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The graphics are deliberately abstracted. This helps story generation because it allows your brain to create the images instead of trying to make the game do it. Your brain can imagine much better than any software system.

That, and I'd much rather put more effort into simulating interesting events rather than making more detailed pixels to express the simple events we already have. Lots of games have detailed graphics; almost no games have detailed simulation.

So yeah, the current graphics are final.

You could mod them to be more detailed if you wished, but I think you'd just be walking into a trap and making the game (paradoxically) less engaging.

Wow, that's really disappointing. When I bought the game, the idea was that these were placeholders. Specifically because of the following description on Kickstarter:

"It looks a lot like Prison Architect. What's up with that?

Blame my (Tynan's) lack of art skill - especially with characters. I made the character art you see in the trailer as a stopgap, and borrowed the Prison Architect style because I'm not a good enough artist to develop a new one. They were never intended to be final. With this Kickstarter, we'll be able to get a real artist who can sit down and develop an original style for RimWorld."

Very, very disappointing.

if you read the quote you might have noticed that that is from toady... the guy that made df not tynan the creator of rimworld

+1 I think that this would be a good addition as well because like you, I like to build bases ment to take on attacks like a tower defense because if I send my people back to space I have to start all over aging. I would prefer to just build my military base colony and see how far I can go.

I like this idea and think it would be pretty cool if implimited... whish i knew how to code because if i did i would make a mod for this until it became vanilla... but since i don't i will just have to wait and hope that ethier a mod for comes up soon or is put in the game in the next update perhaps...