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Question about the mod - why not just have meat/leather/bone result from butchering, instead of the skeletons that then have to be deconstructed?

My biggest complaint is the trading system.  I frequently find myself sitting on giant stockpiles of silver and rice waiting for traders to show up with something I want to buy -- steel especially.  And since colony wealth is a major determinant in hazard strength, it gets annoying that the wealth I am accumulating is *worse* than useless -- does nothing for me but increases the danger I face.

As of A15, you can call friendly factions via comms console and request either a Bulk Goods, Pirate, Exotic Goods, or Combat Supply caravan to come by in a few days. It does cost from 300-600 silver though.

Oooh these could be really nice

I don't know about the ease of implementation for something like those
but barazen's post made me think the warnings could be chance+skill based

like coming weather effects would have very high chance of being spotted before they happen if you've got pawns outside or cloudwatching or whatever

but I don't think you should get warning from all of the events all the time
a bit of surprise chaos is fun :p
but then again so is the impending doom feel

I'm not sure either, but the game does seem to have a timer until the next event, no matter what. So like you get a raid, and load a save before it, and then it's a different event (like maybe an infestation).

(warning: i have no knowledge of how well this would actually work) - just make that timer decide what the event is, then trigger it's relevant flavor text, and then in X hours, trigger the actual event with a red letter.

I went with the "No, not really" option, though I don't really mod it for balance. It's still entertaining, but a lot of that is because of how hilariously bad and unbalanced some things are. Were the game advertised as being feature-complete and a lot of the balance issues were still there, I'd probably find the game a lot more frustrating than I do; Knowing that Tynan is focused on adding features and fixing game-breaking bugs moreso than fine-tuning the balance allows me to be a lot more philosophical about the frustrating aspects.

What sorts of things do you find unbalanced?

Out of curiosity, would it be possible to assign an outfit category based on the alert level from the threat sensor?

So for example, dude is in 'Anything' outfit mode, a raid triggers the threat sensor and the alert lights, it switches him to the 'Soldier' outfit.

It appears that when building the Apparel Coloring station, it just disappears, leaving nothing and gives this in the console: https://puu.sh/qbeK7/3959f64e54.png

EDIT: Happening to the small 1-square freezer https://puu.sh/qbf3K/d5ef27ceca.png

Just saw that CCL needed to be loaded on world start. Shoot

Restarting the game has fixed it! Nevermind!

Nevermind then! Thank you very much for your hard work!

That is not intended and looks like a bug that I will investigate. Although I dont know that there is much I can do as that is more about how the AI is dealing with it and I dont want to be making any large AI changes.

Okay, thank you! Also, have you considered adding the ability for the smaller turrets to be reinstalled, like the basic turret?

I'm unsure if it's just the setup of my defenses (http://puu.sh/q8RI1/a4ce5507e8.jpg), but it seems like all raiders don't even try to shoot at the embrasures. They just bumrush them and start meleeing them. Is this intentional?

So, I've been trying to find me the coal miner so I can get an alternative power source. However, I got the research that was required (according to the wiki), and yet I still can't get the coal miner.
http://puu.sh/8wRm4.jpg
There's a picture of what I've researched, and also my buildings tab so you can see that I have the coal feeder and burner...just not the miner.

I've been looking for answers to this for the past little bit, and found nothing. Any help?

EDIT: Never mind about that! Turns out I needed to go deeper in the digging techtree.