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This is a harsh world and it would be awesome to find some place to rest and refill, expecially when you walk on foot.

1.Add a special guest zone that is made entirely for strangers.
Any non-enemy strangers will use it for their purposes when they are near. At the same time they WILL NOT use your personal tables and spread filth across your rooms.

2.Add a special guest contact post. Any assigned pawn will interact with guests in the guest zone and do following(should be enabled as yes/no options):
-Give food.
Automatically sell them food if you have one and they have something to pay for it.
Sub-options: barter - accept items for payment, credit - if guest has no money he can pay later (but will he?), Price - set price for sold food.
-Rent room.
Give access to rooms marked as guest ROOMS. Rooms for rent need to be marked with a sign.
Sub-options: same as above plus TIME - how long the guests may stay for a single payment.
-Shopping zone.
Make a storage zone and mark it as a guest zone and placed item will be sold for a fair price. Fair price is determined by pawn's and guest's speech abilities.

Related events:
-Murder
One of the guests killed another one. If you pawns won't find the killer you relationships with their towns will be lowered. If found out - increased.
-Shoplifter
Your pawn have found somebody, who tried to steal something from your shopping stock. Try to get him, or leave it be?
-Picky guest
He disliked EVERYTHING and now tries to get compensation. If pawn is bad at talking or is forced to give a refund - the guest will get his money, or else he may even start a fight and rob you!
-Regular guest
A good person that likes your settlement and cheers up your pawns, sometimes helping with food/resources in harsh times. Comes regularly. If killed your pawns will be pretty sad about it.
-Black friday
Somebody heard that you have the lowest price for X, X and X and he's lead a group of people to buy everything you have. If you have not enough of X prepare for trouble!
-Old dispute
Some of your guests have an old dispute and may start a fight any minute now! It can also include weaponry.

Well, there has to be such a suggestion:

Greater electronics - let pawns be coders ingame!

1.research usual sensors, logic gates and additional machinery.
Sensors for better traps or something like auto-doors(but bigger).
Logic gates for simple logic like opened door AND standing pawn in front of it.
Additional machinery - robotic arms, flame chambers, conveyors.

2.Extend your abilities.
Discover visual-based programming and let pawn to learn something like it to manipulate machinery better, making operator work NEEDED. The better the operator skill, the faster the code will work. As an option - let pawns code something and save it to disks/gold triangles/whatever and put it into any advanced machinery for no need of operating by hand.
Combine coding skills with basic gates and machinery to go to the industrial level of production.

3.Go deeper.
Give yourself access to microtech to make mechanical prosthetics and advanced implants.
Also make more advanced mechanisms that may deal with living and also living beings.
Robots Nope.


Why should it be actually added?
Sometimes it is stange that your pawns wear battle armor and produce energy rifles, yet they still cook/mine/grow food ONLY by hand. There is no option for it. Machinery may have such pros and cons:
-Immovable, yet can turn towards nearby cells and follow pre-built rails.
-On basic level needs a human to operate it.
-Requires pretty much power when works.
-Is somehow expensive to build.
-Power cable NOT included.

+- All machinery needs to be made out of different parts - there is no "just drill this rock" machine - make an extendable manipulator and attach the bore to it. If you want to make it moveable - build a rail so it would move.
+- 2 options  - self-made programs and pre-made propgrams. The first ones are made by a player and then "coded" by a pawn for a while, the 2nd ones can be bought/programmed faster by pawns. Self-made code can do anything player wants, yet may contain mistakes etc. The bought ones are pre-made for common mechanisms - conveyors, BIG auto-doors, traps, auto-bores, smart lights, fuses etc.
-HAZARDS! Heavy machinery is always a danger - operate it with care, or your fingers may be torn off. This also may be used to your advantage - crush invaders with an auto-platform!

+Higher productivity - make a couple of manipulators, attach them to an auto-fireplace and add a storage nearby and you will get automatic kitchen. Oh, you need to code it too.
+More options for interior - ever wanted to make a real fallout-like vault? Black mesa train system? Portal-like extendable rooms? Say no more!
+Make your energy sources more VALUABLE - that thermal geizer on the other side of the map is no longer too far from you.

Optional:
-Make and save machinery, and not only machinery, patterns to make giant production lines or cross-settlement railroads!
-Giant Battle Mechs are always an option in any type of problem. There is no problem that cant be solved by a Giant Humanlike Battle Robot.

The item descriptions are too big to fit in one line, thus I can't see the percentage of item HP.

I constantly see the unhappy nudity status, yet my stock is full of various clothes.
We could use more detailed nudity statuses:

"Wish I had a pair of pants to use..."
"This shirt is in bad shape."
"There is a bullet hole in my hat"

Too many raids left tons of tunics/knives/useless junk?
You want to get rid of those 2 blocks of granite that are stuck on your storage?
And on top of all you have no crematorium?

Just stick it (in)to the (snow)man!
-Set items that are considered junk in a special menu
-Determine what pawns will do with that junk - burn, throw somewhere away or just leave it outside
-If no junk settings were changed, but the list of junk was considered - pawns will move it away to deteriorate in a random place outside of home zone.

As a bonus:
-If there is snow outside pawns will use junk items to enhance the snowmen, giving them beauty bonus. The used items are stuck inside the snowman and cannot be used until the snowman is broken.
-Corpses also may be used to build a snowman.

Optional:
-Allow pawns to make holes where they throw away junk and dig it down. Similiar to graves, but for items.
-Burn down items in a fireplace. Items that contain metal may leave small amounts of it.

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We have a couple of standart research branches that increase colony's productivity, give access to new items or even allow to finish the game.

What about the psychology branch, that lets pawns to change their priorities or even make traditions? I mean, we already have those basics, like weddings, parties, grave visiting etc.

Let me show some options for the research branch, but before that lets get closer to some specific points of this branch:
-If you choose one research option the other one may be unavailable.
For example if you choose to stay closer to nature your pawns will permanently fear technology, blocking the progressism path, that leads to high-tech. This may result not only on going to an alternative society-type and getting buffs against some enemies (like mechanoids), but also add new personality traits.
-If pawn society is oftenly put in the opposite to their beliefs conditions they may reverse this branch's progress. For example, if we get a totalitarian society and it oftenly gets more democratic visitors, meets some former members or just becomes unstable due to bad conditions, we loose this branch's progress and some random psychology techniques.
-The psychology isn't applied to pawns by default. The one, who discovers it tells everyone about it and there is a chance other pawns(not only yours) may get that knowledge. So the things you discover are taught constantly by the discoverers. They also should be in good relationships to effectively spread the new psychology trait. This feature also means that strangers may change your pawns randomly and sometimes you HAVE TO destroy that random caravan because they may destroy your pawn society.
-At the start, if scenario doesn't contain pre-built psychology branch, pawns get random points of view that may cause not only conflicts, but also more intersting stories.
-Psychology branch gives mostly traits and mood enhancements, but it also needs some items to work with - books, brainwashing machines, meditation pads, agitational posters etc.

Okay, now back to basics. Here are basic sub branches:
-Mind sciences
Basic levels of mind research allow to practice psychotherapy and stop some mental breaks. Higher levels may let pawns to prevent psychic influence, change pawn's capabilities or use effective brainwashing.
-Society sciences
Basic levels allow your pawns to coordinate work (asking for help to finish the job or focusing on one target without your help), increase productivity at the cost of skills (hard labour) or add special traditions like morning hymn singing or trying to own a pet bear as a totem symbol of your society. The higher levels may lead to different society types from orwell's fearsome 1984 to ignorant brave new world.
-Self growth sciences
Basic levels allow pawns to discover ways to fix their mental traits if they wish to or are effectively forced to. The same ways may cause some negative traits to appear too (too much books about paranormal activities may cause not only early bird trait, but also the paranoid trait that may debuff relationships with everyone). Higher levels may lead to some highly effective traits with both positive AND negative parts. As an example they may not only stop pawns from suffering eating human meat, but also get a disability to heal or help other pawns.


What this research branch may lead to?
-Fun. You can not only imitate the survivng among the harsh conditions, but also test out different management options. A democratic society while the fridge is empty and no food will be available soon? A totalitarian settlement among various villages that try to tell you that you are not right? Maybe a tribe that cannot produce high-tech, but adores it and kneels before mechanoids?
-Deeper gameplay. Now you don't only need to make pawns alive and happy. You need to give them a way to live in a harsh new world. Also you can try to turn enemies into allies.
-Another option for an endgame. Make a combination of points of view that may unite the world or turn it into an eternal battlefield and spread it across the planet.

We can get a bunch of good stories there.

ps. I know about the psychology mod. IMHO it is more complicated and focused on individual pawn, than on entire settlement or world.