story-

Oh wait, I forgot to add.

-Not end of story just yet-

The downside of her supposed "Immortality", anyone she ever sticks around with long enough, or gets attached to. Any group of people she spends plenty of time with eventually all die, and she gets to watch.

She gets to live and they don't.

No matter how secure or unlikely, events take place that lead to the deaths of those around her.

This is why she became a loner. After rebuilding Wasteland Republic, she has spearheaded an operation to find the ancient site again, or find a way to beat death itself by finding a Resurrector Mech serum and finding a way to reproduce this device in an attempt to get rid of the curse.

- Story just bloody began lad -
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Forgot to add these in, so another edit. (rip)

(https://i.imgur.com/Ruz7oVJ.png)

"Big Iron A1" - Revolver made by the Wasteland Republic, named after a Marty Robbins song titled "Big Iron" about a Ranger who defeats an outlaw in a duel.
Original Sketchfab model by: GMoreau

(https://i.imgur.com/tNujn38.png)

"XM-Boomstick" - A prototype shotgun produced by the Wasteland Republic, designs based on the old double barrel design, powerful plasma pellets come out. Named after the main character's "Boomstick" from classic movie Evil Dead: Army of Darkness.
Original Sketchfab model by: Mihai Muscan

(https://i.imgur.com/XJCmNHz.png)

"Felina A1" - Named after the woman mentioned in another Marty Robbins song "El Paso". When you fire on whatever this rifle is aimed at, it's goodbye Felina.
Original Sketchfab model by: McCarthy3D

(https://i.imgur.com/h2vWW9i.png) (https://i.imgur.com/YlJrtKi.png)

Planned rations for the W.R. all falloutsy style inside a steel lunchbox. I might just use the old MREs and get rid of the lunchbox food, it's not necessary but I wanna know what some of you may think. The "Cola" is gonna be called "Rocket Cola", just because I love Nuka Cola and Rangers.  :P

QuoteWell, I didn't get too much into the character. I had this whole backstory for Betty, I really wanted this character for the animated series, the problem is finding a voice actress that I won't spend an arm and a leg for.

Start a call at the Generall discussion at the forum or steam.
Maybe you can find some talented female amateur for your series ! :-)

i want her more as a pawn now :D pew pew

(https://i.imgur.com/T1cYX9U.png)(https://i.imgur.com/9JOC5l3.png)(https://i.imgur.com/H8HrHNh.png)

New Peacekeeper IBA. Using the new flag, new more customized details and olive color.

(https://i.imgur.com/1DQmevi.png)(https://i.imgur.com/ER1TDG6.png)(https://i.imgur.com/j2QsRLI.png)

New PASGT helmet for Peacekeepers. One standard version, one CBRN for fallouts.

(https://i.imgur.com/jtuuSo7.png) (https://i.imgur.com/FrFAJ6J.png) (https://i.imgur.com/UpFKsRg.png)

Helmets are now using "Mitchell camo" which is the camo used for M1 Helmets during the Vietnam War. I thought it would be better to use the original concept I had for the W.R., they were supposed to be old school.

Concept for the series:
(https://i.imgur.com/9MMtX8x.png)
(Vlad looking down the barrel of his weapon on the left, "Padre" staring at Vlad in contempt. Five-O is taking a colony photo.)

I may write a concept of the series and post it in one of the sub-forums, will stand-by for that.
For now, I will tell you Vlad's story.


Vlad is a member of the "Last Man Mercs", a raider faction that profits from drug smuggling and contracts.

Vlad was a "cryo-baby" (pejorative term referred to those who came from cryocaskets, they awake with many questions similar to new-born babies) along with some of his surviving family members. Being pressured to find work, Vlad was recruited by LMM leader who goes by "Clucky".

Clucky is an individual that does not believe that there is an objective sense of morality. Those who join this small raider group of his, either end up being corrupted by this person's ideals and follow him blindly or they disappear.

Vlad being a very special boy, believes he joined a biker gang and constantly refers to the Last Man Mercs as the "Last Man MC" to Clucky's annoyance. Vlad also dislikes participating in raids or contracts unless it involves heists or non-violent operations.

The LMM one day found out Vlad has a sister and has constantly made jokes at his expense.

One day, Vlad finds a Ranger named Betty and a cryo-baby nicknamed "Padre" and opens up a friendly conversation with them. Vlad was being observed by an LMM grunt, and reports this to Clucky and other lieutenants. Clucky decides that they want to either get rid of Vlad or finally find use for him, so they pressure him to perform a solo raid for these individuals that he met at the bar.

Being followed to Five-O's safehouse, a humble wooden barrack, they give the green light for Vlad to attack at night.

Vlad being inexperienced at raiding, knocks at the door politely at night and Five-O takes him down seeing him armed after opening the door and he is imprisoned and interrogated. Padre talks to Vlad and decides to let him go, a decision Five-O was not happy with.

Vlad seeing the contrast of how these two have treated him with kindness in comparison to the bullying he gets from his own crew, decides to leave and report to Clucky.

LMM, believing Vlad was dead, was rejoicing until Vlad comes in to let them know he is leaving and is taking his stuff before he goes. Frustrated by the failure to get rid of this individual, Clucky decides to raid the colony they know Vlad will be joining.

Night time comes, the raiders move in and take down Vlad and Padre with ease. Realizing that there is one missing colony member, before executing the two, Clucky demands for the last colony member to appear and starts a countdown before firing.

Five-O catches them off-guard with her big iron and accurately destroys all their firearms. The LMM retreats in fear and they won't be back for now..

That's the story of how Vlad joined the Wayfarers.

About:
A band of mercenaries that profit from drug trafficking, raiding, theft, assassination and last but not least, human trafficking.

One of the things the Last Man Mercs are well known for is their "Shoot first, ask questions never" policy. They fire upon both hostiles and unarmed civilians on sight.

The crew was formed by an ex-military individual with a tilted view on morality and a dangerous charisma that inspires others. Aside from committing crime and shooting anything that moves, they also have a politically fuelled crusade to "Make Rimworld Great Again", which translates to: wiping out any individual with tribal blood or space refugees that dare to land on this planet whom they call "Waste of oxygen".

Their motto? "Till the last merc".

(https://i.imgur.com/I4OQzEt.png)

I'm now working on this faction, something I didn't expect to work on at all till Vlad's character showed up. The idea is the faction uses a red combat shirt and wears all black.

I hope I don't get any steam for their faction being political, this is based on an irl clan I was once a part of full of abrasive guys and offensive jokes. I thought it wouldn't be bad to Rimworldify them.

Some with sharp eyes would notice that their gear is not even as good as Umbra Company's, that's intentional since this is a small time band of mercenaries, not as elite and well trained.

I'm gonna release this alongside Wasteland Republic for B19 with Rimmu-Nation Clothing and Weapons. Deadline is before next Monday's sunrise, so I am dead serious about getting some stuff done.

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Here in my garage with my coding updates, but wanna know what I love more than my coding updates? My updated textures that are more accurate to their real life counterparts.

Old FAST helmets: (for comparison)
(https://i.imgur.com/VMXHV5F.png)(https://i.imgur.com/MpD8UXV.png)(https://i.imgur.com/xC7V5Dj.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/qrhwS8Y.png)(https://i.imgur.com/IyYHAjr.png)(https://i.imgur.com/9Q4fLoR.png)

New FAST helmets:
(https://i.imgur.com/nZys4sO.png)(https://i.imgur.com/kt2XQXK.png)(https://i.imgur.com/B6AWnlJ.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/1iA0GBm.png)(https://i.imgur.com/ueIGB2R.png)(https://i.imgur.com/PoSJYL7.png)


Battle Dress Uniforms/Combats: (Currently WIP, quality takes more time now)
Old OCP BDU: (being phased out)
(https://i.imgur.com/r0Ydo5B.png)(https://i.imgur.com/ELpsMYj.png)(https://i.imgur.com/siPgeyL.png)

New Multicam BDU:
(https://i.imgur.com/x7JTA9E.png)(https://i.imgur.com/MP6JHWG.png)(https://i.imgur.com/ul6FiRt.png)
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Got plans for video game character hairstyles and outfits that may come with Rimmu-Nation clothing (unless someone wants to stop me before I release it)

The same hair Five-O is using is actually from an unreleased A17 lara croft hair mod I made that I thankfully recovered when my hard drive got busted (thank you random google drive uploading)

(https://i.imgur.com/GmCG97S.png)(https://i.imgur.com/CIQp3OU.png)(https://i.imgur.com/MPk271Q.png)

Ideas for Jill Valentine from Resident Evil, Juli Kidman from Evil Within, Paz from Metal Gear and many more waifus. Maybe I would do some male ones too though I think my buddy Odstriman has done a good job with a few I wanted to make.
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Here's progress on the animation, last but not least.

I had to halt all of this because unexpectedly, B19 came out last night and now the pressure is on for updates.

Wow, faction count just keeps rising, eh!) Amazing. Can't wait to get all that goodness!

Quote from: Madman666 on August 28, 2018, 05:24:38 PM
Wow, faction count just keeps rising, eh!) Amazing. Can't wait to get all that goodness!

Yes it is, I'm glad you are excited, I am too  8)


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News on the mission board and reinforcements, Albion is working on it, author of Sparkling Worlds


It's gonna be sweet! I'll talk more about it soon.

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(https://i.imgur.com/xIfW4hj.png) (https://i.imgur.com/zsKygdt.png) (https://i.imgur.com/7i5rG8r.png)

I finished the template for fatigues and now I can mass produce using my new style. Though there's more issues, I have to bleedin' make a new body armor template because the old method I have is just so impractical and outdated for me now.

Here's what I got:

(https://i.imgur.com/LKGG2Sv.png)
(Note: stuff are brightly colored, I can easily change them in photoshop later, I just made them bright colored so I can see the teeny tiny textures easier and to avoid confusion.)

What you folks are looking at is an early version of the brand new IBA template, I'm scrapping the old one so I can easier make body armors for the future. I also decided to pre-make pouches and accessories now so I listed and made some of the ones I've used for a while now.

I'm hoping this can allow me to just make body armor and not worry about the attachments, cause I can just copy paste from the presets I've made.


More time taken out of updating mods, but refining the textures mean an investment for the future. I will be able to update despite having very little time, or make new mods this way due to a more efficient and tidy template.

Rebalancing so many weapons and armor, unit combat points and etc must be a huge pain in the bum. I am really grateful you keep pouring your time in this amazing project. With a couple other mods that add some more flavor to interfactional events such as More Faction Interatcions it will be absolutely fabulous. Hype!

Quote from: Madman666 on August 29, 2018, 04:42:15 PM
Rebalancing so many weapons and armor, unit combat points and etc must be a huge pain in the bum. I am really grateful you keep pouring your time in this amazing project. With a couple other mods that add some more flavor to interfactional events such as More Faction Interatcions it will be absolutely fabulous. Hype!

That's the best thing I'm looking forward to, Rimmu-Nation was always balanced around vanilla stats with some slight changes. So the new stuff won't be too hard to adapt to since I just have to tweak accuracy and damage. Sooner I can bloody play B19 eh?

(https://i.imgur.com/ymo2ACI.png)

Ladies and Germans, there is no slacking here. I've been working my bottom dollar off all day, the new formula for body armors are paying off, pouches are no longer a pain and organization is smooth.

I've made DCU and DPM fatigues for ol' times sake. I'm gonna make an available IBA version for Rimmu-Nation clothing to temporarily fill the void of the missing US Military Kit while I update everything for B19.

Goal by tommorrow is to finish all the body armors and harnesses, then get started on updating coding. If that doesn't get sorted tommorrow, there's always friday.

I know the weaponry and other mods I have that I don't plan on updating textures require less time to work on. I'm confident I'll have everything ready by Monday morning, or best case scenario, sooner.

Militaires Sans Frontières (French for; Military Without Frontiers) abbreviated as "MSF" was a private military company in the early 1970s founded and led by a legendary soldier known as Big Boss. The MSF is mainly known for the Peace Walker incident and their valiant efforts in successfully preventing nuclear war in the hands of a CIA rogue agent who developed a WMD named Metal Gear "Zeke".

In the days leading to the Ground Zeroes incident, an ex-MSF member Paz was brutally tortured by a Cypher clean up crew known as X.O.F.

This leak of information has lead to the destruction of MSF's Mother Base, cutting off their resources and manpower.

Surviving members who carry on the name of Militaires Sans Frontières, later found out that their leader Big Boss has started a new private army named Diamond Dogs alongside their ex-sub commander Kazuhira Miller operating within Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion for a revenge mission against the X.O.F.

The remaining MSF soldiers continue on their own.
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(https://i.imgur.com/ouqN2iX.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/9LBC9Df.png)

Hey all, I got freakin bored doing the IBA and new tact harness. Before I lost interest in everything (including my interest in breathing) I decided to redo one balaclava from the Rimmu-Nation clothing set. This mask ended up making me wanna make a new bloody faction..

Psycho Mantis? Nuclear bomb?

Metal Gear?

Any Metal Gear fan please let me know if the MSF was done any justice, both uniform and the about page.

Any Metal Gear fan please instead comment on the textures if it's A-OK, I think I'm gonna pass on hearing what people think of my description. (Reasons below)
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Edit: Man my grammar is not good, I just had to sort out the bloody description, looked like Mother Base when it was blown to hell.

Edit 2: Okay guys, in my defence for the excessive use of quotation marks, it's very difficult to summarize the plot of any Metal Gear game because of Hideo Kojima.

Edit 3: Pretend that description is a placeholder, I'm gonna sort it out later and cut it shorter because I feel like I just butchered the backstory of MSF.  :'(

Edit 4: Sorted out the description to be shorter and sweeter. I apologise to everyone who had to read the old one.

Edited by: Hideo Kojima

snake D: and firends *_* mgs sneeking suit?

Quote from: Smexy_Vampire on August 30, 2018, 12:09:53 PM
snake D: and firends *_* mgs sneeking suit?

Wasn't planning on it, neither was I planning on Paz' outfit but I got requests so now I guess I have to.

Been quiet for 2 days in a row, this was intentional since the deadline is closing in and my progress isn't close to finished at all. Needed concentration.

Current goal is to finalize Rimmu-Nation Clothing by introducing a tribal clothing patch, this patch would stop them wearing tactical winter clothing cause I got numerous complaints about tribals in camos.

Another goal is to update Rimmu-Nation Weapons so it comes released alongside RN: Clothing.


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Progress report:

During Friday, I finished all the RN: Clothing armors I wanted done. I decided to keep the old version of "RN500" civilian for the sake of saving time, but I wanted to replace the old RN500 PMC variant.

May not be a popular decision, the RN500 PMC variant wasn't ugly, had good details. The problem?


Welp the hulk body type one looked great but the thin ones? Pouches shrunk with the bloody body. I don't want that anymore.

Thin PMC RN500
(https://i.imgur.com/NWrCnZx.png)

Thin New version of PMC RN500 (pouches stay the same size, just reduced amount of accessories)
(https://i.imgur.com/io01B3F.png)


Didn't have room on the preview below, but here's the new M1 helmet look. I got requests for Vietnam war theme fans that they wanted a more uniform look so here:
Old: (originally made by Odstriman, I added stuff onto it)
(https://i.imgur.com/p62M0jP.png)(https://i.imgur.com/jBL15Jn.png)(https://i.imgur.com/GNPljjG.png)

New:
(https://i.imgur.com/RerZiyY.png) (https://i.imgur.com/T1e3c9n.png) (https://i.imgur.com/z8lBS4B.png)


(https://i.imgur.com/y7gNqdY.png)


Added some combat jackets to go with each fatigue camo type now. More things planned soon.


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Rimmu-Nation Weapons will receive a new preview:
(https://i.imgur.com/rFYCtXg.png)

Old Version:
(https://i.imgur.com/o33l9ez.png)

I have got minor progress on RN: Weapons, about 7 pistols now working, stats are being balanced based on calibre now, .xml coding is cleaner also. I have changed some textures and removed some weapons.

SAM turret will now be called "SSM" turret, courtesy of JayFoxley

Fun fact: I lost the original blank background for Rimmu-Nation's flag during my hard drive crash. It was almost impossible to make a preview. After taking multiple versions of each preview, I got to piece together what the empty parts would look like, until it was whole.

This new preview was a lot harder to make than it seems because of the lost files.
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Anyway, enough boring fun facts around, here's real progress:
(https://i.imgur.com/SDWhvWV.png)

New updated body texture mod, I'm gonna re-release it as a sequel, like a bloody movie. I'm abandoning the old one.

I wasn't sure what to put on the preview, so I dressed people up because I didn't wanna flash nude drawings on steam workshop where kids could see, so I dressed them up in bikinis or whatever, and included a lot of comical stuff because I'm nervous about the thought of taking a naked body mod too seriously.

(https://i.imgur.com/4SPfZ97.png)

Currently finished textures (Fat body type will be finished after I sleep)


Looks like the updates will be pushed out to Tuesday or longer, but I know I can hit like 3-4 birds with one stone if this is all done right.

Chicken signing out.

(https://i.imgur.com/uqFWQHE.gif)

we love you :D

Quote from: Smexy_Vampire on September 02, 2018, 05:35:02 AM
we love you :D

Love you too

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Detailed Body Textures now live here: https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=43926.0

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Monday deadline pushed back to maybe Tuesday or Wednesday. Need more time to finish new features and patches before I can bloody code.

Currently working on backpacks:

(https://i.imgur.com/I7gXWJo.png)(https://i.imgur.com/TnC39w8.png)(https://i.imgur.com/hntxCig.png)


Backpacks will increase carrying capacity for pawns, now you won't have to tame muffalos every few bleedin' seconds.

I'll make different kinds, small to this one so far being the largest (might add bigger ones later, trying to press time).


Thank you to Jecrell for his backpack coding! Without him there would be no tacticool backpacks.

This is really damn amazing. Finally mining outposts will be viable without a horde of those smelly beasts. Damn, CP, you never cease to amaze. I really hope you'll stay in RW modding :)

Yeah, truly awesome!
Will there be military style backpacks aswell(ie bergen/alice pack)?

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Quote from: Madman666 on September 02, 2018, 02:15:40 PM
This is really damn amazing. Finally mining outposts will be viable without a horde of those smelly beasts. Damn, CP, you never cease to amaze. I really hope you'll stay in RW modding :)

I'm not the one to thank, the idea was always there but the skill to carry it out wasn't on me. Credit goes to Jecrell.

I'm afraid I can't stay here, it's just so much time taken from me. I absolutely love to do this hobby but it just doesn't pay bills and I find myself starting to struggle financially if I don't stick to a real job. I'm in a military college right now, so I'm trying to transition to a career in the armed forces.

I don't think I'll have time for this when that comes, the only reason I am here being active everyday is because I'm at week 2 of my 2 week holiday. Afterwards, it's back to inactivity.

Quote from: Rocket_Raccoon on September 02, 2018, 03:54:25 PM
Yeah, truly awesome!
Will there be military style backpacks aswell(ie bergen/alice pack)?

You read my mind, I wanted to make the bergen for old times sake because I love the bloody things. I actually wasn't gonna make the ALICE pack because bergen master race.

I'll see about adding it later or maybe working on it right now.
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Current progress on Rimmu-Nation clothing:

I made some of my outfits from some of my favourite games, I'm gonna make a hair mod for video game characters as well, stay tuned for that.

I found myself with maybe too much clothing variants by now, the Rimmu-Nation clothing bench will have way too much clothing on it.

Solution? Well, maybe certain outfits, such as character specific ones (i.e. Last of Us outfits or the Division outfit) will not be craftable. Rimmu-Nation craftables will be the camos and the usual default looking PMC stuff.

(https://i.imgur.com/vX4BuKF.png) (https://i.imgur.com/4aFFLGX.png) (https://i.imgur.com/WAk46qe.png)

Speaking of PMC stuff, the pants are now dark grey. They change colors depending on material, and I thought the old khaki look was sometimes ruined by the color (i.e. synthreads)

(https://i.imgur.com/N2OeF3L.png)

These plaid shirts and character outfits will be available in character creation and from traders, but they will not be craftable due to the issue of having way too much bills in the Rimmu-Nation crafting bench.

This will give certain clothes a sense of rarity, something I bloody want anyway.

(https://i.imgur.com/SFg8ml9.png)

The British Army smock is making a comeback with the proper DPM camo now, this will have parka stats even though it's real life counterpart isn't as good as a parka. The reason being is I'm bloody tired and I don't wanna make anymore parkas because it's not easy and it takes long.

Edit: Shoot, I forgot to mention. I decided to make the Rys-T, pretty much similar to the K6-3 but it's grey. The War Mongrels will be out of action for a while, might as well leave something for the Ruski fans.


Final stuff I need to do for RN: Clothing

- Finish British Army Parka
- Finish Tribal Robes (will prevent them from spawning with the camo jackets or other military shells)

See this armor here lads? (https://i.imgur.com/3UYsqyN.png)

I'm scrapping it. Sorry, I only have the front view for hulk and the helmet. It's all I have for it, a preview sample.

I don't wanna waste more time, not gonna lie, this armor is difficult. An original armor with my own designs will be a lot easier.


With that being said, I present to you the new Rimmu-Nation brand power armor!


(https://i.imgur.com/fdgDJq3.png)


Current state of Rimmu-Nation clothing:
- Textures almost finished, just need the tribal coat to patch possible issues
- Only one backpack type, maybe I'll make more when I have time
- No coding done yet
- So much clothing to choose from, randomly available for character creation screen

Plans:
- Not all clothing variants will be craftable
- There may be a Rimmu-Nation faction, their units will be contractors using Rimmu-Nation brand equipment
- The Rimmu-Nation faction's purpose is to sell their equipment at a cheap price, the trading outposts they have will be guarded by close protection
- The Rimmu-Nation faction will exist due to the fact that it would be nice to have a place to purchase all RN equipment if you wish to get them since not all clothing will be craftable. It will be a separate mod.


With all of that, Rimmu-Nation: Clothing update is about 75% done.

That tribal parka clothing is 5%, the .xml the coding is 20% of the work. Weapons will soon follow, or a hair mod to complement RN: Clothing's release.

Dat power armor looks quite awesome, if a bit dangerous to wear. I mean a grenade belt right scross the chest piece just begs for a sniper bullet! ;)

Quote from: Madman666 on September 03, 2018, 11:19:09 PM
Dat power armor looks quite awesome, if a bit dangerous to wear. I mean a grenade belt right scross the chest piece just begs for a sniper bullet! ;)

Thank you! It's obviously based on Boba Fett's helmet, which was being adapted to modern helmets. Tad impractical in it's current state though, it hindered peripheral vision, your ability to aim down the sights and other stuff.


Anyways, here's what the accessories are on the power armor:

- 5.56 magazine pouch (on the chest of all armor variants)
- IFAK (the pouch with scissors on the back)
- Smoke grenade and flashbang inside pouch (right side leg of Hulk body example)
- Knife (left leg of Hulk and Fat only)
- Other pouches big and smol
- Glowsticks for partying (usually for celebrating Rimmu-Nation sales)

There's no HE grenade over there, though the 5.56 was there just to look tacticool since the armor is meant to be wielded by those with energy or plasma weapons. Here's to hoping the Charge rifle fires 5.56 eh?

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T-45b released for B19:

(https://i.imgur.com/pIStlJg.png)

Thread: https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=43969.0

Yeah, been busy all day. Days are counting down, the updates I wanted still aren't here.

Here's what I've been working on:
(https://i.imgur.com/nPXwvwa.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/sTO7DaF.png)(https://i.imgur.com/Ie61Crx.png)(https://i.imgur.com/VGkXxqm.png)(https://i.imgur.com/2u8IOH6.png)(https://i.imgur.com/cI7GtY1.png)(https://i.imgur.com/49u0HF5.png)

So before I finish up Rimmu-Nation clothing I want this hair mod done. This hair mod has video game character hairs, as you may notice most of the ones I've picked are characters from horror survival type of games, or just ones that are action based.

I thought this would give people using Rimmu-Nation and Prepare carefully just have an absolute blast making their favourite characters. I'm making some outfits for these female characters, I'll make some basic male ones with beards and crap.

Still have to do that tribal parka, I don't know what it would look like. I think Shinzy's desert robe was something I wanted to do, but he already did it better. I cannot work on the Rimmu-Nation clothing coding until I finish that darn parka, I want to patch that tribal issue ASAP.

Anywho, this hair mod was more fun and relaxing (despite each hair taking me 20-40 minutes, bloody hell)

I'll see you lads soon on the other side, goal is have RN:C, RN:W and Chicken Mitchell out by Monday. Plenty of time, but I want it done sooner cause it's already overtime.

corset *drools*

Did you stand model for him ? :-)

Quote from: Smexy_Vampire on September 05, 2018, 12:55:23 AM
corset *drools*

:o

Quote from: Canute on September 05, 2018, 02:05:51 AM
Did you stand model for him ? :-)

yes

Red Horse progress

Here's what Albion has been up to, I have been pushing my luck bothering him to add all these features for my mod that he is doing 99% of the job for at the moment

Mission Board:
(https://i.imgur.com/rtoL19u.png)

Planned options:
- Recruit wanderers
- Attract a wild man/woman
- Offer to take in refugees
- Check notice for caravan requests
- Search for peace talk opportunities
- Search and destroy bandit camps
- Search for an item stash
- Search radio signals for an incapacitated refugee
- Search radio signals for a prisoner rescue

Note: Planned 3 day cooldown for each mission so they cannot be spammed, 500 silver cost for each mission.

It was easier for Albion to implement a blanket cost and cooldown for all these options than to individually pick them.

Red Phone:
(https://i.imgur.com/0U3vizP.png)(https://i.imgur.com/EI5DowH.png)(https://i.imgur.com/0U3vizP.png)

Planned options:
- Request for a patrol (free of charge, reinforcements will arrive slowly. Needs +75 relations.)
- Request for a quick reaction force (500 silver, drop pod in centre, higher ticket than patrol)
- Request for a heavy quick reaction force (900 silver, drop pod in centre, higher ticket than QRF)

Cooldowns:
Patrol - 12 hours
QRF - 1 day
Heavy QRF - 1.5 day

Planned custom SFX for the red phone, this phone will only be able to call factions that are allies. I don't think anyone else would give you their phone number, kinda like girls in clubs when they see my face.

The tribals do not have the QRF options, only a patrol option. This is due to the fact that tribals do not have the budget for drop pods.


What we currently have:

(https://i.imgur.com/whDuwAY.png)

* Working mission board
- not enough missions and no cooldowns.
- no custom labels

* Working red phone
- one free reinforcement and one paid reinforcement, no difference between both options.
- no custom sounds
- no QRF drop pods in the centre

(https://i.imgur.com/FYvffO0.png)

I was gonna show the options for calling people and the missions, but latest update broke the translations.

RIP.

Red Horse progress

(https://i.imgur.com/DT5QieL.png)

New preview image, USMC dress greens and new smokey bear is a WIP, just finished it for the new Gunny since I don't want him to look outdated. I chose to keep his face since my other attempts at making a new Gunny looked awful.

  (https://i.imgur.com/0U3vizP.png)

Calling for a patrol:
(https://i.imgur.com/7SG33XB.gif)
Patrols are free of charge, the only thing you need is a +75 relations with whoever you wanna call. I added sound effects depending on the level of reinforcements you give.
(Of course, Albion coded that, I just did the mixy matchy sound editing stuff  ;D)


(https://i.imgur.com/rtoL19u.png)
Recruiting contractors to join the colony:
(https://i.imgur.com/ommKNjT.gif)
So alongside a few of the originally planned missions, I threw in a "Contractor" event, where a freelance mercenary joins your colony. They join up with normal quality equipment and some decent armor.


(https://i.imgur.com/vJbpvMV.png)
Contractors aren't titled "colonists", they have their own label. I thought that was pretty cool, it was also unintentional on my part.


Credit goes to Albion, very thankful for all his hard work and support to make these two important features possible, I didn't have to pay him a dime either.

Please check out his mod:
https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=35373.0

Trying to finish up Rimmu-Nation coding, I have removed over 20 weapons, I decided to de-clutter the work bill. Rimmu-Nation clothing will also have several outfits unavailable for crafting.

Removing weapons? Thats kind of sad. If the bill clutter was the main reason - please reconsider - there is a mod now for new bill UI, called "Mint menus" by Dubswise. It really works wonders with mods, that introduce crapton of items for one workbench. It replaces atrocious drop down lists for bills with scrolled lists with pics and some info. Variety of different weapons is one of the many things i enjoy immensely about this mod.

P.S. Amazing news about patrolls. Now we ll really see some epic skirmishes going on! I really can't wait to try it out with all the weapons and new armor mechanics from B19.

Quote from: Madman666 on September 07, 2018, 02:02:42 PM
Removing weapons? Thats kind of sad. If the bill clutter was the main reason - please reconsider - there is a mod now for new bill UI, called "Mint menus" by Dubswise. It really works wonders with mods, that introduce crapton of items for one workbench. It replaces atrocious drop down lists for bills with scrolled lists with pics and some info. Variety of different weapons is one of the many things i enjoy immensely about this mod.

P.S. Amazing news about patrolls. Now we ll really see some epic skirmishes going on! I really can't wait to try it out with all the weapons and new armor mechanics from B19.

Yeah Madman, I have a ton of reasons sadly..

Mainly is because the sheer number is causing me pain and time to code, but the real issue is balancing everyone of those with the new B19 system.

The new B19 system surprisingly moved a bit further away from vanilla and made weapons a tad more deadly. I don't want to copy paste the same stats anymore, I want weapon variety without being "off" from the vanilla feel.

I also received criticism with the similar stats (something I know you actually preferred) and was said to "add iconic names just for the sake of adding them, cluttering up the bill".

Anyways, I might re-introduce them later on (best part about it.) I removed a bunch of weapons factions use, such as the Zastava marksman rifles and SMG, I might add it in for War Mongrels but make it uncraftable for the Rimmu-Nation bench.

As for Dub's mod, I saw that, but I'm considering people who won't be using this mod. I wish vanilla had a better menu system, but as it is it only caters for the few content it has. (i.e. few apparel and weapons)

Well, i will hope for them to make a reappearance later then. Being non-craftable and aquirable only through trade\looting\quest reward is fine with me. I cannot understand why would people whine about similar stats, when they have no less huge RT's Weapon Pack mod, with huge amount of weapons that are actually balanced around their real counterpants with much less regard to vanilla weapons making those completely obsolete.  Over 20 weapons is quite significant decrease, but oh well, if it lightens your workload - its fine with. I mean i am lazy, but if i really feel like i want to see something in - i can even add it back myself for my own runs :P

Actually, can you drop a list of weapons that were removed here, CP? It will help me readd them for my own run.

Quote from: Madman666 on September 08, 2018, 06:09:14 PM
Actually, can you drop a list of weapons that were removed here, CP? It will help me readd them for my own run.

(https://i.imgur.com/65vsfVK.png)

Not all decision is final, I'll highlight in bold ones I HAVE finished coding that I most likely won't go back on though.
Also, in light of what's removed, there's a lot more flavour and balancing around each weapon now.

Detailed progress report on Rimmu-Nation: Weapons B19
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/1251360680/3317353727659662057/

(https://i.imgur.com/cqztCTK.png)
Rocket/Grenade Launchers:
China lake, HK69, LAW 80, RPG 27

(https://i.imgur.com/aILPero.png)
Light Machinegun:
Vulcan Minigun

(https://i.imgur.com/mtY8N9B.png)
Marksman Rifles:
FN Ballista, G3SG, M24, M82A1, M110 SASS, SKS, Zastava M07, Zastava M76

(https://i.imgur.com/681inA4.png)
Melee:
Crowbar, Dagger, Gut Knife, Spetsnaz Machete

(https://i.imgur.com/4Q1Rg6X.png)
Pistols:
Makarov, MP445, P320

(https://i.imgur.com/BwHpTrk.png)
Rifles:
AKS-47, AN-94, FAMAS, G3A3, GALIL, M4A1-SD, M16SD, TAR-21, XM8

(https://i.imgur.com/TPJ4rTz.png)
Shotguns:
KS-23, Mossberg 500

(https://i.imgur.com/jymX0Ei.png)
SMGs:
AKS-74U, MP5K, MP5KSD, Uzi

(https://i.imgur.com/rcKQXCN.png)
Spacer:
Auger WS

(https://i.imgur.com/Rh2Rivy.png)
Cancelled weapons:
Bowie knife, Sabre, Assassin's Creed Tomahawk, M1911A3, MBT LAW, SMAW, FN FAL, M16A1, .44 HE Magnum

I'll address some of the big names being removed:
(https://i.imgur.com/RHVUl7V.png)(https://i.imgur.com/yzQhG5p.png)
M82A1, took this out, way too many marksman rifles, I believe it has the most out of every other weapon. There's already an M107, it's the same rifle but with a different name.

Ironically, I still kept several versions of the M4A1s and HK416s cause they look cool, but I don't know, might bring this back.

(https://i.imgur.com/cqztCTK.png)
RPG-27, it's alright. I introduced a new launcher to make this obsolete. I'll show in a minute.

(https://i.imgur.com/4Q1Rg6X.png)
Glock-17 made the cut, I can hear the P320 people grabbing their P320 and pitchforks. I couldn't get a better texture for this, I have updated many pistol textures. I added a more powerful cousin of the P320, ol' buddy P226.

I believe there was enough 9mm, we had the Beretta and the Glock. I just thought nobody would care about another 9mm going away, people would definetely need more power after seeing the new system. Overall, I felt like this was unecessary, thoughts?

I didn't want the P320 to go, I even coded it already and got a new sound just for it, ended up being removed just because the CQB bench is still cluttered after all these changes, plus, I'm behind on updating.

(https://i.imgur.com/jymX0Ei.png)

Already had the MP5, which had more range and long range accuracy. To be fair, I already coded the MP5K, but I removed it afterwards believing it was an unecessary duplicate (again, funny cause I might keep most of the AR-15 versions)

Removed most of the GLs and other crap cause we had the M320 anyway, I thought the MGL and XM25's stats would suffice. MGL has less range but more accuracy, XM25 was longer range but the grenades were more off and the M320 was the most accurate but the least range.

(https://i.imgur.com/rcKQXCN.png)
Auger WS wasn't supposed to be removed, latest update broke it's system to fire through walls and it cannot hit anything behind walls anymore despite being target-able. Will fix.

On the other hand, will post a list of the new weapons soon..



EDIT:

(https://i.imgur.com/WJqQXLq.png) (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h8upfCjcVU)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0h8upfCjcVU
New OP stuff testing

I change my mind, I'm too bloody tired to list the new stuff, there's only a few new firearms, but I put the significant cool stuff in the video Madman, hope it cheers you up.

Wow, thats a lot of stuff getting removed. Thanks for clarifying, CP. I still very much look forward to update, though a bit nervous about those balancing changes.

Such nice sprites made for all those goodies though, feels like a giant waste to remove them completely. I can't balance even a sack of potatoes right, so i ll probably just slap the stats of similar rifles onto them when you release your B19 version and readd them for my run :) Thanks again.

PS> Lol, thats a nice video :P "Weather control device detected" = Nostalgia off the charts!

One day left of freedom, Monday I have to prepare to go back college and back to hard work outside of bleedin' modding. Back to inactivity around these parts, assuming I'm not dying at weekends.

So the latest progress is that I finished ALL textures for Rimmu-Nation coding. I'm only adding stuff if I want to.

I wanted to get a "Battle Royale" feeling on the character creation screen.

Here's the current roster of Rimmu-Nation: Clothing apparel

(https://i.imgur.com/OkfShar.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/aeqY00q.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/1fA5hu7.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/BxQiBXY.png)

Plenty of outfits will be uncraftable and rare so you can see more variation with NPCs spawning, especially the
character specific outfits.

Alongside with this WIP mod of mine:
(https://i.imgur.com/xMQAqKc.png)
(Trying to get more hairs, currently working on male hairs such as John Wick's)

You can get character combination outfits such as:
(https://i.imgur.com/izj2lPR.png)
Ellie and Joel (Last of Us) - Most of the beards and men's hairstyles you'll see here besides John Wick's belongs to Ods' "Men's hair" mod, yeah that rhymes.

(https://i.imgur.com/4OWXVG3.png)
Lara Croft (Rise of the Tomb Raider) - Always managing to annoy bears and wolves with her constant gasping

(https://i.imgur.com/lrJ2I28.png)
Francis, Bill, Zoey and Louis (Left 4 Dead) - Poppin' pills, was meant to just make Zoey's outfit, but it seems the other guys have their stuff available too.

Moved some of the Russian or War Mongrel stuff here, since they were never meant to be exclusive. Besides, they're surplus, so I'm keeping plenty of surplus kit for Rimmu-Nation.

Aside from that, I know it's gonna be A WHILE before I can update my other mods, so might as well squish together everything in this one, eh? For now.

I'm going to bloody sleep, I don't get paid enough for this. (don't get paid at all, rip)

Hope to release the mods soon, cheers all

Uuuu, damn, can't wait to get my hands on all that goodness. Dat feeling when literally 3-4 mods out of 200 are left until i can start my run, eh? =)

Don't let your distract you much from the college. But since you said you are doing that at the military i bet you won't have that much time then on the normal ones.

I know from my expierence, computing,hobby can a huge distraction from learning.
John Whack, The deal with the mechanoid queen.
I bet when you can made this into a short movie, and put in on Youtube, you will get alot if subscriber and maybe some income ! :-)

(https://i.imgur.com/cYiWyXe.png)
I added John Wick's Glock 34 Combat Master variant from John Wick 2, and the one being used in these .gifs, it uses a special armor piercing 9mm round that does 100% armor penetration.

(https://i.imgur.com/k1Ftzsv.png)
I also added that 9mm AP round to another pistol called "Luison" from Rainbow Six.

(https://i.imgur.com/EYTXBDT.png)
These unique weapons will be uncraftable, the only unique weapon I'll allow to be craftable is the golden Desert Eagle here

There will be some rares like golden AK47, Hellfighter M1911 (from Battlefield 1) that are only found through merchants or maybe item stashes.

Because of Madman being all super sad about weapons being removed, I have decided to add plenty of weapons back. By plenty, I mean I have reduced the rifles being removed to about 0 and sniper rifles being removed to 1 only. (for now)

This is the drawback of adding back many weapons, I don't want a workbill filling up the screen, I'm cutting plenty of weapons out of the workbenches, this includes milspec rifles that will be used by factions:
(https://i.imgur.com/uEwPdQi.png)
M27 IAR (US Marine Corps)

(https://i.imgur.com/yg34uno.png)
M4A1 Milspec (US Army)

(https://i.imgur.com/NxIPNSw.png)
L85A3 (British Military)

I might also cut down the BIG factions.

Example: Instead of the British Armed Forces being British Army, Royal Marines and SAS, they will just be called "British Military" and pawns will be titled "Soldier", "Marine" or "Spec Op" as opposed to the rank system. This will cause a lot less lag in the world and the factions won't be a stranger to each other since they will be join in their efforts.

Quote from: Madman666 on September 10, 2018, 05:25:41 PM
Uuuu, damn, can't wait to get my hands on all that goodness. Dat feeling when literally 3-4 mods out of 200 are left until i can start my run, eh? =)

I wanna play too man, I wanna update my mods and get to build houses again and grow rice, it's not been the same since. From all my testing work, it's been a blast shooting down scythers with that Glock 34 though, John Wick style. That and all the other finished weapons for now of course!

Quote from: Canute on September 11, 2018, 06:09:51 AM
Don't let your distract you much from the college. But since you said you are doing that at the military i bet you won't have that much time then on the normal ones.

I know from my expierence, computing,hobby can a huge distraction from learning.
John Whack, The deal with the mechanoid queen.
I bet when you can made this into a short movie, and put in on Youtube, you will get alot if subscriber and maybe some income ! :-)

Not distracted at all bro, I get over to that military college and it's a lot of PT and going home bloody tired, it's not like my other college where it was a ton of essays. I'm trying to be a medic, and I just wish I could do this hobby and all of that at the same time, but as I write I only have 1 minute left till I need to go sleep.

Also! Nah I won't get income over one video haha, even if I somehow got 5,000 or 10,000 subscribers for one video? Highly unlikely, the youtube algorithm monetizes people who upload consistently, has a consistent amount of views and rising subs.

Back to work all, tiny progress today but it's better than zero.

You just made my day, man! I am perfectly happy with some weapons being uncraftable, but still present via factions, merchants and quests, although overcluttered bill tab is not a problem for me thanks to Dubs. Its precisely that feeling when you rarely see a guy with the same weapon in a raid, that makes it so cool and all those sprites so well made too!

As for condensing factions into one big faction with just generally more units types. Well, i don't have anything agains it and if it lightens your workload - please go for it. In fact it might be even better, since with couple more mods like Medieval times, faction tab tends to get cluttered as well. Really, CP, thanks for these great news. I really hope i didn't inconvenience you too much with my cheeky wishes... Those sprites are just too tasty to let go of. XD

awww shiit

I just want to say thanks for your great mods. Because of you, I am now attempting to learn xml and C++ to make mods of my own.

@FeltTapestry It's always nice to see new modders! I hope you're getting along well with XML, I just wanted to point you to this tutorial (https://ludeon.com/forums/index.php?topic=33219.0) which is what helped me get started with C#.

@Chicken Plucker I'm waiting with bated breath for the release of Rimmu-Nation, which is one of the last mods I consider mandatory for a new playthrough. I just wanted to ask whether the Wasteland Republic and/or Last Man Mercs will be part of that mod or their own standalone factions.

Quote from: Madman666 on September 11, 2018, 05:45:37 PM
Its precisely that feeling when you rarely see a guy with the same weapon in a raid, that makes it so cool and all those sprites so well made too!

I agree, so now I'm adding more weapons.

(https://i.imgur.com/FjmzCs9.png)
Been testing the new vanilla system, as far as I know the strongest calibre vanilla has is 7.62x51mm NATO from the bolt action rifle, the minigun is supposed to use .50 cal or something, but it does some small damage.

(https://i.imgur.com/3DhzYCh.png) (https://i.imgur.com/Vez8Xq1.png)
Since I'm adding in weapons like Kar98k here, that use a BIG cartridge like 8mm Mauser, or how about an AW50 that uses .50 BMG, I had to fill in some blanks and make stronger bullets from what vanilla has.

(https://i.imgur.com/uADDMxd.gif)
(Sped up 3x)
Firefights are more deadly than B18, especially if you don't have proper armor (ehem Rimmu-Nation clothing not coded yet ehehehe).

(https://i.imgur.com/cdW4hYu.png)

Just a note, the guy with the M249 was 20 at shooting, so he was laying down fire like it was nobody's business. Combat logs mention the bullet names, pretty heckin' cool especially with the new feature of accurate bullet names and behaviour (at least, my attempt of that)

(https://i.imgur.com/XNQJ5Eg.png)

I noticed calibres with a "." at the beginning (e.g. .303) forgets the space at the beginning of it's name, even if I add a space the game automatically deletes it. I hope this bothers nobody, can't seem to fix.

Quote from: Smexy_Vampire on September 12, 2018, 12:37:26 PM
awww shiit

Hey there, goot to see you again  8)

jon weck men

Quote from: FeltTapestry on September 13, 2018, 09:54:07 AM
I just want to say thanks for your great mods. Because of you, I am now attempting to learn xml and C++ to make mods of my own.

I'm happy to hear you were inspired to make cool stuff for Rimworld, if you ever wanted my assets let me know (might do a public release for them anyway when I'm not busy, just that theyre incomplete just like everything else in me bloody life)

Also, I've said it before but there's nothing to thank me for. I'll thank you guys though for voicing your appreciation and for using the mods!

Quote from: dninemfive on September 13, 2018, 10:04:51 PM
@Chicken Plucker I'm waiting with bated breath for the release of Rimmu-Nation, which is one of the last mods I consider mandatory for a new playthrough. I just wanted to ask whether the Wasteland Republic and/or Last Man Mercs will be part of that mod or their own standalone factions.

Nah, the factions are always separate. I don't want the mod to be too cluttered, they do share assets. Umbra Company for example during B18 used the Rimmu-Nation weapons and the food like MREs.

I left the testing stuff I have been playing with, I hope you guys have fun with that, I know the mission board is finished so Im positive you guys will with that. Unfortunately the clothing mod hasn't even begun yet, so that will be a while from now.

Will be back for updates, cheers guys. Pardon taking time to reply, I have been unable to on weekdays

Quote from: Chicken Plucker on September 15, 2018, 04:59:51 AM
I agree, so now I'm adding more weapons.

Hell yeah!! More and more FIREPOWER for the people! Amazing news, CP. While i do wanna start a big run as fast as i can - no need to rush with finishing touches for Rimmu-Nation and clothing - take your time to balance it all and distribute to crafting stations just right! Thanks for spending your precious time on it for us.

I registered here just to say I love your mods, thank you for your tacticool efforts in bringing the cool gear stuff in the game. I've been away since A18, just got into B19 - I checked everywhere but are there any of your uniform mods working in B19? Like the SAS kits etc?

Quote from: Madman666 on September 15, 2018, 05:55:48 AM

Quote from: Chicken Plucker on September 15, 2018, 04:59:51 AM
I agree, so now I'm adding more weapons.

Glad you're happy with the new firepowah, I assumed you were gonna wanna test weapons for the feel though

Hell yeah!! More and more FIREPOWER for the people! Amazing news, CP. While i do wanna start a big run as fast as i can - no need to rush with finishing touches for Rimmu-Nation and clothing - take your time to balance it all and distribute to crafting stations just right! Thanks for spending your precious time on it for us.

Quote from: ninjaklan on September 15, 2018, 06:25:25 AM
I registered here just to say I love your mods, thank you for your tacticool efforts in bringing the cool gear stuff in the game. I've been away since A18, just got into B19 - I checked everywhere but are there any of your uniform mods working in B19? Like the SAS kits etc?

That's because they aren't even updated yet. What I'm hoping for is to push Rimmu-Nation: Clothing out soon, because it's gonna get some basic military and tactical clothing out while those other mods will go through updates

I will definitely be testing the feel of weapon balance, though for now in "random skirmish mode" - as in spawning raids and having fun seeing how they perform against each other, since there s still some mods i d like to get updated before i launch a big run. Plus some of them sadly are broken as all hell :P

Quote from: Madman666 on September 15, 2018, 07:37:36 AM
I will definitely be testing the feel of weapon balance, though for now in "random skirmish mode" - as in spawning raids and having fun seeing how they perform against each other, since there s still some mods i d like to get updated before i launch a big run. Plus some of them sadly are broken as all hell :P

A few polaris mods come to mind when you mention broken mods.

The legend strikes again with another massive news update. With test Versions  ;D

Just updated the Rimmu-Nation weapons test mod

same link as last page here:

Note: I stress this again to newcomers who didn't see the last post, use this test pack at your own risk if you wanna do actual playthroughs with them, things may change and stuff may be removed (probably not though)

Please be aware many things are unpolished and unfinished.

(https://i.imgur.com/qgbJFeu.png)
Finished all the bolt actions and additional pistols that needed to be done. It took a while because I just couldn't stop adding a few new tacticool friends.

(https://i.imgur.com/FjmzCs9.png)(https://i.imgur.com/jrkjeN6.png)(https://i.imgur.com/GEckU4T.png)(https://i.imgur.com/gZKy3I6.png)(https://i.imgur.com/aOO3tsE.png)(https://i.imgur.com/Kz3clYU.png)
I finished a few DMRs, they should all be done by today, then I move on to the assault rifles and the melee weapons. (Oh wait, I have to fix the additional SMGs and shotguns first, rop rip rap)

I test EVERY weapon, research about every weapon and their calibres (by research, I mean like looking at wikipedia for 10 seconds), it's been quite fun but I know I can't always 100% accurately interpret these into the vanilla's style. I think it's been paying off, the little test sessions I do with sniper fights have been a blast (literally and metaphorically).

Quote from: Madman666 on September 15, 2018, 07:37:36 AM
I will definitely be testing the feel of weapon balance, though for now in "random skirmish mode" - as in spawning raids and having fun seeing how they perform against each other, since there s still some mods i d like to get updated before i launch a big run. Plus some of them sadly are broken as all hell :P

Yeah, please feel free to gimmie feedback. I remember your old shotgun balancing recommendation still, and it ended up being the current stats having lower range since it actually fits in with the new vanilla style.

Quote from: Rustic Fox on September 15, 2018, 12:15:21 PM
The legend strikes again with another massive news update. With test Versions  ;D

>:( blud

Just leaving it out here as I'm on my way to college.

I have finished the DMRs, I'm on the carbines and rifles now. Took some new and old sound effects, took a ton of new weapons.

I did tests with some raiders, at the moment getting shot with multiple .50 cal rifles hurts a lot, but I never planned on pirates having .50 cal anyway. It really is cool seeing them spawn with diverse weaponry.

I'm glad to say I'm almost done with RN: Weapons, once the rifles are done, I finish a few additional SMGs and shotguns and last but not least the new whacky melee weapons (just the frying pan being whacky really, PUBG pls don't sue rip).

I'm excited to say that after this, RN: Clothes are next up and the furniture mods. There can finally be a Beta 19 world full of soldiers and you can pretend to be a one eyed big boss from metal gear.

Uuuuu, the hype!

Hey, CP. I have a bit of a request-suggestion for you. I like your spriting art immensely, but i noticed some of those sprites have those half transparent fringes, when positioned on dark backgrounds (like UI info window for example). Apparently its due to Photoshop PNG format being crappy (that is assuming you use photoshop). There is a free plug-in for Photoshop, called SuperPNG, which has an option to clear those fringes and it eliminates them completely, leaving only pristinely clean sprite without any unneeded bits. Might as well use it to polish some sprites if you have the time. If you don't have enough time (you're a busy person), i intend to do that myself eventually. So i could offer you defringed versions, once i am done with them for my run, if you're interested. Yup, thats all. Madman out.

Quote from: Madman666 on September 20, 2018, 05:03:29 PM
So i could offer you defringed versions, once i am done with them for my run, if you're interested. Yup, thats all. Madman out.

No need to worry about me Madman, I am not too bothered by those lines, unlike Jecrell who I know claws at the walls until his fingernails fall off. If I did change them, everytime a new clothing or weapon was made I'd have to bloody go through the process.

I just want it all to come home and be released real soon. Please don't go out of your way for this chicken.

Weapons aren't done coding yet, but seeing the clothes again in-game has brought morale up. It's coming home.

Hey, thanks for the heads up, CP :) Personally i don't mind some of the pirates showing up in camouflage at all. Space delinquents need to show off after all! Otherwise what kinda pirates are they?

Also about armor balance - though irl stats wise your armors might be close to flak vests, in game flak set is way too useless imo. Its armor rating is about 40%, which with most weapons having armor piercing ranging from 10 to 30% very nearly reduces the chance to mitigate damage at least into a bruise into nothing. The formula goes = "armor rating - weapon's armor piercing vs random number 1-100". If random number is over what we got left from armor rating damage applies, if its over a half of that but less than full - it applies half damage via a bruise and only if its less than half of remaining armor rating - its stopped.

So even a shot from rather weak machine pistol (9% armor piercing) has 69% to ignore flak vest, 15% to get through with a bruise and meager 15% to do nothing! (40%-9%=31% vs 1-100) And thats through a thick metal plate strapped to the chest. Seems way too weak if you ask me. Why sacrifice maneuver speed, when you have like 15% to avoid damage? So i think it could use a solid buff in armor rating.

Quote from: Madman666 on September 23, 2018, 07:02:07 AM
Hey, thanks for the heads up, CP :) Personally i don't mind some of the pirates showing up in camouflage at all. Space delinquents need to show off after all! Otherwise what kinda pirates are they?

Also about armor balance - though irl stats wise your armors might be close to flak vests, in game flak set is way too useless imo. Its armor rating is about 40%, which with most weapons having armor piercing ranging from 10 to 30% very nearly reduces the chance to mitigate damage at least into a bruise into nothing. The formula goes = "armor rating - weapon's armor piercing vs random number 1-100". If random number is over what we got left from armor rating damage applies, if its over a half of that but less than full - it applies half damage via a bruise and only if its less than half of remaining armor rating - its stopped.

So even a shot from rather weak machine pistol (9% armor piercing) has 69% to ignore flak vest, 15% to get through with a bruise and meager 15% to do nothing! (40%-9%=31% vs 1-100) And thats through a thick metal plate strapped to the chest. Seems way too weak if you ask me. Why sacrifice maneuver speed, when you have like 15% to avoid damage? So i think it could use a solid buff in armor rating.

Wups, well when I said "close to flak vest stats" I was wrong. I forgot that the new system is different, all AR500 armors do 100% sharp protection, but the IBA and higher grade stuff has slightly more, going 102%, redundant but I thought it was for armor piercing stuff.

Anyway, the durability is what's important, because obviously that 100% protection won't last if you are having a bad day getting peppered by bullets because you walked into the wrong neighbourhood. Is this what you meant?

CP, with B19 there is no stat degrade on lower durabilty anymore.
A 80% vest got the same stats like a 100% one.

And its the same with weaponry! There s no more accuracy reduction with damage to weapons HP, CP. Its gone in B19 :( And yeah 100% armor is much better to have. 40% is really sucky, i don't know why Tynan decided to leave flak set is such crappy state. I mean it is a bit cheap now, but still.

Thanks for the update :)
I am totally ok with pirates with camo.

Just got done coding the backpacks, I had the option to add carrying capacity for all clothing but I don't wanna get confused since if the .dll Jecrell made for the backpacks ever break, I'll have to update all the clothing to not have carrying capacity, so they're off for now.

I have a generic military backpack in there as the best one, no Bergen or ALICE pack sadly, would have taken more time to detail those out, but maybe they'll show up for their official factions eh? See those Marines walking around with their huge rucksacks full of crayons and coloring books

Quote from: Canute on September 23, 2018, 07:15:47 AM
CP, with B19 there is no stat degrade on lower durabilty anymore.
A 80% vest got the same stats like a 100% one.

Quote from: Madman666 on September 23, 2018, 07:30:32 AM
And its the same with weaponry! There s no more accuracy reduction with damage to weapons HP, CP. Its gone in B19 :( And yeah 100% armor is much better to have. 40% is really sucky, i don't know why Tynan decided to leave flak set is such crappy state. I mean it is a bit cheap now, but still.

This is very sad to hear, I saw in the vanilla coding Tynan wants to overhaul the vanilla combat system anyway, but they kept things the way they are now to avoid a domino effect. It's noted somewhere in the damage defs.

Anyways! At least the current system is good enough for shooty shooty bang bang, I'm happy as long as we all get to look tacticool

Quote from: Rocket_Raccoon on September 23, 2018, 07:40:32 AM
Thanks for the update :)
I am totally ok with pirates with camo.

Thank you for the feedback, would anyone else also mind if the character creation screen spawned with the following?

(https://i.imgur.com/98qhwI2.png)
Creation screen reference

- Onskin clothes
- Accessories (Low grade backpacks, harness etc.)
- Non-combat hats
- Jackets and parkas
- Camo uniforms, fatigues etc.

Does anybody want their characters to start bare, start with just the vanilla synthreads or if they wanna spawn with clothes but see the pawn's hairs cause I had hats disabled? Please lemme know guys, RN:Clothing is nearing completion and I wanna not-have to come back on this when it's out in case people don't like the starting stuff

Hmm. I usually start with nothing, so i am kinda fine with tacticool clothing both present and not on char generation stage. BIG cudos for backpacks, i hate relying on muffaloes to haul steel from Long Range Mineral Scanner sites. +100 carry weight per person really will alleviate big part of that problem!

Quote from: Madman666 on September 23, 2018, 09:50:47 AM
Hmm. I usually start with nothing, so i am kinda fine with tacticool clothing both present and not on char generation stage. BIG cudos for backpacks, i hate relying on muffaloes to haul steel from Long Range Mineral Scanner sites. +100 carry weight per person really will alleviate big part of that problem!

Oh you just reminded me Muffalos can only carry up to 73kg, which makes me assume I need to nerf that +100 carry weight.

I know a person can carry twice their own weight, but now I'm having second thoughts to nerf every backpack by 20kg. What do you think Madman?

Edit:

I suggest nerfing them a bit, with 60 and 80 kg weight capacity for civ back and military one respectively. +adding one futuristic-glitterworld (something from DOOM universe) - either uncraftable, or extremely expensive that does add 100-120kg. That d be nice.

You could also make their carry weight bonus depend on their quality, which would be quite interesting to have. Though that d require c#.

Quote from: Madman666 on September 23, 2018, 10:09:49 AM
I suggest nerfing them a bit, with 60 and 80 kg weight capacity for civ back and military one respectively. +adding one futuristic-glitterworld (something from DOOM universe) - either uncraftable, or extremely expensive that does add 100-120kg. That d be nice.

You could also make their carry weight bonus depend on their quality, which would be quite interesting to have. Though that d require c#.

Alright, all done. I went the realistic route.

Well thats fine, it ll still be a huge help for caravanning.

I still think 60/80 kg are far too much.
Don't forget an alpaca/dromedare can carry 70kg, compared to reallife when you see what a dromedare can carry no human could carry that.

I think 20/40kg are a realistic value.
Ofcouse you can create some exoskelet armor, that give improved weight cap. at the cost of movement speed. (allready exist for the US army or industry) and maybe an adv. one without movement penalty.

Quote from: Canute on September 23, 2018, 11:30:20 AM
I still think 60/80 kg are far too much.
Don't forget an alpaca/dromedare can carry 70kg, compared to reallife when you see what a dromedare can carry no human could carry that.

I think 20/40kg are a realistic value.
Ofcouse you can create some exoskelet armor, that give improved weight cap. at the cost of movement speed. (allready exist for the US army or industry) and maybe an adv. one without movement penalty.

Darn it Canute coming in here with your realism and your accuracy ruinin' all the fun



I'm just kidding, thanks Canute, I love you.

Weight system in Rimworld is reasonably warped in the first place. Its damn weird alpaca and dromedary can carry so little. 20-40kgs is way too little. And a person can haul a friggin elephant corpse across a ludeonicrous map without any consequences, but can only carry 35kg of weight when going out of them map. I know - balance reasons, but its still bull. I d like backpacks to be efficient way to use animals a lot less, not compliment them. Because animal keeping is and always was annoying, in b19 more than ever.

Well i was late, disaster already happened. Sigh.

Quote from: Madman666 on September 23, 2018, 11:46:42 AM
Weight system in Rimworld is reasonably warped in the first place. Its damn weird alpaca and dromedary can carry so little. 20-40kgs is way too little. And a person can haul a friggin elephant corpse across a ludeonicrous map without any consequences, but can only carry 35kg of weight when going out of them map. I know - balance reasons, but its still bull. I d like backpacks to be efficient way to use animals a lot less, not compliment them. Because animal keeping is and always was annoying, in b19 more than ever.

Well i was late, disaster already happened. Sigh.

Not at all, this is an open platform, I'm waiting for feedback before the thing is released.

I agree with you here, the weight system isn't accurate to real life in the first place

Well it can't really be accurate. Plus there s that Tynan didn't really aim much for IRL accuracy. I know +30 carry weight is still a lot, but honestly at this point the only thing i lack, which no mod solves - trasportation voes. Transport pods are one-time-use resource waste and animals are a bucket of annoyances starting with food, ending with them getting shot in world map encounters. There was that dropship mod, but it wasn't updated and dunno if it will be, so transport problem remains unsolved.

Still i imagine backpack stats are xml thing, so i probably will be able to adjust them to my comfort anyway, so feel free to balance them how you see most fit.

Quote from: Madman666 on September 23, 2018, 11:57:08 AM
Well it can't really be accurate. Plus there s that Tynan didn't really aim much for IRL accuracy. I know +30 carry weight is still a lot, but honestly at this point the only thing i lack, which no mod solves - trasportation voes. Transport pods are one-time-use resource waste and animals are a bucket of annoyances starting with food, ending with them getting shot in world map encounters. There was that dropship mod, but it wasn't updated and dunno if it will be, so transport problem remains unsolved.

Still i imagine backpack stats are xml thing, so i probably will be able to adjust them to my comfort anyway, so feel free to balance them how you see most fit.

Okay okay okay, guys.

I have a confession to make. I was never one for good balancing, my first release of mod was the "SAS Black Kit" and those apparel had like 400% protection. So, I put back the old backpack capacities before Canute gave his suggestion, but I kept the movement speed reduction.


Honestly guys, I LIKE the idea of never having to tame one of those foul beasts ever again, if they will ever be a part my colony, they're going to be pieces of butchered meat in the fridge because there are mouths to feed and tarnation if I have to lose all my delicious MREs to a bunch of Muffalos.

I guess you could make movement penalty a bit more significant to compensate. You can't really happily run around in military gear and also a huge backpack loaded with raw steel :P

I suck ass at balancing.

Sorry to take out the fun, i don't want it realistic, just want balance it a bit.
When a pawn can natural carry 30-35kg extra weight in Rimworld, and you give him an extra ordinary backpack for extra 80kg, that don't sounds right to me they are humans not a packmules.

A human that can't carry more than 35 kg isn't much of a human to be fair...

Quote from: Canute on September 23, 2018, 12:31:27 PM
Sorry to take out the fun, i don't want it realistic, just want balance it a bit.
When a pawn can natural carry 30-35kg extra weight in Rimworld, and you give him an extra ordinary backpack for extra 80kg, that don't sounds right to me they are humans not a packmules.

Alright, here's what I did. I RESTORED the "balanced" stats because Canute is clearly well funded by the Muffalo resistance, and he is their spokesperson


Now, before Madman gets a heart attack and I pack my bags, (lol get it, pack my bags) It turns out this carrying capacity the backpack adds is added onto the Pawn's natural +30 carrying capacity.

It's not the end of the world, the Military backpack can still add to up to 70kg for pawns in total. Balancing is actually part of the fun, I'm just exaggerating earlier cause I was joking. (or was I?) Rimworld is a survival game, and obviously limitations are what makes the game's consequences have weight when choices are made.

It's settled now, thanks for the feedback guys.

I knew it added up capacity, not replaced it. lol Won't have a heart attack, but will be fiddling with numbers in xml for sure :P

Madman666, the superpawn, his backpacks give +666kg extra weight cap ! :-)
Not to forget the ability to fly ! :-)

I would, no z level in Rimworld, much to my dismay. What kind of inferior being can't even fly?

On a serious note, i liked 60-80 kgs stat set, so that what i ll go with. Because screw muffalo keeping.

To Last person who deleted their post (for some reason) :  Said something about harnesses and character creation, poster explained that they didn't like harnesses spawning for everyone and their grandma and it started to cramp everyone else's style.

Here's what I've done:
- Rimmu-Nation clothing will not spawn for starting colonists unless you use Prepare Carefully
- Multiple outfits are uncraftable and can only be gained by trading or scavenging
- New category system, a lot tidier and easier to assign uniforms

So I noted down what you said even though you used the Infinity Gauntlet to erase it from history.

Nobody is dreaming here, not even me cause I'm still awake. I finished the mod sooner than expected, I suppose that's what you get if you have no social life and nobody looking for you out there to care about you.

Layed down in my bed all day like any sane human would coding this thing, it's now Monday and I am supposed to wake up right now according to my alarm. GG.

CP, just downloaded this! There seems to be a few bugs with this one? My machining table seems bugged - I can open it but can't add new bills? Also, some of the clothing items dissapear completely when worn?

Quote from: ninjaklan on September 24, 2018, 05:11:39 AM
CP, just downloaded this! There seems to be a few bugs with this one? My machining table seems bugged - I can open it but can't add new bills? Also, some of the clothing items dissapear completely when worn?

Hello, I'm at MPCT at weekdays. Currently my elbows are bleeding and my trousers are covered in mud, London weather is freezing cold.

I'll have to investigate at Friday mate, but I highly assume this is a mod conflict cause I had everything working well. Could you please give me the console errors? Maybe that will give me a clue

Did a test playthrough, issues found:

- "Joel" hairstyle incorrectly named in texture folder for different directions, so it will show front view for all sides
- RN Clothing Bench hasn't been labelled properly or given research cost to unlock
- Harnesses and backpacks can't be crafted in RN clothing bench, I think they're using the vanilla tailor table

What's the plan after?
- Fix furniture mod, RN camping stuff may now be obsolete and merged with the military furniture mod
- RN weapons need rifles done so I can finish it all

I will update the links soon as I get home from college today. (Gonna get beasted at PT, LETS HAVE IT THEN!)

Always a pleasure using your mods, Chicken Plucker. Looking forward to the RN Weapons, furniture and faction outfit packs.

Quote from: sumghai on September 28, 2018, 12:31:44 AM
Always a pleasure using your mods, Chicken Plucker. Looking forward to the RN Weapons, furniture and faction outfit packs.

Thank you! I also love your hair mod because you know as the say "if you don't have the hair, you won't even care" probably not a real saying


Guys I apologise, I patched the issues but I fell asleep before uploading the updates. I'll sort it out today after college cause it's Friday

Next plan is for a few more hairs and furniture mod

Edit: updated all now, existing problems listed should be patched

Hey CP! I didn't see this in the list of known issues above and so I figured I'd bring it up. I think there's an issue with RN apparel and mass. In my colony, I have two outfit types. One uses RN gear for my combatants and one uses vanilla apparel for my workers/medics. The workers can set up a caravan no problem and have no issue, but if I send my RN guys, the GUI gets all buggy and sometimes doesn't even work. Mass doesn't display right when forming the caravan and because of that, you cannot send these guys out as it assumes there's none at all.

E: I've found that when I set all my colonists to use vanilla apparel, I can form caravans/droppods pretty easily, but the second the dot gets on the world screen I cannot do anything with the caravan. It becomes trapped and I cannot order it to go anywhere or interact with anything. And all of the GUI is replaced with an error message. If you'd like to see the error, I can up you some screenshots of it. I do notice that at one point it references CPBackpacks.HarmoneyBackpacks.Capacity_PostFix.

It is worth knowing though that none of my colonists are using these backpacks at the moment and we're not bringing any of them with us.

Not sure if it's something you knew about but figure I'd mention.

Quote from: Ink. on September 29, 2018, 08:22:56 PM
It becomes trapped and I cannot order it to go anywhere or interact with anything. And all of the GUI is replaced with an error message. If you'd like to see the error, I can up you some screenshots of it. I do notice that at one point it references CPBackpacks.HarmoneyBackpacks.Capacity_PostFix.

Alright, well from how you've described this error, I haven't seen it happen to me during testing nor has anyone ever brought it up. I'm thinking this may be a mod conflict.

Did you copy that reference or did you write it? I noticed it says "harmoney" not "harmony". Please copy the full error for me and paste it here since it may be something only Jecrell can understand and fix, not me. Oi do that by clicking on it's red text error, the console should have some kind of explanation box with more detail.

So far what I'm assuming, is you have another mod loaded above Rimmu-Nation clothing that has a harmony.dll similar to it that could be outdated. What could work for now judging by what you've said, is loading Rimmu-Nation Clothing over most of your mods, just under Jecs tools and all that.


I'll standby here, I need ALL the details cause this has never shown up for me during testing, especially since I use a limited amount of mods to test.


_________________


Another issue found that will be patched for RNC

- DCU jacket side position shows back, will update when I get back from grocery.

Progress report on Rimmu-Nation weapons:
- Added the new SIG Tread many people in the gun community are going nuts about, it's a semi auto rifle just like the Bushmaster XM-15 with different stats.
- Coded new categories system
- Tweaked how 5.7mm bullets work
- New sounds, working on AKs at the moment
- Will add a few Canadian Armed Forces weapons for their possible faction release

Good to hear about progress! Randy s been absolute ahole, keeps raiding me every other day... Dunno what to do with prisoners.

RN: Clothing updated to fix DCU jacket issues, currently added a few new Canadian military used weapons, list keeps growing cause I might just make Canadians show up on your front door with their Ketchup potato chips and Gatorade offering a helping hand.

@CP — It's highly possible that it's a mod conflict. However; I have moved it up in my modlist towards the beginning and I still face the same issue. I'll definitely be manually seeking mod conflicts.

Here's a link to the log: https://git.io/fxJGN

Please advise if this is more an issue elsewhere so I can hopefully help narrow down for the bug report and my own adjustments.

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Quote from: Ink. on September 30, 2018, 08:31:32 PM
@CP — It's highly possible that it's a mod conflict. However; I have moved it up in my modlist towards the beginning and I still face the same issue. I'll definitely be manually seeking mod conflicts.

Here's a link to the log: https://git.io/fxJGN

Please advise if this is more an issue elsewhere so I can hopefully help narrow down for the bug report and my own adjustments.

(https://i.gyazo.com/f9b2639c88cec2c557353aa7c8af99ee.png)

I'm seeing lots of issues with Portable Power Generator, what's that all about?

(https://i.imgur.com/8VKMiUK.png)

Here, I asked Jecrell about Harmony, noticing there's different versions for each mod, it seems to not be the issue. Might be a silly request, but if you ran a test with just RN:Clothing if you can somehow save your modlist, does the issue still show up?

If not, then I am gonna pull on strings and assume maybe it's another mod affecting the backpacks, and I don't know what it is. I'm genuinely befuddled cause I haven't ran into this issue, and I don't believe Jecrell can reproduce it himself (afraid to ask in the first place, cause he's super busy)

First thing I'd look at is Portable Power, if it is what's breaking things, or if RN:C works on its own, in order to confirm it's doing nothing wrong. It's incompatibility for sure

Just want to point out to Ink. that they can save their modlist by going to C:\Users\<username>\AppData\LocalLow\Ludeon Studios\RimWorld by Ludeon Studios\Config and renaming ModsConfig.xml.

I got it Ink, pardon for the frustration you might be going through here if I'm on about how I haven't run into it.

I have now and it's a confirm that the backpacks are funky, it's not a mod conflict.

(https://i.imgur.com/1TD4ri9.png)

Replicated the issue after a big purchase, lots of silver taken away from our inventory, thing ended up causing a big error spam and here we are. I sent the details to Jec, I can only wait for him to sort it out. I surely hope he does, if he doesn't then my backup plan will be to remove the backpacks.

I know that sucks cause backpacks are cool, but it's only a contingency plan.

Preview Art:
Concept for Rimmu-Nation + Chicken Mitchell hairs

(https://i.imgur.com/7r3brQz.png)
"The Evil Within"

(https://i.imgur.com/DHGZORf.png)
"Resident Evil"

(https://i.imgur.com/s6W1Zvq.png)
"Left 4 Dead"

(https://i.imgur.com/4OWXVG3.png)
"Tomb Raider"

(https://i.imgur.com/lBXFrk2.png)
"John Wick"

(https://i.imgur.com/PNuCOV3.png)
"Last of Us"


Edit: Rip, thought this post would be page 12, guess not. Oh well, I'm gonna sleep before I die tommorrow, if anyone's save was broken by the backpack issue, it's fixed now.

Hm a note for the future - you probably should lock RN clothing behind some kind of research)) Also raiders in your armors are quite durable. I need to start making some friends fast.

Quote from: Chicken Plucker on October 02, 2018, 06:11:56 PM

02/10/2018: Fixed the backpack issue, thanks to Jecrell.
Finished Early Access mods:
Note: May be awaiting additional content or release for Steam.

(https://i.imgur.com/5JF6x2b.png)
THE HUGE DOWNLOAD BUTTON (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1yBSAvkZ5JP0tyAxRjI0aPleHwds2Q5Mt)

(https://i.imgur.com/6DAUtbI.png)
THE HUGE DOWNLOAD BUTTON (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1TlWTfmz2ussG62nYNYeHKkBJNTriOS3g)

Sorta finished mod:
Note: Pretty much finished on it's own, no known bugs. Might however be merged with "Military Furniture"

A phone call away
(https://i.imgur.com/1tEToE1.png)
Description:
Enables calls through the red phone to ask for free reinforcements upon +70 relations, and a mission board that allows you to pay silver to recruit or start missions.
THE HUGE DOWNLOAD BUTTON (https://drive.google.com/open?id=115iRZcR6ZBP2vGtoQOyKU9GSCyjNuqE1)



Unfinished test mod:
Warning: Contains unfinished coding, will be messy, might break saves when official version is released.

(https://i.imgur.com/rFYCtXg.png)
Description:
Lots of work need to be done on workbenches, research, weapontag balancing and need to add all weapons. I don't know when it's gonna be finished, I won't put deadlines down anymore.
THE HUGE DOWNLOAD BUTTON (https://drive.google.com/open?id=1ArPSsO_arJJrj1Njk-2sWV4OR2K6Zm2w)

Links are pretty much the same for Rimmu-Nation Clothing, but I separated the test pack just so I don't have to zip them over and over again. Backpack issue is fixed, if it has broken saves then they should now be working, Jecrell did quite the work there.

Rimmu-Nation weapons have most of the old AK style weapons done, few new weapons added, such as:
(https://i.imgur.com/MwgCOGx.png)
SNIPEX-75

Okay I'm too tired to list any more and it's 11PM. Just know that this rifle uses a stronger cartridge than .50 BMG and I just had to add it in.

Preview Art:
Concept for Rimmu-Nation + Chicken Mitchell hairs

(https://i.imgur.com/7r3brQz.png)
"The Evil Within"

(https://i.imgur.com/DHGZORf.png)
"Resident Evil"

(https://i.imgur.com/s6W1Zvq.png)
"Left 4 Dead"

(https://i.imgur.com/4OWXVG3.png)
"Tomb Raider"

(https://i.imgur.com/lBXFrk2.png)
"John Wick"

(https://i.imgur.com/PNuCOV3.png)
"Last of Us"


Edit: Rip, thought this post would be page 12, guess not. Oh well, I'm gonna sleep before I die tommorrow, if anyone's save was broken by the backpack issue, it's fixed now.

(Quoting just so it's in front page)

Quote from: Madman666 on October 03, 2018, 12:26:18 PM
Hm a note for the future - you probably should lock RN clothing behind some kind of research)) Also raiders in your armors are quite durable. I need to start making some friends fast.

Armors are behind flak vests research, as for helmets, since for some reason advanced helmets and simple helmets are craftable with the smithing table now they are always available.

I should probably add research for the bench, I've bloody forgotten all about it all this time, woopsie daisy!

And yes, this is why I'm waiting to patch up Rimmu-Nation Weapons before official release, because the weapons are the equaliser to smash these raiders. I might ban them from the IBA or the RN500 stuff, I might not.

I'd like some opinions here, what clothing would you like for them to have?

I opt for variety - which means - let them have all of it!) With the ability to call for help and with use of advanced weapons it isn't really that big of deal - i managed to kill them off with some clever maneuvering and playing with lines of sight, so that they always had to move instead of shooting. So - let them have the armors. And clothing makes them look damn unique too) I like it a lot.

What would also be nice - is to add a defensive bonus to camouflage suits (ghillie suits) that confers a small penatly to aim again pawns wearing it. It makes sense, that you ll have trouble hitting a guy in a ghillie suit hiding behind a bush in a forest. That d require c# most likely though.

Quote from: Madman666 on October 03, 2018, 02:10:44 PM
What would also be nice - is to add a defensive bonus to camouflage suits (ghillie suits) that confers a small penatly to aim again pawns wearing it. It makes sense, that you ll have trouble hitting a guy in a ghillie suit hiding behind a bush in a forest. That d require c# most likely though.

Yeah, it obviously does. I figured that the game's mechanic with missing your target is already heavily affected by the cover system and trees so hopefully it won't be too necessary, I have had many simple sounding features like this that are actually very complicated to do for Jecrell or Albion that are also costly since it's a headdache for them.

The Auger WS for example is bloody broken because the devs decided that bullets that fly overhead now need to explode, otherwise they won't hit anything, so now I have to omit the bloody gun cause Albion took about 2 weeks and he still couldn't code for it work.

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Updated Rimmu-Nation Clothing to have this new OnSkin outfit:

(https://i.imgur.com/XpFTxOB.png) (https://i.imgur.com/djcQBT6.png) (https://i.imgur.com/v5qD4yM.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/0qpZavq.png) (https://i.imgur.com/eMLPkDT.png) (https://i.imgur.com/XIpu5Y7.png)

Adds 0.10 move speed, 0.10 dodge chance for melee, 0.05 social impact and 0.05 melee hit chance.

I made it mostly cause I was trying to create Cassie Cage's alternate outfit from Mortal Kombat, but knock yourselves out (pun not intended) with more waifu kit.

I have added smithing research to be necessary for PASGT and FAST helmets, they also have their own crafting skill requirements now. M1 also needs smithing, but it doesn't have as high skill requirement as the newer helmets.

I also allowed RN500 civilian version to be researched by smithing, you won't have to wait for flak vests research, but the catch is, it's not as tacticool as the other vests, which is a major downside even though it doesn't take as much research requirements.

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Chicken Mitchell hairs patch notes:
Updated the Wallaby B unisex hair to move down a bit, it looked way too high giving the appearance that whoever had this hairstyle had a massive forehead.


Separate patch note for Detailed Body Textures II:
Made the left side of the fat body nipple less transparent, that was pretty much all I patched.

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Awwww, how nice of you to leave a pointer! Thaaanks, CP, i adore you xD

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Wut? No way! It already late.

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Just today, i got gut worms event two times, followed by fibrous mechanites and a plague, all over 3 in-game days timespan. Most my people got insta downed due to pain, my medic had a mental break "Give up and leave" from all the pain. And that ruined a year old colony with all the chances to last eons like without any slight chance of revival. Balance? Never heard of it. No such thing in Rimworld.

Quote from: Madman666 on October 04, 2018, 03:03:52 PM
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Awwww, how nice of you to leave a pointer! Thaaanks, CP, i adore you xD

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Wut? No way! It already late.

<!-- Now you've done it. You have officially annihilated balancing in all of gaming. I hope you are proud of what you've done here. -->

Just today, i got gut worms event two times, followed by fibrous mechanites and a plague, all over 3 in-game days timespan. Most my people got insta downed due to pain, my medic had a mental break "Give up and leave" from all the pain. And that ruined a year old colony with all the chances to last eons like without any slight chance of revival. Balance? Never heard of it. No such thing in Rimworld.

So I see you deciphered my super secret messages buried within the matrix, you still went for it though.

I feel as though the more you post Madman, the more we uncover the truth within you that you hate lots of things about game's mechanics, one of these days if I keep pushing we might find out that you stole a Cadbury bar from someone's office in Croydon, which lead to the unfortunate beasting of many poor souls.
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So far the B19 update has been fast with this military furniture mod, the radio is working again and so is the fridge thanks to Jecrell and well, me having to bloody copy paste some new .xml renamed stuff.

"Wall of Shame"
(https://i.imgur.com/qWouLht.png) (https://i.imgur.com/ZYOjVoH.png) (https://i.imgur.com/bHSCg9d.png)
Description: In military tradition, the wall of shame shows photos and memorabilia of soldiers' loved ones and special or goofy occassions for morale boost.

(Okay, maybe not in real life, but we try to keep it PG here in Rimworld.)

I made the wall of shame, which acts as a joy item, like the television but without electricity. I initially wanted it to act like the Psychic Emanator but that needed C# and I didn't wanna pay more money for a simple feature.

(https://i.imgur.com/zw7tHog.png) (https://i.imgur.com/31W8Uo1.png) (https://i.imgur.com/4VRZs3o.png)

There's also now a rotatable view of the IV Support, I lost the original files so I just improvised and used the original image to make it seem to change positions.

I also slightly adjusted the stand and how it looks.

As for the Wall of Shame, here are some artwork, I had to put some into the wall, besides some of the stuff I already posted here.

(https://i.imgur.com/65vsfVK.png)
(Already seen by many from Prisoner outfit mod, but leaving it here for those who haven't)

(https://i.imgur.com/SRTAtEF.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/ORMxGU1.png)

Posters from the rear view:

(https://i.imgur.com/wpD6Gz4.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/xpMADG8.png)

The others are the Rimmu-Nation previews.

The biggest tragedy of all, is that the Wall of Shame's true purpose is for you to put the picture of your cheating spouse or partner on, and other disgraceful individuals. I suppose this ended up being all kid friendly eh?

What a heartbreak.

Heh, while i do love this game way more than i probably should (more hours played than any other game in my life, which is crazy), i do hate some of its mechanics to a teeth grinding point for being illogical and downright unbalanced, never really tried to hide it xD Luckily our gracious and allmighty modding community more or less lets us mold the game into what each and every separate person wants it to be, which is really a wonderful thing.

Nice updates, CP, thanks for keeping us posted! Can't wait to enjoy full might of what all factions and RN Weapons can offer. Vanilla arsenal is just nowhere near enough.

PS - I did change backpack's capacity to be 50-60-80, which actually didn't really affect balance as much as it seems. You still have to send a decent contingent if you don't want it to die off half way, you still need to bring those disgusting smelly muffalo, cause 3-4 people can't drag 2k steel back home even with best backpacks on. But the overall decrease in demand for filthy animal services left me deeply satisfied. Climate cycle with which i usually play limits the food production, so having fewer mouths to feed helps a lot.

The Wall of Shame description really put me in a bloody bad mood yesterday, I don't wanna make light of it anymore since it came off the wrong way just for me.

here's the new description:
In military tradition, the wall of shame shows photos of cheating partners and "Jody" which is a nickname of soldiers given to men that seduce their partners.
   
Sometimes soldiers place photos of their friends as a joke, not necessarily worthy of being shamed but for humiliation.

I thought it would just be almost an insult to say "soldiers' loved ones" when there are dozens of stories out there of Jody taking away girlfriends and wives. I'm happier with this new one.

Anyways, progress has been good for Military Furniture. I have merged Rimmu-Nation Camping stuff with it along with the Red Phone. I hope nobody prefers if they were separate because I'm just about ready to choke someone running around having to update this and that.

The biggest challenge will be the vending machine, several food and drug items have to be re-coded and whatever, along with their crafting recipes. Ugh.

(https://i.imgur.com/N6K6Gog.png) (https://i.imgur.com/lTuUkQi.png) (https://i.imgur.com/sppov7F.png)
Here's a new double sleeping bag by the way, for partners. (Complete with woobie blanket!)

Instrument table is now rotatable just like the IV support as seen in the photo, I'll go get some dinner now, cheerio.

Quote from: Madman666 on October 05, 2018, 06:52:39 PM
Heh, while i do love this game way more than i probably should (more hours played than any other game in my life, which is crazy), i do hate some of its mechanics to a teeth grinding point for being illogical and downright unbalanced, never really tried to hide it xD Luckily our gracious and allmighty modding community more or less lets us mold the game into what each and every separate person wants it to be, which is really a wonderful thing.

Nice updates, CP, thanks for keeping us posted! Can't wait to enjoy full might of what all factions and RN Weapons can offer. Vanilla arsenal is just nowhere near enough.

PS - I did change backpack's capacity to be 50-60-80, which actually didn't really affect balance as much as it seems. You still have to send a decent contingent if you don't want it to die off half way, you still need to bring those disgusting smelly muffalo, cause 3-4 people can't drag 2k steel back home even with best backpacks on. But the overall decrease in demand for filthy animal services left me deeply satisfied. Climate cycle with which i usually play limits the food production, so having fewer mouths to feed helps a lot.

Well, the intention wasn't to haul thousands of steel back home, it was to have enough extra rations on the back, along with medicine and some sleeping bags to stay up longer for extra days going out on missions.

I do like Canute's recommended stats, they work well for that, but maybe one day we'll have a mod with.. Tanks.

Tanks don't need to eat, they don't poop and moo all over the place, they just freakin shoot and do as you ask with plenty of carrying capacity. I love tanks.

Cmon, who doesn't love ... tanks. Its TANKS! For Pete's sake. They blow shit up, trample shit, pulverize stuff with machinegun fire and look awesome while doing so. So i d be glad to have tanks, but at this point its but a distant dream. At least if we are talking about proper vehicles, not "pawns in disguise". Vehicles that can take up more than 1 tile of space (and thus won't sqeeze in through 1 tile wide doors. Someday people will add vehicles, i am sure of it. But i doubt that ll be anywhere in the near future.

It'd require basically a whole part of the game coded and added from scratch, that adds new "entity type" rather than "a pawn" or "a building" with its own rules of placement, behaviour, status and etc. Even for someone like me, who just started digging in c#, its obvious it'll be a massive project.

Was the Vehicle interface of Jec's Tools not ported from B17/18? If it was, it's actually pretty easy iirc.

I believe that framework still uses "pawn" system. Which means even a giant truck will behave just like a centipede and can pass through 1tile wide doorway, which frankly isn't immersive at all. Its better than no vehicles, but i don't really consider it a solution to lack of proper vehicles in the game.

Quote from: Madman666 on October 06, 2018, 04:32:50 PM
I believe that framework still uses "pawn" system. Which means even a giant truck will behave just like a centipede and can pass through 1tile wide doorway, which frankly isn't immersive at all. Its better than no vehicles, but i don't really consider it a solution to lack of proper vehicles in the game.

In all fairness muh friend, every pawn can enter a 1x1 door. Let's look at those huge Thrumbos, Muffalos and Megatheriums (megasloths, rip forever cooler name.) heck, not counting the dinosaurs and giant monsters from other mods. They walk in and out of fridges whenever they feel, poop all over the place, they take your job, they ask out the girl you are interested in and the next thing you know this damn colossus that can fit inside 1x1 doors has everything you ever wanted, and instead of feeling happy for them you are fuming in anger ready to butcher them for a simple meal.

Centipedes too, they're supposed to be pretty big, but they can fit in 1x1 doors.

Anyways!

Military Furniture progress, I have been getting carried away expanding, my bros.


(https://i.imgur.com/za9JSG8.png)

New hospital equipment, new medical bed and medical stretcher. I was torn with trying to make the equipment work with the vanilla hospital bed, but I just went "you know what? I'll make my own."

Medical Stretcher
(https://i.imgur.com/HvGF7TD.png)(https://i.imgur.com/WmlQfD0.png)(https://i.imgur.com/cdCuLYq.png)
Higher quality than the improvised one, I might remove that and leave this in, but it would be nice to have emergency stretchers in the field. The thing with this one is the stats are just a bit below the vanilla hospital bed stats, and its compatible with all the medical machines I'm adding in.

Medical Bed
(https://i.imgur.com/ByGzkSi.png)(https://i.imgur.com/mP1Znnk.png)(https://i.imgur.com/UmbZ2Ie.png)
The real freakin deal, you can mess around and raise the bed up and down, but you probably won't if you're bleeding out or succumbing to infection. It's slightly better than the vanilla hospital bed, and it's compatible with all my machines, while the vanilla one isn't.

It's also more lightweight for transport, like the stretcher above. The idea is to have it ready nearby if you want to make a small camp before a raid, so you have a whole temporary clinic ready in case stuff goes down and you don't want to lose lives.

Besides the IV support and the old Instrument table, here are some new machines. I have heavily nerfed the IV and instrument table, and made it so that it would be desirable for the player to use more than one or two of these machines if not all. Even if someone only had one or two beds, the quality of treatment would be so good that you can send them off to their normal beds after, assuming it's not some infection that hasn't been treated, or some kind of injury that affects the brain functioning normally.

Medical Ventilator
(https://i.imgur.com/8H3DhqF.png)(https://i.imgur.com/Gw1x1ep.png)(https://i.imgur.com/XAsZ4zm.png)

Vital Signs Monitor
(https://i.imgur.com/GF7gG3h.png)(https://i.imgur.com/W7PEdrb.png)(https://i.imgur.com/0mZNxZW.png)

Ultrasound Machine
(https://i.imgur.com/r6io3Br.png)(https://i.imgur.com/EuUfx9R.png)(https://i.imgur.com/SV9pgcA.png)

They are meant to be more than just display, they will actually help improve treatment and speed up the process. I don't wanna go into detail on what each one does besides increase some medical related stats, ventilator not actually being able to affect breathing due to the game's C# crap, but let's assume they make the doctor's job a lot easier since affliction to the pawn are more easily diagnosed and the doctor is assisted by machines.

New Office Lamp since the floodlight didn't fit in the hospital or office look I'm going for:
(https://i.imgur.com/RnVkHt7.png)
Got a fancy drop down menu style for different colors, in case anybody wanted to party with purple lights and all that, and you decide to not invite me to the party so I feel sad when you gossip about it with your friends.

Redesigning this comms table:
Old
(https://i.imgur.com/NrGsIfO.png)

New (WIP)
(https://i.imgur.com/20ZqsNY.png)

Note, the scale seems different but I assure you, it will be the same size in-game, I just used the actual 1x2 table size for the new one in order to better match vanilla textures in-game. I know some people like the military look of the old version, but we can keep that for the research PC, cause this comms console is supposed to be for commanding officers and I wanted it to look the part.

Armchair Commander
(https://i.imgur.com/tYxNTLf.png)

New armchair being worked on to match the new comms PC, so you can make a lovely office for the guy that sits at base leading everybody to their deaths while he gets to sip some tea and eat all the lavish meals. I thought it would go with the Chairforce, but one step higher.

That's all for now, might release a working unfinished version by Sunday, or hopefully the finished version here. I messaged an old voice actor to help me make a trailer for this update, he's the same VA that played Arnold in the US Military Kit trailer, and he's back.

Still have that pending John Wick trailer for the hair mod, and Rimmu-Nation, they'll all come together in one release which might come in 2 weeks time starting next week.

Quote from: Chicken Plucker on October 06, 2018, 05:48:36 PM

Quote from: Madman666 on October 06, 2018, 04:32:50 PM
I believe that framework still uses "pawn" system. Which means even a giant truck will behave just like a centipede and can pass through 1tile wide doorway, which frankly isn't immersive at all. Its better than no vehicles, but i don't really consider it a solution to lack of proper vehicles in the game.

In all fairness muh friend, every pawn can enter a 1x1 door. Let's look at those huge Thrumbos, Muffalos and Megatheriums (megasloths, rip forever cooler name.) heck, not counting the dinosaurs and giant monsters from other mods. They walk in and out of fridges whenever they feel, poop all over the place, they take your job, they ask out the girl you are interested in and the next thing you know this damn colossus that can fit inside 1x1 doors has everything you ever wanted, and instead of feeling happy for them you are fuming in anger ready to butcher them for a simple meal.

Centipedes too, they're supposed to be pretty big, but they can fit in 1x1 doors.

Yeah, precisely. They all can fit through tiny doors like nothing and one person can carry a giant thrumbo on his own, while he can't even lift more than 35 kg (balance reasons be damned) when heading out. All those are limitations imposed by pawn system. And while for animals its more or less fine, we got used to it, but for vehicles it would be really nice to have them actually be vehicles and not pawns. There are already mods that add vehicles and mechanical units, that use mechanoid pawn base and to be fair it feels way too false to consider them true vehicles instead of recolored mechanoids.

I mean tanks you added are a good example. They spice things up and are interesting to fight, but with the way they move, make centipede sounds and fit through tiny spaces, i can't say i see them as vehicles. They re more like mechanoids to me. Mechanoid based vehicles are fine really and if you just add a possibility to construct and control them, use as transports and etc - that d make for a nice and popular mod. But somewhere deep it ll still feel like an easy way out.

Great news! Waiting for the release of rimmu-nation(and in less importancy british&us military) for my non-horror colony/gameplay.

Also i really like new furniture additions! Keep up the good work. The finished Red Horse Project will be nothing short of an amazing expansion of the game.

Quote from: Rocket_Raccoon on October 06, 2018, 07:22:05 PM
Great news! Waiting for the release of rimmu-nation(and in less importancy british&us military) for my non-horror colony/gameplay.

I like to mix horror with tacticool gear, because nobody in horror movies ever brought a fireteam complete with grenade launchers and LMGs to take down some monster fishies from some deep dark parts of the ocean. Aquaman I'm looking at you.

Quote from: Madman666 on October 06, 2018, 07:24:36 PM
Also i really like new furniture additions! Keep up the good work. The finished Red Horse Project will be nothing short of an amazing expansion of the game.

Thank you, I'm glad you like everything so far! I want some el opinions on the next onions here, especially the last one since I wanted a way for pawns to make some money at home.

PC Comms Station
(https://i.imgur.com/20ZqsNY.png)(https://i.imgur.com/FVn5UL3.png)(https://i.imgur.com/zU35b0y.png)
Description: Will function as a comms console, without the research cost for multi-analyzer and whatever. If you wish to do trading, it's gonna use the mailbox trade beacon, however, the downside is that you cannot be detected by orbital ships since mailboxes can't quite reach them.

PC Research Station
(https://i.imgur.com/Sa5FEiZ.png)(https://i.imgur.com/Hc0TX0H.png)(https://i.imgur.com/HNbcFdP.png)
Description: Will function as a superior research workstation than even the huge one with a multi-analyzer, having extremely fast research speed, the downside is the research tier only goes up to tier 2 since the technology of this station is too limited to explore spacer tech.

Black Hat Station
(https://i.imgur.com/ptp5RFN.png)(https://i.imgur.com/URR0MRV.png)(https://i.imgur.com/HafiPEg.png)
Description: A station for black hat hacking activities. Clients line up with jobs, usually hiring hackers for security, information or cheating in bloody CSGO for a price. The clients would be outside of the Rim planet, which means the FBI or any three letter agency can't come knocking down your door since they would be outside of legal jurisdiction to do so.

The black machine called "Rainmaker" is designed to warp physical payments in order to complete the anonymous transactions.

Now the Black Hat Station is pretty much a workstation that takes up the pawn's time, and they end up making silver for free, aside from the time they have spent. There's also gonna be an intelligence cap for the Black Hat Station, so you can't just go around farming silver with anybody.

I might add multiple options, with different time consumption and payoff for this station.

Love the idea for that black hat station! It would be pretty cool if three-letter agencies did come knocking down your door, though. I  think I'd be able to implement that, if you want.

Quote from: dninemfive on October 06, 2018, 11:01:57 PM
Love the idea for that black hat station! It would be pretty cool if three-letter agencies did come knocking down your door, though. I  think I'd be able to implement that, if you want.

Oh my! How would that work?

I'm just about ready to make a NOOSE and FIB outfit right now.

Would it be a simple chance of raid?

I was gonna do multiple options for the black hat station:
- Tester jobs [Requires: 2 intelligence] (10 silver per hour)
- Coding jobs [Requires: 3 intelligence] (20 silver per hour)
- Cyber security tester jobs [Requires: 5 intelligence] (40 per hour)
- Steal and sell information [Requires: 6 intelligence] (500 per 5 hours chance of agency level 1)
- Steal funds from organisations [Requires: 8 intelligence] (1000 per 5 hours, chance of agency level 2)

So far these are estimates, I'll set the work to make and see how much silver I can pay out later. This is just for a rough idea now.

The FIB would come in for the level 1 incident, with some NOOSE personnel and they wouldn't be hostile, they come at your colony and they will warn you somehow, either a text or we could just trigger a one-time visitor event "come back with a warrant next time lol"

If you dont stop stealing and selling information, they will send an immediate attack of a NOOSE team, I'll make them sport proper black kits and balaclavas with their M4s and stuff, it'll be sweet.

As for the level 2 one, they get to just send a raid with no warrant or warning at all.

If the player manages to annoy the unseen faction, which is the FIB, they will now be hostile towards the player and the player will face random raids from them from now on. That would come off naturally like with the unseen mechanoid hive, though this time the FIB starts off friendly until you ignore them or steal stuff from them

Hm, sounds like a lot of work for a joke( no offense meant) Not my thing really.
On a side note, the military furniture and vip table are looking really nice. Maybe i will test the unstable version later on a new colony, depending of how prone to error throwing it is.

I am also all for the yet another way to make some bucks, but yeah i also think it should bring some trouble to you and probably eat power a LOT (like bitcoin mining rigs). So that you basically sell your pawn's time AND power with a potential risk of bounty hunters coming for your hacker. That ll be real nice addition.

I really have to update the front page sometime, and the Military Furniture preview, it's gotta look more fresh than it does now.

I think you got me wrong. Joke concerning the whole hacker/fbi thing. That is what i meant. Will test out when i have some time.

Oh, the server units for speeding up money production! Nice. Now we only need a hidden faction, that has a chance to raid you after some time of working on it!

I screwed up again for crying out loud.

So I just nerfed the last black hat job to take more time since it was way too fast, also the jobstrings will now say "Stealing funds" for example, instead of always saying "Software testing".

Quote from: Madman666 on October 07, 2018, 02:35:01 PM
Oh, the server units for speeding up money production! Nice. Now we only need a hidden faction, that has a chance to raid you after some time of working on it!

Yeah I know right?! I'm happy you like the servers, they also add up to the electricity cost and gives you that homey office feeling

Quote from: Rocket_Raccoon on October 07, 2018, 02:32:02 PM
I think you got me wrong. Joke concerning the whole hacker/fbi thing. That is what i meant. Will test out when i have some time.

Oh I think I understand what you meant.

Tell me the truth Racoon, you just don't want the FBI to find out you've been pirating Netflix shows, right?

Military Furniture updated once again, this time I hope it's final, pls

Edit one more time:

Wall of Shame joygiver fixed, people wont ignore it now

I totally dig the server racks, and the computer desks as comms console and research benches are neat (although I'd have preferred LCD flatscreen monitors rather than CRTs, but that's just me).

As for the songs, I'd prefer if you didn't delete anything and instead kept adding to the collection. I'm not the least bit bothered by the large filesize of the mod, and if anything, it means more songs and more variety.

Who needs pirating when you can (ab)use other peoples payed netflix? :D
On a  totally unrelated sidenote, my hard drive needs an urgent microwaving round  :-X

With the desks and server towers, I will be designating a room The Office

This all looks brilliant.  It will definitely be the basis of my next play through

Hi guys. I am at the Army Air Corps base near North Camp getting told to do some press ups in wet dirt while wearing short shorts at the dead cold darkness of night due to some troublesome jacks raiding us in their underwear at night with ski masks yelling "Allahuakhbar". Bloody dying as always. Standard. I miss home a lot, bloody miss the Rimworld.

I'll be back home Friday adding back vending machines. Please give me feedback on your el opinion on balancing (lol what's that when it comes to my mods?) if you like the current rate of earnings for the black hat station and etc. I know when the vending machines are back worrying about food will be a thing of the past as long as you have customer support people grafting for silver.

Quote from: Rocket_Raccoon on October 08, 2018, 08:54:24 AM
Who needs pirating when you can (ab)use other peoples payed netflix? :D
On a  totally unrelated sidenote, my hard drive needs an urgent microwaving round  :-X

Oh so that's why my Netflix password changed huh

Quote from: FeltTapestry on October 08, 2018, 11:06:49 AM
With the desks and server towers, I will be designating a room The Office

This went from "Military Furniture" to "Scrubs" and now "The Office" making rimworld some lighthearted sitcom

Quote from: drd23 on October 08, 2018, 11:01:27 PM
This all looks brilliant.  It will definitely be the basis of my next play through

Happy to hear you like the stuff, will love some feedback while I'm away unable to touch my computer for ten billion years, listening to some guys fitter than me count how much chicks they banged before while I was sobbing myself to sleep over drawing rimworld naked body textures all by my lonesome

Solution is simple, get fitter than them and bang their chicks  ;D
On a side-note, sounds pretty cool what you are doing.

Hey, in few days we will have 1.0 ;/ You still working on b19, or just moving to 1.0?

Skynert,
please clean your glasses and read the topic ! :-)
Do you see B19 or 1.0 ?

Well... I dont read the Subject ;/ my fault.

Quote from: Rocket_Raccoon on October 10, 2018, 03:11:00 PM
Solution is simple, get fitter than them and bang their chicks  ;D
On a side-note, sounds pretty cool what you are doing.

I don't know about the first part, but yes we've done cool stuff. 3 hours of sleep after night excercises in an urban training place, looks like a real town, had actors screaming at us for help and I was section commander absolutely clueless on what to do.

Quote from: Skynert on October 11, 2018, 06:08:25 AM
Hey, in few days we will have 1.0 ;/ You still working on b19, or just moving to 1.0?

Hello! B19 codes haven't changed much compared to 1.0, stuff should be the same besides recompiling the C# stuff I'll need help with from Albion and Jecman

Quote from: Canute on October 11, 2018, 09:07:38 AM
Skynert,
please clean your glasses and read the topic ! :-)
Do you see B19 or 1.0 ?

Canute be nice or I will buff backpack capacity to 100 kg each

It is my fault for not updating the topic, most of the new mod progress has been posted as posts, the front page and title hasn't changed much too, lots of work to make the thread more presentable but I'm dying so

Well guys, my feet really hurt and my boots are starting to have holes on them, I'll come home soon and give you bona fide vending machines

Chicken Plucker, do you still need someone to code the FIB raids from using the black hat station? If so, I'd be willing to do it, though I'd wait until just before 1.0 comes out because recompiling is a pretty big PITA on my setup.

Can you give me a brief rundown on what this actually is?

Seems it just replaces the few current factions with these and they act mostly the same?

Maan, CP, you went way overboard with 50cal... 70 dmg over 50 tile range with 80% armor penetration is madnesssssss. Remember, legendary and masterpiece quality also increases damage (and AP as well) now, like up to 150%, so say a Barret beast would deal like over 100 damage and ignore ANY armor. I know raiders aren't supposed to have those, but that only makes it even crazier for player having that kind of firepower. Feels broken. And all that costs 60 steel and 3 components.

Even for a crazy infinity-backpack-fan like me its waaaaay too much. I guess 50 range is fine, its only 5 tiles more than vanilla snipers. Giving it over 50% armor piercing will already be weird, anything vanilla has can't have more than 45% on a charge lance. Damage-wise i don't even know where it should be at... In favor of increased AP (35%) Tynan nerfed sniper rifle damage to 25(!!!) which also feels broken. I guess making it between 35 and 50 would be fine... At least in my opinion.

You know the original 0.50 was designed to kill the crew inside tanks ?
One shot kills are ok for them, but their accuracy shouldn't be that high like normal rifles.
And most of RN weapons are more deadly then vanilla ones.

Not  tanks, but vehicles and very light armored vehicles.
And well, a .50 caliber does exactly that- it fucks you up rather quickly  :D

Quote from: Canute on October 13, 2018, 03:37:55 AM
You know the original 0.50 was designed to kill the crew inside tanks ?
One shot kills are ok for them, but their accuracy shouldn't be that high like normal rifles.
And most of RN weapons are more deadly then vanilla ones.

I know. It can tear people apart, punch through tank armor etc etc. But you probably noticed already, that i don't care that much about irl notions in games. Especially so in a game where a healthy person can only carry 35 kg worth of mass.

Updated Wall of Shame issues with joy giver.

New Tacticool Radio texture, also now rotatable
(https://i.imgur.com/WxcIQCM.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/zA55q7g.png) (https://i.imgur.com/qxYBwO1.png) (https://i.imgur.com/wl5j2mv.png)

The steel chair is unavailable as it's own chair furniture, I figure we have about 4 chairs already, maybe some will find this one unecessary, thoughts? I can always add it later, but I think the radio looks all unique with it.

Here's the old version for reference:
(https://i.imgur.com/mMNJQoK.png)

Things to fix:

- Reduction of .50 cal armor penetration (fair one innit)
- Tacticool radio new songs
- Vending machines, son

Quote from: dninemfive on October 11, 2018, 06:40:56 PM
Chicken Plucker, do you still need someone to code the FIB raids from using the black hat station? If so, I'd be willing to do it, though I'd wait until just before 1.0 comes out because recompiling is a pretty big PITA on my setup.

Oh fair one, if you want to code it later then by all means. I'm happy enough you are willing to do this in the first place, I wouldn't be surprised if you dropped out anytime since you aren't obligated to do any of this in the first place.

Thank you very much! *thok thok thok* "FBI OPEN UP"

Quote from: Madman666 on October 12, 2018, 05:03:06 PM
Maan, CP, you went way overboard with 50cal... 70 dmg over 50 tile range with 80% armor penetration is madnesssssss. Remember, legendary and masterpiece quality also increases damage (and AP as well) now, like up to 150%, so say a Barret beast would deal like over 100 damage and ignore ANY armor. I know raiders aren't supposed to have those, but that only makes it even crazier for player having that kind of firepower. Feels broken. And all that costs 60 steel and 3 components.

Even for a crazy infinity-backpack-fan like me its waaaaay too much. I guess 50 range is fine, its only 5 tiles more than vanilla snipers. Giving it over 50% armor piercing will already be weird, anything vanilla has can't have more than 45% on a charge lance. Damage-wise i don't even know where it should be at... In favor of increased AP (35%) Tynan nerfed sniper rifle damage to 25(!!!) which also feels broken. I guess making it between 35 and 50 would be fine... At least in my opinion.

Weapon quality applies for all weapons, I don't have control over how OP legendary weapons can be and I don't intend to nerf the normal stats because the legendary version is too stronk. Fair one he nerfed the sniper rifle damage to 25, but as I have explained I had to fill in the blanks and add bullet stats for the missing calibres that vanilla doesn't have.

I went ahead and nerfed the penetration to 50%. Just keep in mind, no known human body armor as of today is known to survive one shot from a .50 cal.

Quote from: Canute on October 13, 2018, 03:37:55 AM
You know the original 0.50 was designed to kill the crew inside tanks ?
One shot kills are ok for them, but their accuracy shouldn't be that high like normal rifles.
And most of RN weapons are more deadly then vanilla ones.

Fricc yes, they usually don't one shot one kill since they tear off limbs most of the time unless the pawn lands a body or a head shot. The .50 cal cannot kill mechanoids in one hit unless it's a hit to the mechanoid's brain system.

Accuracy in vanilla is fiddly, some WWII bolt action rifle being highly accurate for short, medium and long, while a sniper rifle is less accurate, even for medium and long. Range is the only thing that makes up for it, but it's not as though a few squares more matters if your rifle won't hit. To fill in the blanks, the .50 cal had the best of both, even then after some testing, if your pawn is covered and behind obstacles, .50 most likely won't hit you even if it's legendary with 100% accuracy.

The .50 isn't meant for pirates anyway, it'll be removed for them. Might save them for my factions though, dun dun dun?

I'd like some last words.

Bullets are meant to be deadly here lads, when it comes to backpacks I understand Madman wants them to be helpful, but then when an enemy has advantage over you in the form of .50 Cals tearing your personnel apart, you want things weaker. It can't always work like that, sometimes the bad guys have to pose danger here

Fair one mate, I applied the 50% penetration but I'm not gonna nerf the accuracy, I won't make too many changes to the weapon stats unless I really have to since I'm happy with how things are moving forward.

To that end, I'm happy with feedbacks. Please don't misinterpret my counter arguments as angry posts, I'll be getting back to work, Jecrell just helped me fix the Auger code and he has a finished code to nerf the malnutrition system the game has.


Edit: I change me bloody mind, .50 cal isn't gonna get a nerf.

50% penetration still hurts humans, it's pointless to nerf it there hoping it will be less lethal for humanlikes. It's supposed to be an anti-materiel rifle built to take out armor.

Well actually i was more concerned about me tearing mechanoids apart with 50cal too easily, not pirates squishing my dumb pawns. I first got hooked on your weapon pack, cause it had really and i mean really close stats, to what vanilla had, but added the missing feeling of variety, different gunshot sounds and some utilities (smoke grenades ahoy). Well and amazing art of course. With stuff so clearly stomping anything vanilla has damage wise, i am once again inclined to go xml diving.

Also rip vanilla sniper rifle, Tynan desecrated it beyond recognition :sadface:

Quote from: Madman666 on October 13, 2018, 08:41:40 AM
Well actually i was more concerned about me tearing mechanoids apart with 50cal too easily, not pirates squishing my dumb pawns. I first got hooked on your weapon pack, cause it had really and i mean really close stats, to what vanilla had, but added the missing feeling of variety, different gunshot sounds and some utilities (smoke grenades ahoy). Well and amazing art of course. With stuff so clearly stomping anything vanilla has damage wise, i am once again inclined to go xml diving.

Right I am gonna nerf it, pardon the indecisiveness. Been watching too much demolition ranch, testing .50 cal on legos and all that. During the camp we were taught that most of the aircraft here can't shield from certain calibres, one of them being the .50 BMG, for something as big as the Chinook that can survive an RPG-7 blast, it cannot stop .50 BMG depending on where the bullet landed.

I'll put it down to 60%, I nerfed the other AP rounds to not cross 70% at max. The bigger cartridge than the .50 BMG is at best 70% only. How's all this?

Honestly dunno. I suck at balancing things, so i usually rely on feeling it instead - how it plays out. With a 45% AP on a charge lance it feels like anything it hits is very close to naked. Mechs usually have up to 70% armor rating, so that more or less means .50 BMG will just strip em. On one hand - those weapons are supposed to be anti-vehicle measures and mechanoids are equivalent of military vehicles in RW, on other hand - i d be tempted to just use those only, since they are so much better than anything else game has.

It also depends on how hard it is to get your hands on such monstrocity, right now for 60 steel and three components it feels like a give away, you just woke up and found an LMG conveniently placed on your dresser, for if your mood is terrible and you wanna murder your neighbors.

It just might be that with your tanks and APCs factions will use, those will fit right in as a countermeasure, since you yourself can't have vehicles... Without them however it feels like you can tear anything to pieces. So i guess my suggestion would be to work through crafting costs, research, benches, then through factions and their vehicles - then playtest it to see, what needs adjustments.

I guess there is something in shooting someone's torso off through 120% armor 2 timez over :P

Quote from: Scavenger on October 11, 2018, 09:30:12 PM
Can you give me a brief rundown on what this actually is?

Seems it just replaces the few current factions with these and they act mostly the same?

Forgot to answer your question, oof

Front page hasn't been updated much, but the thread have changed into an entire expansion. It's new factions with custom clothing textures and weapons I've added in along with custom food such as MREs for military units and first aid kits based on what infantries units use and etc.

No factions in vanilla are replaced, instead I add new ones. There's also means to contact them for reinforcements without relation costs, and means to start missions using the mission board through the Military Furniture mod, which hasn't been listed in the front page.

The whole expansion is based on modern tactical or military themed stuff, sometimes I end up incorporating things that aren't really military like bleedin' vending machines in the furniture expansion just for making players have new gadgets and means to have an easier time to focus more on combat instead of colony management. Either I make the new enemies, or they fight other community-made factions. *cough* Glitter tech commandoes must die *cough* Hopefully, when things are done, the game feels more vibrant with the number of factions and outfits/hairstyles from different games and players get to have a military/tacticool feel with all the stuff I've added on

Quote from: Madman666 on October 13, 2018, 08:57:44 AM
Honestly dunno. I suck at balancing things, so i usually rely on feeling it instead - how it plays out. With a 45% AP on a charge lance it feels like anything it hits is very close to naked. Mechs usually have up to 70% armor rating, so that more or less means .50 BMG will just strip em. On one hand - those weapons are supposed to be anti-vehicle measures and mechanoids are equivalent of military vehicles in RW, on other hand - i d be tempted to just use those only, since they are so much better than anything else game has.

It also depends on how hard it is to get your hands on such monstrocity, right now for 60 steel and three components it feels like a give away, you just woke up and found an LMG conveniently placed on your dresser, for if your mood is terrible and you wanna murder your neighbors.

It just might be that with your tanks and APCs factions will use, those will fit right in as a countermeasure, since you yourself can't have vehicles... Without them however it feels like you can tear anything to pieces. So i guess my suggestion would be to work through crafting costs, research, benches, then through factions and their vehicles - then playtest it to see, what needs adjustments.

I guess there is something in shooting someone's torso off through 120% armor 2 timez over :P

.50 Cal stats are still open for debate now, currently been nerfed to 60%. I apologised to Madman in PM and to anyone for my last post cause I got defensive due to me being a touch sensitive despite asking for feedback in the first place, sorry bois.

Who doesn't love the big bangs and limbs creatively flying off? Zero apologies needed, CP. Its gonna be amazing either way. And if someone does disagree with some balance aspects - we all dunno what each person does with his local copy, hehe.

It was also wrong of me to look at 50cal without taking vehicles into account, so i also was too hasty. We ll playtest it once the project has all its content, then it ll be clear, what needs some fiddling with!

Quote from: Madman666 on October 13, 2018, 09:26:25 AM
Who doesn't love the big bangs and limbs creatively flying off? Zero apologies needed, CP. Its gonna be amazing either way. And if someone does disagree with some balance aspects - we all dunno what each person does with his local copy, hehe.

It was also wrong of me to look at 50cal without taking vehicles into account, so i also was too hasty. We ll playtest it once the project has all its content, then it ll be clear, what needs some fiddling with!

Not at all, I get defensive sometimes over valid criticism and I need to cut it out cause I don't want to be hostile towards people who look at my stuff, if that happens I'm gonna be the only one playing with my mods rip

So with 1.0 coming and textures being renewed in order to better match the vanilla quality standards, vehicles are being redone. The old textures from existing B18 versions will be changed, some tanks will possibly never be seen again, some will use new 3D models using the proper vanilla views instead of the 2D appearance they have when they turn.

(https://i.imgur.com/2vGGT8h.png)(https://i.imgur.com/KU0iv0c.png)(https://i.imgur.com/4MkOOrD.png)

AGR Drone

Description: The A.G.R. is an Autonomous Ground Robot, equipped with a high calibre machine gun chambered in 7.62x51mm NATO. It is unmanned and expendable, high armour rating against typical small arms fire weapons.

This AGR Drone might be given to Task Force 141 or Task Force STALKER, I don't know yet. I am yet to change the ghosts' uniform, headgear and onskins since they are outdated. I am also supposed to give those guys dogs since Cod Ghosts had dogs.

(https://i.imgur.com/GBFqS2i.png)(https://i.imgur.com/ApqfD1S.png)(https://i.imgur.com/EBDw728.png)

Dragonfly Drone

Description: A remote controlled unmanned drone mounted with an M249 machine gun chambered in 5.56x45mm, meaning it has a weaker firepower than that of the AGR. It is highly mobile due to the fact that it is hovering from the air, but it's armour is very shoddy, taking less hits than that of the average infantry soldier.

Along with the AGR, I might hand these drones over to special forces or PMC type factions that will not be utilizing APCs or tanks. I thought it would make sense than having huge waves of operators, since they're supposed to be small in numbers anyway.

These babies will be able to assist your colony, assuming their factions are on friendly terms with you.

Am also working on some optional radio skins from other games:

(https://i.imgur.com/XCvZWaZ.png)
Fallout radio

(https://i.imgur.com/IUJQaVb.png)
STALKER radio

(https://i.imgur.com/yX0RHoJ.png)
Portal radio

They're only alternate skins, will be on the drop down so the buildings won't get any more crowded than they already are.

I've honestly done this in procrastination from everything else, cause the vending machine and all the food I have to recode is daunting, along with the bloody weapons. Other than that..

I have animated trailers I have to finish as well, after these ones. First things first, I have to progress my British Army application before they withdraw it due to my inactivity, so I will have to make slower progress here in modding to exchange my time for real life sneaky beaky stuff.

So remaking vehicle sprites is really cool news, cause 3d stuff looks glorious, but one problem's still present - the blurry textures. I mean if not for that even your current tank sprites are mighty fine. Were you able to work it out how to stick properly sized sprites without blur?

Quote from: Madman666 on October 13, 2018, 01:14:08 PM
So remaking vehicle sprites is really cool news, cause 3d stuff looks glorious, but one problem's still present - the blurry textures. I mean if not for that even your current tank sprites are mighty fine. Were you able to work it out how to stick properly sized sprites without blur?

The technique to that is already sorted, looking at Call of Cthulhu's Horrors, there is a way to use a larger resolution for monsters. As long as the measurements/dimensions are right, I can resize them in game and it will instead make the texture smaller, instead of bigger, which means loss of quality will be minimized.

For example:
(https://i.imgur.com/aUmFcia.png)
Bradley IFV

As you can see it's bigger than this Centipede, which was the old resolution for those old B18 vehicles I had

(https://i.imgur.com/zOpnPp8.png)
Centipede scrublord

That quality part is sorted, the downside is it may hit performance due to the textures being super high quality, the factions are already memory heavy as it is. We'll see when we cross the bridge! For now, I have to go set up for dinner. Compared to the camp me mum hasn't been restricting us to 1 piece of protein per meal, so I'm getting fat again, rip.

Cheers lads, will be back with progress.

Amaaazing news! Thanks, CP!

Quote from: Madman666 on October 13, 2018, 01:37:19 PM
Amaaazing news! Thanks, CP!

No need to thank me at all, thank you guys for the support

(https://i.imgur.com/iPOVQtm.png)

Radios done, can't procrastinate with that anymore, rip. Got more things to do, happy with the selection and I'm sure many will agree.

(https://i.imgur.com/rbZzQnq.png)

Gonna get a couple more things done regarding vending machine before I update the link

You keep out doing yourself.  I enjoy your work. CP

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN! I found another way to procrastinate!

(https://i.imgur.com/E0fex5p.png)(https://i.imgur.com/B21sNXx.png)(https://i.imgur.com/cxdBDN1.png)

Arcade Training Console
Description: An arcade console that allows users to improve their skills through the use of virtual reality.

The idea is to have this thing have workbills to improve pawn skills and all that stuff, yet another cool thing. I thought about having more alternate skins besides this yellow pacman arcade machine, but it's more work as it already is. We'll have to see. Got plans to add actual arcade sound effects as pawns use them.

I'll also see if I can add joy multipliers for these.

Quote from: hauvega on October 13, 2018, 07:00:45 PM
You keep out doing yourself.  I enjoy your work. CP

hey hauvega! always love seeing your signature, it's very rare for me to see people playing with my mods, surprisingly enough so I do appreciate people showing off their favourite pawns dressed tacticool like

EDIT:

(https://i.imgur.com/TW8HFb2.png)(https://i.imgur.com/gA6klZ5.png)(https://i.imgur.com/1KUmfuF.png)
Aperture Training Console

It's pretty much the same feature and function as the arcade training machine, but it makes more sense in terms of technology. Unintentionally, I ended up making another Portal related device. This will be the only other skin for the training console, I don't wanna spend anymore time trying to find another modern look since it's not easy to.

New Red Phone texture
(https://i.imgur.com/9Ua8WWv.png)(https://i.imgur.com/vGTojKF.png)(https://i.imgur.com/kfKDnjl.png)

Had to make a new skin, there is also an alternate skin available here, it is a military radio. Will add custom radio chatter.

(https://i.imgur.com/ndyocaO.png)(https://i.imgur.com/I0WTgPE.png)(https://i.imgur.com/WAKNLA8.png)

New Tacticool Refrigerator texture:
(https://i.imgur.com/c6gzDga.png)(https://i.imgur.com/30EDEbR.png)(https://i.imgur.com/nPCldeN.png)

Rotatables are the future, though unfortunately I don't think I'll make this thing minifiable since it might cause bugs, so the player will end up having to choose the rotatable thing and make sure it's the position they want unless they wanna spend resources rebuilding it.

New Vending Machines:
Nuka Cola
(https://i.imgur.com/BUgY9BX.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/ynPg6dQ.png)(https://i.imgur.com/uAmT9S2.png)(https://i.imgur.com/FZH39mw.png)(https://i.imgur.com/wSyMH9y.png)
We had another Portal building, why not another Fallout building? And heck, here's actual Nuka Cola now, I'm gonna remove the old "Rocket Cola" idea I had.

Surplus Vending Machine
(https://i.imgur.com/WWVZ56W.png)
So to solve the possible Combat Extended compatibility issues if I made Rimmu-Nation stuff producable here, I will instead make some basic vanilla weaponry and body armor purchasable here so we won't have issues with any mods, in case someone despises Rimmu-Nation.

Stuff like heavy SMG, shotgun, assault rifle, advanced helmet, flak vest and flak pants will be available on this machine for silver.

I had the choice to make resources craftable for the vending machines too but I thought "Nah" since that will just stop people from caring at all about gathering resources. The vanilla equipment are pretty basic enough to make people abandon the vending machine at higher technologies anyway, but resources are another thing.

When all of this is ready, the black hat station should be a great source for getting your basic needs and private military starter packs.

Will note, due to the Black Hat Station being such an effective money maker with no possible hindrance at the moment due to lack of Law Enforcement, there will be some re-balancing for Vending Machine prices to be more expensive for a source of income sink.

EDIT again

Quote from: sumghai on October 08, 2018, 06:55:17 AM
I totally dig the server racks, and the computer desks as comms console and research benches are neat (although I'd have preferred LCD flatscreen monitors rather than CRTs, but that's just me).

As for the songs, I'd prefer if you didn't delete anything and instead kept adding to the collection. I'm not the least bit bothered by the large filesize of the mod, and if anything, it means more songs and more variety.

Pardon me, I forgot to reply physically! (did it mentally, rip) I took your advice and added more songs, removing none. It's been good so far.

As for the screens, I have been adding alternate skins for other stuff but for the computers, they're a pain in the keister due to the multiple layers, so I may end up just keeping the old retro CRT look. I hope nobody minds, maybe LCD textures as alternate skins one day when everything is finally done and ready

Do you know when the faction mods will be updated? You might have said it somewhere but I missed it. It sucks to play without getting raided by tanks and op russian infantry :(

Quote from: pressurpoint123 on October 14, 2018, 03:48:49 PM
Do you know when the faction mods will be updated? You might have said it somewhere but I missed it. It sucks to play without getting raided by tanks and op russian infantry :(

Faction mod workloads are huge.

Just one faction is connected to:

Rimmu-Nation Weapons
This mod has it's own textures with about a hundred plus weapons, there's also a new projectile system from B19 that I had to redo, not that my B18 projectile coding was top notch, they were all shoddily done anyway. Then there's the benches and crafting recipes and workbills and worktomake and the list of sounds for each types of weapons.

Now I have to balance each weapon because people who actually held a gun before tell me "Hey, why the heck is x weapon behaving exactly like y weapon? That's not how it works." So okay, off I go and make weapons work differently, which means more time.

Military Furniture/Rimmu-Nation Camping Stuff (Now being re-branded as Red Horse Furniture)
This mod also has it's own textures, 3 for each building if I want them rotatable and their own coding for their own functions. There's coding for recipes if they're crafting stations, be it food or silver or whatever, thoughts that the pawns make when the food they eat (I.E. MREs) makes them happy, all this while figuring out where on earth I'm gonna get what texture since I'm already ripping too much from Sketchfab without artist permission.

The main thing we're taking from this for the faction mods are the food that the infantry units carry and the first aid kits they carry, but then there's people who want the furniture, so I might as well update the whole thing as well.

Rimmu-Nation Clothing
Every piece of clothing has 15 textures for each body type and their views. Then there's 3 textures for each head gear. Then you have to balance the protection rating of each outfit, code the benches, it's workbill and their bloody workgiver. Then I have to wait for Jecrell's apparel adjuster .dll only done in C# because I can't code C# and mrofa abandoned the original apparel adjuster, I need that to make sure the clothes stay one colour if they're camo.

When all these three are done (which they aren't) now we have to make the faction mod.

I move over to the faction mod, I choose what weapons they have, what pawns they will have, outfits and vehicles.

Let's look at War Mongrels for example and their uniform.

(https://i.imgur.com/MdVn3cK.png)(https://i.imgur.com/Junk2bz.png)(https://i.imgur.com/5JshBB4.png)
Here's the new style of combat uniform I've done, the M81.

(https://i.imgur.com/FxVGJfy.png)(https://i.imgur.com/5ySw6Pc.png)(https://i.imgur.com/Ffxwdkh.png)
Here's the old one that the War Mongrels uses, the Serb M92 camo

"Why did you make a new one? The old one looked fine" some may ask. No it doesn't look fine, it has issues matching where the pawn's heads will go so I had to sort it out because if someone complains later on and I have to redo the textures, I have to bloody do it anyway so might as well do it now. Off I go, 15 more textures of one outfit just with it's own camo, I end up going for the best quality I can do so hopefully I don't have to go back on it later.

Then on the sidelines I have stuff like this:
(https://i.imgur.com/LJnrQ0A.png)(https://i.imgur.com/QfjYk61.png)

That I fix without mentioning to anybody into:
(https://i.imgur.com/mPeyxJM.png)(https://i.imgur.com/5gTiPbR.png)

Cause the holes are too big, or it's not centred. I don't want to draw a new GORKA-4 template because this is the second GORKA-4 template I've done already and it will mean 15 more textures for one body type. Already shredding my head off for the other stuff I have to redo, so let's take shortcuts that will hopefully not bite me in the keister later on.

Then I get this stuff:
(https://i.imgur.com/sS6uG8y.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/HMDE3yo.png)

Fair one mate. So I look at other modders for solutions, I find Jecrell's technique, now I have to enlarge the tanks and make them high resolution, one more problem solved that I haven't even started with yet because the other mods are still pending to be redone.

Then among all this chaos that my brain miraculously makes sense of before overdosing, I get requests from old un-updated mods like DOOM Factions and Deadpool's Outfit, I can't even reply anymore to most of them, but the progress on many updates have begun and have failed to make any more progress since things keep being re-prioritised.

The answer to when the faction mods will be updated is "I don't know." because they are a lot of work. I understand, the game is a ton of fun with the tacticool stuff, tacticool enemies and overpowered low res tanks firing shells at your colony, believe me I know cause I wanted to add them, but I am the one drowning here in the salty sea of Rimworld Modding workload while trying to do life at the same time.

Please do not misinterpret this reply as angry, bitter, insulting or ranting in any way (though it is a rant) but there is a lot of work to be done and I hope I explained well without much detail how much obstacles there are.

I find myself talking to Albion or Jecrell for C# help, even if its commissioned and paid for new features, and they stop replying because they themselves are getting busier and busier and I'm the one on the other end of the stick with requests while they're off doing other things.

I understand it's hard enough to ask sometimes because you could get authors typing wall of texts like this, but to that end, I can only make slow progress if I want to keep my sanity and I don't shut the whole show down. I hope this reply was helpful to you, take care.


EDIT:

Front page has been updated, download links are now available there.

Military Furniture updated, still no vending machines, currently in progress of adding new songs to the radio.
NOTE: Mod has been renamed, just re-enable it if the game says it can't find the defs, it's only because the save will be looking for the new mod name, which is Red Horse Furniture.

Instead of "Military Furniture" it is now "Red Horse" since not all equipment within are military, some being from other games.

Err... 1S-1K Longbow... 500 dmg? 40 tile range? O_o

Quote from: Madman666 on October 14, 2018, 10:10:39 PM
Err... 1S-1K Longbow... 500 dmg? 40 tile range? O_o

It used to be 1K damage and 45 tiles! Well, this weapon is open for discussion. It's a long range weapon from Resistance: Retribution that always guaranteed a one hit kill towards infantry units upon charging, but for bosses it took a few more shots.

It's kinda like the BFG of that game, except it was a Precision rifle. We could change it to 100 damage and 100% armor penetration. It's a boss fight weapon, it's also a rare one you don't get to just pick up. Alongside the Auger which is almost finished, the Auger fires through walls, giving the enemy barely any chance to fight back unless they have an auger too.

Gimme your thoughts, I'm off to play DnD with some friendos today, the Longbow is one of the most complained about weapons during B18, but I was going with how it behaved at Resistance Retribution, which is a Spacer tech game

Well if its ultra rare and expensive thenmaybe - 100 dmg, 100 AP should be fine... But one pirate raid brought me two of those monsters. Its a miracle no one got rekt by them. And well, it does its job - it obliterated 3 centipedes with just one shot, so i had to sell them.

Quote from: Madman666 on October 15, 2018, 09:31:36 AM
Well if its ultra rare and expensive thenmaybe - 100 dmg, 100 AP should be fine... But one pirate raid brought me two of those monsters. Its a miracle no one got rekt by them. And well, it does its job - it obliterated 3 centipedes with just one shot, so i had to sell them.

Could go lower. Will deal with that soon enough.


Finished all the songs I wanted to add:
(https://i.imgur.com/KoJyoqa.png)

Around 50 songs, pardon he inconsistency with capital letters, not all songs were named the same way so uh.. Oh and I changed "Portal Radio" to a small "R" to match the Bandit radio and Trumpet radio. Enjoy all, got a lot of work to do this week in college. Goodnight.

Edit:
Just fixed the updated link, was having issues uploading the new version due to me messing up. Woops. G'nigh!

Quick question CP, love the song idea, but will the radio only play one song at a time, or is there a shuffle feature which will play all the songs?

Thanks for the hard work, can't wait to see what you're making next!

P.s Kinda surprised you didn't add "We didn't start the fire" :)

Ofcourse each pawn should listen his own song, when you hover the mouse over a pawn you will hear it, or the closest one from the radio.
If the song's would be for you, you still can play them in an external player ! :-)

What about adding Tacticool^TM REUSABLE droppod, for tacticool attack on tribals for they pemnican?

Look, guys progress! SO MUCH PROGRESS! No not really. It's just a vending machine, with no workbills and no equipment purchasable because I haven't coded that yet. I spent a good hour trying to fix the old B18 stuff into this, but all the food coding is broken, along with the old thoughtdefs, workgivers and drugs, and drug tolerance stuff... So on and so forth. There is no shortcuts for the food, I have to bloody remake them all along with the thoughtdefs and recipes. Guys pls halp.

Quote from: lakajadiwa on October 15, 2018, 08:36:08 PM
Quick question CP, love the song idea, but will the radio only play one song at a time, or is there a shuffle feature which will play all the songs?

Thanks for the hard work, can't wait to see what you're making next!

P.s Kinda surprised you didn't add "We didn't start the fire" :)

Never heard of that song before, but it seems to fit in! I'll think about it, still clawing my head off the vending machine when I'm struggling to not fall asleep after college.

Yes, I asked Jecrell to add in the shuffle feature that he said he forgot to add since the beginning of the radio mod, but it's still not here and he hasn't said a word about it. I don't like to confront him cause I know he's very busy, if I poke him he might just turn around and it's not Jecrell that meets me, but some star vampire he sent as decoy to stop me from constantly asking him for mod related stuff.

I will wait, but if it never comes, I hope it doesn't spoil anything for many.

Quote from: Canute on October 16, 2018, 03:19:19 AM
Ofcourse each pawn should listen his own song, when you hover the mouse over a pawn you will hear it, or the closest one from the radio.
If the song's would be for you, you still can play them in an external player ! :-)

Canute u wot, then I should have just added that in the mod description instead of paying for a radio, tarnation, at least the real life one I don't have to pester Jecrell to add in a shuffle feature and end up getting awkward silence breaks in our conversations

Quote from: Skynert on October 16, 2018, 04:52:00 AM
What about adding Tacticool^TM REUSABLE droppod, for tacticool attack on tribals for they pemnican?

I don't know, drop pods are very C# intensive. As mentioned above, just the small features I wanted help with is already very difficult since I keep asking a person who now doesn't reply to me frequently.

It's not a bad idea by any means and I have thought about it, but if I am going there, I'm gonna make a bigger version of the drop pod, it will be reusable and it will be textured as a freakin helicopter. That's a big if, things are tight enough as it is, low budget, low on replies from other people who are busy.

Running out of favours here, and I suppose soon it's back to my dark ages where I had no C# support at all.

For "reusable" drop pods without C#, you should be able to reproduce the PodLauncher and TransportPod ThingDefs but make them minifiable and give them smaller masses so you can take them with you, plus a lighter fuel to fill them up by giving your new PodLauncher a fuelFilter with a different item. You can just reuse the vanilla classes for this to work as far as I can tell.

Quote from: dninemfive on October 16, 2018, 09:25:57 PM
For "reusable" drop pods without C#, you should be able to reproduce the PodLauncher and TransportPod ThingDefs but make them minifiable and give them smaller masses so you can take them with you, plus a lighter fuel to fill them up by giving your new PodLauncher a fuelFilter with a different item. You can just reuse the vanilla classes for this to work as far as I can tell.

Fair one then, I'll see what I can do after I finish the other content this mod has, I.e. Training console and Vending machine stuff.

I'm thinking I'm gonna use the ODST drop pods from Halo, make it reusable assuming I can make it not self destruct upon landing (which those ODST drop pods don't do) and make it all haulable and with better range. If everything runs smoothly it'll happen, but if it does need C# work then I'm gonna mildly slam my goats on the table and go "uh, darn it"


EDIT: Several hours later.. I'm home and I see the new 1.0 update email. I go "uh-oh."

I message Jecrell who is offline, I get on my knees and beg for recompilings.. THEN, I boot up the 1.0 version and turn on the B19 mods, see what's broken and.. Nothing.

To my bloody surprise, the only major update that hasn't broken jack, aside from Rimmu-Nation Weapons where the Bomb damagedef broke, I don't need to update any .dll for the clothing or furniture and I'm wondering if something is going on, I need to run some tests here.

Is Christmas early or summin' lads? Someone bloody tell me!

The DLLs still work? I thought you had to recompile if the version changes at all!

If that's the case, updating my own mods might not take too long and I should be able to have a prototype FIB raid system available late this weekend, depending on how much schoolwork (and updates) I have to do beforehand. I already have a system all planned out; the only real snag might be the way I hook the bills.

Quote from: dninemfive on October 17, 2018, 06:18:55 PM
The DLLs still work? I thought you had to recompile if the version changes at all!

If that's the case, updating my own mods might not take too long and I should be able to have a prototype FIB raid system available late this weekend, depending on how much schoolwork (and updates) I have to do beforehand. I already have a system all planned out; the only real snag might be the way I hook the bills.

Yes they work! And I would suggest they raid every amount of earning instead of random. I don't mind if its a straight raid from now on, as long as the faction starts off friendly until people start breaking the dang law. Thanks dninem, I'm dying, I gotta sleep, I'll get back to you on this tomorrow if you are interested in talking to me then

I uploaded the 1.0 updates to everyone, mostly just version number changes and me adding the power buildings of red horse furniture into the tab it belongs to. It's all on Steam now despite being unfinished and missing it's trailers. I just wanted to upload them on a significant date, why not the 17th, the day when Rimworld was finished?

Might as well. I'll catch up with you all tommorrow, it's already 1AM, hope it was all worth it. Thank you all for your help and support, bloody love you all.

Good Morning

(https://i.imgur.com/OWcXRIC.png)

So I screwed up twice, updated Rimmu-Nation test versions and replaced B18 versions by accident. Then I had to roll back the B18 versions, all while I'm supposed to be leaving for college already.

I'd like to apologise for my messed up wording last night, dninemfive, I read back what I wrote and it sounded all commandy, I didn't intend to at all.

At least after 3 hours of sleep, I'm still tired, in fact, my brain is all messed up now.


But hey, seeing this
(https://i.imgur.com/d9WOzuH.png)

Seeing how far the game has went, from my old days in my teeny tiny fingers playing the pirated version cause I was young and I couldn't afford to pay for the full game at the time during around A14, it makes me think it was worth the loss of sleep and possibly getting beasted by Staff French for possibly being late today for parade.

Notes:
- Not all Maxi meals are back, plenty of beverages un-added.
- Nuka-Colas are freakin' cool.
- Surplus Machine is pretty good
- Vending Machine has a few snacks, no MREs on it right now
- There's a minor error relating to food poisoning chance, I will sort it out later. It doesn't affect your game whatsoever. (all gone, weirdly enough)

- Don't forget to re-enable the new food items in the stockpile settings
- You have to make a new policy in order for Nuka-Colas to show up the social drugs tab, this is because it's freshly enabled.
- You also have to enable the new food items in the food restrictions, they will be auto-disabled for being newly added.

Gonna go sleep, I'm tired. May add the Maxi meals back later.

Hey CP, just a heads-up that the RAR file for Military Furniture actually contains content for RN Clothing.

Quote from: sumghai on October 19, 2018, 06:27:31 AM
Hey CP, just a heads-up that the RAR file for Military Furniture actually contains content for RN Clothing.

For steam or google drive?

Can't make changes in college atm, but if it's google drive then I'm assuming that's for the B19 version, which is outdated. Thankfully the 1.0 is all sorted and I just linked all the mods in one folder instead of one by one

Quote from: Chicken Plucker on October 19, 2018, 07:05:33 AM

For steam or google drive?

Can't make changes in college atm, but if it's google drive then I'm assuming that's for the B19 version, which is outdated. Thankfully the 1.0 is all sorted and I just linked all the mods in one folder instead of one by one

Military Furniture for RW 1.0 on Google Drive.

The Steam version is fine, though.

The file in Google Driver Red Horse Furniture (1.0) contains the same file as RN Clothing

Got home, it's sorted out now so thank you for informing me. Update coming soon, training consoles will be added, some minor balancing fixes for the medical stretcher.

Stay tuned

Notes:
- 3 Different skins for the new VR Trainers
- Custom sounds for the VR Trainers
- Train your colonists' skill stats!
- Portable Stove re-added from Rimmu-Nation Camping Stuff
- Hobo Stew re-added from Rimmu-Nation Camping Stuff, please make sure to enable for existing stockpiles and diet restrictions in order for pawns not to ignore the new food item

Credits to:
CaptainJuicy - Training console coding and idea!

Minor fixes:
- Microelectronics research now required for server tower
- Medical stretcher skill cost to build now lower

1.0 Rimmunation? Yay! Steam wersion will be?

Quote from: Skynert on October 21, 2018, 11:17:10 AM
1.0 Rimmunation? Yay! Steam wersion will be?

No excitement yet, it is a test version that is highly unfinished with many weapons lying around in the machining bench. I have a lot of things to fix within the mod

Aha. But I still take it.

It would be incredible to have more combat knives like those used in the army.

Quote from: Skynert on October 21, 2018, 11:30:13 AM
Aha. But I still take it.

Fair one mate 8)

Quote from: Valter Jr on October 21, 2018, 11:34:22 AM
It would be incredible to have more combat knives like those used in the army.

(https://i.imgur.com/nRwgvGI.png)

Here's the current Melee roster, not yet added in-game.

The unused folder has only the outdated KABAR texture and FS Dagger texture, otherwise theyre both there.

Will there be sounds?

Quote from: Valter Jr on October 21, 2018, 12:46:37 PM
Will there be sounds?

Not for the melee, no. I'm kinda saving the sounds for melee when it comes to chainsaws because sounds for melee can potentially get buggy so I don't wanna end up relying to much on that.

Besides, all we need is the swing and the hit right? I think the game already provides that!

Hey CP, it's me, the guy who claimed he could implement raids in response to using the Black Hat station. I got pretty close to a working prototype, but unfortunately I'm going to have to admit defeat for the time being because the way the game handles raids is more complex than I thought. I simply don't have the time right now because I really should work on my college apps and then I have some mods of my own to update and otherwise work on.

I've attached what work I got done to this post, including the source in case anyone else wants to pick it up. I'll try again in December, after applications close; hopefully I'll have a better understanding of the various components by then.

Finally, here's the general outline for the advanced stuff and general mechanics I had planned if someone else wants to implement them while I'm gone:

Basically, there'd be a timer started when you were first detected performing one of the illegal hacks (I got a hacking detection chance implemented), which would tick down over time, plus more each time you did a job based on that hacking detection chance. The "steal funds" operation would reduce this timer more than would simpler jobs. When it got relatively low (~10 days), a set of investigators from a three-letter agency would show up as visitors. If you pleased them or paid them off, they'd leave and reset the timer (until you got detected again); you could also refuse them, which would reduce the timer to 1, causing a raid in the next 24 hours. There would be a distinction between raids with a warrant, which you could pay off with a fee (or, with a high enough Social stat, convince to leave, which would cause a no-knock raid), and no-knock raids, which would attack without warning.

Included in the attachment is a FactionDef with custom naming for a three-letter agency (though no PawnKindDefs are included, as I was working on a prototype and those are a lot of work); a StatDef for a hacking detection chance; and the source code for a hook after completing recipes with the defs CPJob_InfoTheft and CPJob_FundTheft which should send raids but doesn't because "sending a raid" isn't as simple as it seems in the end.

[attachment deleted due to age]

Quote from: Chicken Plucker on October 21, 2018, 01:48:19 PM


Besides, all we need is the swing and the hit right? I think the game already provides that!

Yep.

Quote from: dninemfive on October 21, 2018, 03:49:28 PM
I'm going to have to admit defeat for the time being because the way the game handles raids is more complex than I thought. I simply don't have the time right now because I really should work on my college apps and then I have some mods of my own to update and otherwise work on.

Hello! It's alright. I've been there, the all too familiar excitement to help someone out with something, then life hits you like a ton of bricks and you have to deal with it's crap before anything else.

You can drop the project altogether, I won't hold anything against you at all. I understand. I'm very grateful you gave it the ol' schoolboy try, I could hand this over to someone like Jecrell or Albion later, who I am trying to bribe with my spare change to code for me (though they're actually super busy as well, rip)

I appreciate you stepping forward to offer help, and you didn't have to re-introduce yourself I remembered you of course. You have to take care of yourself first before college makes you lose your mind with all the adulty decisionsy and the terrifying thought of having to pay for rent one day. I was there too. (Still am, rip)

Take care! I do hope to see you later on, see how you're doing then

Quote from: Skynert on October 21, 2018, 03:49:59 PM

Quote from: Chicken Plucker on October 21, 2018, 01:48:19 PM


Besides, all we need is the swing and the hit right? I think the game already provides that!

Yep.

Yes, indeed

Appreciate the work you put into these great mods CP. I especially love the weapons mod and I think the vanilla game is almost unplayable without it! Can't wait until its updated.  ;D

Ey, there is any penalty for using black hat station? 5 in game days and I have 20k silver.

Well the FBI raids are temporarily put on hold, but otherwise - you got 20k - you ll get more people trying to eat your face off to get them from you. Agreed that making 20k in 5 days is kind of crazy.

wow ive been asking for backpacks for over a year. Id download a mod for that alone! Things get heavy, specially with all that caravan gear...Using this for my b19 save for sure good work man

same here, the hairs look pretty nice. Vanilla has a bald head option, and an afro so I can only make one of my black friends using prepare carefully. Are these mods able to be used on b19 saves? i only saw 1.0 on drive

Download links for latest update is in front page of this post

(https://i.imgur.com/cKgHPtI.png)

Chicken Mitchell Hairs
- Hair Mod updated, "Powergirl" hair name changed to "Starr" and is now allowed for both genders.
- Starr hairstyle adjusted to stop foreheads from appearing too large
- Ted hairstyle adjusted

(https://i.imgur.com/Ngi175a.png)

Red Horse Furniture
- Portable chemfuel generator not minifiable fixed

Quote from: Bolty on October 21, 2018, 05:34:11 PM
Appreciate the work you put into these great mods CP. I especially love the weapons mod and I think the vanilla game is almost unplayable without it! Can't wait until its updated.  ;D

Thank you, I can't wait to finish it too but things keep coming up

Quote from: Skynert on October 22, 2018, 07:26:19 AM
Ey, there is any penalty for using black hat station? 5 in game days and I have 20k silver.

I updated the illegal activities to be a bit harder, but there is no FIB event right now. The natural downside is as Madman said, you have higher incident tickets due to wealth. If you aren't in the end-game with your own high tech equipment this is gonna hurt.

I made a money sink using the vending machines, the steady payment for food and there's purchasable gear that costs quite a bit. The gear isn't sustainable enough for the stronger enemies though, it's just the vanilla stuff.

Quote from: Ruisuki on October 22, 2018, 12:04:35 PM
wow ive been asking for backpacks for over a year. Id download a mod for that alone! Things get heavy, specially with all that caravan gear...Using this for my b19 save for sure good work man

Thank you! though I wanna ask, why is a lot of people using B19? It's very odd to me, lots of compatibility all around but I assume it's due to some un-updated mods yeah?

Quote from: Madman666 on October 22, 2018, 07:29:18 AM
Well the FBI raids are temporarily put on hold, but otherwise - you got 20k - you ll get more people trying to eat your face off to get them from you. Agreed that making 20k in 5 days is kind of crazy.

He's probably got like 100+ employees doing Tech Support, he's in the big leagues and he deserves it.

Rimworld: Tech Support Tycoon

Quote from: vandal on October 22, 2018, 12:54:09 PM
same here, the hairs look pretty nice. Vanilla has a bald head option, and an afro so I can only make one of my black friends using prepare carefully. Are these mods able to be used on b19 saves? i only saw 1.0 on drive

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1i9bYu0A7LhKr_tv2fxmf7IygH_jgz_p7

Here's B19 stuff, but they are outdated with some features un-updated.

- Rimmu-Nation Clothing 1.0 should be compatible for B19.

- Red Horse Furniture will show problems due to a translation issue at 1.0. You'll have to use the outdated B19, with missing VR training, missing Vending Machines and the Portable Chemfuel Generator not being minifiable.

- Chicken Mitchell Hair mod 1.0 should work fine for B19

- Rimmu-Nation - Weapons 1.0 will not work for B19, some minor missing new weapons and old textures for the B19 version, theyre both unstable anyway.

Hope this helps

Download links for latest update is in front page of this post

(https://i.imgur.com/jtYaDFm.png)

Rimmu-Nation Clothing
- Why the hell were harnesses costing chemfuel and components???

Fixed.

(https://i.imgur.com/jW9wAck.png)

Chicken Mitchell Hairstyles
- Sam's hair adjusted a bit to make foreheads not look too large.

Fun fact: This hairstyle belongs to Sam Gidding from horror survival game "Until Dawn"

(https://i.imgur.com/xOZLBRh.png)

Rimmu-Nation Weapons
- Fixed duplicate Rimmu-Nation Clothing bench issue

Pardon the frequent updates guys, but I'm happy to fix some bleedin' errors now rather than later. I'm gonna go sleep, running into issues irl.

For myself its because I started my save 2 days before 1.0 came out and I had assumed it would take a long time before mods were updated for 1.0. That and I didnt know mods like OHU and facial stuff didnt have b19 versions :D

Ty for the link and the hard work you put in for this content

Progress Report:
(https://i.imgur.com/a0XGpTT.png)
Rimmu-Nation Weapons
(https://i.imgur.com/y5XuIAn.png) (https://i.imgur.com/vXawfEo.png)
- MP5K and MP5K SD removed and replaced with MP5K-PDW and SD variant
- Many textures replaced
- Some new weapons added, HRT versions of stuff done

Old 'uns
(https://i.imgur.com/gtuN49c.png)(https://i.imgur.com/BE8u2A2.png)(https://i.imgur.com/p29UamZ.png)(https://i.imgur.com/sbwO9ws.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/uO59Bv0.png)

New 'uns
(https://i.imgur.com/n32AU0X.png)(https://i.imgur.com/sczgV7x.png)(https://i.imgur.com/MJsVY77.png)(https://i.imgur.com/CUAS4m1.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/ks8DZJQ.png)

Having bad days ahead, still stuck on what Albion calls a "feature creep" with having to sort out Rimmu-Nation Weapons and crap I'm supposed to be done with. I ended up re-doing several textures of Rimmu-Nation (By redoing I mean just going to google and resizing images without artist consent, rip). I hope this doesn't get the mod in trouble one day, unlikely but you never know.

It's not as if I go "okay broken code fixed, new textures added. All done." Nope, I find some new guns, I add it too.

(https://i.imgur.com/GtfY6Ai.png)(https://i.imgur.com/wDAGnqp.png)(https://i.imgur.com/99kUxoh.png)(https://i.imgur.com/6o3wutT.png)

Just ended up bloody re-adding MP5A2s like, I'm ending up like Rambo pack here having the multiple versions of weapons!! I didn't even mean to do that.

Anyway, just me acting up today. Having a very bad day.

Wanna know what cheers me up? That's right.

SWAT TEAMS PE-PEW-PEW PEWWW
(https://i.imgur.com/LVH4jyy.png)

- HRT Weapons, just reskinned existing Rimmu-Nation weapons with some stat adjustments (or not) to look more police-like.
- SWAT only shows up for raids, foot patrols during visits or just auctioning some evidence (caravan)
- PASGT and IBA for SWAT. Has a fire resistance to their jumpsuit too, the existing one may be changed in texture later.
- I want foot patrols with pistols and shotguns patrolling colonies at least once a week.

(Note: All of this is a concept, I had to do something else before I went crazy. Just Hulk textures done for these.)

Police faction baby. It's not just gonna be another faction, I proposed some stuff to Jecrell here:
(https://i.imgur.com/RGfriwR.png)
(Keeping the rest a secret for now)

He hasn't replied about it. I don't blame him, it's a big task. No this isn't connected to the FIB thing, this is it's own thing. I got drained in terms of finance just today trying to apply for a care worker position while the British Army is busy with their application that takes 1,000,000 years to complete (Then several more years for medical confirmation, then you get medical defferal and you start all over lol). I sent this proposal last Sunday and now the budget I had to pay for it is gone. Hopefully, by the time he gets around it's already next month.

HRT weapons will be in Rimmu-Nation, uncraftable of course and will not spawn for raiders. They're called HRT cause it stands for "Hostage Rescue Team" and I thought it would have been corny calling it "SWAT" cause the foot patrol guys will use it, and the ambiguity of "HRT" makes more sense. That's gonna be their kit, all black and flashlighty.

The Police faction will start off with 75 relations to you, this will help you be able to call them for emergencies just with Red Horse Furniture. The catch is, as my message with Jecrell above, there are gonna be laws and sets of rules that your colony have to abide by or you're gonna get some heat on you.

In fact, the laws and rules may range from reasonable to "why the heck?!" (just like real life amirite). Example, what if you have a freezer full of dead friends because you wanna revive them later with the resurrector mech serum? Guess what, the police will hold you in suspicion of cannibalism, you get rid of the bodies with cremation or proper burial or they're gonna be on you like jelly on toast. You either play by their rules or you're gonna be on their bad side.

Say you just dealt with a big raid, there's massive piles of drugs lying around, so you store all of it up. Police shows up, sees your colony with the drugs, guess what? You get a warning AND a fine. You don't get rid of that or you get caught near the stuff next time, you're gonna be in some trouble. SWAT team comin' in to protect and serve.

I can't keep up modding forever by the way guys. I don't know if this project will be complete before everything caves in on me, but in the real world some tough choices have to be made and some things I like to do in my remaining spare time have to be cut off if I wanna progress.

Screw all that. If I make it as a soldier, I'm gonna be in a place like Afghanistan with mortars going off while I'm on my laptop with one bar of internet trying to bloody update mods. NOT EVEN CLOSE BAYBEEEE-

Quote from: Ruisuki on October 23, 2018, 06:16:49 AM
For myself its because I started my save 2 days before 1.0 came out and I had assumed it would take a long time before mods were updated for 1.0. That and I didnt know mods like OHU and facial stuff didnt have b19 versions :D

Ty for the link and the hard work you put in for this content

I see. Nothing to thank me for. I love you.

EDIT: Just like to say, I had a more negative outlook during this post, and my reply was all super serious and self-wallowing. Forget all that, the goal is to finish Rimmu-Nation this week, and if not it better be darned near finish or my name isn't Samuel Patootie. (it isn't though) I do wanna thank you all, for the kind words and knowing the mods I make cheer you guys up that some of you here would offer me +1 virtual hugs.

A police faction for Rimworld? Jesus, now thats a new concept. Really. People wear human leather t-shirts here, kill their wives in a surge of bestial rage from eating without a table, or from psychoid withdrawal and.. police? Hahaha, lol, great idea, CP! I guess i don't need to mention, that i'll shoot these guys on sight. I only follow my own rules xD

Do you plan on making all friendly factions from Red Horse Project behave this way? I sure hope not. I am a bit reluctant to have like 6 factions on my case (not counting 2 pirate factions and also 1 savage tribe and 1 rough outlander). And you know they ll be, cause i am not letting those guys anywhere near my freezers or stockpiles. And of course no one gets to see my money for free.

God this is amazing. Nothing gives so much satisfaction as unloading heavy punishment on a group of nosy policemen and i ll probably be able to do that in Rimworld! I sure hope Jecrell ll take it on.

Quote from: Madman666 on October 23, 2018, 05:14:04 PM
A police faction for Rimworld? Jesus, now thats a new concept. Really. People wear human leather t-shirts here, kill their wives in a surge of bestial rage from eating without a table, or from psychoid withdrawal and.. police? Hahaha, lol, great idea, CP! I guess i don't need to mention, that i'll shoot these guys on sight. I only follow my own rules xD

Waha, you see I had plans for the Police to have some kind of patch operation. If certain mods are detected, certain features will activate.

For example, the US Military and British Military will return with the same inspection behaviours and low tolerance for crimes against humanity (i.e. organ harvesting, cannibalism.. RJW users) they'll also be tied together and be all allies. If someone was to have the three factions as friends and annoys one, they all become your enemy.

I'm gonna have to figure this out, it will cost time and money to execute the project. Besides, you're gonna need all the friends you can get when you have Umbra Company and freakin War Mongrels all back and 1.0-like..

Then there's the DOOM Demons and the shady UAC.. If only Project Red Horse was already finished, it would be quite the roller coaster of events.

Could even make the proper Russian faction right? And there'd be random triggers for war between Russia and US and it's allies. Then Russia would be the one faction that won't bother you with laws, they don't care as long as you aren't against them.

*Soviet anthem intensifies*

Yeah, with your super armored and armed hostile factions being present we DO need all the friends we can get and thats what worries me. I know myself - i won't be able to be friends with anything that tries to control what i do. Anything that gets close to my drugs or fertilizer stor... errr, morgue - gets shredded several times over. So i really hope at least some factions will mind their own business. Otherwise i ll have to depend on outlanders alone and those are vastly inferior to any of Red Horse factions.

Or maybe i ll have to try get friendly with Mongrels or something...

I mean cooperating with police rules in Rimworld? Screw that, i am going full outlaw mode. No human leather shirts? No yayo trading? Nah. Capitalism HO!

Those fine sizes also don't look real at all, unless you're super lategame - you won't be seeing anything like 5k silver, not even mentioning 10k. And you even mentioned fines growing in size... Not everyone keeps corpse freezers of course, but most people does keep drugs (cause you know - Tynan's magnificent psychic drones scale up to -40 mood) and i doubt anyone would ever agree to pay such sums or let police grab their random pawns. You might as well make those factions hostile from the start with such prices xD

Quote from: Madman666 on October 23, 2018, 05:28:30 PM
Yeah, with your super armored and armed hostile factions being present we DO need all the friends we can get and thats what worries me. I know myself - i won't be able to be friends with anything that tries to control what i do. Anything that gets close to my drugs or fertilizer stor... errr, morgue - gets shredded several times over. So i really hope at least some factions will mind their own business. Otherwise i ll have to depend on outlanders alone and those are vastly inferior to any of Red Horse factions.

Or maybe i ll have to try get friendly with Mongrels or something...

I mean cooperating with police rules in Rimworld? Screw that, i am going full outlaw mode. No human leather shirts? No yayo trading? Nah. Capitalism HO!

That's what I love about this faction. Initially I just wanted a 24/7 emergency lines for Red Horse, a SWAT team to defend such weak colonies and inspire many to be the good guys.

Then I realized, the police would start well.. policing! I've played SWAT 4 and I watched people that converted GTA V into police sims. It's a crazy contrast to how the game is initially played, and more restrictions choke some people up and they end up making for a crazy storyline. On one hand you have people who want to be the good guys, who want to play by the books, on the other hand you have someone who may be willing to bend the rules trying to survive but they end up being the totally bad doods!

Now with these features, in a lawless Rimworld? Either some people who love police work and police sims and people who love being protected end up falling for this mod, or some people who thought they were the good guys end up making some crazy escalations over misunderstandings and rule of law. I can see myself doing that, storing Luciferium for a colonist that needs it. If there's no Luciferium there, they die.

There'd have to be crazy ways of hiding these within vaults in your colony from the police, or you end up like Rimworld Narcos having Spec Ops sent on your base. Like I said, interesting. People who used to HATE Umbra Company, War Mongrels or other factions you used to perceive as the "bad guys" cause they blew up your base and torched the only table you had end up being your only friend after hating Johnny Law.

And in the middle of this mess and shifting of your side, there's huge freakin cyberdemons and risk of imminent demonic apocalypse cause the UAC, who nobody freakin cared about because they were rich and they sold everything so cheap, ended up with a big problem. Oh my days, you're getting me riled up with the stuff I want for my mods already!

And then there's still the war with MSF and XOF going on, and The Wasteland Republic who were seen as the uptight guys end up in the crossfire not even being as iron fisted as the police! What a ride would it be when this all gets finished.

"I needed corpses cause I had none, I fought the law and, the law won." - Madman 2018

Law won? Nah, not happening. I guess i ll have to go get some crazy security building mods prepped. Cause its my colony where long arm of the law finally gets cut clean off, hahah!

Don't forget to make tanks and other vehicles leave wrecks you can dismantle for resources. Cause you know, i foresee i'll have to go through lots of them to defend my lawless beautiful city.

Quote from: Madman666 on October 23, 2018, 05:46:00 PM
Law won? Nah, not happening. I guess i ll have to go get some crazy security building mods prepped. Cause its my colony where long arm of the law finally gets cut clean off, hahah!

Don't forget to make tanks and other vehicles leave wrecks you can dismantle for resources. Cause you know, i foresee i'll have to go through lots of them to defend my lawless beautiful city.

The game will end up being: Grand Theft Muffalo V: The Ballad of Randy Random

The game will end up being: Grand Theft Muffalo V: The Ballad of Randy Random Chicken's Random

But beside that, you develop your project is his special way and dynamic, keep going on !!
I hope you don't withdraw to much time from your college time.

CP im curious are the backpacks only additions for the official 1.0 release or do they also apply to b19 (before it was dubbed as such, and still assumed to be 1.0) If the latter, are they crafted from the tailors bench?

It's a big one today.
(https://i.imgur.com/PztbWrM.png)

Rimmu-Nation Weapons:
- All shotguns added and categorised
- All pistols categorised
- All SMGs and PDWs categorised
- All Bolt Action, DMRs and AMRs added and categorised
- All launchers added and categorised (Still pending to be tweaked with crafting)
- Spacer weapons categorised (Still pending to be tweaked with crafting)
- All Air support weapons have been added and categorised.
- Marksman, CQB, Heavy weapons have been properly weapon tagged for rarity.
- No more .50 BMG pirates.

- Rifles still pending to be all added and categorised
- Melee still pending to be all added and categorised
- Melee and Rifle weapon tags pending to be tweaked
- What rocket/grenade launchers will be craftable needs to be tweaked

(https://i.imgur.com/CcxYNrv.png)

It's coming home.

Quote from: vandal on October 24, 2018, 11:41:46 PM
CP im curious are the backpacks only additions for the official 1.0 release or do they also apply to b19 (before it was dubbed as such, and still assumed to be 1.0) If the latter, are they crafted from the tailors bench?

Yes they work just fine for B19 too, they were on ever since the B19 update. The 1.0 should work fine for your B19 save though, I didn't have to change anything when 1.0 came around so I believe there shouldn't be any compatibility issues. It's better to use the 1.0 version due to many bug fixes.

Quote from: Canute on October 24, 2018, 05:53:58 AM
The game will end up being: Grand Theft Muffalo V: The Ballad of Randy Random Chicken's Random

But beside that, you develop your project is his special way and dynamic, keep going on !!
I hope you don't withdraw to much time from your college time.

More like life-time. I'm gonna go sleep I am passing out, major progress today, Rimmu-Nation Weapons are coming around, it's only a matter of time.

Quote- No more .50 BMG pirates.

But, why?

Really enjoying the updates to Red Horse Furniture and RN Weapons, looking forward to the full release.

Just a general heads-up for everyone else - the (unfinished and unstable) RN Weapons is not yet compatible with the 1.0 prerelease of Prepare Carefully, and will crash the game if you try to customize your colonists' inventory and supplies, as it cannot handle uncategorized weapons.

RN Clothing and Prepare Carefully still works fine, though.

Quote from: sumghai on October 25, 2018, 07:54:27 AM
RN Clothing and Prepare Carefully still works fine, though.

That indicate CP did a good work with his def's.
If he would learn C# or some other language he can open his own developer studio and wouldn't need to study ! :-)

Rimmu-Nation: Weapons
(https://i.imgur.com/JcETWqY.png)(https://i.imgur.com/BT0QXPZ.png)(https://i.imgur.com/Zqb4eZH.png)(https://i.imgur.com/PJEj8nX.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/IY7Irmo.png)(https://i.imgur.com/WzZkSEE.png)(https://i.imgur.com/yLrpnX8.png)(https://i.imgur.com/veLi1lO.png)

Enjoying some ol' fashioned and tacticool new AK variants. (Note: Only the AK47 Tactical has been implemented as of this post)

New AN94 texture:
Before
(https://i.imgur.com/rRjo5IH.png)
After
(https://i.imgur.com/geLUNYm.png)

Also changed FN MAG texture:
Before
(https://i.imgur.com/iY44K2R.png)
After
(https://i.imgur.com/HAxLpv0.png)

Will be adding 3 new LMGs:
Mk. 48
(https://i.imgur.com/KJW8JJX.png)

HK MG4
(https://i.imgur.com/VvOpsmF.png)

HK MG5
(https://i.imgur.com/EBDgu6z.png)

The HK MG series will end up replacing the FN Minimi and the M240 in the heavy bench, they will be the LMGs available for the player. I am most likely not doing a German faction anytime soon, besides the fact that German weapons look so beautiful and they're highly reliable, it's better for people to get accustomed to variety, weapons they dont know than people just churning out the ones they were familiar with had I made every weapon craftable.

Had to throw in this ol' revolver

SW Model 29
(https://i.imgur.com/qH583nm.png)

Saw a mod that only added the Model 29, the person did an awesome job remaking the famous "are you feeling lucky?" scene from Dirty Harry in Rimworld style, so I felt compelled to add this in my mod as a tribute (cause I personally dont wanna use other weapon mods, rip)

Here's the mod I'm talking about for reference.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1544323046&searchtext=Model+29

Anyways. Got a lot of work to do. Been neglecting my health because of modding, in fact my homework from the college is to run 10 miles during the week and record it. The week is almost over and I have run 0 miles, already gaining me bloody weight just lying down in bed trying to update this darn tootin' mod.

Will get back with some update, there's other minor changes/fixes that has been made that aren't listed here.

Quote from: Skynert on October 25, 2018, 07:19:25 AM

Quote- No more .50 BMG pirates.

But, why?

They're bloody pirates not special forces, look, if I ever see a Somalian pirate with a .50 cal I'll seriously consider changes. For now these high power weapons are off-limits for NPCs until I make factions, then people will be begging me to remove tanks or remove rocket launchers from those factions instead. (which they have during B18, rip)

Quote from: sumghai on October 25, 2018, 07:54:27 AM
Really enjoying the updates to Red Horse Furniture and RN Weapons, looking forward to the full release.

Just a general heads-up for everyone else - the (unfinished and unstable) RN Weapons is not yet compatible with the 1.0 prerelease of Prepare Carefully, and will crash the game if you try to customize your colonists' inventory and supplies, as it cannot handle uncategorized weapons.

RN Clothing and Prepare Carefully still works fine, though.

Huh that's odd, I'm using the current Steam version and it all works there, is it because that version of Prepare Carefully is not up to date? The categories are still there, just that they're using vanilla categories and not my own.

Quote from: Canute on October 25, 2018, 09:44:14 AM

Quote from: sumghai on October 25, 2018, 07:54:27 AM
RN Clothing and Prepare Carefully still works fine, though.

That indicate CP did a good work with his def's.
If he would learn C# or some other language he can open his own developer studio and wouldn't need to study ! :-)

Just bloody copied and pasted things mate. If I learned C# I'd still have to attend military college if I wanna maintain fitness and pass the British Army selection

CP  I got a couple of errors with Rimmu-Nation: Weapons 1.0  Missing RNBenchBase thingdef.  XML error: Could not find parent node named "RNBenchBase" for node "ThingDef". Full node: <ThingDef ParentName="RNBenchBase"><defName>RNBench_CQB</defName><label>RN CQB bench</label><description>A workbench for manufacturing Rimmu-Nation shotguns and PDWs.
and this error
Could not execute post-long-event action. Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for CPWeaponExt.HarmonyRailgun ---> System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Harmony.HarmonyInstance' from assembly '0Harmony, Version=1.0.9.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.

Take care of yourself FIRST!

Quote from: hauvega on October 25, 2018, 12:11:36 PM
CP  I got a couple of errors with Rimmu-Nation: Weapons 1.0  Missing RNBenchBase thingdef.  XML error: Could not find parent node named "RNBenchBase" for node "ThingDef". Full node: <ThingDef ParentName="RNBenchBase"><defName>RNBench_CQB</defName><label>RN CQB bench</label><description>A workbench for manufacturing Rimmu-Nation shotguns and PDWs.
and this error
Could not execute post-long-event action. Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for CPWeaponExt.HarmonyRailgun ---> System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Harmony.HarmonyInstance' from assembly '0Harmony, Version=1.0.9.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.

Take care of yourself FIRST!

Got it from someone in Steam too. Just fixed it now, I included the bench base in the mod

Edit: Side textures of clothing and weapon benches fixed, they were facing the wrong way.
Updates are available front page.

XML error: Could not find parent node named "RNBuildingBase"

Quote from: hauvega on October 25, 2018, 12:46:28 PM
XML error: Could not find parent node named "RNBuildingBase"

Woosh, is fixed now

Ran 1 mile, it's getting dark. Rest of the 9 miles sometime in the following days, hopefully we do Rimmu-Nation as well all finished and stuff eh

Darn, nice progress there, CP! Just a little bit before RN Weapons are ready for some skull-crackin!

Your railgun assembly needs recompilation or correct harmony dll version included.  Throws this error:
Could not execute post-long-event action. Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for CPWeaponExt.HarmonyRailgun ---> System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Harmony.HarmonyInstance' from assembly '0Harmony, Version=1.0.9.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.
I checked for error with 1.0.9.1 and it did not throw error.

Quote from: hauvega on October 25, 2018, 03:18:51 PM
Your railgun assembly needs recompilation or correct harmony dll version included.  Throws this error:
Could not execute post-long-event action. Exception: System.TypeInitializationException: An exception was thrown by the type initializer for CPWeaponExt.HarmonyRailgun ---> System.TypeLoadException: Could not load type 'Harmony.HarmonyInstance' from assembly '0Harmony, Version=1.0.9.1, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null'.
I checked for error with 1.0.9.1 and it did not throw error.

Ah shoot, I know the issue. I didn't include a harmony assembly within the mod, I included one now in the latest build.

Version 11 is up.

Quote from: Madman666 on October 25, 2018, 02:13:08 PM
Darn, nice progress there, CP! Just a little bit before RN Weapons are ready for some skull-crackin!

Hey Madman, I need your expertise. I can't think of a cool Russian name for a possible faction that uses the GORKA-4 and Telnyashka + possible some new body armor and helmet.

It's gonna be a Russian PMC, separate and hostile to War Mongrels.

PMC as in private military contractor? Hm, let me think something up.

Well the most obvious (and infamous one i think) is Wagner's PMC. I am sure you heard of it.

There are also Orel-Antiterror (Eagle-Antiterror if you translate it), Slav Corps, MAR, Ferax, RSB Group etc...

Quote from: Madman666 on October 25, 2018, 04:21:40 PM
PMC as in private military contractor? Hm, let me think something up.

Well the most obvious (and infamous one i think) is Wagner's PMC. I am sure you heard of it.

There are also Orel-Antiterror (Eagle-Antiterror if you translate it), Slav Corps, MAR, Ferax, RSB Group etc...

Want an original group mah friend, I would rather not use official PMCs like Black Water, which I thought about doing since it would limit the freedom of creativity.

Ah, so you want original non-existent russian name for the group. Well ok.

Serebryanie Teni (Silver Shadows)
"Monolit" Special Corps
"Arbalet" Division
"Fakel" subterfuge team
"Chaika" security force
"Mirotvorec" fast reaction force
"Oplot" defense force

Something along those line. Also:

"Cherniy Molot"
"Nadziratel"
"Stalnoi Bastion"

Download links for latest update is in front page of this post
(https://i.imgur.com/cEl9NZQ.png)
Rimmu-Nation Clothing

- Lynx-T helmet now craftable
- FAST helmet PMC now craftable
- AR500 PMC now craftable (just like ol' times)
(Super rare chicken helmet still not craftable, never ever will be in a billion years)

Quote from: Madman666 on October 25, 2018, 05:17:44 PM
Ah, so you want original non-existent russian name for the group. Well ok.

Serebryanie Teni (Silver Shadows)
"Monolit" Special Corps
"Arbalet" Division
"Fakel" subterfuge team
"Chaika" security force
"Mirotvorec" fast reaction force
"Oplot" defense force

Something along those line. Also:

"Cherniy Molot"
"Nadziratel"
"Stalnoi Bastion"

I see some I like, thank you. I'll keep them in mind when I get around to it. (never, rip)

___________________________

Thinking about ally factions now. When Rimmu-Nation hits, either Task Force 141 is updated, or Task Force STALKER with their respective new uniforms.

I'm thinking they could use some light vehicles, but I also need Red Horse Furniture sorted out with QRF landing drop pods on the edge instead of the center due to causing cave collapses.

Funvee:
(https://i.imgur.com/dDXWWc7.png)(https://i.imgur.com/VTQ1ihi.png)(https://i.imgur.com/IGOhOTQ.png)
3D Model done by "AID" from Sketchfab

It would be nice for allies to have some form of armor! It's gonna be a while till the British military returns, or till the US military makes it's debut.

Ideal would be a kind of beacon to show those guys where to drop. Dropping in the center of colony always wrecks some stuff :( Dropping them on map edge is fine i guess, but enemies usually are up your ass already way before they reach you to help out.

Download links for latest update is in front page of this post

(https://i.imgur.com/uif2qXb.png)
Rimmu-Nation - Weapons

- RN Rifleman Bench re-added
- All AK Style rifles have been added and categorised
- Current AR Style weapons now categorised
- Many AR Style weapons have been renamed (might show up as errors or missing defnames, this is normal)
- All existing rifles are now properly weapon tagged, no more pirates with spec ops looking weapons apart from a rare selection.
- SW MP15 (M&P15) added, M202 FLASH added, TT-30 added
- Mod is now on stable. No more further renames or changes to the defnames anticipated.
(Note: Any defs missing or possible game breaking updates have seen it's last in this latest version. No more should be made hereafter)

- Melee needs to be done
- Bullpup and other rifle variants need to be done
- Grenades need to be weapon tagged and categorised

Mod is about 75% complete.
5% - All AR Styles added and categorised
5% - Bullpups added and categorised
10% - Other rifles added and categorised
5% final stretch - All melee weapons added and categorised
___________________________________________________________

Quote from: Madman666 on October 25, 2018, 08:25:50 PM
Ideal would be a kind of beacon to show those guys where to drop. Dropping in the center of colony always wrecks some stuff :( Dropping them on map edge is fine i guess, but enemies usually are up your ass already way before they reach you to help out.

Not that simple man. I already owe Albion a favour, and this request of revisal is just an icing on the cake of an already unpaid favour. Gonna have to stick with whatever's practical in terms of time and effort rather than what makes it easier for people in-game.

Besides, it's not the edge of the map, it's just not the center. If you test it in dev mode by triggering a friendly raid, the drop pods aren't at the edge

Figured as much. Most convenient things can't be done without fiddly c# patches. Oh well. Feel free to do it the most time-effort efficient way, man. Its still really damn nice to even be able to call in friendly patrols.

Quote from: Chicken Plucker on October 25, 2018, 11:46:43 AM

Quote from: sumghai on October 25, 2018, 07:54:27 AM
Really enjoying the updates to Red Horse Furniture and RN Weapons, looking forward to the full release.

Just a general heads-up for everyone else - the (unfinished and unstable) RN Weapons is not yet compatible with the 1.0 prerelease of Prepare Carefully, and will crash the game if you try to customize your colonists' inventory and supplies, as it cannot handle uncategorized weapons.

RN Clothing and Prepare Carefully still works fine, though.

Huh that's odd, I'm using the current Steam version and it all works there, is it because that version of Prepare Carefully is not up to date? The categories are still there, just that they're using vanilla categories and not my own.

To clarify, when I have both Prepare Carefully and RN Weapons activated in the modlist:

- I can load existing savegames

- I can start new colonies if I skip the Prepare Carefully option

- The game freezes and crashes if I attempt to customize colonists/inventory for a new colony with Prepare Carefully

I have reproduced this issue on a heavily stripped down game with only Core, Prepare Carefully and RN Weapons as active mods.

I am running the 1.0 prerelease of Prepare Carefully from GitHub (https://github.com/edbmods/EdBPrepareCarefully/releases/tag/v1.0.10), but I have also reproduced this issue with the 1.0 Steam version.

Changing the mod load order also makes no difference.

tl;dr - I can and will keep using RN Weapons for existing savegames, but I cannot start a new customized colony.

Hey, those tanks are some kind of "mechanoid"? Becouse there is mod that allow hacking mechs. And I want that FUNVEE :D

Quote from: Skynert on October 26, 2018, 05:04:51 AM
Hey, those tanks are some kind of "mechanoid". Becouse there is mod that allow hacking mechs. And I want that FUNVEE :D

I am pretty sure those are coded to explode upon getting downed, so i doubt you ll be able to hack yourself a tank with WTH.

punching bags for military furniture  :D

Download links for latest update is in front page of this post
(https://i.imgur.com/735Z4bz.png)
Rimmu-Nation Weapons

- Fixed categories for all existing weapons
- Fixed weapon tags for all existing weapons
- Balanced which rocket launchers and grenade launchers will be craftable

Note: Still broken with prepare carefully. I highly assume it's got something to do with category sub-menus I.E. pistols and revolvers under handguns, which RN: Clothing didn't have.

Prepare carefully is also having numerous issues with EPOE and other mods, so I assume this is not RN: Weapons' fault
(at least I bloody hope not so I dont have to work on fixing anything)

Gonna go run outside, still got 9 miles to go.

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Quote from: sumghai on October 26, 2018, 04:21:58 AM
tl;dr - I can and will keep using RN Weapons for existing savegames, but I cannot start a new customized colony.

Just ran the test now. I'm certain this wasn't happening before until I started making weapons go to their respective categories and benches. I believe it's got something to do with Prepare Carefully conflicting with the category system I made for the weapons, it's odd that it works fine with clothes.

The biggest torture of all is there's no bloody way to know what's wrong cause Mary Jane Rimworld decides to crash without telling us what the major malfunction is.

I'm hoping EdB fixes this soon, if not, there's gonna be a loss on Rimmu-Nation's part just for trying to be organized and tidy, and I see a lot of people departing from the mod because they are being stopped from using the all-time go to mod for Rimworld.

I'm 100% certain now that it's got nothing to do with weapons being uncategorised, I just tidied up grenades and misc weapons to not spawn in the vanilla category. This issue only appeared since the changes to the benches and CQB weapons being moved towards their respective category.

Quote from: Skynert on October 26, 2018, 05:04:51 AM
Hey, those tanks are some kind of "mechanoid"? Becouse there is mod that allow hacking mechs. And I want that FUNVEE :D

Yes they are, I think so, they will definitely be hackable. Now the issue is when I make all tanks and stuff available and you do get your hands on them, when they die you will have possibly hostile infantry units coming out and people will wonder "Were they always in there? I owned that Bradley IFV for like 2 years"

Quote from: Madman666 on October 26, 2018, 05:14:41 AM
I am pretty sure those are coded to explode upon getting downed, so i doubt you ll be able to hack yourself a tank with WTH.

That was early B18 Madman, you forgot that they don't all explode to oblivion anymore. Albion made them die and spawn with infantry units fleeing from the vehicle.

Quote from: Valter Jr on October 26, 2018, 07:10:24 AM
punching bags for military furniture  :D

You'd be surprised how minor seeming features like these are a pain in the butt. Needs C# to make pawns hit the thing, a job class driver of some sort. It's not worth the time for me, or risk owing someone more money or favours. Like I said, I already owe Albion my time for assisting with reinforcements, the tank coding and the mission board. As for Jecrell, I cannot afford his services all the time

Sorry compadre but these type of features are gonna have to sit it out

Infantry comming out? Pff, more hats.

Download links for latest update is in front page of this post
(https://i.imgur.com/yzpH3vj.png)
Rimmu-Nation Weapons

- EdB Prepare Carefully compatibility issue has been fixed (what a bloody miracle!)

(https://i.imgur.com/h8mR0yz.png)

As consequence, the category system seems less tidy, no use of sub-menus within sub-menus. My assumption was right. (The bug happens due to sub-menus within sub-menus) Even though it's less tidy, at least the bloody mod works just fine and the sacrifice wasn't too bad, people can still tidily sort out weapon stockpiles if they really care.

Quote from: Skynert on October 26, 2018, 01:47:15 PM
Infantry comming out? Pff, more hats.

If they're friendly Marines just trying to have a peaceful time living inside the Funvee then you're not very nice turning them into hats

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Side note: I left this issue to EDB's steam page for bugs. Hope this helps him sort some bugs out.

Mucho Gracias as always, CP. I'm back to planning my next colony again :)

Let's hope EdB updates Prepare Carefully to support nested categories.

EDIT: Incidentally, how do you feel about adding the Panzerfaust 3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerfaust_3)?

Quote from: Chicken Plucker on January 06, 2018, 04:07:02 PM
Okay, okay I know I said I was gonna update DOOM first guys, but I got complaints about the armor not being "Symmetrical" for the UAC and it just put me off because now I have to make all the UAC frikkin armors again.

Instead of that, I am re-making Umbra Company and they have a new uniform
(https://i.imgur.com/BBRmRjY.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/HGbQati.png)

I also got voice lines from a voice actor, I will animate the origin story that I originally made as a gif, hopefully it comes out great

Okay, okay I know I said I was gonna update Rimmu-Nation first guys, but I got very tired of looking at the several amounts of rifle + melee I have to do and it just put me off because now I have to code all that crap after a long day of coding.

Instead of that, I am re-making Umbra Company again and they have a new uniform again.

(https://i.imgur.com/humGztb.png)

Now it's 0730 hours and I am supposed to wake up in 0800 to deliver some papers for a job application. Guess I can't go today because I'm dying over here. I still have the voice lines from the voice actor, I suppose it's gonna be good getting to finally animate their origin story eh?

This current/final design went back to their roots. Their design is based on "Shadow Company" from Modern Warfare. Now I have the accurate helmet type, being the PT A-Bravo carbon helmet.

(https://i.imgur.com/bgsq3hc.png)(https://i.imgur.com/mNI0DOZ.png)(https://i.imgur.com/osKjUUG.png)

Side note: I have an ex-army armorer who is a weapons expert, knowledgable in calibers and boolets balancing Rimmu-Nation bullets as we speak. Projectile armor penetration and stopping power. Everything we have now is gonna change significantly, I was hoping he wouldn't get carried away with the realism, but I guarantee some weapons are gonna hurt more now. (I'm trying to prevent them from hurting too much.)

Kinda feels like De Ja Vu. I'm pleased with this new Umbra Company look, lookin' tacticool as frick. I am confident this will be their last and final rendition, perfect for 1.0 and their origin story on the big screen.

Quote from: sumghai on October 26, 2018, 09:40:17 PM
Mucho Gracias as always, CP. I'm back to planning my next colony again :)

Let's hope EdB updates Prepare Carefully to support nested categories.

EDIT: Incidentally, how do you feel about adding the Panzerfaust 3 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panzerfaust_3)?

Haylo, happy to hear it improves your experience. As for another rocket launcher, as cool as the history is and look of that weapon I think I'm gonna take a pass for now and maybe keep it as a possibility when I finish. There's enough launchers, not all of them will be used by NPCs because they're just ridiculously overkill as it is and I made them more as a defensive measure for the player if they run into something big.

As you can see, my hands are full at the moment, and I try to minimize new features now (ironically)

No worries, CP. You do you :)

Umbra Company Progress Report
(not in-game content, pawn is edited-in for simulation)
(https://i.imgur.com/yZuGecy.png)

So I decided to say goodbye to the outdated A17 "Spectre" uniform. I got too sentimental and lazy at B18 to sort it out, but now that we have new shrubbery and new textures, the sniper unit for Umbra Company is being re-done.

(https://i.imgur.com/ltVRJWM.png)
Goodbye ol' pal, we don't need yer frickin hairbands and ace of spades over here anymore. This is the big leagues now.

Outdated A17/B18 Spectre Helmet
(https://i.imgur.com/J21is74.png)(https://i.imgur.com/BhnLbmR.png)(https://i.imgur.com/2dnWFRU.png)

1.0 PT A-Bravo Helmet "Reaper"
(https://i.imgur.com/n6aIN8T.png)(https://i.imgur.com/o3ndHQb.png)(https://i.imgur.com/Sg3TXkC.png)

Outdated A17/B18 Umbra Ghillie Suit
(https://i.imgur.com/CPRLRu3.png)

1.0 Reaper Ghillie Suit
(https://i.imgur.com/nYdUMCO.png)

You notice the main difference is material here, I don't want a copy pasted vegetation for the ghillie suits now. I want them to differ in environment, so the Reaper ghillie suit is more earthy and perhaps could work more effectively in the desert as opposed to this old version, or even the Rimmu-Nation ghillie suit here:
(https://i.imgur.com/b7oG6U4.png)
(https://i.imgur.com/Ql9T9uV.png)

Weapon:
(https://i.imgur.com/qmboREC.png)

Going back to the ol' A17 roots of a camouflaged weapon unique to this unit. I got a class all about camouflage from the Army Air Corps trip a few weeks back as of this post. We were shown some "find the sniper" images, and what gave away one guy was his rifle sticking out.

(https://i.imgur.com/oqIUjr7.png)

Intervention - Reaper Version (if I told people this was another rifle they'd believe me, goodluck recognising the bloody thing)

(https://i.imgur.com/wcJ5JNH.png)

Will be designated to this lad over here, new name, new uniform and.. perhaps something else that will catch many of you off guard. The Reaper unit is mainly for assassination now, so their weapon is always gonna be an AMR (Anti-Materiel Rifle). This means you're gonna lose limbs and colonists if they get land a hit on your guys wearing industrial armors. This is what I was talking about, the pirates won't have .50 BMG or other kinds of AMR, but these hombres will.

I will designate the DMRs and other bolt action to the yet-to-be-remade Spec Ops units.

Will stand-by if I decide to share the info on how the Reapers will go on about assassinating your colonists. For now I'm very strained from full-speed ahead updates for rimmu-nation to the point of neglecting bloody health and job so I'm trying to take it slow by enjoying some art.

Rimmu-Nation 'feels' finished anyway, aside from some more assault rifles and melee, so I'm not too bummed about disappointing anybody.

Quote from: sumghai on October 27, 2018, 05:01:15 AM
No worries, CP. You do you :)

Here, I did me. I hope you are all spooked by the skeleton facepaint man in the woods with his woody suit.

I think saying these things look absurdly good is needless.

CP's version of "How not to be Seen".   :P

Enjoying the hell outta your weapon mod, and their descriptions

So I'm using the ProperShotgun mod and wondering if you're going to add a patch to integrate your weapon mod with it, since I like both, and it's weird seeing other shotty shoots pellets while yours only spew out one

Edit: Previously, I just had a douchy comment here telling AwesomeMcAwesome to do it theirself. I felt bad about that, so here's a patch. I haven't tested, let alone balanced it, but it should work. CP, I give you full permission to use this in your mod. AwesomeMcAwesome, you can load this by saving the code below as an XML file in a new "Patches" folder in the same folder as "About", "Defs", &c in the mod folder, then loading Rimmu-Nation Weapons after Proper Shotguns.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<Patch>
<Operation Class="PatchOperationSequence">
  <success>Always</success>
  <operations>
    <li Class="PatchOperationTest">
      <xpath>*/ThingDef[defName = "RNBullet_12Gauge_Shotgun"]</xpath>
    </li>
<li Class="PatchOperationAddModExtension">
<xpath>*/ThingDef[defName="RNBullet_12Gauge_Shotgun"]</xpath>
<value>
<li Class="ProperShotguns.ShotgunExtension">
<pelletCount>6</pelletCount>
</li>
</value>
</li>
<li Class="PatchOperationAddModExtension">
<xpath>*/ThingDef[defName="RNBullet_23x75mmR_Shotgun"]</xpath>
<value>
<li Class="ProperShotguns.ShotgunExtension">
<pelletCount>8</pelletCount>
</li>
</value>
</li>
<li Class="PatchOperationReplace">
<xpath>*/ThingDef[defName = "RNBullet_12Gauge_Shotgun" or defName="RNBullet_23x75mmR_Shotgun"]/graphicData/texPath</xpath>
<value>
<texPath>Things/Projectile/Bullet_Small</texPath>
</value>
</li>
  </operations>
</Operation>
<Operation Class="PatchOperationSequence">
  <success>Always</success>
  <operations>
<li Class="PatchOperationTest">
  <xpath>*/ThingDef[defName = "RNGun_AA12S"]</xpath>
</li>
<li Class="PatchOperationReplace">
<xpath>*/ThingDef[defName="RNGun_AA12S" or defName="RNGun_SawedOff" or defName="RNGun_KS23S" or defName="RNGun_KSGS" or defName="RNGun_Model1887LA" or defName="RNGun_Model1897S" or defName="RNGun_Mossberg500S" or defName="RNGun_Mossberg500TacticalS" or defName="RNGun_KS23S" or defName="RNGun_Remington870S" or defName="RNGun_Remington870MagnumS" or defName="RNGun_Remington870TacticalS" or defName="RNGun_Saiga12S" or defName="RNGun_SuperShorty" or defName="RNGun_SPAS12S" or defName="RNGun_Supernova" or defName="RNGun_USAS12S" or defName="RNGun_UTS15S" or defName="RNGun_M1014S" or defName="RNGun_UTS15S" or defName="RNGun_UTS15S" or defName="RNGun_UTS15S"]/verbs/li/verbClass</xpath>
<value>
<verbClass>ProperShotguns.Verb_ShootShotgun</verbClass>
</value>
</li>
  </operations>
</Operation>
</Patch>


Quote from: dninemfive on October 28, 2018, 11:35:18 AM
Edit: Previously, I just had a douchy comment here telling AwesomeMcAwesome to do it theirself. I felt bad about that, so here's a patch. I haven't tested, let alone balanced it, but it should work. CP, I give you full permission to use this in your mod. AwesomeMcAwesome, you can load this by saving the code below as an XML file in a new "Patches" folder in the same folder as "About", "Defs", &c in the mod folder, then loading Rimmu-Nation Weapons after Proper Shotguns.

Aw thanks man, you're a reason why the world isn't so bad

(https://i.imgur.com/xxlOVpj.png)

Rimmu-Nation Clothing

- Added PT A-Bravo helmet, two variants
- Added 5.11 TacTec body armor
- Added Tactical sling backpack
- Added black fleece combats
(NOTE: Please do not forget to re-enable them for stockpiles and outfit restrictions, new items are automatically disabled.)
- Made a few popular civilian clothing craftable I.E. Trench coat grey and brown, Division Jacket and etc.
- Changed some descriptions for clothing to be more interesting
- Changed fleece insulation to be closer to jackets

- Updated RNC version with all clothing craftable.

(https://i.imgur.com/cUwAYD6.png)

Red Horse Furniture

- New Survival Machine
- MREs, IFAK and Medic Bags are back
(NOTE: Please do not forget to re-enable them for stockpiles and food restrictions. New items are automatically disabled)
- VR Trainers now haulable
- Microelectronics now needed for console and PC research for balancing.
- New "Game development" job type for Black Hat Station
- Mission board now has the "Signal orbital trader arrive" (requires a comms console)
- Contractors now have a low chance of spawning with spacer weapons
- Increased Portal VR Trainer stat incrase slightly
- Increased construction skill requirements for VR Trainers
- Increased construction skill requirements for Black Hat Station
- Increased cost of Maxi Meals from Vending Machine
- Increased market value of Nuka Cola Quantum
- Corrected cost of bulk Nuka Cola

- Updated RHF version with no Blackhat and VR Trainers also.

(https://i.imgur.com/vQecFGw.png)

Rimmu-Nation Weapons

- Added Remington 870 HRT for patching reasons.
- Tweaked grenade launchers. XM25 and MGL has more delay now.
- Tweaked 40mm grenade projectile. Explodes near instant for impact now but smaller blast radius.
- Made a separate patch for proper shotguns, thanks to dninemfive for making it.

(https://i.imgur.com/oBVQy3j.png)

Rimmu-Nation Proper Shotguns Patch

- This has a working Remington 870 patch after seeing dninemfive's original one. I reccommend to download this separate patch to keep up-to-date
- Also, you get this cool John Wick preview I just made

...

(https://i.imgur.com/P2ZIsVY.png)

Wups, the shotgun patch is now officially a part of the proper shotguns mod. Shame eh? Made the preview for the patch and all but at least its more convenient for you guys now!


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A buh-bye note. (sorta)

Vacation is over. Spents most of my 12 days modding, I have only ran 5.5 miles and I have 4.5 more to go unless I want staff to make me need new arms and legs when they tear me apart. Please enjoy these updates I have sweated for, I thank you all for your support and voicing your opinions, it's been a wild ride.

It's gonna be back to slow progress from now on. My friend the weapons tech guy is still sorting out bullets, he's doing extensive ballistics research from calibers he doesn't even know and I'm surprised he's putting in the extra effort for this.

Take care all, stay tacticool.

Quote from: dninemfive on October 28, 2018, 11:35:18 AM
Edit: Previously, I just had a douchy comment here telling AwesomeMcAwesome to do it theirself. I felt bad about that, so here's a patch.

Not at all. I thought you were just trying to help, and that you did. If you felt like you did something wrong and you went out of your way to correct it being convicted, then that's wonderful.

This has helped me from spending any more time patching. Glad you got what you needed AwesomeMcAwesome, credited dninemfive here fully.

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(https://i.imgur.com/Pw1Vuzl.png)
Rimmu-Nation Clothing

- Fixed this minor error (For RNC All Craftables version also). I was triggered.
- Also forgot to mention, 6B23-1 vest has been shaded.

Why my tacticool mercs getting food poisoning from food from vending machines? Or my dogs.

add ammunition for weapons need ammo

Quote from: Skynert on October 29, 2018, 07:01:43 AM
Why my tacticool mercs getting food poisoning from food from vending machines? Or my dogs.

That one is beyond my grasp sadly, Vending Machines are treated like cooking stations and cooking skill is used. That's all the technicalities behind it.

So your storage and the environment affects food poisoning, the fridges being in the same room doesn't help as opposed to a walk in freezer

If have to pay for C# again to sort it out, which I need to let go and stop doing

Quote from: falconmwo on October 29, 2018, 08:20:57 AM
add ammunition for weapons need ammo

Comrade that is not that easy. If you want ammo you want combat extended, it is a finished mod with its own weapons and ammo. It's complicated to even patch for combat extended, it's even worse making my own system with C#.

I'd have to pay a more talented coder billions, and frankly it won't even be a feature I want cause I like vanilla

can you recommend a mod for ammo?

Quote from: falconmwo on October 29, 2018, 10:56:15 AM
can you recommend a mod for ammo?

Try "combat extended" by NoImageAvailable mate. There were other ammo mods but I believe to this day those are not updated

no for v1.0

Download links for latest update is in front page of this post

(https://i.imgur.com/Bg8PfA1.png)
Rimmu-Nation Clothing

- Tweaked helmet commonalities for NPCs
- Also updated the all craftables version with this balancing


(https://i.imgur.com/J4SEpey.png)
Red Horse Furniture

- QRF no longer drop in center to avoid cave-ins
- Patrols now always walk from the edge of the map.
- No VR Trainer and Black Hat version also updated

Vacation is supposed to be over, but whatever eh? Here's the latest fixed, cheers all.

I accidentally made NVG helmets and chicken hats common, so now that has been fixed along with the Red Phone thing where reinforcements can potentially kill you with cave-ins

Quote from: falconmwo on October 29, 2018, 11:36:41 AM
no for v1.0

Don't know any my friend, best wait for updates from the other authors. In the meantime, if you're interested in tacticool weapons with supressors and never ending barrage of ammunition then feel free to install the stable unfinished Rimmu-Nation Weapons version  8)


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EDIT:
(https://i.imgur.com/dioiToV.png)
Red Horse Furniture

- Fixed VR issue with interaction spots

Download links for latest update is in front page of this post
(https://i.imgur.com/eTOJOI4.png)
Red Horse Furniture

- No more food poisoning from Vending Machines, eat away.
- No black hat and VR version also updated

(https://i.imgur.com/EaUv6R5.png)
Rimmu-Nation - Weapons

- Found a way to fix "&" issue in .xml, now the Smith & Wesson weapons and ammo names are properly labelled.


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EDIT:

(https://i.imgur.com/PYULKry.png)
Chicken Mitchell Hairstyles

- Prevented THIS from possibly happening again.
Tribals are no longer tagged with bearded hairstyles to prevent this issue. Francis hairstyle was set to Male only, but had the tribal tag.

Hello!

First off: I really like your mod. The visuals are stunning. Most of your ideas are fantastic.

That said, there are some things I would like to comment (I use your steam workshop mods - all except the portable generator):

Some of the things you add unbalance the game quite drastically. This can of course be avoided by me as player, by not picking/using certain elements. Nevertheless I chose to comment here and maybe get some insights from you as creator.

The things that stand out most are these:
.) easy way to make thousands of silver in almost no time with more or less zero danger (tech jobs on desk)
.) Mission board - good idea but WAY WAY way ;) too cheap - 500 silver, you get what you want - instant colonist with full battle rattle, every mission you like, etc. for just 500 silver (could be free at this point)
.) Instant food for silver via machines - with the job at the desk, it also could just be free - no difference no investment from the player
.) medical add-ons (IV and stuff) - again awesome idea, perfect visuals but WAY overpowered. I mean check the stats when you get them all set up - again they cost next to nothing for the benefits
.) military chemfuel generator - highly unbalanced. cost/upkeep/output are in no relation. can be build way BEFORE geothermal and its output is higher. need one or two boomalopes to never think about power again

In my opinion every gain should be balanced in some way. Else its just a fancy "You win" button. (And we got the development console for free stuff :D )

Will you think about rebalancing things? Or maybe add Mod options, so that each player can decide for him/herself how much things should cost?

This should please be seen as constructive criticism, and can be ignored by anyone or everyone who does not agree ;)

The whole tacti-cool idea is awesome, thanks for your effort!

Edit: Also, where are the BOOTS and GLOVES (and goggles)? :D almost no modder adds those - pawns run around with bare feet and get their toes shot off. Tactical sandals anyone? (I could of course port my own stuff over from B17 but I am way too lazy and just want to play)

Well its only a part of whole project, which will include similarly OP threats which will come to try and relieve you of all your unfairly gotten goods in form of uber-armored guys with overpowered weapons with overpowered mechanized support you won't ever have.

I see where you're coming from of course, black hat station does trivialize silver aquisition (it was trivial before as well with selling simple meals, but some "kind" uncle disabled that feature). And its not just that too, some weapons have unbelievably good stats. But my point is - it all will come together, once the whole project is out, with hostile and friendly factions. I assume fine tuning the balance will come after that. Meanwhile you can tune the amount of work and the amount of silver rewards of the station in xml files of the mod.

Adding mod options requires c# knowledge and CP can't commision coders for eternity. XML editing the values you want is really easy, you can change any bill at any station to balance it precisely how it feels right for you though.

i agree with the clothing, it looks really cool but some of the offsets are really strong they invalidate some of fashionrimstas. I know theres a mod that came out recently that lets you customize the armor values, but not offset bonuses just yet under mod option. it might be in the cards.

I have an issue with the mod, where I've learned the appropriate tech for both the Heavy Weapons and Marksman bench but they don't show up in any of the building tabs. Am I missing something or are they bugged?

Thanks for the great work!

Yep, you missed it, as did I. The new building use the new vnailla system, similar to "stuffed" buildings. If you click on CBQ workbench you ll get drop down list with other benches. I understand its done for decluttering the menu, but I don't approve of that change. Its not intuitive at all.

It's Friday, college all over for now. Next week coming, it's gonna be insane for me being a whole week of training for a new part time care worker job I applied for. The British Army withdrew my application cause of me taking too bloody long, I was stalling because of a skin condition I had to get sorted out. I spoke to my recruiter, gave me a second chance, at 14th of Nov I have 2 appointments which will finally seal my application for the Army that they re-opened for a last chance to sort crap out.

Of course I go to Ludeon, I see this wall of text after a hard day of PT that translates to me that I'm bloody awful at balancing (I am) so I'm hanging out even more. (hanging out, British slang for being bloody tired, like when you hang your arms over your head after a 3 mile run)

I will attempt to answer as best and orderly as I can. I had to take some time off yesterday and think of what to say since even though this is constructive criticism, I got all riled up on the inside especially with the lack of comfy sleep and all the admin that comes with MPCT. I didn't wanna say something stupid or rude, or both.

That and I just get over defensive anyway. With that, prepare for MY wall of text.

Edit: I appreciate Madman summarising most of what I'm about to say below, but here's the stuff coming from me. Please do not feel I am being hostile in any way, if I come off hostile just sound the hostility bell and let me know, I'll tone it down.

Quote from: Nimrod on November 01, 2018, 11:44:24 AM
.) easy way to make thousands of silver in almost no time with more or less zero danger (tech jobs on desk)

That is by design, though there's an issue with the real black hat jobs involving theft that makes you all the money. There was supposed to be this FIB faction that sends SWAT teams to you the more you used the last black hat jobs, but I do not have a C# master commander to take care of it.

Most of the issues and solutions you present involving C# is facing this big wall of having nobody that can help me. I have had two main persons I went to, Jecrell and Albion.

Jecrell
- I have nothing but respect for Jecrell for his quality of work and big brain, but I have to bloody pay him for every second of breathing when I start a commission. It started off small but the price accumulated.

For someone currently jobless, it's not sustainable or practical for me to put Rimworld modding over travel and food, if I was to work maybe I can afford him more, but then I'd probably end up getting into my employment more and concentrate there than being on my computer modding away.

Albion
- Albion is a friend of mine, he has done C# work for me for free. I have not repayed him yet the animated trailer I owe him because I'm busy. He has not been able to do anymore for me because he is busy. If I were to ask for him to sort out anything, it would be like cashing in on my credit card that I am yet to repay. It's been a problem as well when I get complaints to re-balance the red phone and mission board, which he sorted out.

I'll get into more of what Albion couldn't do for me with the other questions.

Behind the chicken, I am just the .xml and texture guy. I am lucky to have been helped by anybody at all, I am not the genius everyone probably assumed I was. I cannot fix every tiny issue, or please everybody.

Back to the main point, making a lot of silver in a short amount of time in the endgame is by design. Currently I'm at mid-game, I cannot bloody get the black hat station anymore because I don't even have a person with 12 construction. I also do not have silver to spam mission board and recruit contractors.

I don't believe it's as broken as it sounds, there are hurdles to get this, it's not as though I left it lying around like in the beta where people can build it anytime they please after microelectronics research. I even made the PC research station unavailable for the beginning now, so you have to take time waiting for 3k research if you start with basic vanilla resources and without much assistance from mods.

The idea was to have a way to earn silver and to be one step ahead of any vanilla faction. That's warfare for you, you have to be ahead of possible threats so of course you're going to be stronger by a lot against the pirates. It's not intended for just pirates, sadly I had more factions at B18 that went down the drain pipe when 1.0 came about. The real goal is to have Red Horse and Rimmu-Nation against stronger opponents like Umbra Company, War Mongrels and scaling up to DOOM Demons with the boss fight ideas.

Sadly time is running very very short for me. If I'm gonna have a career in the British Army or if I wanna do college and part time work, I have to sacrifice my hobby modding here. If I had to choose, I will have to put life first. That's not to say I disregard modding, this thing was my vacation. I spent my 12 day holiday just losing sleep to update Rimmu-Nation, Red Horse and the Chicken Mitchell hair mod.

Quote from: Nimrod on November 01, 2018, 11:44:24 AM
.) Mission board - good idea but WAY WAY way ;) too cheap - 500 silver, you get what you want - instant colonist with full battle rattle, every mission you like, etc. for just 500 silver (could be free at this point)

This is one of the problems with Albion, he told me that it would be complicated to make each and every mission have it's own cost. It was as good as having to do their own fancy C# class, with it's own cooldown and cost.

This time it's already taken him months to do this for me because he was doing it alongside his job. I wasn't gonna stall at the chance of a finished product even longer, or push a friend that's already doing me a favour to work harder for me for free. It was something I didn't mind for the sake of convenience.

If anybody hasn't noticed, the scale of convenience the player wants correlates to the inconvenience it causes to the modder's time and resources.

I have paid for my own mods that cost nothing, and I have never asked for money from anyone so nobody can ever tell me I haven't done my job that they paid me for. I have a better breathing room, even though I already feel choked with the daily requests of features and balancing to mod for no cost at all, asking for nothing from anybody unless it's help involving more modding.

As you can see this goes beyond game features, there's a whole story behind this issue. I'm happy that it's 500 silver for blanket cost than not being there at all. By no means it's free, I'm at mid-game and I can't bloody afford a mission until I graft for 500 silver, it's an exaggeration to say that.

Same as the other powerful Red Horse stuff, this mission board is for end-game when you are farming silver with the black hat stations. The battle-ready contractors are there to replenish your lost colonists. I know you will all hate me when I manage to finish the update for the pending factions, your colonists will easily die with the T-72s, sniper teams using AMRs, enemy orbital air bombardments. It's all a part of a bigger picture, and the battle ready replacements that might not even be good enough to fill the shoes of your fallen comrades will be a piece of the puzzle.

Quote from: Nimrod on November 01, 2018, 11:44:24 AM
.) Instant food for silver via machines - with the job at the desk, it also could just be free - no difference no investment from the player

I don't have the black hat stations yet in my current playthrough. The vending machine is like a luxury thing in my base right now, I can't bloody afford anything yet and I overcharge for things now compared to the cheaper stuff in B18. When I manage to get the black hat stations, I have to maintain stations with power, and workers, the cost of stations and etc. it doesn't feel free at all. The possible hoops I had to go through to even get a black hat station farm going on, it's another end-game thing. You make too much silver and become too big for your own boots, you're gonna get a spam of T-72s and Spetsnaz knocking down your door with their Rushbinov vodkas. (I miss those guys, I wish they were updated already).

It's another one of those things with Red Horse that is unfinished, it wasn't designed for a peaceful playthrough, or even a normal one that is intended to squash pirates. You'll find that too easy then because I even banned pirates from using AMRs and rocket launchers if you had Rimmu-Nation on.

Quote from: Nimrod on November 01, 2018, 11:44:24 AM
.) medical add-ons (IV and stuff) - again awesome idea, perfect visuals but WAY overpowered. I mean check the stats when you get them all set up - again they cost next to nothing for the benefits

I'll think about lowering those when I get the time. We'll see.

At the end of the day, someone will still probably come to me even if I cut the stats in half and tell me it's not good enough, then I get another headache and I have to break down the bloody requests with more words.

Quote from: Nimrod on November 01, 2018, 11:44:24 AM
.) military chemfuel generator - highly unbalanced. cost/upkeep/output are in no relation. can be build way BEFORE geothermal and its output is higher. need one or two boomalopes to never think about power again

I have a confession. I hate the a geothermal reactor. It sucks.

https://greenmountaingenerators.com/product/mep002a-5kw-military-diesel-generator/

Here's the generator in real life. It really is 5000W. The geothermal generator, if it existed in real life would be just a joke if it can only produce 3000W compared to this bloody industrial wonder. The 5000W thing isn't even the best thing available, there's some that go up to 10,000W.

I believe if you look at this real generator, the thing didn't cost as much steel and components as you think it would for the sake of balancing, so I based the design off this.

Part of why I made this mod is because I don't like the unnecessary way of balancing vanilla does, you can starve within 1 day, Geothermal generators only produce 3000W when real life generators just trump the actual power, your storyteller forces the deaths of raiders even if you go non-lethal, forces deaths of your colonists just to keep population short. I don't like it all, I exist because of it.

My design for my mods is for the player to have an easier time focusing on warfare in the endgame than putting all these obstacles in front of them to just have fun. As I said, there is no fun poking pirates with the Javelin, or the spectre air bombardment after effortlessly making money to buy them using tech support, I agree. It's like fighting ants with a flamethrower. It's cool to see the fire, but it's not a fair fight.

Thankfully that's not the intention, you were meant to fight bigger enemies with equal or stronger power that would exist to harass you before and up to the days leading up to you having this technology to buy crayons to feed your colonists.

Quote from: Nimrod on November 01, 2018, 11:44:24 AM
In my opinion every gain should be balanced in some way. Else its just a fancy "You win" button. (And we got the development console for free stuff :D )

As answered above, it's more of a "chance for you to win" button when the time comes. I might finish Umbra Company soon, I might not, but if I do it's just one example of a Red Horse faction which threatens the peace of the colony.

Project: Red Horse was meant to be played with the finished US Military, British Military, War Mongrels, Umbra Company and many more friends and foes that can turn on you for better or for worse depending on how you play the game.

The vending machines, black hat stations and other things mentioned above would be a massive help, but all this fancy tech won't stop friendlies falling on the ground, it will be inevitable. At least that's the intention.

Problem > Reaction > Solution

I ended up releasing "Solution" mods first, rather than the problems cause that's what they are, bloody problems. I have to sit for hours and days to update one mod, locking myself in a room for virtual likes and praises. I will end up leaving modding eventually, sadly, things are unravelling outdoors sooner than I hoped.

Quote from: Nimrod on November 01, 2018, 11:44:24 AM
Edit: Also, where are the BOOTS and GLOVES (and goggles)? :D almost no modder adds those - pawns run around with bare feet and get their toes shot off. Tactical sandals anyone? (I could of course port my own stuff over from B17 but I am way too lazy and just want to play)

I used to cover the whole body, boots and gloves. It can cause compatibility issues with other mods so I just left those body parts alone. It's also been known to cause issues with prosthetics back in B18 when EPOE was having issues with XeoNovaDan's glove and footwear mod. I'll stay away from it, I'm happy with vanilla style of not worrying about footwear/gloves because after all, it is more work for me that will lead me more off-track and take away more time from the main goal.

Thank you for the compliments as always, right before you suck the life out of my soul making me right write this essay. (You see?! I'm hanging out with these words and all this grammar) I thought I was done with dissertations after university, but no seriously, I appreciate you trying to voice opinion and suggestion, it's always welcome.

If I sounded unwelcoming, it's all just jokey. I do enjoy interacting with people who use my mods, I get reminded people can put up with my excuses and my content bwahaha

Quote from: Ruisuki on November 01, 2018, 03:14:33 PM
i agree with the clothing, it looks really cool but some of the offsets are really strong they invalidate some of fashionrimstas. I know theres a mod that came out recently that lets you customize the armor values, but not offset bonuses just yet under mod option. it might be in the cards.

They used to be bloody higher, what I put in now is nerfed. Aside from some seriously useful stat offsets like pain threshold, I couldn't even bloody feel some of them, like the construction speed stat or the added accuracy unless someone was already proficient on those skills. As with answers above, it's all fair game when the enemies come.

You have ghillie suit snipers with +something accuracy? Umbra Company does too, and they don't run out of them. You either torch all their camps, or befriend them. Whatever stronk gear Rimmu-Nation Clothing has now, the factions will have too, probably even better than yours. (I.E. War Mongrels have their hound units that use railguns, sporting black edgy power armors with added offsets.)

Quote from: Spikedude on November 02, 2018, 07:30:09 AM
I have an issue with the mod, where I've learned the appropriate tech for both the Heavy Weapons and Marksman bench but they don't show up in any of the building tabs. Am I missing something or are they bugged?

Thanks for the great work!

It's all in a drop down menu from the CQB bench, complaints of clutter made me do this.

Quote from: Madman666 on November 02, 2018, 10:20:35 AM
Yep, you missed it, as did I. The new building use the new vnailla system, similar to "stuffed" buildings. If you click on CBQ workbench you ll get drop down list with other benches. I understand its done for decluttering the menu, but I don't approve of that change. Its not intuitive at all.

Can't please everyone, I either have to put it there and people people miss it cause it's sorta hidden, or I don't and people tell me I'm messy.

If you want, I'll just remove it from being drop down before official release, currently this whole recent topic about OP made me work on Umbra Company textures. They may see an earlier release than the other factions, just for the sake of filling the hole and making sense of the whole issues of not having any real problems, a paradise of crayons and Russian MREs with no real threat.

(https://i.imgur.com/qWfG6JH.png)

Redone some old helmets, was torn between replacing the old spec ops headgear they had and the new one, so I kept both. These are the 6 current unit variations, I took down the old AR500 armor design, I'm going with the 5.11 body armor for their special forces, with their own fancy build on it.

It doesn't look so varied cause I only have hulk body types in the preview, but I hope it all looks uniform when it's out.

For the most part their weaponry will be the same, but I'll probably mug off the AT4 and make them rely less on rocket launchers to avoid friendly fire issues, I'll probably let em have grenade launchers though, and waiting on Recon the weapon tech guy to finish re-balancing all bullets, it'll be interesting to see how deadly or weaker some rounds will perform.

About the the benches, CP - honestly you can leave it like that, but just be prepared to answer endless stream of questions about them not working. Even if you write it in BIG YELLOW LETTERS in mod description, that benches are all hidden behind one icon in the menu, some people just don't read. Dunno why, but they don't, asking questions instead... As for me - now that i did figure out where benches are - i don't care if they stay as is, its kinda convenient even.

Download links for latest update is in front page of this post
(https://i.imgur.com/J6Owqkm.png)
Red Horse: Furniture

- No more ODing on Nuka Cola
- Medical equipment offsets reduced by at least half of the original offset for each stat
- VR station learning speed has been reduced, for arcade by 5 (no idea what that translates to out of code) and by 15 for the portal version.
- Missing joygivers for radios fixed
- Black hat and no VR version has also been fixed

(https://i.imgur.com/2fh6yx8.png)
Rimmu-Nation: Clothing

- Spelling error fixed for combat fleece description
- RNC all craftable version also fixed

Quote from: Madman666 on November 03, 2018, 01:04:23 AM
About the the benches, CP - honestly you can leave it like that, but just be prepared to answer endless stream of questions about them not working. Even if you write it in BIG YELLOW LETTERS in mod description, that benches are all hidden behind one icon in the menu, some people just don't read. Dunno why, but they don't, asking questions instead... As for me - now that i did figure out where benches are - i don't care if they stay as is, its kinda convenient even.

Might just end up making it easier for people to spot, I did get a second person asking me all about it on Steam. I'd rather just have it ready next update for the sake of me not having to answer everytime, cheers Madman

Chicken Plucker, I thank you for taking the time and effort to answer my post in such detail.
I read every word of it. You obviously care a lot about your work and I really respect that.
You don't come over dismissive or hostile in any way! :) no worries!

That said, I understand your design choices better now and see your vision of the bigger picture.

Even though I have to say, I will very likely not use your endgame vision for my play-throughs. I like long games with building things up and world interaction - I don't care much for ultra strong enemies/raids that flatten my stuff and guys - and mechanics to instantly replenish losses. I use mods that give pawns more life (traits, psychology, etc) so my guys are not easily interchangeable for me :D

Once again, I enjoy most of your stuff IMMENSELY, the things I do not like, I will simply not use. Now and in the future - so please PLEASE use your energy to make your vision a reality. Use my feedback just as far as it builds onto that vision. Keeping things modular is of course a good design choice i.m.o., so people can subscribe to what they like (factions should always be a separate mod for example)

Seeing/hearing how people play with the things you made is the most valuable thing for a game designer. Just don't stress too much about it! xD

Good luck, have fun and godspeed!

oh dope you are starting as a care worker, im probably gonna try to apply for something like that for a family member. IHHS

Progress report:

Finished all the Umbra Company headgear and onskins, got intimidated by the thought of doing the new 5.11 body armor for all body types + the ghillie suits, it should all be done after then but I went and did other things.

Old friend is returning, the BTR-70
(https://i.imgur.com/ocPE2DL.png)
3D model by: PAVEL PLATIL animation studios from Sketchfab

I am cutting out the MRAP for Umbra Company, thinking about whether or not to keep the Sheridan since the new 3D models may look inconsistent in style. Either way, the BTR-70 will behave differently and the weapon will not be the same as it was during B18, as inspiration from the bolter rifles in Rimhammer 40k, the rounds can explode within a 1x1 scale. That will be the new cannon behaviour for the BTR-70, in burst fire.

As for the other thing I went to do:
(https://i.imgur.com/gguT6te.png)

Was trying to avoid boredom, so behold, before I even finished other things I should be finishing up I restarted Task Force: STALKER, which I am renaming as "The Ghosts" to avoid confusion. They will still hold the subtitle in-game.

Hulk body type TacTec body armor with their faction patch (was too lazy to make a new armor type, this one looked pretty good anyway) and new A-TACS LE-X camo combats. Took a while to find one close to the CoD Ghosts camo pattern, I thought this camo seemed the closest. For comparison I left the old B18 version which I don't like anymore, was a bunch of rushed choices at the time anyway built around presets that already existed.

(https://i.imgur.com/FAQWRNB.png) (https://i.imgur.com/NdwfUBQ.png)
Asked permission "forestfey", author of the German Shepherd mod if I was allowed to use his textures, in the meantime I only have the south view for the tacticool doggies that The Ghosts will have. The dog will behave as a one-off creature like the megaspider and won't actually have a lifecycle. No worries, it'll still bark like a dog and get butchered like a dog with it's dog meat, assuming the poor doggo makes noble sacrifice of attacking the baddie BTR-70 above.

If I let it have puppies the bleedin' dog would end up being found in the wild with the tactical doggy armor from birth, and I don't wanna deal with that again from B18. As reference, here was the old test doggo that never made it:
(https://i.imgur.com/FHZwW7Y.png)(https://i.imgur.com/8aEy2ab.png)(https://i.imgur.com/mo83v9I.png)

For accuracy's sake I'm gonna use the German Shepherd instead of Huskies, and for those who didn't know these were the outdated A14 Husky textures Rhopunzel made.

Most of the newly made balaclavas for the ghosts with the exception of the new Keegan FAST helmet variant is unfinished, only front views are done. I've only tried to mix things up and not fall asleep with progress by jumping to new things now and then.

EDIT:

Just a final note, the balaclavas are unfinished as I said, some of them will be changed to have their helmet types since I don't want this friendly faction being useless getting their brains blown into spaghetti all the time. Seeing if I can remake the MICH 2000 helmets for some of them or not. Excited with the doggo developments and I hope the doggos don't get cut this time, they will be the first faction I'll make that use animals, and probably the only one at that.

Just like their famous selling point back around 2012-2013
"We've had dogs in Call of Duty before, but never like this. This is someone you care about, this is a squad member."

Squad member on your simple meal or hobo stew amirite ehhehehehhehe.. Please don't tell PETA.

Quote from: Nimrod on November 03, 2018, 02:21:38 AM
Good luck, have fun and godspeed!

Thank you for all of the nicey nice words, though I'd like to mention! There's a Red Horse Furniture version in the downloads with no VR trainers and no black hat stations. The recently nerfed medical equipment offsets under your advice is there as well, and the vending machines shouldn't feel so cheap without the black hat stations, as they did during B18 being more of a meme with Miller's Maxi Buns rather than an actual thing that aided the player.

Cheerio, I'm gonna pass out cause it's 4am-eeyo

Quote from: Ruisuki on November 03, 2018, 02:33:42 AM
oh dope you are starting as a care worker, im probably gonna try to apply for something like that for a family member. IHHS

I don't know what IHHS is, but yes I will try to see if I can pass the training. I have never done anything like it before so hopefully I don't cause harm to anybody. I'm gonna pass out as I said above, I am super sorry Ruisuki I was gonna ask you questions and have a conversation but the only conversation I'm gonna have right about now is the pillow on my face that may suffocate me

take care, I love you all.

Uuuuh! Some nice progress there! Soon tacticool enemies will once again run around our Rimworlds kindly trying to slaugther us to steal our stuff. Noice. Thanks for your work, CP, we love ya, man.

Hey, its me again! xD

Suggestion: (for the love of god) let the radio(s) either shuffle songs or turn off after one song!

(the radio and the songs are GREAT btw. just the one song perma loop makes everyone go crazy after a while...)

Quote from: Nimrod on November 04, 2018, 06:06:07 AM
Hey, its me again! xD

Suggestion: (for the love of god) let the radio(s) either shuffle songs or turn off after one song!

(the radio and the songs are GREAT btw. just the one song perma loop makes everyone go crazy after a while...)

I'm waiting for Jecrell about that, he tried to add a fix last week but it didn't work out so I omitted it from the changes since nothing has popped up.

The story behind it is, back in the days when he made the radio which is several months ago during B18, he forgot to add the shuffle feature that he had. Last month I've been bothering him on and on about it, hasn't acknowledged the thing like it's voldemort until I bribed him again. Frustratingly this one cost me when I feel it should've been done the first time, so here I am waiting for it again and I don't know how long it'll take but I hope it's soon.

I understand Jecrell though, I think it was unintentional on his part, busy all the time drowning in work. I hope I didn't make him sound like a sneaky peaky man over here, he was trying to sort out his door expansion the entire time plus probably other stuff outside of modding.

Quote from: Madman666 on November 04, 2018, 05:02:26 AM
Uuuuh! Some nice progress there! Soon tacticool enemies will once again run around our Rimworlds kindly trying to slaugther us to steal our stuff. Noice. Thanks for your work, CP, we love ya, man.

I am out of bucks but I had plans for the Reaper unit to show up without a raid incident letter, just a foreboding sound effect before their raid begins. It was gonna be like the star vampires from Call of Cthulhu.

But yeah, no money again. Still waiting for the shuffle. Umbra Company should have another feature too, where if you befriend them they would stop being hostile to friendly factions as well as an overall effect of your colony. It was going to be a resolution for their backstory that they resume to being the "good guys" trying to get back at all the wrong they've done. Unfortunately again, one of those things that need bucks.

________________________________
Download links for latest update is in front page of this post
(https://i.imgur.com/mfg5MJW.png)
Rimmu-Nation: Clothing

- Fixed north view issue with the M81 Interceptor Body Armor fat body type.
- RNC All craftables version updated with fix too.

Currently trying to finish up on both Ghost uniforms and UC uniforms, may come out at the same time.

(https://i.imgur.com/M2ZghEM.png)
Model by: World of Tanks: Blitz from Sketchfab


Instead of the M551 Sheridan, I have decided to give Umbra Company a new Main Battle Tank, the MBT-70. It was an experimental tank that US and German engineers kept having disagreements with in design (with the American engineers ruining everything, rip) and so it was never finished because the budget for the project over-inflated. Anyways, gave it a fancy spade logo, voila it belongs to Umbra Company now.

The Ghosts are looking great now! I thought of an interesting little detail you could put in when you mentioned butchering their dogs: it'd be pretty funny if the "leather" you got back was Kevlar or whatever cloth their vests are made of. It'd be nice to have a unique (green) leather choice rather than the standard dog leather.

Everything else is looking great, too. I thought your textures were the pinnacle of quality back in B18 and you've improved even more since then.

Progress report:
(https://i.imgur.com/WBY76C0.png)

Was trying to work on a new preview, thought the first one I did looked too cliche, crowdy and too bright.

(https://i.imgur.com/dZdHZc5.png)

This second one I like a lot better, based off a famous screenshot in the Call of Duty Ghosts trailer, where Keegan grabs some unlucky guard while his friends are off not paying attention thinking about what's for dinner.

There's more mystery to the faction with this preview, I thought it looks pretty freakin' cool even though only one ghost is shown and the rest of the units in the preview is Umbra Company. I think the crossover is suitable in this case.

(https://i.imgur.com/N2vMniZ.png)

Umbra Company textures are all done, Ghost textures are all done. Just need the coding. Here's the version you guys will see later with the title and all.

Tactical doggo is 100% done.
(https://i.imgur.com/TGPKT1J.png)(https://i.imgur.com/cc4iCXl.png)(https://i.imgur.com/g8VC9fD.png)

Good doggy.

Apparel:
(https://i.imgur.com/ELbc6by.png)(https://i.imgur.com/S9oPBT7.png)(https://i.imgur.com/43PZxrR.png)(https://i.imgur.com/WzTdht2.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/lQGu1W4.png)(https://i.imgur.com/ooOKqYG.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/X9NGYmw.png)(https://i.imgur.com/MJGKOJI.png)(https://i.imgur.com/sfDmDJo.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/KHOPUVF.png)(https://i.imgur.com/xIJx6YE.png)

Had to make a new MICH 2000 helmet just for this faction, it as overdue anyway since the original MICH I had in the old hard drive are all gone. I'd rather not pay about 500 quid for a repair, wallet is already hangin' out.

(https://i.imgur.com/McTKGBL.png)(https://i.imgur.com/S8SRu8S.png)(https://i.imgur.com/F6jkgCN.png)

Maybe it looks too close to FAST, it did use the same rail system but the back patch that I didn't bother to change might be the killer for it. I doubt anybody cares, they are all based off each other's generation anyway, all the way from PASGT so whatever.

Anyways, it's 1:30AM, lots of progress. I have to wake up for training tommorrow I hope I ain't bloody late. Next step is just to get Ghosts out as a faction, then Umbra Company, then Rimmu-Nation Weapon. I can have the factions out before 100% finishing weapons mod, the fact that not all items are craftable makes it so much easier for me to code these factions and link the two, I don't have to make the benches coded and buildable like during B18. It's less of a hassle.

Quote from: dninemfive on November 04, 2018, 12:44:52 PM
The Ghosts are looking great now! I thought of an interesting little detail you could put in when you mentioned butchering their dogs: it'd be pretty funny if the "leather" you got back was Kevlar or whatever cloth their vests are made of. It'd be nice to have a unique (green) leather choice rather than the standard dog leather.

Everything else is looking great, too. I thought your textures were the pinnacle of quality back in B18 and you've improved even more since then.

Thank you very much, I was motivated by this post to finish up, spent the whole day finishing both Umbra Company and Ghosts. Here we are now all done ready to code after my hopefully not-so-stressful week ahead.

As for that doggo suggestion, I found it kinda funny. Unfortunately we don't have kevlar or anything in vanilla, it's all cloth and steel. I think it'll be unecessary, just dogmeat. Maybe cloth? Unsure.

Excited to see it come out, hope you are too. Will come back for more progress tommorrow assuming the care worker training doesn't make me die.

Goodnight, love you all

Progress report:
(https://i.imgur.com/RpJ74fo.png)

I am rebuilding the faction coding I had from the ground up, a bunch of changes and unfamiliar stuff in 1.0 makes editing the outdated B18 code not worth it, because some things will be left broken or dodgy.

Nice to see this on the world map again, been a while since B18 was last updated. At the moment the thing is still an unfinished mess, testing phase with only two unit types working and everything else using placeholders.

(https://i.imgur.com/4V7XJ6I.png)

Good to see the cosmetics working fine now, ran into some issues initially, had to fix side views facing the wrong way and some minor tweaking with the shemagh for the side views.

(https://i.imgur.com/FOAIuZf.png)

Doggos are also looking fantastic in-game, they behave like normal German Shepherds from the mod by forestfey. I just got his PM, he's perfectly happy to give me permission, the only difference with his dog and mine is the fact that mine has body armor and obviously, more health. They're still both called "German Shepherd", the puppy texture has no armor, when it grows up it has the body armor and the player is perfectly able to acquire one by trading or prepare carefully and breeding.

(https://i.imgur.com/3VMTgfr.png)

Inventories looking fine too, things are working as intended. None of the equipment of the faction is craftable (apart from the medical equipment). This makes it easier for me not having to include benches and coding all that stuff, making wierd appearances to players without the base mods with only one or two weapons craftable.

What I will do is make their gear purchasable from the faction itself. Seeing as I made the ghosts all friendly-like, it shouldn't be hard to make some business trade deals.

(https://i.imgur.com/2dNA1ri.png)

(https://i.imgur.com/55enEXz.png)

Standard firefight testing, good to see they can hold off their own against a few elite mercenaries dawning power armor and using some combat enhancing drugs. To be fair, the pirates shouldn't have been standing in the open without cover.

What is this, amateur hour?

(https://i.imgur.com/4ZMJKNK.png)

Spawning with smokepops, standard.

(https://i.imgur.com/OGMNrW6.png)

Some pawns having trouble being non-combative. I hate how we can't pick the bloody backstories and Tynan has it all hidden away somewhere nigh impossible for the average modder to access, so whatever. I guess I'll have to force these fellas to have Raider backstories, and so there's gonna be a chance some of these friendly spec ops guys will be common thugs and freakin' serial killers in their backstory. /endofrant

Alright, so far in the test build they have only the MP5A3 SD and their unique Honey Badger, the unique weapon being un-added for Rimmu-Nation Weapons.

Still dealing with the boring training for my care work, where I get lectured by the teacher about his political views and uh.. let's just say he got carried away with the sexual harassment training part and he got into some graphic detail about the elderly that I cannot undo in my head. I miss my military college, I had to bloody skip crawling around in dirt and running for miles to listen to that.

Anyways, slow progress but progress nonetheless. Hope to see you all soon with a stable release.

Looking good!
Here is a screenshot with several of your clothing items from rimmu nation visible.
Your artwork is simply on a top level together with Ods. A+
Can´t wait for all your other great stuff to be 1.0 available( especially us and brits)
€: more craftable items like tuques, gasmasks and stuff would be nice. With the right mods it is not cluttered at all.
Missed the woodland/multicam tuques for the winter.

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My UI dissappear when I try use spell from RimWorld of Magic and have full list of errors https://git.io/fpTWh I asked there and its not fault of this. But I see in this something about rimmunation. ;/

Quote from: Rocket_Raccoon on November 08, 2018, 12:14:39 PM
Looking good!
Here is a screenshot with several of your clothing items from rimmu nation visible.
Your artwork is simply on a top level together with Ods. A+
Can´t wait for all your other great stuff to be 1.0 available( especially us and brits)
€: more craftable items like tuques, gasmasks and stuff would be nice. With the right mods it is not cluttered at all.
Missed the woodland/multicam tuques for the winter.

Hey there, thanks for the screenshots! I rarely do see people playing with me mods.

Here's a backlog of issues need fixing that accumulated
Rimmu-Nation Clothing
- Move all shell textures by one column of pixels to the right due to a centering issue. The issue was a domino effect caused by funky textures within the extracted vanilla files.

Example (warning, contains drawn nudity)
(https://i.imgur.com/A0dZ9kI.gif)

Domino bloody effect. 1,000+ textures now require moving, so far I have only done onskins.

- Complaints about bloody tribals putting winter outfits on. Caused by the game forcing tribals to wear certain clothing with certain temperature stats, hardcoded by the devs and far from access to the average scrub modder such as yours trully.

Solution for now, similar to Spoonshortage's, she made tribal parkas and headgear that they spawn with 100% of the time, even when it isn't winter. I recommend her apparel mod if you're really bothered by this issue for the time being, while I try to find my time to do my own.

- Nerfing offsets, couple of complaints about offsets being too stronk for clothing. I'm gonna just fold and nerf the bloody stats before I get more because I am this close to binging on Haribos to deal with all the bloody complaints about the offsets, which I really like being the way they are at the moment.

Red Horse Furniture

- Shuffle feature. Waiting on Jecrell, bloody MIA mate
- Wall of Shame bug with thingclass, I have no idea, untested so far

Rimmu-Nation Weapons

- Bloody magic and sci-fi bullets don't work together. Waiting on Jecrell too since both mods rely on Jecstools or Jec's coding but he's MIA. Legends never die, they're just missing in action.

Bloody hair mod

- Missing hairs innit

Bloody faction mods

- All missing innit

Everything else mods

- Nope, still not here mate

Girlfriend

- Probably have a higher chance finishing all my mods and leaving the British Army still modding before such a person stops missing

Money

- Well, it does come every now and then every 4 weeks but it just disappears mate. Bloody Haribos.

Quote from: Skynert on November 09, 2018, 07:10:44 AM
My UI dissappear when I try use spell from RimWorld of Magic and have full list of errors https://git.io/fpTWh I asked there and its not fault of this. But I see in this something about rimmunation. ;/

It's both of our stuff, Rimworld of Magic uses Jecstools and my extension was made by Jecrell. I replicated the issue and tested magic even though I don't like the dark arts (because it's an abomination) and I passed the problem on to Jecrell.

Still waiting for my shuffle, honestly speaking without trying to be all negative here, I don't think this will be something Jecrell will fix anytime soon. I'm positive he sees my stuff when I send it, but he probably slips away and pretends he was never there like I do when I'm bloody busy. I'll patiently keep on waiting.

For the time being, I deem Rim of Magic incompatible with Rimmu-Nation Weapon and unfortunately, one of the two mods need to be disabled for your save. *sniff* goodbye guns.

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Finished me training. I'm tired. Ran home, guess what? See a bloody black area in the dark near a tree to cut corners, turns out it's not a patch of grass, it's a ditch. Get a sprain, owie.

Sprainie, mod problemos instead of moving on to new content. It's okay, the only easy day was yesterday.

Hope some progress is made this weekend, but I have to attend Memorial Service at Sunday and sort out other Military stuffy wuffy at next week so Her Majesty's Armed Forces can interview me for a job innit. Cheers.