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Only mods used were Prepare Carefully and Hide or Show Hats with Hair.

Just recently finished off a game by hosting the Stellarch and they arrived with all tattered clothes and no crown, giving them the mood debuff for lacking royal apparel, doesn't seem right for their stature.

As for the cobra oddity, something common I see with them hunting is that their prey will instantly rot due to toxic buildup, and so they have to hunt another animal. This will likely be more common with the new patch increasing the buildup. Personally I'd like to see their bites reworked into a proper venom debuff that builds a large amount over time from a single or few bites, more similar to infections. This would prevent the current issue and make them more realistic, nobody's ever been like "I got bit by a cobra but it only bit me twice so I'm fine."

Also I was wondering what counts as obstructing a landing pad for shuttles. I had a properly sized, unroofed, and powered set of shuttle beacons that highlighted a green rectangle when selected and even had animals set to avoid it, but when the Stellarch's pickup shuttle arrived it landed in a marsh in the very north of the map. Don't have a save right before the shuttle arrived, but here's an image of my colony with the pad in the northwest corner. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2054391685
I do have post-game saves showing the pad was intact and powered after leaving, even my animals are forbidden from standing within.

It looks like Royals continue to be quite a tricky balancing act, with today's update removing most of the restrictions from Royals as players found them too burdensome.

So I thought I would give my own thoughts on what exactly the problem points are as I see them, and some ideas to make them more appealing.

The biggest flaw with Royals in my opinion is that the main reward for having them is only useful for combat. Why not have psychic powers based on the colonist's passions? What if your Gourmand Duke could make illusory meals that effectively transmute them to a tier higher, so everyone that eats their plate of corn thinks they're eating a Fine Meal? Chief Surgeon-Praetor Mary could actively accelerate her patient's healing and deal with the Psychic headache later herself. And I'm sure the War Smith Baron could use a second psychokinetic hammer helping him to arm his loyal followers. A new baseline power could be to teleport items to an appropriate stockpile zone. Honestly there's so much potential you would probably have to add a limit to how many powers a single colonist could have, if there isn't a limit already. This could also introduce toggled Psychic powers that give a constant minor hangover and hog some of the Entropy meter but can stay active for long periods, like passively skipping through doors instead of opening them.

And since we're dealing with passion-based powers, just let colonists have their passion skills be exempted from being blocked by title, perhaps with Count only exempting Burning Passions depending on balance.
Another option is to go with the "Pawns are Capable!" mod route and have non-dignified work and food instead reduce the Royal's Authority stat, thus requiring more Reigning to make up for it.

It's harder for me to comment on decrees as I've only had one, but from what I hear it sounds like they operate on negative reinforcement by simply punishing the player for not doing them with little positive for fulfilling them. As a solution, decrees could be about trying to appeal to the Empire Faction. Instead of making a decree to make half a dozen Coronets for shits and giggles, do so to help lobby with the Empire for their military support to prevent random raids for 5 days. You might still be a bit annoyed at having to undertake some odd request out of nowhere, but at least at the end you can be like "Neat, I got a thing though."

The most interesting choices are ones have drawbacks, and it'd be a shame for Royals to become pure upgrades you don't have to think about. Please share your thoughts on my ideas and provide your own 

If a Royal Tribute Collector arrives while you're also doing the quest to harbor prisoners for the Empire, those prisoners can be offered as tribute to the Empire for Royal Favor, often much more than the Warden quest itself.

Edit: Looks like my game updated weird when I switched to the unstable branch and it was still using some 1.0 data. After uninstalling and reinstalling completely to fix it, it seems in 1.1 melee armor penetration does scale with quality so this thread is unneeded. 

Probably more of an oversight than a bug, but melee weapons that use <armorPenetration> (only spears in Vanilla, always 50% for point attack) don't scale with item quality. Guns are able to use <armorPenetrationBase> to have scaling armor penetration, which shotguns do in Vanilla. It would be better for balancing modded weapons if melee had a scaling armor penetration tag.

I'm fairly new to modding and have been working on fixing up various issues for mods that don't seem to be in development anymore, currently I'm looking at Rim Disorders.

Specifically I'm trying to change how the chance for a pawn/creature to develop Autism and ADHD works. Currently the mod use HediffGiver_Birthday with an L curve, as the conditions develop early in life.

However this has the negative affect of causing longer lived creatures, especially from other mods, to have disproportionately high chances to have these conditions. Forsakens for example are hundreds of thousands of years ago, and therefore almost always have severe Autism and ADHD.

Currently I think the best way to apply these conditions would be a flat % chance, unless there's another way to limit the Hediffgiver to the first 15 or so years instead of the first 15% of a creature's lifespan.

Kinda funny but could be seen as a bug. Occurred while two pawns were playing billiards;

"Carr courted Cody by making an observation about life challenges. Cody ignored the advance."
"Cody flirted with Carr by telling a tale about cryptosleep. Carr turned away."

Now I have two pawns with a mood penalty for rebuffing each other at the same time.
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The text bug where the actual flirt description refers to the pawns flirting with themselves is still there but has been reported already.